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Z. Charles Dziura cd2e289641 Update root-level README and reorganize sources
In an effort to mitigate questions from new, inexperienced users on how
to import data into Fight Club 5e, I rewrote and reorganized the
root-level README file to include detailed instructions on how to
compile their own compendiums using the sources found within this
repository. Some existing data, such as how to create your own
collection file, was moved into other READMEs under the Collections and
Sources directories.

I also took some liberty in reorganizing the directory structure of this
repository and renamed some of the top-level directories. In my view,
having sources under the "FightClub5eXML" folder didn't make a lot of
sense, so I moved those sources into the top-level "Sources" folder. I
made sure to update all of the collection files, along with the
"travis.yml" config file, to properly point to the correct folders.

Finally, while updating the "travis.yml" config file, I changed the
output folder of those build compendiums to be under a top-level
"Compendiums" folder. This folder is ignored by git.
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<compendium version="5" auto_indent="NO">
<monster>
<name>Amphisbaena</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>60 (8d12+8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>3</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 10 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The amphisbaena makes two attacks, only one of which can be a constrict attack.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+6|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Constrict</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the creature is restrained, and the snake can't constrict another target.</text>
<attack>Constrict|+6|2d8+4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 84</description>
<environment>underwater, underdark, forest, swamp, desert</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Animated Table</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>39 (6d10+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>3</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>6</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison, psychic</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Antimagic Susceptibility</name>
<text>The table is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the table must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster's spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the table remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal table.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Charge</name>
<text>If the table moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a ram attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Ram</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6, reach 5 ft., one target. 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
</action>
<description>Arundil's Animated Objects. A century ago, the dwarf mage Arundil animated a number of objects to defend the Foundry against intruders other than dwarves. Many of these creations remain in place today.
These animated objects never attack dwarves or duergar. In addition, a dwarf (including a duergar) can order an object to cease its attack. If so commanded, the object becomes immobile for 10 minutes, or until the one commanding it leaves the area.
Constructed Nature. An animated table doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 230</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Ashdra</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (elf)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>4 (1d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +1</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Elvish</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put Ashdra to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, Ashdra has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt;'s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 9). &lt;$title_short_name$&gt; can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: dancing lights</text>
<text>1/day each: darkness, faerie fire</text>
</trait>
<spells>dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 158</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Bandagh</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (orc)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>15 (2d8+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Intimidation +2</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, Orc</languages>
<cr>1/2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Aggressive</name>
<text>As a bonus action, the orc can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Greataxe</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (1d12 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Greataxe|+5|1d12+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 159</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain, grassland, forest, swamp, hill, arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Belak the Outcast</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (human)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>11 (16 with barkskin)</ac>
<hp>27 (5d8+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>15</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Medicine +4, Nature +3, Perception +4</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Druidic plus any two languages</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Quarterstaff</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit (+4 to hit with shillelagh), reach 5 ft., one target. 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage, or 6 (1d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage with shillelagh or if wielded with two hands.</text>
<attack>Quarterstaff|+2|1d6</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>The druid is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It has the following druid spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): druidcraft, poison spray, shillelagh</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): cure wounds, entangle, faerie fire, thunderwave</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): barkskin, flaming sphere</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3</slots>
<spells>druidcraft, poison spray, shillelagh, cure wounds, entangle, faerie fire, thunderwave, barkskin, flaming sphere</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 9</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Bugbear Gardener</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (goblinoid)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (hide armor, shield)</ac>
<hp>27 (5d8+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>8</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +6, Survival +2</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, Goblin</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Brute</name>
<text>A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when the bugbear hits with it (included in the attack).</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Surprise Attack</name>
<text>If the bugbear surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage from the attack.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Glaive</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 13 (2d10 + 2) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Glaive|+4|2d10+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage in melee or 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage at range.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+4|2d6+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 29</description>
<environment>underdark, grassland, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Bugbear Lieutenant</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (goblinoid)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (hide armor, shield)</ac>
<hp>27 (5d8+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>8</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +6, Survival +2</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, Goblin</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Brute</name>
<text>A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when the bugbear hits with it (included in the attack).</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Surprise Attack</name>
<text>If the bugbear surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage from the attack.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 11 (2d8 + 2) slashing damage, or 13 (2d10 + 2) slashing damage if used with both hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+4|2d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage in melee or 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage at range.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+4|2d6+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 173</description>
<environment>underdark, grassland, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Calcryx</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>dragon</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>32 (5d8+10)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., burrow 15 ft., fly 60 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>14</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save>Dex +2, Con +4, Wis +2, Cha +2</save>
<skill>Perception +4, Stealth +2</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Draconic</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>cold</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d10 + 2) piercing damage plus 2 (1d4) cold damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+4|1d10+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Cold Breath (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>The dragon exhales an icy blast of hail in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 (5d8) cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Cold Breath (Recharge 5-6)||5d8</attack>
</action>
<description>The smallest, least intelligent, and most animalistic of the chromatic dragons, white dragons dwell in frigid climes, favoring arctic areas or icy mountains. They are vicious, cruel reptiles driven by hunger and greed.
A white dragon has feral eyes, a sleek profile, and a spined crest. The scales of a wyrmling white dragon glisten pure white. As the dragon ages, its sheen disappears and some of its scales begin to darken, so that by the time it is old, it is mottled by patches of pale blue and light gray. This patterning helps the dragon blend into the realms of ice and stone in which it hunts, and to fade from view when it soars across a cloud-filled sky.
Primal and Vengeful. White dragons lack the cunning and tactics of most other dragons. However, their bestial nature makes them the best hunters among all dragonkind, singularly focused on surviving and slaughtering their enemies. A white dragon consumes only food that has been frozen, devouring creatures killed by its breath weapon while they are still stiff and frigid. It encases other kills in ice or buries them in snow near its lair, and finding such a larder is a good indication that a white dragon dwells nearby.
A white dragon also keeps the bodies of its greatest enemies as trophies, freezing corpses where it can look upon them and gloat. The remains of giants, remorhazes, and other dragons are often positioned prominently within a white dragon's lair as warnings to intruders.
Though only moderately intelligent, white dragons have extraordinary memories. They recall every slight and defeat, and have been known to conduct malicious vendettas against creatures that have offended them. This often includes silver dragons, which lair in the same territories as whites. White dragons can speak as all dragons can, but they rarely talk unless moved to do so.
Lone Masters. White dragons avoid all other dragons except whites of the opposite sex. Even then, when white dragons seek each other out as mates, they stay together only long enough to conceive offspring before fleeing into isolation again.
White dragons can't abide rivals near their lairs. As a result, a white dragon attacks other creatures without provocation, viewing such creatures as either too weak or too powerful to live. The only creatures that typically serve a white dragon are intelligent humanoids that demonstrate enough strength to assuage the dragon's wrath, and can put up with sustaining regular losses as a result of its hunger. This includes dragon-worshiping kobolds, which are commonly found in their lairs.
Powerful creatures can sometimes gain a white dragon's obedience through a demonstration of physical or magical might. Frost giants challenge white dragons to prove their own strength and improve their status in their clans, and their cracked bones litter many a white dragon's lair. However, a white dragon defeated by a frost giant often becomes its servant, accepting the mastery of a superior creature in exchange for asserting its own domination over the other creatures that serve or oppose the giant.
Treasure Under Ice. White dragons love the cold sparkle of ice and favor treasure with similar qualities, particularly diamonds. However, in their remote arctic climes, the treasure hoards of white dragons more often contain walrus and mammoth tusk ivory, whale-bone sculptures, figureheads from ships, furs, and magic items seized from overly bold adventurers.
Loose coins and gems are spread across a white dragon's lair, glittering like stars when the light strikes them. Larger treasures and chests are encased in layers of rime created by the white dragon's breath, and held safe beneath layers of transparent ice. The dragon's great strength allows it to easily access its wealth, while lesser creatures must spend hours chipping away or melting the ice to reach the dragon's main hoard.
A white dragon's flawless memory means that it knows how it came to possess every coin, gem, and magic item in its hoard, and it associates each item with a specific victory. White dragons are notoriously difficult to bribe, since any offers of treasure are seen as an insult to their ability to simply slay the creature making the offer and seize the treasure on their own.
Dragons. True dragons are winged reptiles of ancient lineage and fearsome power. They are known and feared for their predatory cunning and greed, with the oldest dragons accounted as some of the most powerful creatures in the world. Dragons are also magical creatures whose innate power fuels their dreaded breath weapons and other preternatural abilities.
Many creatures, including wyverns and dragon turtles, have draconic blood. However, true dragons fall into the two broad categories of chromatic and metallic dragons. The black, blue, green, red, and white dragons are selfish, evil, and feared by all. The brass, bronze, copper, gold, and silver dragons are noble, good, and highly respected by the wise.
Though their goals and ideals vary tremendously, all true dragons covet wealth, hoarding mounds of coins and gathering gems, jewels, and magic items. Dragons with large hoards are loath to leave them for long, venturing out of their lairs only to patrol or feed.
True dragons pass through four distinct stages of life, from lowly wyrmlings to ancient dragons, which can live for over a thousand years. In that time, their might can become unrivaled and their hoards can grow beyond price.
Dragon Age Categories
Category | Size | Age Range
Wyrmling | Medium | 5 years or less
Young | Large | 6100 years
Adult | Huge | 101800 years
Ancient | Gargantuan | 801 years or more
Chromatic Dragons. The black, blue, green, red, and white dragons represent the evil side of dragonkind. Aggressive, gluttonous, and vain, chromatic dragons are dark sages and powerful tyrants feared by all creatures-including each other.
Driven by Greed. Chromatic dragons lust after treasure, and this greed colors their every scheme and plot. They believe that the world's wealth belongs to them by right, and a chromatic dragon seizes that wealth without regard for the humanoids and other creatures that have "stolen" it. With its piles of coins, gleaming gems, and magic items, a dragon's hoard is the stuff of legend. However, chromatic dragons have no interest in commerce, amassing wealth for no other reason than to have it.
Creatures of Ego. Chromatic dragons are united by their sense of superiority, believing themselves the most powerful and worthy of all mortal creatures. When they interact with other creatures, it is only to further their own interests. They believe in their innate right to rule, and this belief is the cornerstone of every chromatic dragon's personality and worldview. Trying to humble a chromatic dragon is like trying to convince the wind to stop blowing. To these creatures, humanoids are animals, fit to serve as prey or beasts of burden, and wholly unworthy of respect.
Dangerous Lairs. A dragon's lair serves as the seat of its power and a vault for its treasure. With its innate toughness and tolerance for severe environmental effects, a dragon selects or builds a lair not for shelter but for defense, favoring multiple entrances and exits, and security for its hoard.
Most chromatic dragon lairs are hidden in dangerous and remote locations to prevent all but the most audacious mortals from reaching them. A black dragon might lair in the heart of a vast swamp, while a red dragon might claim the caldera of an active volcano. In addition to the natural defenses of their lairs, powerful chromatic dragons use magical guardians, traps, and subservient creatures to protect their treasures.
Queen of Evil Dragons. Tiamat the Dragon Queen is the chief deity of evil dragonkind. She dwells on Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. As a lesser god, Tiamat has the power to grant spells to her worshipers, though she is loath to share her power. She epitomizes the avarice of evil dragons, believing that the multiverse and all its treasures will one day be hers and hers alone.
Tiamat is a gigantic dragon whose five heads reflect the forms of the chromatic dragons that worship her-black, blue, green, red, and white. She is a terror on the battlefield, capable of annihilating whole armies with her five breath weapons, her formidable spellcasting, and her fearsome claws.
Tiamat's most hated enemy is Bahamut the Platinum Dragon, with whom she shares control of the faith of dragonkind. She also holds a special enmity for Asmodeus, who long ago stripped her of the rule of Avernus and who continues to curb the Dragon Queen's power.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 23</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Centaur Mummy</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>85 (10d10+30)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>20</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>12</cha>
<save>Wis +5</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Common, Sylvan</languages>
<cr>6</cr>
<resist>bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>necrotic, poison</immune>
<vulnerable>fire</vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Charge</name>
<text>If the centaur mummy moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a pike attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6) piercing damage.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The centaur mummy makes two melee attacks, one with its pike and one with its hooves, or it attacks with its pike and uses Dreadful Glare.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Pike</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Pike|+8|1d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Hooves</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 12 (2d6 + 5) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with mummy rot. The cursed target can't regain hit points, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, the target dies, and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the remove curse spell or similar magic.</text>
<attack>Hooves|+8|2d6+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Dreadful Glare</name>
<text>The centaur mummy targets one creature it can see within 60 feet of it. If the target can see the mummy, the target must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened until the end of the mummy's next turn. If the target fails the saving throw by 5 or more, it is also paralyzed for the same duration. A target that succeeds on the saving throw is immune to the Dreadful Glare of all mummies (but not mummy lords) for the next 24 hours.</text>
</action>
<description>In The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, characters must contend with a mummified centaur that wants to prevent them from moving any farther into the dungeon. Combining the most lethal features of two creature types, the centaur mummy can attack nearby targets with its melee weapons while trying to use its Dreadful Glare against enemies that hold back.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 231</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Chief Nosnra</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (patchwork armor)</ac>
<hp>138 (12d12+60)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>23</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>21</con>
<int>9</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>12</cha>
<save>Con +8, Wis +3, Cha +4</save>
<skill>Athletics +9, Perception +3</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>8</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>cold</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Chief Nosnra makes two greataxe attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greataxe</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 25 (3d12 + 6) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Greataxe|+9|3d12+6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 28 (4d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+9|4d10+6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult frost giants are skilled hunters who construct and hurl nets weighted down with fragments of metal or bone. This ability is represented by the following action option.</text>
<text>Weighted Net. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, ranged 20/60 ft., one Small, Medium, or Large creature. The target is restrained until it escapes the net. Any creature can use its action to make a DC 17 Strength check to free itself or another creature in the net, ending the effect on a success. Dealing 15 slashing damage to the net (AC 12) destroys the net and frees the target.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 170</description>
<environment>mountain, arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Cloud Giant Noble</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Neutral Good (50%) Neutral Evil (50%)</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>200 (16d12+96)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>27</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>22</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>16</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Con +10, Wis +7, Cha +7</save>
<skill>Insight +7, Perception +7</skill>
<passive>17</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant</languages>
<cr>9</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The giant has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The giant makes two morningstar attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Morningstar</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 21 (3d8 + 8) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Morningstar|+12|3d8+8</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 30 (4d10 + 8) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+12|4d10+8</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult cloud giants have the magical ability to create barriers of gale-force wind around themselves that can deflect incoming missiles. Others like to fling enemies through the air. These abilities are represented by the following action options.</text>
<text>Fling. The giant tries to throw a Small or Medium creature within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw or be hurled up to 60 feet horizontally in a direction of the giant's choice and land prone, taking 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown.</text>
<text>Wind Aura. A magical aura of wind surrounds the giant. The aura is a 10-foot-radius sphere that lasts as long as the giant maintains concentration on it (as if concentrating on a spell). While the aura is in effect, the giant gains a +2 bonus to its AC against ranged weapon attacks, and all open flames within the aura are extinguished unless they are magical.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>The giant's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: detect magic, fog cloud, light</text>
<text>3/day each: feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis</text>
<text>1/day each: control weather, gaseous form</text>
</trait>
<spells>detect magic, fog cloud, light, feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis, control weather, gaseous form</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 206</description>
<environment>mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Curran Corvalin</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (halfling)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>4 (1d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 25 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Halfling</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Halfling Nimbleness</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; can move through a space of a Medium or larger creature.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Brave</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 158</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Dragonpriest</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>30 (8d10+40)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The dragonpriest has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Regeneration</name>
<text>The dragonpriest regains 5 hit points at the start of its turn. If the dragonpriest takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the dragonpriest's next turn. The dragonpriest dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+7|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claw|+7|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Loathsome Limbs</name>
<text>Whenever the dragonpriest takes at least 15 slashing damage at one time, roll a d20 to determine what else happens to it:</text>
<text>• 110: Nothing else happens.</text>
<text>• 1114: One leg is severed from the dragonpriest if it has any legs left.</text>
<text>• 1518: One arm is severed from the dragonpriest if it has any arms left.</text>
<text>• 1920: The dragonpriest is decapitated, but the dragonpriest dies only if it can't regenerate. If it dies, so does the severed head.</text>
<text>If the dragonpriest finishes a short or long rest without reattaching a severed limb or head, the part regrows. At that point, the severed part dies. Until then, a severed part acts on the dragonpriest's initiative and has its own action and movement. A severed part has AC 13, 10 hit points, and the dragonpriest's Regeneration trait.</text>
<text>A severed leg is unable to attack and has a speed of 5 feet.</text>
<text>A severed arm has a speed of 5 feet and can make one claw attack on its turn, with disadvantage on the attack roll unless the dragonpriest can see the arm and its target. Each time the dragonpriest loses an arm, it loses a claw attack.</text>
<text>If its head is severed, the dragonpriest loses its bite attack and its body is blinded unless the head can see it. The severed head has a speed of 0 feet and the dragonpriest's Keen Smell trait. It can make a bite attack but only against a target in its space.</text>
<text>The dragonpriest's speed is halved if it's missing a leg. If it loses both legs, it falls prone. If it has both arms, it can crawl. With only one arm, it can still crawl, but its speed is halved. With no arms or legs, its speed is 0, and it can't benefit from bonuses to speed.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 16</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain, forest, swamp, hill, arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Dread Warrior</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>18 (chain mail, shield)</ac>
<hp>37 (5d8+15)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>11</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save>Wis +3</save>
<skill>Athletics +4, Perception +3</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Common</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>exhaustion, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Undead Fortitude</name>
<text>If damage reduces the dread warrior to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5+the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the dread warrior drops to 1 hit point instead.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The dread warrior makes two melee attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Battleaxe</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) slashing damage, or 7 (1d10 + 2) slashing damage if wielded with two hands.</text>
<attack>Battleaxe|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<description>The Red Wizards (Dead in Thay) make use of several kinds of undead minions, including the special servants known as dread warriors. After being created by a secret ritual, a dread warrior is further enchanted so that a Red Wizard can employ the creature in the fashion of a spellcaster's familiar. By creating a psychic link with a dread warrior, a Red Wizard can experience the world through the creature's senses and direct the warrior.
Undead Nature. A dread warrior doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 233</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Drevin</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (halfling)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>27 (6d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 25 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Deception +5, Insight +4, Investigation +5, Perception +6, Persuasion +5, Sleight of hand +4, Stealth +4</skill>
<passive>16</passive>
<languages>any two languages, Halfling</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Cunning Action</name>
<text>On each of its turns, Drevin can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sneak Attack (1/Turn)</name>
<text>Drevin deals an extra 7 (2d6) damage when it hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of Drevin that isn't incapacitated and Drevin doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Halfling Nimbleness</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; can move through a space of a Medium or larger creature.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Brave</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Drevin makes two melee attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Shortsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Shortsword|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Hand Crossbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Hand Crossbow|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 126</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Drow Commander</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (elf)</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>18 (studded leather armor, shield)</ac>
<hp>110 (11d8+22)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>13</str>
<dex>18</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>11</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>12</cha>
<save>Dex +7, Con +5, Wis +4</save>
<skill>Perception +4, Stealth +10</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Elvish, Undercommon</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Special Equipment</name>
<text>The drow carries three magical bolts, as follows:</text>
<text>• A bolt of holding, which casts hold person on a target hit with the bolt, as well as up to two other targets within 30 feet of that target</text>
<text>• A bolt of blinding, which casts blindness/deafness to blind on a target hit with the bolt, as well as up to two other targets within 30 feet of that target</text>
<text>• A bolt of vapors, which casts stinking cloud centered on the point it hits</text>
<text>Each of these effects has a spell save DC of 15 and a duration of 1 minute.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put the drow to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The drow makes two shortsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Shortsword +2</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (1d6 + 6) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) poison damage.</text>
<attack>Shortsword +2|+9|1d6+6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Hand Crossbow +1</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. 8 (1d6 + 5) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the target is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The target wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.</text>
<attack>Hand Crossbow +1|+8|1d6+5</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Parry</name>
<text>The drow adds 3 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the drow must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.</text>
</reaction>
<action>
<name>Variant: Drow Magic Armor and Weapons</name>
<text>Drow often wear magic armor and carry magic weapons that lose their enhancement bonuses permanently if they are exposed to sunlight for 1 hour or longer.</text>
<text>A drow elite warrior wearing +2 Studded Leather Armor and carrying a +2 shortsword has AC 20 and a +2 bonus on attack and damage rolls with shortsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>The drow's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: dancing lights</text>
<text>1/day each: darkness, faerie fire, levitate (self only)</text>
</trait>
<spells>dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire, levitate</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 209</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Duergar Spy</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (dwarf)</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (studded leather armor)</ac>
<hp>33 (6d8+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 25 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>16</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>13</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Deception +5, Insight +2, Investigation +5, Perception +4, Persuasion +3, Sleight of hand +5, Stealth +7</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Dwarvish, Undercommon</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>poison</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Cunning Action</name>
<text>On each of its turns, the spy can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Duergar Resilience</name>
<text>The spy has advantage on saving throws against poison, spells, and illusions, as well as to resist being charmed or paralyzed.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sneak Attack</name>
<text>Once per turn, the spy can deal an extra 7 (2d6) damage when it hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of the spy that isn't incapacitated and the spy doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, the spy has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The spy makes two shortsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Enlarge (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)</name>
<text>For 1 minute, the spy magically increases in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, the spy is Large, doubles her damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage. If the spy lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size possible in the space available.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Shortsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, or 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage while enlarged.</text>
<attack>Shortsword|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Hand Crossbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Hand Crossbow|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Invisibility (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)</name>
<text>The spy magically turns invisible until it attacks, deals damage, casts a spell, or uses its Enlarge, or until its concentration is broken, up to 1 hour (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the spy wears or carries is invisible with it.</text>
</action>
<description>The tyrannical duergar, also known as gray dwarves, dwell in fantastic cities deep in the Underdark. Using ancient dwarven knowledge and myriad slaves, they work tirelessly to expand their subterranean kingdoms.
Most duergar (including females) are bald and have ashen gray skin. They wear drab clothing designed to blend in with stone, along with simple jewelry that reflects their severe and utilitarian demeanor.
Slaves to Slavers. The duergar were once dwarves, before their greed and endless delving beneath the earth brought them into contact with the mind flayers. Held in captivity for generations by the illithids, the dwarves eventually won their independence with the aid of the evil god Laduguer. Slavery had forever changed them, however, darkening their spirits to make the duergar as evil as the tyrants they had escaped. Despite winning their freedom, duergar are dour, pessimistic, untrusting creatures, always toiling and complaining, with no memory of what it means to be happy or proud. Their craftsmanship and accomplishments endure, yet they are bereft of warmth or artistry.
Duergar make war against their dwarven kin and all other subterranean races. They forge alliances when it is convenient, then break those alliances when they have nothing more to gain. They take and hold slaves to toil in the Underdark, regarding them as free labor and crude currency.
Tough as Stone. Like dwarves, duergar have strong constitutions. Adding to their physical stamina is an incredible mental fortitude resulting from their time as slaves of the illithids. A duergar's mind is a fortress, able to shrug off charms, illusions, and other spells.
Born of Darkness. The Underdark is saturated with strange magical power, which the duergar absorbed over generations of imprisonment. A duergar can increase its size and strength for a short time, becoming a powerful ogre-sized warrior. If it faces a foe it can't fight, or when spying on creatures approaching its territory, it can just as easily become invisible to slip away into the darkness. Eons spent in the Underdark also sharpened their darkvision, allowing them to see twice as far as other dwarves. This keen eyesight comes at a cost, however, as a duergar's vision is compromised by sunlight.
Infernal Master. Asmodeus, Lord of the Nine Hells, has been known to impersonate duergar gods in order to cultivate the evil brimming in the hearts of the gray dwarves. He offers them divine guidance and vengeance against their enemies while urging them on toward greater acts of tyranny, all the while concealing his true identity.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 234</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Durnn</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (goblinoid)</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>19 (splint armor, shield)</ac>
<hp>18 (2d8+2)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, Goblin</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Martial Advantage</name>
<text>Once per turn, the hobgoblin can deal an extra 7 (2d6) damage to a creature it hits with a weapon attack if that creature is within 5 feet of an ally of the hobgoblin that isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 5 (1d8 + 1) slashing damage, or 6 (1d10 + 2) slashing damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+4|1d8+1</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. 5 (1d8 + 1) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Longbow|+4|1d8+1</attack>
</action>
<description>War horns sound, stones fly from catapults, and the thunder of a thousand booted feet echoes across the land as hobgoblins march to battle. Across the borderlands of civilization, settlements and settlers must contend with these aggressive humanoids, whose thirst for conquest is never satisfied.
Hobgoblins have dark orange or red-orange skin, and hair ranging from dark red-brown to dark gray. Yellow or dark brown eyes peer out beneath their beetling brows, and their wide mouths sport sharp and yellowed teeth. A male hobgoblin might have a large blue or red nose, which symbolizes virility and power among goblinkin. Hobgoblins can live as long as humans, though their love of warfare and battle means that few do.
Goblinoids. Hobgoblins belong to a family of creatures called goblinoids. They are often found lording over their cousins, the smaller goblins and the ferocious bugbears.
Martial Might. A hobgoblin measures virtue by physical strength and martial prowess, caring about nothing except the opportunity to demonstrate skill and cunning in battle. Hobgoblins of high military rank attain their positions by force, then hold those positions by imposing their authority through draconian measures.
Hobgoblins train to fight with a variety of weapons, and have great skill at crafting arms, armor, siege engines, and other military devices. Organized and disciplined, they take exceptional care of their weapons, armor, and personal possessions. They favor the bold colors associated with their tribes, and trim their often-elaborate uniforms with blood-red piping and leather dyed black.
Military Legions. Hobgoblins organize themselves into tribal bands known as legions. In their martial society, every hobgoblin has a rank, from the powerful leaders and champions, to the rank-and-file foot soldiers, to the goblins that find themselves driven into the front lines at spear point. A legion is headed by a warlord with several captains serving under its command. A hobgoblin warlord is a ruthless tyrant more interested in strategy, victory, glory, reputation, and dominion than leading troops into battle.
As loyal and disciplined as hobgoblins are in their own legion, rival legions compete constantly for reputation and status. Meetings between legions erupt in violence if troops aren't restrained, and only exceptionally powerful leaders can force legions to cooperate on the battlefield.
Strategic Thinkers. Hobgoblins have a strong grasp of tactics and discipline, and can carry out sophisticated battle plans under the direction of a strategically minded leader. However, they hate elves and attack them first in battle over any other opponents, even if doing so would be a tactical error.
Legions often supplement their ranks with less reliable and more expendable troops, including goblins, bugbears, orcs, evil humans, ogres, and giants.
Beast Trainers. Hobgoblins have a long history of training animals to service. Like the more civilized races, they use oxen and horses to transport goods and weaponry over long distances. They communicate with each other using trained ravens, and keep vicious wolves to guard prisoners and protect hobgoblin camps. Hobgoblin cavalry use trained worgs as steeds, in the same way that goblins ride wolves. Some tribes even keep carnivorous apes as fighting beasts.
Conquer and Control. Hobgoblins claim lands with abundant resources, and they can be found in forests and mountains, near mines and humanoid settlements, and anywhere else that wood, metal, and potential slaves can be found. They build and conquer strongholds in strategically advantageous locations, which they then use as staging areas to expand their territory.
Hobgoblin warlords never tire of combat, but they don't take up arms lightly. Before they attack, hobgoblins conduct thorough reconnaissance to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of their foes. When assaulting a stronghold, they surround it first to cut off escape routes and supply lines, then slowly starve their enemies out.
Hobgoblins fortify their own holdings, bolstering existing defenses with innovations of their own. Whether they lair in cavern complexes, dungeons, ruins, or forests, they protect their strongholds with ditches, fences, gates, guard towers, pit traps, and crude catapults or ballistas.
Legion of Maglubiyet. Hobgoblins worship Maglubiyet the Mighty One, the greater god of goblinoids. As terrifying as this figure is, hobgoblins don't fear death, believing that when they die in battle, their spirits join the honored ranks of Maglubiyet's army on the plane of Acheron.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 25</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Eira</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (elf)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>11 (16 with barkskin)</ac>
<hp>27 (5d8+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 35 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>15</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Medicine +4, Nature +3, Perception +1</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Druidic plus any two languages, Elvish</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put Eira to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Mask of the Wild</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; can attempt to hide even when they are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Quarterstaff</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit (+4 to hit with shillelagh), reach 5 ft., one target. 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage, or 6 (1d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage with shillelagh or if wielded with two hands.</text>
<attack>Quarterstaff|+2|1d6</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Eira is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It has the following druid spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): druidcraft, produce flame, shillelagh</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): entangle, longstrider, speak with animals, thunderwave</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): animal messenger, barkskin</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3</slots>
<spells>druidcraft, produce flame, shillelagh, entangle, longstrider, speak with animals, thunderwave, animal messenger, barkskin</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 159</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Elder Black Pudding</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>7</ac>
<hp>130 (10d12+30)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft., climb 20 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>5</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>acid, cold, lightning, slashing</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous</name>
<text>The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Corrosive Form</name>
<text>A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 4 (1d8) acid damage. Any nonmagical weapon made of metal or wood that hits the pudding corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to damage rolls. If its penalty drops to 5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition made of metal or wood that hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 18 (4d8) acid damage. In addition, nonmagical armor worn by the target is partly dissolved and takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Split</name>
<text>When a pudding that is Medium or larger is subjected to lightning or slashing damage, it splits into two new puddings if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new pudding has hit points equal to half the original pudding's, rounded down. New puddings are one size smaller than the original pudding.</text>
</reaction>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 143</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Elder Giant Lizard</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>85 (9d12+27)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 50 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>17</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +5</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Hold Breath</name>
<text>The lizard can hold its breath for 30 minutes.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The lizard makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its tail.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 21 (3d10 + 5) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the lizard can't bite another target.</text>
<attack>Bite|+8|3d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tail</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target not grappled by the lizard. 14 (2d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
<attack>Tail|+8|2d8+5</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 176</description>
<environment>swamp</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Erky Timbers</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (gnome)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>17 (5d6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Medicine +4, Religion +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Common, Draconic, Gnomish, Goblin</languages>
<cr>1/4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Channel Divinity: Turn Undead (1/Short Rest)</name>
<text>Erky presents his holy Symbol and speaks a prayer censuring the Undead. Each Undead that can see or hear Erky within 30 feet of him must make a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.</text>
<text>A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from Erky as it can, and it can't willingly move to a space within 30 feet of him. It also can't take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there's nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>The acolyte is a 1st-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). The acolyte has following cleric spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy</text>
<text>• 1st level (3 slots): bless, cure wounds, sanctuary</text>
</trait>
<slots>3</slots>
<spells>light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy, bless, cure wounds, sanctuary</spells>
<description>Acolytes are junior members of a clergy, usually answerable to a priest. They perform a variety of functions in a temple and are granted minor spellcasting power by their deities.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 22</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Estia</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Neutral Good (50%) Neutral Evil (50%)</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>200 (16d12+96)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>27</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>22</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>16</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Con +10, Wis +7, Cha +7</save>
<skill>Insight +7, Perception +7</skill>
<passive>17</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant</languages>
<cr>9</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>Estia has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Estia makes two morningstar attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Morningstar +2</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 23 (3d8 + 10) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Morningstar +2|+14|3d8+10</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 30 (4d10 + 8) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+12|4d10+8</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult cloud giants have the magical ability to create barriers of gale-force wind around themselves that can deflect incoming missiles. Others like to fling enemies through the air. These abilities are represented by the following action options.</text>
<text>Fling. Estia tries to throw a Small or Medium creature within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw or be hurled up to 60 feet horizontally in a direction of Estia's choice and land prone, taking 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown.</text>
<text>Wind Aura. A magical aura of wind surrounds Estia. The aura is a 10-foot-radius sphere that lasts as long as Estia maintains concentration on it (as if concentrating on a spell). While the aura is in effect, Estia gains a +2 bonus to its AC against ranged weapon attacks, and all open flames within the aura are extinguished unless they are magical.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>Estia's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: detect magic, fog cloud, light</text>
<text>3/day each: feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis</text>
<text>1/day each: control weather, gaseous form</text>
</trait>
<spells>detect magic, fog cloud, light, feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis, control weather, gaseous form</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 189</description>
<environment>mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Fire Giant Royal Headsman</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>18 (plate armor)</ac>
<hp>162 (13d12+78)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>25</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>23</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>13</cha>
<save>Dex +3, Con +10, Cha +5</save>
<skill>Athletics +11, Perception +6</skill>
<passive>16</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>9</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>fire</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The giant makes two greataxe attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greataxe +2</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 28 (3d12 + 9) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Greataxe +2|+13|3d12+9</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 29 (4d10 + 7) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+11|4d10+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult fire giants are trained to lay siege to strongholds and break through enemy lines. These abilities are represented by the following traits.</text>
<text>Siege Monster. The giant deals double damage to objects and structures.</text>
<text>Tackle. When the giant enters any enemy's space for the first time on a turn, the enemy must succeed on a DC 19 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 201</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Fire Giant Servant</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>105 (10d12+40)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>19</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The giant makes two longsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 18 (3d8 + 5) slashing damage, or 21 (3d10 + 5) slashing damage if used with both hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+8|3d8+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 21 (3d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+8|3d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult hill giants like to hurl themselves bodily at smaller foes and crush them beneath their bulk. This ability is represented by the following action option.</text>
<text>Squash. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or Smaller creature. 26 (6d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage, the giant lands prone in the target's space, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is prone. The grapple ends early if the giant stands up.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 171</description>
<environment>hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Flying Shield</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>17 (5d6)</hp>
<speed>walk 0 ft., fly 50 ft.</speed>
<str>12</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>11</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>5</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save>Dex +4</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>7</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1/4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison, psychic</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Antimagic Susceptibility</name>
<text>The shield is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the shield must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster's spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the shield remains motionless and isn't flying, it is indistinguishable from a normal shield.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Longshield</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 5 (1d8 + 1) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Longshield|+3|1d8+1</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 224</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Four-Armed Gargoyle</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>elemental</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>63 (7d8+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., fly 60 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>11</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>6</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Terran</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't adamantine</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>exhaustion, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the gargoyle remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an inanimate statue.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The gargoyle makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claws|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 129</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Frost Giant Servant</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>105 (10d12+40)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>19</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The giant makes two greatclub attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+8|3d8+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 21 (3d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+8|3d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult hill giants like to hurl themselves bodily at smaller foes and crush them beneath their bulk. This ability is represented by the following action option.</text>
<text>Squash. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or Smaller creature. 26 (6d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage, the giant lands prone in the target's space, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is prone. The grapple ends early if the giant stands up.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 187</description>
<environment>hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Gargantuan Rug of Smothering</name>
<size>G</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>63 (6d20)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>3</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>6</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison, psychic</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Antimagic Susceptibility</name>
<text>The rug is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the rug must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster's spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Damage Transfer</name>
<text>While it is grappling a creature, the rug takes only half the damage dealt to it, and the creature grappled by the rug takes the other half.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the rug remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal rug.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Smother</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or smaller creature. The creature is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, blinded, and at risk of suffocating, and the rug can't smother another target. In addition, at the start of each of the target's turns, the target takes 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Smother|+5|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 56</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Giant Crayfish</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>45 (7d10+7)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>3</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +3</skill>
<passive>9</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 30 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The giant crayfish can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The giant crayfish makes two claw attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d10 + 2) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). The crayfish has two claws, each of which can grapple only one target.</text>
<attack>Claw|+4|1d10+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 235</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Giant Ice Toad</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>52 (7d10+14)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>8</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Ice Toad</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>cold</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The toad can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Cold Aura</name>
<text>Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of the toad takes 5 (1d10) cold damage.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Standing Leap</name>
<text>The toad's long jump is up to 20 feet and its high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the toad can't bite another target.</text>
<attack>Bite|+5|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Swallow</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or smaller creature the toad is grappling. 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the toad, and it takes 10 (3d6) acid damage and 11 (2d10) cold damage at the start of each of the toad's turns. The toad can have only one target swallowed at a time.</text>
<attack>Swallow|+5|2d6+3</attack>
<text>If the toad dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.</text>
</action>
<description>In a cavern within the glacial rift (Against the Giants), a group of ice toads vigorously guard their territory. Waves of cold radiate from the creature, afflicting those that try to approach it, and anyone unfortunate enough to be swallowed suffers injury from cold as well as from the toad's digestive juices.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 235</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Giant Lightning Eel</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>13</ac>
<hp>42 (5d10+15)</hp>
<speed>walk 5 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>11</str>
<dex>17</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>3</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist>lightning</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Water Breathing</name>
<text>The eel can breathe only underwater.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The eel makes two bite attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage plus 4 (1d8) lightning damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+5|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Lightning Jolt (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>One creature the eel touches within 5 feet of it outside water, or each creature within 15 feet of it in a body of water, must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. On failed save, a target takes 13 (3d8) lightning damage. If the target takes any of this damage, the target is stunned until the end of the eel's next turn. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage and isn't stunned.</text>
<attack>Lightning Jolt (Recharge 5-6)||3d8</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 236</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Giant Skeleton</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>115 (10d12+50)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>4</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>understands Giant but can't speak</languages>
<cr>7</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable>bludgeoning</vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>exhaustion, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Evasion</name>
<text>If the skeleton is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The skeleton has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Turn Immunity</name>
<text>The skeleton is immune to effects that turn undead.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The skeleton makes three scimitar attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Scimitar</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 15 (3d6 + 5) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Scimitar|+8|3d6+5</attack>
</action>
<description>In the Tomb of Horrors, treasure sometimes presents itself for the taking. In one such location, the "reward" for an attempt to grab some valuables turns out to be the animated skeleton of a giant—deadly not only because of its size and strength, but because it has defenses normally possessed only by undead of much greater power.
Undead Nature . A skeleton doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 236, Essentials Kit: Divine Contention, Essentials Kit: Sleeping Dragon's Wake, Infernal Machine Rebuild</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Giant Subterranean Lizard</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>66 (7d12+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 50 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>17</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +3</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The lizard makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its tail. One attack can be replaced by Swallow.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 16 (2d10 + 5) piercing damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the lizard can't bite another target.</text>
<attack>Bite|+7|2d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tail</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 12 (2d6 + 5) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
<attack>Tail|+7|2d6+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Swallow</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or smaller creature the lizard is grappling. 16 (2d10 + 5) piercing damage. The target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the lizard, and it takes 10 (3d6) acid damage at the start of each of the lizard's turns. The lizard can have only one target swallowed at a time.</text>
<attack>Swallow|+7|2d10+5</attack>
<text>If the lizard dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 10 feet of movement, exiting prone.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 236</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Goblin Commoner</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (goblinoid)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>3 (1d6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Goblin</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Nimble Escape</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 24</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Gorvan Ironheart</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (dwarf)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>13 (chain shirt)</ac>
<hp>27 (5d8+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 25 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>13</int>
<wis>16</wis>
<cha>13</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Medicine +7, Persuasion +3, Religion +5</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>any two languages, Dwarvish</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>poison</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Divine Eminence</name>
<text>As a bonus action, Gorvan can expend a spell slot to cause its melee weapon attacks to magically deal an extra 10 (3d6) radiant damage to a target on a hit. This benefit lasts until the end of the turn. If Gorvan expends a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the extra damage increases by 1d6 for each level above 1st.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Dwarven Resilience</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against poison, and has resistance against poison damage.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Mace</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Mace|+2|1d6</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Gorvan is a 5th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). Gorvan has the following cleric spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): cure wounds, guiding bolt, sanctuary</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, spiritual weapon</text>
<text>• 3rd level (2 slots): dispel magic, spirit guardians</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 2</slots>
<spells>light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy, cure wounds, guiding bolt, sanctuary, lesser restoration, spiritual weapon, dispel magic, spirit guardians</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 151</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Great Ulfe</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>11 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>59 (7d10+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>7</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Greataxe</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 17 (2d12 + 4) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Greataxe|+6|2d12+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+6|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 42</description>
<environment>grassland, forest, swamp, hill, desert, coastal, arctic, underdark, mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Greater Zombie</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>97 (13d8+39)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>17</con>
<int>4</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save>Wis +1</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>understands the languages it knew in life but can't speak</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist>cold, necrotic</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Turn Resistance</name>
<text>The zombie has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Undead Fortitude</name>
<text>If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The zombie makes two melee attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Empowered Slam</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage and 7 (2d6) necrotic damage.</text>
<attack>Empowered Slam|+7|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<description>Many of those who brave the Tomb of Horrors believe they have reached their ultimate destination when they disturb a skeletal figure inside a secluded crypt. It is, in fact, a greater zombie, a creature magically created from a humanoid corpse to be far more resilient than a typical zombie.
Undead Nature. A zombie doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 237, Essentials Kit: Divine Contention, Essentials Kit: Sleeping Dragon's Wake, Infernal Machine Rebuild</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Grenl</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (goblinoid)</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (leather armor, shield)</ac>
<hp>10 (3d6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>8</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +6</skill>
<passive>9</passive>
<languages>Common, Goblin</languages>
<cr>1/4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Nimble Escape</name>
<text>The goblin can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Scimitar</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4, reach 5 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Shortbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4, range 80/320 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Grenl is a 1st-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 11, +3 to hit with spell attacks). She has the following cleric spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): poison spray, thaumaturgy</text>
<text>• 1st level (2 slots): bane, inflict wounds</text>
</trait>
<slots>2</slots>
<spells>poison spray, thaumaturgy, bane, inflict wounds</spells>
<description>Goblins are small, black-hearted, selfish humanoids that lair in caves, abandoned mines, despoiled dungeons, and other dismal settings. Individually weak, goblins gather in large-sometimes overwhelming-numbers. They crave power and regularly abuse whatever authority they obtain.
Goblinoids. Goblins belong to a family of creatures called goblinoids. Their larger cousins, hobgoblins and bugbears, like to bully goblins into submission. Goblins are lazy and undisciplined, making them poor servants, laborers, and guards.
Malicious Glee. Motivated by greed and malice, goblins can't help but celebrate the few times they have the upper hand. They dance, caper with sheer joy when victory is theirs. Once their revels have ended, goblins delight in the torment of other creatures and embrace all manner of wickedness.
Leaders and Followers. Goblins are ruled by the strongest or smartest among them. A goblin boss might command a single lair, while a goblin king or queen (who is nothing more than a glorified goblin boss) rules hundreds of goblins, spread out among multiple lairs to ensure the tribe's survival. Goblin bosses are easily ousted, and many goblin tribes are taken over by hobgoblin warlords or bugbear chiefs.
Challenging Lairs. Goblins festoon their lairs with alarms designed to signal the arrival of intruders. Those lairs are also riddled with narrow tunnels and bolt-holes that human-sized creatures can't navigate, but which goblins can crawl through with ease, allowing them to flee or to circle around and surprise their enemies. Rat Keepers and Wolf Riders. Goblins have an affinity for rats and wolves, raising them to serve as companions and mounts, respectively. Like rats, goblins shun sunlight and sleep underground during the day. Like wolves, they are pack hunters, made bolder by their numbers. When they hunt from the backs of wolves, goblins use hit-and-run attacks.
Worshipers of Maglubiyet. Maglubiyet the Mighty One, the Lord of Depths and Darkness, is the greater god of goblinoids. Envisioned by most goblins as an eleven-foot-tall battle-scarred goblin with black skin and fire erupting from his eyes, he is worshiped not out of adoration but fear. Goblins believe that when they die in battle, their spirits join the ranks of Maglubiyet's army on the plane of Acheron. This is a "privilege" that most goblins dread, fearing the Mighty One's eternal tyranny even more than death.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 25</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Grutha</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>105 (10d12+40)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>19</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Grutha makes two greatclub attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+8|3d8+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 21 (3d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+8|3d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult hill giants like to hurl themselves bodily at smaller foes and crush them beneath their bulk. This ability is represented by the following action option.</text>
<text>Squash. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or Smaller creature. 26 (6d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage, Grutha lands prone in the target's space, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is prone. The grapple ends early if Grutha stands up.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 170</description>
<environment>hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Guthash</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>16 (2d6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>7</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>11</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>4</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1/4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or contract a disease. Until the disease is cured, the target can't regain hit points except by magical means, and the target's hit point maximum decreases by 3 (1d6) every 24 hours. If the target's hit point maximum drops to 0 as a result of this disease, the target dies.</text>
<attack>Bite|+5|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<description>Some giant rats carry vile diseases that they spread with their bites.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 21</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Hedrun Arnsfirth</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>12 (15 with mage armor)</ac>
<hp>37 (5d8+15)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>11</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Wis +4</save>
<skill>Arcana +3, Perception +4</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>the languages it knew in life</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist>necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>exhaustion, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, Hedrun has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Hedrun attacks twice with Grave Bolt.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Grave Bolt</name>
<text>Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, range 120 ft., one target. 7 (1d8 + 3) necrotic damage.</text>
<attack>Grave Bolt|+5|1d8+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Life Drain</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 9 (2d6 + 2) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.</text>
<attack>Life Drain|+4|2d6+2</attack>
<text>A humanoid slain by this attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under Hedrun's control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed. Hedrun can have no more than twelve zombie under its control at one time.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>Hedrun's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no verbal or material components:</text>
<text>At will: detect magic, disguise self, mage armor</text>
<text>1/day each: fear, hold person, misty step</text>
</trait>
<spells>detect magic, disguise self, mage armor, fear, hold person, misty step</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 160</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Hill Giant Sergeant</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>115 (10d12+40)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>19</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The giant makes two greatclub attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+8|3d8+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 21 (3d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+8|3d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult hill giants like to hurl themselves bodily at smaller foes and crush them beneath their bulk. This ability is represented by the following action option.</text>
<text>Squash. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or Smaller creature. 26 (6d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage, the giant lands prone in the target's space, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is prone. The grapple ends early if the giant stands up.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 170</description>
<environment>hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Hill Giant Servant</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>11 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>59 (7d10+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>7</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+6|2d8+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+6|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 170</description>
<environment>grassland, forest, swamp, hill, desert, coastal, arctic, underdark, mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Hill Giant Subchief</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>126 (11d12+55)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>23</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save>Dex +5, Con +8, Wis +4</save>
<skill>Athletics +12, Perception +4</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>7</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Stone Camouflage</name>
<text>The giant has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The giant makes two greatclub attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. 19 (3d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+9|3d8+6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 28 (4d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
<attack>Rock|+9|4d10+6</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Rock Catching</name>
<text>If a rock or similar object is hurled at the giant, the giant can, with a successful DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, catch the missile and take no bludgeoning damage from it.</text>
</reaction>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult stone giants like to grab enemies and fling them through the air. They can also roll boulders across the ground, striking multiple enemies in a line. These abilities are represented by the following action options.</text>
<text>Fling. The giant tries to throw a Small or Medium creature within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or be hurled up to 60 feet horizontally in a direction of the giant's choice and land prone, taking 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown.</text>
<text>Rolling Rock. The giant sends a rock tumbling along the ground in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (3d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failed save</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 170</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain, hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Huge Giant Crab</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>161 (14d12+70)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>20</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>3</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +5</skill>
<passive>9</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>8</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, frightened, paralyzed</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 30 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Banded Claw</name>
<text>On one of its claws, the crab wears a rune-covered copper band that makes it immune to being charmed, frightened, and paralyzed. The copper band is worthless as a treasure, as the magic is keyed to this crab.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The crab can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 27 (4d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled, escape DC 14. The crab has two claws, each of which can grapple only one target.</text>
<attack>Claw|+9|4d10+5</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 103, Essentials Kit: Storm Lord's Wrath</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Huge Ochre Jelly</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>8</ac>
<hp>51 (6d12+12)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., climb 10 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>6</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>acid</resist>
<immune>lightning, slashing</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous</name>
<text>The jelly can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The jelly can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (2d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6) acid damage.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+4|2d6+2</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Split</name>
<text>When a jelly that is Medium or larger is subjected to lightning or slashing damage, it splits into two new jellies if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new jelly has hit points equal to half the original jelly's, rounded down. New jellies are one size smaller than the original jelly.</text>
</reaction>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 225</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Huge Polar Bear</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>12 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>65 (5d12+15)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>20</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The bear has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The bear makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (1d8 + 5) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+7|1d8+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 12 (2d6 + 5) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claws|+7|2d6+5</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 187</description>
<environment>underdark, arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Irisoth</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (half-elf)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>4 (1d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Elvish</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put &lt;$title_short_name$&gt; to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 157</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Jarl Grugnur</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Neutral Good (50%) Neutral Evil (50%)</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>200 (16d12+96)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>27</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>22</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>16</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Con +10, Wis +7, Cha +7</save>
<skill>Insight +7, Perception +7</skill>
<passive>17</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant</languages>
<cr>9</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>Grugnur has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Grugnur makes two longsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longsword +2</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 23 (3d8 + 10) slashing damage, or 26 (3d10 + 10) slashing damage if used with both hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword +2|+14|3d8+10</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 30 (4d10 + 8) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+12|4d10+8</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult cloud giants have the magical ability to create barriers of gale-force wind around themselves that can deflect incoming missiles. Others like to fling enemies through the air. These abilities are represented by the following action options.</text>
<text>Fling. Grugnur tries to throw a Small or Medium creature within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw or be hurled up to 60 feet horizontally in a direction of Grugnur's choice and land prone, taking 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown.</text>
<text>Wind Aura. A magical aura of wind surrounds Grugnur. The aura is a 10-foot-radius sphere that lasts as long as Grugnur maintains concentration on it (as if concentrating on a spell). While the aura is in effect, Grugnur gains a +2 bonus to its AC against ranged weapon attacks, and all open flames within the aura are extinguished unless they are magical.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>Grugnur's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: detect magic, fog cloud, light</text>
<text>3/day each: feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis</text>
<text>1/day each: control weather, gaseous form</text>
</trait>
<spells>detect magic, fog cloud, light, feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis, control weather, gaseous form</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 189</description>
<environment>mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Jot</name>
<size>T</size>
<type>fiend (demon)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13</ac>
<hp>7 (3d4)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>5</str>
<dex>17</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +5</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Abyssal, Common</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist>cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Shapechanger</name>
<text>Jot can use its action to polymorph into a beast form that resembles a bat (speed 10 feet fly 40 ft.), a centipede (40 ft., climb 40 ft.), or a toad (40 ft., swim 40 ft.), or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form, except for the speed changes noted. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>Jot has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Claw (Bite in Beast Form)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (2d4) poison damage and become poisoned for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<attack>Claw (Bite in Beast Form)|+4|1d4+3</attack>
<attack>Claw (Bite in Beast Form)||2d4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Scare (1/Day)</name>
<text>One creature of Jot's choice within 20 feet of it must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if Jot is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Invisibility</name>
<text>Jot magically turns invisible until it attacks or uses Scare, or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment Jot wears or carries is invisible with it.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Quasit Familiar</name>
<text>Mortal spellcasters interested in extraplanar familiars find quasits easy to summon and eager to serve. Jot plays the part of the obsequious servant. It serves its master well, but it goads the mortal to greater and greater acts of chaos and evil. Such quasits have the following trait.</text>
<text>Familiar. Jot can serve another creature as a familiar, forming a telepathic bond with its willing master. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what Jot senses as long as they are within 1 mile of each other. While Jot is within 10 feet of its master, the master shares Jot's Magic Resistance trait. At any time and for any reason, Jot can end its service as a familiar, ending the telepathic bond.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 15</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Kaarghaz</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (troglodyte)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>39 (6d8+12)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>14</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>6</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>15</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +2</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Draconic, Troglodyte</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Chameleon Skin</name>
<text>The troglodyte has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Stench</name>
<text>Any creature other than a troglodyte that starts its turn within 5 feet of the troglodyte must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of the creature's next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the stench of all troglodytes for 1 hour.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, the troglodyte has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The troglodyte makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claw|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Kaarghaz is a 4th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). He knows the following sorcerer spells:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, mage hand, poison spray, prestidigitation, ray of frost</text>
<text>• 1st level (6 slots): burning hands, shield, sleep</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): invisibility, scorching ray</text>
</trait>
<slots>6, 3</slots>
<spells>fire bolt, mage hand, poison spray, prestidigitation, ray of frost, burning hands, shield, sleep, invisibility, scorching ray</spells>
<description>The savage, degenerate troglodytes squat in the shallow depths of the Underdark in a constant state of war against their neighbors and one another. They mark the borders of their territories with cracked bones and skulls, or with pictographs painted in blood or dung.
Perhaps the most loathsome of all humanoids, troglodytes eat anything they can stomach. They dwell in filth. The walls of their cavern homes are smeared with grime, oily secretions, and the debris of their foul feasting.
Simpleminded Brutes. Troglodytes have a simple, communal culture devoted almost entirely to procuring food. Too simple to plan more than a few days into the future, troglodytes rely on constant raids and hunting to survive. They take sadistic pleasure in hunting intelligent creatures weaker than themselves and show no mercy toward those they capture and drag back to their lairs to be devoured. The largest and toughest troglodytes lead the hunt and become the leaders of their tribes. However, if a leader shows any weakness or hesitation, other troglodytes attack and eat it in a frenzy.
Troglodytes make little and build less, scavenging their possessions from their prey. They understand the value of metal weapons and armor, and fight among one another for the right to have such items. A troglodyte tribe might be torn apart by battles over a single longsword.
Devotees of Laogzed. Some troglodytes venerate Laogzed, a demonic, monstrously fat toad-lizard that slumbers in the Abyss. Laogzed offers the troglodytes nothing in return except aspiration, for it is the dream of his troglodyte worshipers to become as fat, well-fed, and wearily content as he seems to be.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 45</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Kalka-Kylla</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>85 (10d10+30)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>15</int>
<wis>16</wis>
<cha>12</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Deception +3, Insight +5, Stealth +3</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Olman</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 30 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>Kalka-Kylla can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While Kalka-Kylla remains motionless and hidden in its shell, it is indistinguishable from a polished boulder.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Shell</name>
<text>Kalka-Kylla can use a bonus action to retract into or emerge from its shell. While retracted, Kalka-Kylla gains a +4 bonus to AC, and it has a speed of 0 and can't benefit from bonuses to speed.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Kalka-Kylla makes two claw attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and if the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. Kalka-Kylla has two claws, each of which can grapple only one target.</text>
<attack>Claw|+5|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 238</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Keeper</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>Keeper</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>126 (11d12+55)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>23</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save>Dex +5, Con +8, Wis +4</save>
<skill>Athletics +12, Perception +4</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Keeper</languages>
<cr>7</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Stone Camouflage</name>
<text>The Keeper has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The Keeper makes two battleaxe attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Battleaxe +2</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. 20 (3d8 + 7) slashing damage, or 23 (3d10 + 7) slashing damage if used with both hands.</text>
<attack>Battleaxe +2|+10|3d8+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 28 (4d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
<attack>Rock|+9|4d10+6</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Rock Catching</name>
<text>If a rock or similar object is hurled at the Keeper, the Keeper can, with a successful DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, catch the missile and take no bludgeoning damage from it.</text>
</reaction>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Keeper Options</name>
<text>Some adult stone Keepers like to grab enemies and fling them through the air. They can also roll boulders across the ground, striking multiple enemies in a line. These abilities are represented by the following action options.</text>
<text>Fling. The Keeper tries to throw a Small or Medium creature within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or be hurled up to 60 feet horizontally in a direction of the Keeper's choice and land prone, taking 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown.</text>
<text>Rolling Rock. The Keeper sends a rock tumbling along the ground in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (3d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failed save</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 173</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain, hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Kelpie</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>plant</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>67 (9d8+27)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>14</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3, Stealth +4</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Common, Sylvan</languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist>fire, bludgeoning, piercing</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, deafened, exhaustion</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The kelpie can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Seaweed Shape</name>
<text>The kelpie can use its action to reshape its body into the form of a humanoid or beast that is Small, Medium, or Large. Its statistics are otherwise unchanged. The disguise is convincing, unless the kelpie is in bright light or the viewer is within 30 feet of it, in which case the seams between the seaweed strands are visible. The kelpie returns to its true form if takes a bonus action to do so or if it dies.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the kelpie remains motionless in its true form, it is indistinguishable from normal seaweed.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The kelpie makes two slam attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slam</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 11 (2d8 + 2) piercing damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 12).</text>
<attack>Slam|+4|2d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Drowning Hypnosis</name>
<text>The kelpie chooses one humanoid it can see within 150 feet of it. If the target can see the kelpie, the target must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed while the kelpie maintains concentration, up to 10 minutes (as if concentrating on a spell). The charmed target is incapacitated, and instead of holding its breath underwater, it tries to breathe normally and immediately runs out of breath, unless it can breathe water. If the charmed target is more than 5 feet away from the kelpie, the target must move on its turn toward the kelpie by the most direct route, trying to get within 5 feet. It doesn't avoid opportunity attacks.</text>
<text>Before moving into damaging terrain, such as lava or a pit, and whenever it takes damage from a source other than the kelpie or drowning, the target can repeat the saving throw. A charmed target can also repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns. If the saving throw is successful, the effect ends on it.</text>
<text>A target that successfully saves is immune to this kelpie's hypnosis for the next 24 hours.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 238</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Kelson Darktreader</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (half-elf)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>4 (1d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Elvish</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put &lt;$title_short_name$&gt; to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 132</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Kieren</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (any race)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>4 (1d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common)</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 157</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>King Snurre</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>18 (plate armor)</ac>
<hp>187 (15d12+90)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>25</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>23</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>13</cha>
<save>Dex +3, Con +10, Cha +5</save>
<skill>Athletics +11, Perception +6</skill>
<passive>16</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>9</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>fire</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Snurre makes two greatsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greatsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 28 (6d6 + 7) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.</text>
<attack>Greatsword|+11|6d6+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rock</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. 29 (4d10 + 7) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Rock|+11|4d10+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: New Giant Options</name>
<text>Some adult fire giants are trained to lay siege to strongholds and break through enemy lines. These abilities are represented by the following traits.</text>
<text>Siege Monster. Snurre deals double damage to objects and structures.</text>
<text>Tackle. When Snurre enters any enemy's space for the first time on a turn, the enemy must succeed on a DC 19 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 193</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Kobold Commoner</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (kobold)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>3 (1d6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Draconic</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, &lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pack Tactics</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of their allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 18</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Kobold Elite</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (kobold)</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>7 (2d6-2)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>7</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>9</con>
<int>8</int>
<wis>7</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>Common, Draconic</languages>
<cr>1/8</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, the kobold has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pack Tactics</name>
<text>The kobold has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kobold's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Dagger</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Dagger|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Sling</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Sling|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 18</description>
<environment>forest, swamp, hill, urban, desert, coastal, arctic, mountain, underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Lacedon</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>22 (5d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>13</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+2|2d6+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an elf or undead, it must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<attack>Claws|+4|2d4+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 147, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount</description>
<environment>underdark, swamp, urban</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Lahnis</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (any race)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>12 (15 with mage armor)</ac>
<hp>66 (12d8+12)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>9</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>17</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save>Int +7, Wis +5</save>
<skill>Arcana +7, History +7</skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>any four languages</languages>
<cr>9</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Sculpt Spells</name>
<text>When Lahnis casts an evocation spell that forces other creatures it can see to make a saving throw, it can choose a number of them equal to 1 + the spell's level. These creatures automatically succeed on their saving throws against the spell. If a successful save means a chosen creature would take half damage from the spell, it instead takes no damage from it.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Quarterstaff</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d6 - 1) bludgeoning damage, or 3 (1d8 - 1) bludgeoning damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Quarterstaff|+3|1d6-1</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Lahnis is a 12th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). Lahnis has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): fire bolt*, light*, prestidigitation, ray of frost*</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): burning hands*, mage armor, magic missile*</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): mirror image, misty step, shatter*</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, fireball*, lightning bolt*</text>
<text>• 4th level (3 slots): ice storm*, stoneskin</text>
<text>• 5th level (2 slots): Bigby's hand*, cone of cold*</text>
<text>• 6th level (1 slots): chain lightning*, wall of ice*</text>
<text>*Evocation spell</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1</slots>
<spells>fire bolt, light, prestidigitation, ray of frost, burning hands, mage armor, magic missile, mirror image, misty step, shatter, counterspell, fireball, lightning bolt, ice storm, stoneskin, Bigby's hand, cone of cold, chain lightning, wall of ice</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 131</description>
<environment>urban</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Lesser Mummy Lord</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>97 (13d8+39)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>17</con>
<int>11</int>
<wis>18</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Con +8, Int +5, Wis +9, Cha +8</save>
<skill>History +5, Religion +5</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>the languages it knew in life</languages>
<cr>15</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</immune>
<vulnerable>fire</vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The mummy lord has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Rejuvenation</name>
<text>A destroyed mummy lord gains a new body in 24 hours if its heart is intact, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the mummy lord's heart.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The mummy can use its Dreadful Glare and makes one attack with its rotting fist.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Rotting Fist</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 21 (6d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with mummy rot. The cursed target can't regain hit points, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, the target dies, and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the remove curse spell or other magic.</text>
<attack>Rotting Fist|+9|3d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Dreadful Glare</name>
<text>The mummy lord targets one creature it can see within 60 feet of it. If the target can see the mummy lord, it must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened until the end of the mummy's next turn. If the target fails the saving throw by 5 or more, it is also paralyzed for the same duration. A target that succeeds on the saving throw is immune to the Dreadful Glare of all mummies and mummy lords for the next 24 hours.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The undead can take 5 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The undead regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Attack</name>
<text>The mummy lord makes one attack with its rotting fist or uses its Dreadful Glare.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Blinding Dust</name>
<text>Blinding dust and sand swirls magically around the mummy lord. Each creature within 5 feet of the mummy lord must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of the creature's next turn.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Blasphemous Word (Costs 2 Actions)</name>
<text>The mummy lord utters a blasphemous word. Each non-undead creature within 10 feet of the mummy lord that can hear the magical utterance must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of the mummy lord's next turn.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Channel Negative Energy (Costs 2 Actions)</name>
<text>The mummy lord magically unleashes negative energy. Creatures within 60 feet of the mummy lord, including ones behind barriers and around corners, can't regain hit points until the end of the mummy lord's next turn.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Whirlwind of Sand (Costs 2 Actions)</name>
<text>The mummy lord magically transforms into a whirlwind of sand, moves up to 60 feet, and reverts to its normal form. While in whirlwind form, the mummy lord is immune to all damage, and it can't be grappled, petrified, knocked prone, restrained, or stunned. Equipment worn or carried by the mummy lord remain in its possession.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Lair Actions</name>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<text>On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the mummy lord takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the mummy lord can't use the same effect two rounds in a row:</text>
<text>• Each undead creature in the lair can pinpoint the location of each living creature within 120 feet of it until initiative count 20 on the next round.</text>
<text>• Each undead in the lair has advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead until initiative count 20 on the next round.</text>
<text>• Until initiative count 20 on the next round, any non-undead creature that tries to cast a spell of 4th level or lower in the mummy lord's lair is wracked with pain. The creature can choose another action, but if it tries to cast the spell, it must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d6 necrotic damage per level of the spell, and the spell has no effect and is wasted.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Regional Effects</name>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<text>A mummy lord's temple or tomb is warped in any of the following ways by the creature's dark presence:</text>
<text>• Food instantly molders and water instantly evaporates when brought into the lair. Other non magical drinks are spoiled - wine turning to vinegar, for instance.</text>
<text>• Divination spells cast within the lair by creatures other than the mummy lord have a 25 percent chance to provide misleading results, as determined by the DM. If a divination spell already has a chance to fail or become unreliable when cast multiple times, that chance increases by 25 percent.</text>
<text>• A creature that takes treasure from the lair is cursed until the treasure is returned. The cursed target has disadvantage on all saving throws. The curse lasts until removed by a remove curse spell or other magic.</text>
<text>If the mummy lord is destroyed, these regional effects end immediately.</text>
</legendary>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>The mummy lord is a 10th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks). The mummy lord has the following cleric spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): sacred flame, thaumaturgy</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): command, guiding bolt, shield of faith</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, dispel magic</text>
<text>• 4th level (3 slots): divination, guardian of faith</text>
<text>• 5th level (2 slots): contagion, insect plague</text>
<text>• 6th level (1 slots): harm</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1</slots>
<spells>sacred flame, thaumaturgy, command, guiding bolt, shield of faith, hold person, silence, spiritual weapon, animate dead, dispel magic, divination, guardian of faith, contagion, insect plague, harm</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 224</description>
<environment>desert</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Lumalia</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>celestial</type>
<alignment>Lawful Good</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>136 (16d8+64)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., fly 90 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>18</dex>
<con>18</con>
<int>17</int>
<wis>20</wis>
<cha>20</cha>
<save>Wis +9, Cha +9</save>
<skill>Insight +9, Perception +9</skill>
<passive>19</passive>
<languages>all, telepathy 120 ft.</languages>
<cr>10</cr>
<resist>radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Angelic Weapons</name>
<text>Lumalia's weapon attacks are magical. When Lumalia hits with any weapon, the weapon deals an extra 4d8 radiant damage (included in the attack).</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>Lumalia has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Lumalia makes two melee attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Mace</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 18 (4d8) radiant damage.</text>
<attack>Mace|+8|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Healing Touch (3/Day)</name>
<text>Lumalia touches another creature. The target magically regains 20 (4d8 + 2) hit points and is freed from any curse, disease, poison, blindness, or deafness.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Change Shape</name>
<text>Lumalia magically polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating equal to or less than its own, or back into its true form. It reverts to its true form if it dies. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (Lumalia's choice).</text>
<text>In a new form, Lumalia retains its game statistics and ability to speak, but its AC, movement modes, Strength, Dexterity, and special senses are replaced by those of the new form, and it gains any statistics and capabilities (except class features, legendary actions, and lair actions) that the new form has but that it lacks.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>Lumalia's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). Lumalia can innately cast the following spells, requiring only verbal components:</text>
<text>At will: detect evil and good</text>
<text>1/day each: commune, raise dead</text>
</trait>
<spells>detect evil and good, commune, raise dead</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 153</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Malformed Kraken</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>172 (15d12+75)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft., swim 40 ft.</speed>
<str>25</str>
<dex>11</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>11</int>
<wis>15</wis>
<cha>15</cha>
<save>Str +11, Con +9, Int +4, Wis +6, Cha +6</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>understands Common but can't speak, telepathy 60 ft.</languages>
<cr>10</cr>
<resist>bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>lightning</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>frightened, paralyzed</conditionImmune>
<senses>truesight 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The kraken can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Siege Monster</name>
<text>The kraken deals double damage to objects and structures.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The kraken makes three tentacle attacks. One of them can be replaced with a bite attack, and any of them can be replaced with Fling.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 16 (2d8 + 7) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+11|2d8+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tentacle</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. 14 (2d6 + 7) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. The kraken has ten tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.</text>
<attack>Tentacle|+11|2d6+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Fling</name>
<text>One Medium or smaller object held or creature grappled by the kraken 's tentacles is thrown up to 60 feet in a random direction and knocked prone. If a thrown target strikes a solid surface, the target takes 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown. If the target is thrown at another creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take the same damage and be knocked prone.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Lightning Storm</name>
<text>The kraken creates three bolts of lightning, each of which can strike a target the kraken can see within 150 feet of it. A target must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw, taking 16 (3d10) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Lightning Storm||3d10</attack>
</action>
<description>The Doomvault (Dead in Thay) contains a number of denizens that don't have all the traits or abilities of normal creatures of their kind. By far the most powerful of these "inferior" creatures is a malformed kraken that is kept in a saltwater pool and is not as large or as durable as a true kraken
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 239</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Mennek Ariz</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (any race)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>12 (15 with mage armor)</ac>
<hp>40 (9d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>9</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>11</con>
<int>17</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save>Int +6, Wis +4</save>
<skill>Arcana +6, History +6</skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>any four languages</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<action>
<name>Quarterstaff</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d6 - 1) bludgeoning damage, or 3 (1d8 - 1) bludgeoning damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Quarterstaff|+2|1d6-1</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Instinctive Charm (Recharges after Mennek Casts an Enchantment Spell of 1st level or Higher)</name>
<text>Mennek tries to magically divert an attack made against it, provided that the attacker is within 30 feet of it and visible to it. Mennek must decide to do so before the attack hits or misses.</text>
<text>The attacker must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the attacker targets the creature closest to it, other than Mennek or itself. If multiple creatures are closest, the attacker chooses which one to target.</text>
</reaction>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Mennek is a 9th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). Mennek has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): friends, mage hand, mending, message</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): charm person*, mage armor, magic missile</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): hold person*, invisibility, suggestion*</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): fireball, haste, tongues</text>
<text>• 4th level (3 slots): dominate beast*, stoneskin</text>
<text>• 5th level (2 slots): hold monster*</text>
<text>*Enchantment spell of 1st level or higher</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3, 3, 2</slots>
<spells>friends, mage hand, mending, message, charm person, mage armor, magic missile, hold person, invisibility, suggestion, fireball, haste, tongues, dominate beast, stoneskin, hold monster</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 157</description>
<environment>urban</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Nahual</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>fiend (demon)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>14</ac>
<hp>52 (8d8+16)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>11</str>
<dex>18</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>11</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>14</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Deception +6, Insight +3</skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>Common</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Shapechanger</name>
<text>The doppelganger can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Ambusher</name>
<text>In the first round of a combat, the doppelganger has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it has surprised.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Surprise Attack</name>
<text>If the doppelganger surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6) damage from the attack.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The doppelganger makes two melee attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slam</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Slam|+6|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Read Thoughts</name>
<text>The doppelganger magically reads the surface thoughts of one creature within 60 feet of it. The effect can penetrate barriers, but 3 feet of wood or dirt, 2 feet of stone, 2 inches of metal, or a thin sheet of lead blocks it. While the target is in range, the doppelganger can continue reading its thoughts, as long as the doppelganger's concentration isn't broken (as if concentrating on a spell). While reading the target's mind, the doppelganger has advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, and Persuasion) checks against the target.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 91</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Nedylene</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (elf)</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (scale mail)</ac>
<hp>71 (13d8+13)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>13</int>
<wis>17</wis>
<cha>18</cha>
<save>Con +4, Wis +6, Cha +7</save>
<skill>Insight +6, Perception +6, Religion +4, Stealth +5</skill>
<passive>16</passive>
<languages>Elvish, Undercommon</languages>
<cr>8</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Special Equipment</name>
<text>Nedylene carries a staff of swarming insects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>Nedylene has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put Nedylene to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, Nedylene has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Nedylene makes two scourge attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Scourge +2</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage plus 17 (5d6) poison damage.</text>
<attack>Scourge +2|+7|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Summon Demon (1/Day)</name>
<text>Nedylene attempts to magically summon a yochlol with a 30 chance of success. If the attempt fails, Nedylene takes 5 (1d10) psychic damage. Otherwise, the summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of its summoner, acts as an ally of its summoner, and can't summon other demons. It remains for 10 minutes, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Drow Magic Armor and Weapons</name>
<text>Drow often wear magic armor and carry magic weapons that lose their enhancement bonuses permanently if they are exposed to sunlight for 1 hour or longer.</text>
<text>A drow priestess of lolth wearing +3 scale mail has AC 19.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>Nedylene's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: dancing lights</text>
<text>1/day each: darkness, faerie fire, levitate (self only)</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Nedylene is a 10th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Wisdom (save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). Nedylene has the following cleric spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): guidance, poison spray, resistance, spare the dying, thaumaturgy</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): animal friendship, cure wounds, detect poison and disease, ray of sickness</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, protection from poison, web</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): conjure animals (2 giant spiders), dispel magic</text>
<text>• 4th level (3 slots): divination, freedom of movement</text>
<text>• 5th level (2 slots): insect plague, mass cure wounds</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3, 3, 2</slots>
<spells>dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire, levitate, guidance, poison spray, resistance, spare the dying, thaumaturgy, animal friendship, cure wounds, detect poison and disease, ray of sickness, lesser restoration, protection from poison, web, conjure animals, dispel magic, divination, freedom of movement, insect plague, mass cure wounds</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 209</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Nereid</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>fey</type>
<alignment>Any Chaotic Alignment</alignment>
<ac>13</ac>
<hp>44 (8d8+8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 60 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>17</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>13</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Acrobatics +5, Nature +3, Stealth +5, Survival +4</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Aquan, Common, Elvish, Sylvan</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The nereid can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Aquatic Invisibility</name>
<text>If immersed in water, the nereid can make itself invisible as a bonus action. It remains invisible until it leaves the water, ends the invisibility as a bonus action, or dies.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Mantle Dependent</name>
<text>The nereid wears a mantle of silky cloth the color of sea foam, which holds the creature's spirit. The mantle has an AC and hit points equal to that of the nereid, but the garment can't be directly harmed while the nereid wears it. If the mantle is destroyed, the nereid becomes poisoned and dies within 1 hour. A nereid is willing to do anything in its power to recover the mantle if it is stolen, including serving the thief.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Shape Water</name>
<text>The nereid can cast control water at will, requiring no components. Its spellcasting ability for it is Charisma. This use of the spell has a range of 30 feet and can affect a cube of water no larger than 30 feet on a side.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Speak With Animals</name>
<text>The nereid can comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Blinding Acid</name>
<text>ms,rs +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft., one target. 16 (2d12 + 3) acid damage, and the target is blinded until the start of the nereid's next turn.</text>
<attack>Blinding Acid|+5|2d12+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Drowning Kiss (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>The nereid touches one creature it can see within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take 22 (3d12 + 3) acid damage. On a failure, it also runs out of breath and can't speak for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, it can repeat the save, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<attack>Drowning Kiss (Recharge 5-6)||3d12+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Water Lash</name>
<text>The nereid causes a 5-foot cube of water within 60 feet of it to take a shape of its choice and strike one target it can see within 5 feet of that water. The target must make a DC 13 Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 17 (4d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and if it is a Large or smaller creature, it is pushed up to 15 feet in a straight line or is knocked prone (nereid's choice). On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and isn't pushed or knocked prone.</text>
<attack>Water Lash||4d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>One of the most inviting locations in the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan is a gently illuminated pool of water, beside which sits a lovely being singing a pleasant tune. The figure is a nereid—a fey water creature that can shape its environment to suit its needs. Whether male or female, a nereid bears an otherworldly beauty.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 240</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Nimira</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (dwarf)</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (scale mail, shield)</ac>
<hp>52 (8d8+16)</hp>
<speed>walk 25 ft.</speed>
<str>14</str>
<dex>11</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>11</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Dwarvish, Undercommon</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist>poison</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Duergar Resilience</name>
<text>Nimira has advantage on saving throws against poison, spells, and illusions, as well as to resist being charmed or paralyzed.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, Nimira has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Multiattack. Nimira makes two greatsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greatsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (2d6 + 2) slashing damage, or 16 (4d6 + 2) slashing damage while enlarged.</text>
<attack>Greatsword|+4|2d6+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Enlarge (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)</name>
<text>For 1 minute, Nimira magically increases in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, Nimira is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage. If Nimira lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size possible in the space available.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>War Pick</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage, or 11 (2d8 + 2) piercing damage while enlarged.</text>
<attack>War Pick|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage, or 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage while enlarged.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Invisibility (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)</name>
<text>Nimira magically turns invisible until it attacks, casts a spell, or uses its Enlarge, or until its concentration is broken, up to 1 hour (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment Nimira wears or carries is invisible with it.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 54</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Obmi</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (dwarf)</type>
<alignment>Any Non-Good Alignment</alignment>
<ac>15 (studded leather armor)</ac>
<hp>78 (12d8+24)</hp>
<speed>walk 25 ft.</speed>
<str>11</str>
<dex>16</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>13</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save>Dex +6, Int +4</save>
<skill>Acrobatics +6, Deception +3, Perception +3, Stealth +9</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Thieves' cant plus any two languages, Dwarvish</languages>
<cr>8</cr>
<resist>poison, poison</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Assassinate</name>
<text>During its first turn, Obmi has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn. Any hit Obmi scores against a surprised creature is a critical hit.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Evasion</name>
<text>If Obmi is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, Obmi instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sneak Attack (1/Turn)</name>
<text>Obmi deals an extra 14 (4d6) damage when it hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of Obmi that isn't incapacitated and Obmi doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Dwarven Resilience</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against poison, and has resistance against poison damage.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Obmi makes three shortsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Shortsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 24 (7d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Shortsword|+6|1d6+3</attack>
<attack>Shortsword||7d6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Light Crossbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 24 (7d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Light Crossbow|+6|1d8+3</attack>
<attack>Light Crossbow||7d6</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 196</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Ogre Skeleton</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>11 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>59 (7d10+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>7</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant, understands all languages it spoke in life but can't speak</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable>bludgeoning</vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>exhaustion, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+6|2d8+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+6|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 54</description>
<environment>grassland, forest, swamp, hill, desert, coastal, arctic, underdark, mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Ooze Master</name>
<size>H</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>9 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>138 (12d12+60)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., climb 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>1</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>17</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Int +7, Wis +4</save>
<skill>Arcana +7, Insight +4</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, Primordial, Thayan</languages>
<cr>10</cr>
<resist>lightning, necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>acid, cold, poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Corrosive Form</name>
<text>A creature that touches the Ooze Master or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 9 (2d8) acid damage. Any nonmagical weapon that hits the Ooze Master corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to damage rolls. If its penalty drops to 5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition that hits the Ooze Master is destroyed after dealing damage.</text>
<text>The Ooze Master can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Instinctive Attack</name>
<text>When the Ooze Master casts a spell with a casting time of 1 action, it can make one pseudopod attack as a bonus action.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The Ooze Master can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 13 (3d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) acid damage.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+7|3d6+3</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Instinctive Charm</name>
<text>If a creature the Ooze Master can see makes an attack roll against it while within 30 feet of it, the Ooze Master can use a reaction to divert the attack if another creature is within the attack's range. The attacker must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the attacker targets the creature that is closest to it, not including itself or the Ooze Master. If multiple creatures are closest, the attacker chooses which one to target. On a successful save, the attacker is immune to this Instinctive Charm for 24 hours. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to this effect.</text>
</reaction>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>The Ooze Master is a 9th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): acid splash, friends, mage hand, poison spray</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): charm person, detect magic, magic missile, ray of sickness</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): detect thoughts, Melf's acid arrow, suggestion</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): fear, slow, stinking cloud</text>
<text>• 4th level (3 slots): confusion, Evard's black tentacles</text>
<text>• 5th level (1 slots): cloudkill</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3, 3, 1</slots>
<spells>acid splash, friends, mage hand, poison spray, charm person, detect magic, magic missile, ray of sickness, detect thoughts, Melf's acid arrow, suggestion, fear, slow, stinking cloud, confusion, Evard's black tentacles, cloudkill</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 241</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Orc Commoner</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (orc)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>4 (1d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Orc</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Aggressive</name>
<text>As a bonus action, &lt;$title_short_name$&gt; can move up to your speed toward a hostile creature that they can see.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 167</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Oussa</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>monstrosity (shapechanger, yuan-ti)</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>66 (12d8+12)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>14</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Deception +5, Stealth +4</skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>Abyssal, Common, Draconic</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Shapechanger</name>
<text>Oussa can use its action to polymorph into a Medium snake, or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It doesn't change form if it dies.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>Oussa has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Malison Type</name>
<text>Oussa has one of the following types:</text>
<text>• Type 1: Human body with snake head</text>
<text>• Type 2: Human head and body with snakes for arms</text>
<text>• Type 3: Human head and upper body with a serpentine lower body instead of legs</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack (Yuan-ti Form Only)</name>
<text>Oussa makes two ranged attacks or two melee attacks, but can constrict only once.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite (Snake Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.</text>
<attack>Bite (Snake Form Only)|+5|1d4+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Constrict</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and Oussa can't constrict another target.</text>
<attack>Constrict|+5|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Scimitar (Yuan-ti Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Scimitar (Yuan-ti Form Only)|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longbow (Yuan-ti Form Only)</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Longbow (Yuan-ti Form Only)|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting (Yuan-ti Form Only)</name>
<text>Oussa's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). Oussa can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: animal friendship (snakes only)</text>
<text>3/day: suggestion</text>
</trait>
<spells>animal friendship, suggestion</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 157</description>
<environment>forest, swamp, desert</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Phaia</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (any race)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>12 (15 with mage armor)</ac>
<hp>66 (12d8+12)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>9</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>17</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save>Int +7, Wis +5</save>
<skill>Arcana +7, History +7</skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>any four languages</languages>
<cr>9</cr>
<resist>necrotic</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Grim Harvest (1/Turn)</name>
<text>When necromancer kills a creature that is neither a construct nor undead with a spell of 1st level or higher, Phaia regains hit points equal to twice the spell's level, or three times if it is a necromancy spell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Withering Touch</name>
<text>Melee Spell Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 5 (2d4) necrotic damage.</text>
<attack>Withering Touch|+7|2d4</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Phaia is a 12th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). Phaia has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): chill touch, dancing lights, mage hand, mending</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): false life*, mage armor, ray of sickness*</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness*, ray of enfeeblement*, web</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead*, bestow curse*, vampiric touch*</text>
<text>• 4th level (3 slots): blight*, dimension door, stoneskin</text>
<text>• 5th level (2 slots): Bigby's hand, cloudkill</text>
<text>• 6th level (1 slots): circle of death*</text>
<text>*Necromancy spell of 1st level or higher</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1</slots>
<spells>chill touch, dancing lights, mage hand, mending, false life, mage armor, ray of sickness, blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement, web, animate dead, bestow curse, vampiric touch, blight, dimension door, stoneskin, Bigby's hand, cloudkill, circle of death</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 132</description>
<environment>desert, urban</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Aboleth</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>aberration</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>67 (18d10+36)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., swim 40 ft.</speed>
<str>21</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>15</con>
<int>18</int>
<wis>15</wis>
<cha>18</cha>
<save>Con +4, Int +6, Wis +4</save>
<skill>History +10, Perception +8</skill>
<passive>20</passive>
<languages>Deep Speech, telepathy 120 ft.</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The aboleth can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Mucous Cloud</name>
<text>While underwater, the aboleth is surrounded by transformative mucus. A creature that touches the aboleth or that hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the creature is diseased for 1d4 hours. The diseased creature can breathe only underwater.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Probing Telepathy</name>
<text>If a creature communicates telepathically with the aboleth, the aboleth learns the creature's greatest desires if the aboleth can see the creature.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The aboleth makes three tentacle attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tentacle</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become diseased. The disease has no effect for 1 minute and can be removed by any magic that cures disease. After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy, the creature can't regain hit points unless it is underwater, and the disease can be removed only by heal or another disease-curing spell of 6th level or higher. When the creature is outside a body of water, it takes 6 (1d12) acid damage every 10 minutes unless moisture is applied to the skin before 10 minutes have passed.</text>
<attack>Tentacle|+7|2d6+5</attack>
<attack>Tentacle||1d12</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tail</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 15 (3d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Tail|+7|3d6+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Enslave (3/Day)</name>
<text>The aboleth targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed by the aboleth until the aboleth dies or until it is on a different plane of existence from the target. The charmed target is under the aboleth's control and can't take reactions, and the aboleth and the target can communicate telepathically with each other over any distance.</text>
<text>Whenever the charmed target takes damage, the target can repeat the saving throw. On a success, the effect ends. No more than once every 24 hours, the target can also repeat the saving throw when it is at least 1 mile away from the aboleth.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The aberration can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The aberration regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Detect</name>
<text>The aboleth makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Tail Swipe</name>
<text>The aboleth makes one tail attack.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Psychic Drain (Costs 2 Actions)</name>
<text>One creature charmed by the aboleth takes 10 (3d6) psychic damage, and the aboleth regains hit points equal to the damage the creature takes.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Lair Actions</name>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<text>When fighting inside its lair, an aboleth can invoke the ambient magic to take lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the aboleth takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects:</text>
<text>• The aboleth casts phantasmal force (no components required) on any number of creatures it can see within 60 feet of it. While maintaining concentration on this effect, the aboleth can't take other lair actions. If a target succeeds on the saving throw or if the effect ends for it, the target is immune to the aboleth's phantasmal force lair action for the next 24 hours, although such a creature can choose to be affected.</text>
<text>• Pools of water within 90 feet of the aboleth surge outward in a grasping tide. Any creature on the ground within 20 feet of such a pool must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be pulled up to 20 feet into the water and knocked prone. The aboleth can't use this lair action again until it has used a different one.</text>
<text>• Water in the aboleth's lair magically becomes a conduit for the creature's rage. The aboleth can target any number of creatures it can see in such water within 90 feet of it. A target must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or take 7 (2d6) psychic damage. The aboleth can't use this lair action again until it has used a different one.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Regional Effects</name>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<text>The region containing an aboleth's lair is warped by the creature's presence, which creates one or more of the following effects:</text>
<text>• Underground surfaces within 1 mile of the aboleth's lair are slimy and wet and are difficult terrain.</text>
<text>• Water sources within 1 mile of the lair are supernaturally fouled. Enemies of the aboleth that drink such water vomit it within minutes.</text>
<text>• As an action, the aboleth can create an illusory image of itself within 1 mile of the lair. The copy can appear at any location the aboleth has seen before or in any location a creature charmed by the aboleth can currently see. Once created, the image lasts for as long as the aboleth maintains concentration, as if concentrating on a spell. Although the image is intangible, it looks, sounds, and can move like the aboleth. The aboleth can sense, speak, and use telepathy from the image's position as if present at that position. If the image takes any damage, it disappears.</text>
<text>If the aboleth dies, the first two effects fade over the course of 3d10 days.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Basilisk</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>26 (8d8+16)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>15</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>8</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>9</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Petrifying Gaze</name>
<text>If a creature starts its turn within 30 feet of the basilisk and the two of them can see each other, the basilisk can force the creature to make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw if the basilisk isn't incapacitated. On a failed save, the creature magically begins to turn to stone and is restrained. It must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn. On a success, the effect ends. On a failure, the creature is petrified until freed by the greater restoration spell or other magic.</text>
<text>A creature that isn't surprised can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If it does so, it can't see the basilisk until the start of its next turn, when it can avert its eyes again. If it looks at the basilisk in the meantime, it must immediately make the save.</text>
<text>If the basilisk sees its reflection within 30 feet of it in bright light, it mistakes itself for a rival and targets itself with its gaze.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+3|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Behir</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>84 (16d12+64)</hp>
<speed>walk 50 ft., climb 40 ft.</speed>
<str>23</str>
<dex>16</dex>
<con>18</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>12</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +4, Stealth +5</skill>
<passive>16</passive>
<languages>Draconic</languages>
<cr>6</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>lightning</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 90 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The behir makes two attacks: one with its bite and one to constrict.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 22 (3d10 + 6) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+8|3d10+6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Lightning Breath (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>The behir exhales a line of lightning that is 20 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 66 (12d10) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Lightning Breath (Recharge 5-6)||12d10</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Beholder</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>aberration</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>18 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>90 (19d10+76)</hp>
<speed>walk 0 ft., fly 20 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>18</con>
<int>17</int>
<wis>15</wis>
<cha>17</cha>
<save>Int +6, Wis +5, Cha +6</save>
<skill>Perception +10</skill>
<passive>22</passive>
<languages>Deep Speech, Undercommon</languages>
<cr>6</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Antimagic Cone</name>
<text>The beholder's central eye creates an area of antimagic, as in the antimagic field spell, in a 150-foot cone. At the start of each of its turns, the beholder decides which way the cone faces and whether the cone is active. The area works against the beholder's own eye rays.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 14 (4d6) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+3|4d6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Eye Rays</name>
<text>The beholder shoots three of the following magical eye rays at random (reroll duplicates), choosing one to three targets it can see within 120 feet of it:</text>
<text>1. Charm Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by the beholder for 1 hour, or until the beholder harms the creature.</text>
<text>2. Paralyzing Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<text>3. Fear Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<text>4. Slowing Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target's speed is halved for 1 minute. In addition, the creature can't take reactions, and it can take either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<text>5. Enervation Ray. The targeted creature must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, taking 36 (8d8) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Eye Rays||8d8</attack>
<text>6. Telekinetic Ray. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or the beholder moves it up to 30 feet in any direction. It is restrained by the ray's telekinetic grip until the start of the beholder's next turn or until the beholder is incapacitated.</text>
<text>If the target is an object weighing 300 pounds or less that isn't being worn or carried, it is moved up to 30 feet in any direction. The beholder can also exert fine control on objects with this ray, such as manipulating a simple tool or opening a door or a container.</text>
<text>7. Sleep Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or fall asleep and remain unconscious for 1 minute. The target awakens if it takes damage or another creature takes an action to wake it. This ray has no effect on constructs and undead.</text>
<text>8. Petrification Ray. The targeted creature must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature begins to turn to stone and is restrained. It must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn. On a success, the effect ends. On a failure, the creature is petrified until freed by the greater restoration spell or other magic.</text>
<text>9. Disintegration Ray. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or take 45 (10d8) force damage. If this damage reduces the creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a pile of fine gray dust.</text>
<attack>Eye Rays||10d8</attack>
<text>If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is disintegrated without a saving throw. If the target is a Huge or larger object or creation of magical force, this ray disintegrates a 10-foot cube of it.</text>
<text>10. Death Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or take 55 (10d10) necrotic damage. The target dies if the ray reduces it to 0 hit points.</text>
<attack>Eye Rays||10d10</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The beholder can take 3 legendary actions, using the Eye Ray option below. It can take only one legendary action at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The beholder regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Eye Ray</name>
<text>The beholder uses one random eye ray.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Lair Actions</name>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<text>When fighting inside its lair, a beholder can invoke the ambient magic to take lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the beholder can take one lair action to cause one of the following effects:</text>
<text>• A 50-foot-square area of ground within 120 feet of the beholder becomes slimy; that area is difficult terrain until initiative count 20 on the next round.</text>
<text>• Walls within 120 feet of the beholder sprout grasping appendages until initiative count 20 on the round after next. Each creature of the beholder's choice that starts its turn within 10 feet of such a wall must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be grappled. Escaping requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check.</text>
<text>• An eye opens on a solid surface within 60 feet of the beholder. One random eye ray of the beholder shoots from that eye at a target of the beholder's choice that it can see. The eye then closes and disappears.</text>
<text>The beholder can't repeat an effect until they have all been used, and it can't use the same effect two rounds in a row.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Regional Effects</name>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<text>A region containing a beholder's lair is warped by the creature's unnatural presence, which creates one or more of the following effects:</text>
<text>• Creatures within 1 mile of the beholder's lair sometimes feel as if they're being watched when they aren't.</text>
<text>• When the beholder sleeps, minor warps in reality occur within 1 mile of its lair and then vanish 24 hours later. Marks on cave walls might change subtly, an eerie trinket might appear where none existed before, harmless slime might coat a statue, and so on. These effects apply only to natural surfaces and to nonmagical objects that aren't on anyone's person.</text>
<text>If the beholder dies, these effects fade over the course of 1d10 days.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Black Pudding</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>7</ac>
<hp>42 (10d10+30)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft., climb 20 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>5</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>acid, cold, lightning, slashing</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous</name>
<text>The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Corrosive Form</name>
<text>A creature that touches the pudding or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 4 (1d8) acid damage. Any nonmagical weapon made of metal or wood that hits the pudding corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to damage rolls. If its penalty drops to 5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition made of metal or wood that hits the pudding is destroyed after dealing damage. The pudding can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 18 (4d8) acid damage. In addition, nonmagical armor worn by the target is partly dissolved and takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+3|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Split</name>
<text>When a pudding that is Medium or larger is subjected to lightning or slashing damage, it splits into two new puddings if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new pudding has hit points equal to half the original pudding's, rounded down. New puddings are one size smaller than the original pudding.</text>
</reaction>
<legendary>
<text>The ooze can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The ooze regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Carrion Crawler</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>25 (6d10+18)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., climb 30 ft.</speed>
<str>14</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>5</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +1</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The carrion crawler has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The carrion crawler can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The carrion crawler makes two attacks: one with its tentacles and one with its bite.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tentacles</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. 4 (1d4 + 2) poison damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. Until this poison ends, the target is paralyzed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the poison on itself on a success.</text>
<attack>Tentacles|+6|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (2d4 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+2|2d4+2</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Clay Golem</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>66 (14d10+56)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft.</speed>
<str>20</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>18</con>
<int>3</int>
<wis>8</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>9</passive>
<languages>understands the languages of its creator but can't speak</languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>acid, poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't adamantine</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Acid Absorption</name>
<text>Whenever the golem is subjected to acid damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the acid damage dealt.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Berserk</name>
<text>Whenever the golem starts its turn with 60 hit points or fewer, roll a d6. On a 6, the golem goes berserk. On each of its turns while berserk, the golem attacks the nearest creature it can see. If no creature is near enough to move to and attack, the golem attacks an object, with preference for an object smaller than itself. Once the golem goes berserk, it continues to do so until it is destroyed or regains all its hit points.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Immutable Form</name>
<text>The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Weapons</name>
<text>The golem's weapon attacks are magical.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The golem makes two slam attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slam</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 16 (2d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or have its hit point maximum reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. The target dies if this attack reduces its hit point maximum to 0. The reduction lasts until removed by the greater restoration spell or other magic.</text>
<attack>Slam|+6|2d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Haste (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>Until the end of its next turn, the golem magically gains a +2 bonus to its AC, has advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and can use its slam attack as a bonus action.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The construct can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The construct regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Darkmantle</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>11</ac>
<hp>11 (5d6+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., fly 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>5</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +1</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1/4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Echolocation</name>
<text>The darkmantle can't use its blindsight while deafened.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the darkmantle remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a cave formation such as a stalactite or stalagmite.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Crush</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and the darkmantle attaches to the target. If the target is Medium or smaller and the darkmantle has advantage on the attack roll, it attaches by engulfing the target's head, and the target is also blinded and unable to breathe while the darkmantle is attached in this way.</text>
<attack>Crush|+3|1d6+3</attack>
<text>While attached to the target, the darkmantle can attack no other creature except the target but has advantage on its attack rolls. The darkmantle's speed also becomes 0, it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed, and it moves with the target.</text>
<text>A creature can detach the darkmantle by making a successful DC 11 Strength check as an action. On its turn, the darkmantle can detach itself from the target by using 5 feet of movement.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Darkness Aura (1/Day)</name>
<text>A 15-foot radius of magical darkness extends out from the darkmantle, moves with it, and spreads around corners. The darkness lasts as long as the darkmantle maintains concentration, up to 10 minutes (as if concentrating on a spell). Darkvision can't penetrate this darkness, and no natural light can illuminate it. If any of the darkness overlaps with an area of light created by a spell of 2nd level or lower, the spell creating the light is dispelled.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Displacer Beast</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>42 (10d10+30)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>6</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Avoidance</name>
<text>If the displacer beast is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Displacement</name>
<text>The displacer beast projects a magical illusion that makes it appear to be standing near its actual location, causing attack rolls against it to have disadvantage. If it is hit by an attack, this trait is disrupted until the end of its next turn. This trait is also disrupted while the displacer beast is incapacitated or has a speed of 0.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The displacer beast makes two attacks with its tentacles.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tentacle</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Tentacle|+4|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Dragon Turtle</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>dragon</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>20 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>170 (22d20+110)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft., swim 40 ft.</speed>
<str>25</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>12</cha>
<save>Dex +4, Con +9, Wis +5</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>Aquan, Draconic</languages>
<cr>8</cr>
<resist>fire</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The dragon turtle can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The dragon turtle makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. 26 (3d12 + 7) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+11|3d12+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 16 (2d8 + 7) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claw|+11|2d8+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Steam Breath (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>The dragon turtle exhales scalding steam in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, taking 52 (15d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Being underwater doesn't grant resistance against this damage.</text>
<attack>Steam Breath (Recharge 5-6)||15d6</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The dragon can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The dragon regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underwater, coastal</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Ettercap</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>22 (8d8+8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., climb 30 ft.</speed>
<str>14</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +1, Stealth +2, Survival +1</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The ettercap can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Web Sense</name>
<text>While in contact with a web, the ettercap knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Web Walker</name>
<text>The ettercap ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The ettercap makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage plus 4 (1d8) poison damage. The target must succeed on a DC 9 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<attack>Bite|+2|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claws|+2|2d4+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Web (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one Large or smaller creature. The creature is restrained by webbing. As an action, the restrained creature can make a DC 9 Strength check, escaping from the webbing on a success. The effect ends if the webbing is destroyed. The webbing has AC 10, 5 hit points, is vulnerable to fire damage and immune to bludgeoning, poison and psychic damage.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Web Garrote</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or Small creature against which the ettercap has advantage on the attack roll. 4 (1d4 + 2) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 10). Until this grapple ends, the target can't breathe, and the ettercap has advantage on attack rolls against it.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Flesh Golem</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>9</ac>
<hp>46 (11d8+44)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>18</con>
<int>6</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>5</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>understands the languages of its creator but can't speak</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>lightning, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't adamantine</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Berserk</name>
<text>Whenever the golem starts its turn with 40 hit points or fewer, roll a d6. On a 6, the golem goes berserk. On each of its turns while berserk, the golem attacks the nearest creature it can see. If no creature is near enough to move to and attack, the golem attacks an object, with preference for an object smaller than itself. Once the golem goes berserk, it continues to do so until it is destroyed or regains all its hit points.</text>
<text>The golem's creator, if within 60 feet of the berserk golem, can try to calm it by speaking firmly and persuasively. The golem must be able to hear its creator, who must take an action to make a DC 13 Charisma (Persuasion) check. If the check succeeds, the golem ceases being berserk. If it takes damage while still at 40 hit points or fewer, the golem might go berserk again.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Aversion of Fire</name>
<text>If the golem takes fire damage, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the end of its next turn.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Immutable Form</name>
<text>The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Lightning Absorption</name>
<text>Whenever the golem is subjected to lightning damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the lightning damage dealt.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Weapons</name>
<text>The golem's weapon attacks are magical.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The golem makes two slam attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slam</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Slam|+5|2d8+4</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The construct can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The construct regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Glabrezu</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>fiend (demon)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>78 (15d10+75)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>20</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>21</con>
<int>19</int>
<wis>17</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Str +7, Con +7, Wis +5, Cha +5</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Abyssal, telepathy 120 ft.</languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist>cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>truesight 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The glabrezu has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The glabrezu makes four attacks: two with its pincers and two with its fists. Alternatively, it makes two attacks with its pincers and casts one spell.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Pincer</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 16 (2d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 13). The glabrezu has two pincers, each of which can grapple only one target.</text>
<attack>Pincer|+7|2d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Fist</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (2d4 + 2) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Fist|+7|2d4+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Summon Demon (1/Day)</name>
<text>The demon chooses what to summon and attempts a magical summoning.</text>
<text>A glabrezu has a 30 chance of summoning 1d3 vrock, 1d2 hezrou, or one glabrezu.</text>
<text>A summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of its summoner, acts as an ally of its summoner, and can't summon other demons. It remains for 1 minute, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The fiend (demon) can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The fiend (demon) regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>The glabrezu's spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 14). The glabrezu can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: darkness, detect magic, dispel magic</text>
<text>1/day each: confusion, fly, power word stun</text>
</trait>
<spells>darkness, detect magic, dispel magic, confusion, fly, power word stun</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Gray Ooze</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>8</ac>
<hp>11 (3d8+9)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., climb 10 ft.</speed>
<str>12</str>
<dex>6</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>2</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +0</skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1/4</cr>
<resist>acid, cold, fire</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous</name>
<text>The ooze can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Corrode Metal</name>
<text>Any nonmagical weapon made of metal that hits the ooze corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to damage rolls. If its penalty drops to 5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition made of metal that hits the ooze is destroyed after dealing damage.</text>
<text>The ooze can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the ooze remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an oily pool or wet rock.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d6 + 1) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) acid damage, and if the target is wearing nonmagical metal armor, its armor is partly corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+1|1d6+1</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Psychic Gray Ooze</name>
<text>A gray ooze that lives a long time can evolve to become more intelligent and develop limited psionic ability. Such occurrences are more common in gray oozes that live near psioncic creatures such as mind flayer, suggesting that the ooze can sense and mimic psionic ability.</text>
<text>A psionic gray ooze has an intelligence score of 6 (-2), as well as the following additional action.</text>
<text>Psychic Crush (Recharge 5-6). The ooze targets one creature that it can sense within 60 feet of it. The target must make a DC +8 Intelligence saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The ooze can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The ooze regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Helmed Horror</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>20 (plate armor, shield)</ac>
<hp>30 (8d8+24)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., fly 30 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>understands the languages of its creator but can't speak</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't adamantine</resist>
<immune>force, necrotic, poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, stunned</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The helmed horror has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spell Immunity</name>
<text>The helmed horror is immune to three spells chosen by its creator. Typical immunities include fireball, heat metal, and lightning bolt.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The helmed horror makes two longsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage, or 9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+4|1d8+4</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The construct can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The construct regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Hezrou</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>fiend (demon)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>68 (13d10+65)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>17</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>13</cha>
<save>Str +5, Con +6, Wis +2</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>Abyssal, telepathy 120 ft.</languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist>cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The hezrou has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Stench</name>
<text>Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of the hezrou must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of its next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the hezrou's stench for 24 hours.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The hezrou makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 15 (2d10 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+5|2d10+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claws|+5|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Summon Demon (1/Day)</name>
<text>The demon chooses what to summon and attempts a magical summoning.</text>
<text>A hezrou has a 30 chance of summoning 2d6 dretch or one hezrou.</text>
<text>A summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of its summoner, acts as an ally of its summoner, and can't summon other demons. It remains for 1 minute, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The fiend (demon) can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The fiend (demon) regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Hook Horror</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>37 (10d10+20)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., climb 30 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>15</con>
<int>6</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +1</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Hook Horror</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Echolocation</name>
<text>The hook horror can't use its blindsight while deafened.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Keen Hearing</name>
<text>The hook horror has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The hook horror makes two hook attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Hook</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Hook|+4|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Ochre Jelly</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>8</ac>
<hp>22 (6d10+12)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., climb 10 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>6</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist>acid</resist>
<immune>lightning, slashing</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous</name>
<text>The jelly can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The jelly can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (2d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6) acid damage.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+2|2d6+2</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Split</name>
<text>When a jelly that is Medium or larger is subjected to lightning or slashing damage, it splits into two new jellies if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new jelly has hit points equal to half the original jelly's, rounded down. New jellies are one size smaller than the original jelly.</text>
</reaction>
<legendary>
<text>The ooze can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The ooze regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Otyugh</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>aberration</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>57 (12d10+48)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>11</dex>
<con>19</con>
<int>6</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save>Con +5</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>Otyugh</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Limited Telepathy</name>
<text>The otyugh can magically transmit simple messages and images to any creature within 120 feet of it that can understand a language. This form of telepathy doesn't allow the receiving creature to telepathically respond.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The otyugh makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its tentacles.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw against disease or become poisoned until the disease is cured. Every 24 hours that elapse, the target must repeat the saving throw, reducing its hit point maximum by 5 (1d10) on a failure. The disease is cured on a success. The target dies if the disease reduces its hit point maximum to 0. This reduction to the target's hit point maximum lasts until the disease is cured.</text>
<attack>Bite|+4|2d8+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tentacle</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 7 (1d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 4 (1d8) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Tentacle|+4|1d8+3</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The aberration can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The aberration regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Owlbear</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>29 (7d10+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>20</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>17</con>
<int>3</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +1</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Sight and Smell</name>
<text>The owlbear has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The owlbear makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Beak</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Beak|+5|1d10+5</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claws|+5|2d8+5</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Peryton</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>16 (6d8+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft., fly 60 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>13</con>
<int>9</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3</skill>
<passive>15</passive>
<languages>understands Common and Elvish but can't speak</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist>bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Dive Attack</name>
<text>If the peryton is flying and dives at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a melee weapon attack, the attack deals an extra 9 (2d8) damage to the target.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Flyby</name>
<text>The peryton doesn't provoke an opportunity attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Keen Sight and Smell</name>
<text>The peryton has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The peryton makes one gore attack and one talon attack.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Gore</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Gore|+3|1d8+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Talons</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 8 (2d4 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Talons|+3|2d4+3</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>mountain, hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Remorhaz</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>97 (17d12+85)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., burrow 20 ft.</speed>
<str>24</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>21</con>
<int>4</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>5</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>6</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>cold, fire</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Heated Body</name>
<text>A creature that touches the remorhaz or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 10 (3d6) fire damage.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 40 (6d10 + 7) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) fire damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the remorhaz can't bite another target.</text>
<attack>Bite|+9|6d10+7</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Swallow</name>
<text>The remorhaz makes one bite attack against a Medium or smaller creature it is grappling. If the attack hits, that creature takes the bite's damage and is swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the remorhaz, and it takes 21 (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of the remorhaz's turns.</text>
<text>If the remorhaz takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the remorhaz must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet oft he remorhaz. If the remorhaz dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The monstrosity can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The monstrosity regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Stone Golem</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>89 (17d10+85)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>22</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>3</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>understands the languages of its creator but can't speak</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't adamantine</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Immutable Form</name>
<text>The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Weapons</name>
<text>The golem's weapon attacks are magical.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The golem makes two slam attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slam</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 19 (3d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Slam|+8|3d8+6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slow (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>The golem targets one or more creatures it can see within 10 feet of it. Each target must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw against this magic. On a failed save, a target can't use reactions, its speed is halved, and it can't make more than one attack on its turn. In addition, the target can take either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both. These effects last for 1 minute. A target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The construct can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The construct regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Vrock</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>fiend (demon)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>52 (11d10+44)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft., fly 60 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>18</con>
<int>8</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save>Dex +3, Wis +2, Cha +0</save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>Abyssal, telepathy 120 ft.</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist>cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The vrock has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The vrock makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its talons.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Beak</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Beak|+4|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Talons</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 14 (2d10 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Talons|+4|2d10+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Spores (Recharge 6)</name>
<text>A 15-foot-radius cloud of toxic spores extends out from the vrock. The spores spread around corners. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned. While poisoned in this way, a target takes 5 (1d10) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. A target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Emptying a vial of holy water on the target also ends the effect on it.</text>
<attack>Spores (Recharge 6)||1d10</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Stunning Screech (1/Day)</name>
<text>The vrock emits a horrific screech. Each creature within 20 feet of it that can hear it and that isn't a demon must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of the vrock's next turn.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Summon Demon (1/Day)</name>
<text>The demon chooses what to summon and attempts a magical summoning.</text>
<text>A vrock has a 30 chance of summoning 2d4 dretch or one vrock.</text>
<text>A summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of its summoner, acts as an ally of its summoner, and can't summon other demons. It remains for 1 minute, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The fiend (demon) can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The fiend (demon) regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Wight</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>14 (studded leather armor)</ac>
<hp>22 (6d8+18)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>15</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +1, Stealth +2</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>the languages it knew in life</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>exhaustion, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, the wight has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The wight makes two longsword attacks or two longbow attacks. It can use its Life Drain in place of one longsword attack.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Life Drain</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 5 (1d6 + 2) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.</text>
<attack>Life Drain|+2|1d6+2</attack>
<text>A humanoid slain by this attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the wight's control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed. The wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) slashing damage, or 7 (1d10 + 2) slashing damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+2|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Longbow|+2|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The undead can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The undead regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>underdark, swamp, urban, desert</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Reduced-Threat Wyvern</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>dragon</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>55 (13d10+39)</hp>
<speed>walk 20 ft., fly 80 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The wyvern makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its stinger. While flying, it can use its claws in place of one other attack.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+5|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claws|+5|2d8+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Stinger</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage. The target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 24 (7d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Stinger|+5|2d6+4</attack>
<attack>Stinger||7d6</attack>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>The dragon can take 0 legendary action, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The dragon regains spent legendary action at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<spells></spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 113</description>
<environment>mountain, hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Scrag</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>84 (8d10+40)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>9</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Giant</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The troll has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Regeneration</name>
<text>The troll regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the troll takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the troll's next turn. The troll dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The troll makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+7|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claw|+7|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Loathsome Limbs</name>
<text>Whenever the troll takes at least 15 slashing damage at one time, roll a d20 to determine what else happens to it:</text>
<text>• 110: Nothing else happens.</text>
<text>• 1114: One leg is severed from the troll if it has any legs left.</text>
<text>• 1518: One arm is severed from the troll if it has any arms left.</text>
<text>• 1920: The troll is decapitated, but the troll dies only if it can't regenerate. If it dies, so does the severed head.</text>
<text>If the troll finishes a short or long rest without reattaching a severed limb or head, the part regrows. At that point, the severed part dies. Until then, a severed part acts on the troll's initiative and has its own action and movement. A severed part has AC 13, 10 hit points, and the troll's Regeneration trait.</text>
<text>A severed leg is unable to attack and has a speed of 5 feet.</text>
<text>A severed arm has a speed of 5 feet and can make one claw attack on its turn, with disadvantage on the attack roll unless the troll can see the arm and its target. Each time the troll loses an arm, it loses a claw attack.</text>
<text>If its head is severed, the troll loses its bite attack and its body is blinded unless the head can see it. The severed head has a speed of 0 feet and the troll's Keen Smell trait. It can make a bite attack but only against a target in its space.</text>
<text>The troll's speed is halved if it's missing a leg. If it loses both legs, it falls prone. If it has both arms, it can crawl. With only one arm, it can still crawl, but its speed is halved. With no arms or legs, its speed is 0, and it can't benefit from bonuses to speed.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 147</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain, forest, swamp, hill, arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Sea Lion</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>90 (12d10+24)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., swim 40 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>15</con>
<int>3</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +4, Stealth +5</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>The sea lion can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The sea lion has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pack Tactics</name>
<text>The sea lion has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the sea lion's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Swimming Leap</name>
<text>With a 10-foot swimming start, the sea lion can long jump out of or across the water up to 25 feet.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The sea lion makes three attacks: one bite attack and two claw attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+6|2d8+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Claw|+6|2d8+3</attack>
</action>
<description>These large marine mammals live along coastal regions and around islands at sea
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 242, Locathah Rising, Ghosts of Saltmarsh p. 252</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Sentient Gray Ooze</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>8</ac>
<hp>22 (3d8+9)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., climb 10 ft.</speed>
<str>12</str>
<dex>6</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>2</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Stealth +2</skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1/2</cr>
<resist>acid, cold, fire</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous</name>
<text>The ooze can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Corrode Metal</name>
<text>Any nonmagical weapon made of metal that hits the ooze corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to damage rolls. If its penalty drops to 5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition made of metal that hits the ooze is destroyed after dealing damage.</text>
<text>The ooze can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the ooze remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an oily pool or wet rock.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d6 + 1) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) acid damage, and if the target is wearing nonmagical metal armor, its armor is partly corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+3|1d6+1</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Psychic Gray Ooze</name>
<text>A gray ooze that lives a long time can evolve to become more intelligent and develop limited psionic ability. Such occurrences are more common in gray oozes that live near psioncic creatures such as mind flayer, suggesting that the ooze can sense and mimic psionic ability.</text>
<text>A psionic gray ooze has an intelligence score of 6 (-2), as well as the following additional action.</text>
<text>Psychic Crush (Recharge 5-6). The ooze targets one creature that it can sense within 60 feet of it. The target must make a DC 10 Intelligence saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 158</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Sentient Ochre Jelly</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>8</ac>
<hp>45 (6d10+12)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., climb 10 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>6</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>2</int>
<wis>6</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>acid</resist>
<immune>lightning, slashing</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous</name>
<text>The jelly can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The jelly can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (2d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6) acid damage.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+4|2d6+2</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Split</name>
<text>When a jelly that is Medium or larger is subjected to lightning or slashing damage, it splits into two new jellies if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new jelly has hit points equal to half the original jelly's, rounded down. New jellies are one size smaller than the original jelly.</text>
</reaction>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 158</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Shalendra Floshin</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (elf)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>18 (plate armor)</ac>
<hp>52 (8d8+16)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>11</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>11</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>15</cha>
<save>Con +4, Wis +2</save>
<skill>Perception +1</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Elvish</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Brave</name>
<text>The knight has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put &lt;$title_short_name$&gt; to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The knight makes two melee attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Greatsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Greatsword|+5|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Heavy Crossbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. 5 (1d10) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Heavy Crossbow|+2|1d10</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)</name>
<text>For 1 minute, the knight can utter a special command or warning whenever a nonhostile creature that it can see within 30 feet of it makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand the knight. A creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a time. This effect ends if the knight is incapacitated.</text>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Parry</name>
<text>The knight adds 2 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the knight must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.</text>
</reaction>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 119</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Sharwyn Hucrele</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (human)</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (Barkskin trait)</ac>
<hp>13 (2d8+4)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>11</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>16</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Arcana +5, Insight +4, Persuasion +1</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Common, Draconic, Goblin</languages>
<cr>1/2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Barkskin</name>
<text>Sharwyn's AC can't be lower than 16.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Special Equipment</name>
<text>Sharwyn has a spellbook that contains the spells listed in her Spellcasting trait, plus detect magic and silent image.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Tree Thrall</name>
<text>If the Gulthias Tree dies, Sharwyn dies 24 hours later.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Dagger</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Sharwyn is a 1st-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). She has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): light, prestidigitation, ray of frost</text>
<text>• 1st level (2 slots): color spray, magic missile, shield, sleep</text>
</trait>
<slots>2</slots>
<spells>light, prestidigitation, ray of frost, color spray, magic missile, shield, sleep</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 242</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Sir Braford</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (human)</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>18 (chain mail, shield)</ac>
<hp>19 (3d8+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>14</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Athletics +5, Perception +3</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Common</languages>
<cr>1/2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Barkskin</name>
<text>Sir Braford's AC can't be lower than 16.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Special Equipment</name>
<text>Sir Braford wields Shatterspike, a magic longsword that grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it (included in his attack). See the Shatterspike handout for the item's other properties.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Tree Thrall</name>
<text>If the Gulthias Tree dies, Sir Braford dies 24 hours later.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage, or 9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+6|1d8+4</attack>
</action>
<reaction>
<name>Protection</name>
<text>When a creature Sir Braford can see attacks a target other than him that is within 5 feet of him, he can use a reaction to use his shield to impose disadvantage on the attack roll.</text>
</reaction>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 243</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Siren</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>fey</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Good</alignment>
<ac>14</ac>
<hp>38 (7d8+7)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>18</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>13</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Medicine +4, Nature +3, Stealth +6, Survival +4</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Common, Elvish, Sylvan</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>Siren can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>Siren has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Shortsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Shortsword|+6|1d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Stupefying Touch</name>
<text>Siren touches one creature she can see within 5 feet of her. The creature must succeed on a DC 13 Intelligence saving throw or take 13 (3d6 + 3) psychic damage and be stunned until the start of Siren's next turn.</text>
<attack>Stupefying Touch||3d6+3</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>Siren's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>1/day each: charm person, fog cloud, greater invisibility, polymorph (self only)</text>
</trait>
<spells>charm person, fog cloud, greater invisibility, polymorph</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 243, Mythic Odysseys of Theros</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Snarla</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (human, shapechanger)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>11 (in humanoid form, 12 (natural armor) in wolf and hybrid forms)</ac>
<hp>58 (9d8+18)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>16</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3</skill>
<passive>14</passive>
<languages>Common (can't speak in wolf form)</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Shapechanger</name>
<text>The werewolf can use its action to polymorph into a wolf-humanoid hybrid or into a wolf, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its AC, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Keen Hearing and Smell</name>
<text>The werewolf has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>The werewolf makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws or spear.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite (Wolf or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with werewolf lycanthropy.</text>
<attack>Bite (Wolf or Hybrid Form Only)|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws (Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claws (Hybrid Form Only)|+4|2d4+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Spear (Humanoid Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one creature. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage, or 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.</text>
<attack>Spear (Humanoid Form Only)|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Snarla is a 6th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). She has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, light, mage hand, shocking grasp</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): magic missile, shield, thunderwave</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): mirror image, web</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, fear, haste, stinking cloud</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3</slots>
<spells>fire bolt, light, mage hand, shocking grasp, magic missile, shield, thunderwave, mirror image, web, dispel magic, fear, haste, stinking cloud</spells>
<description>A werewolf is a savage predator. In its humanoid form, a werewolf has heightened senses, a fiery temper, and a tendency to eat rare meat. Its wolf form is a fearsome predator, but its hybrid form is more terrifying by far-a furred and well-muscled humanoid body topped by a ravening wolf's head. A werewolf can wield weapons in hybrid form, though it prefers to tear foes apart with its powerful claws and bite.
Most werewolves flee civilized lands not long after becoming afflicted. Those that reject the curse fear what will happen if they remain among their friends and family. Those that embrace the curse fear discovery and the consequences of their murderous acts. In the wild, werewolves form packs that also include wolves and dire wolves.
Lycanthropes. One of the most ancient and feared of all curses, lycanthropy can transform the most civilized humanoid into a ravening beast. In its natural humanoid form, a creature cursed by lycanthropy appears as its normal self. Over time, however, many lycanthropes acquire features suggestive of their animal form. In that animal form, a lycanthrope resembles a powerful version of a normal animal. On close inspection, its eyes show a faint spark of unnatural intelligence and might glow red in the dark.
Evil lycanthropes hide among normal folk, emerging in animal form at night to spread terror and bloodshed, especially under a full moon. Good lycanthropes are reclusive and uncomfortable around other civilized creatures, often living alone in wilderness areas far from villages and towns.
Curse of Lycanthropy. A humanoid creature can be afflicted with the curse of lycanthropy after being wounded by a lycanthrope, or if one or both of its parents are lycanthropes. A remove curse spell can rid an afflicted lycanthrope of the curse, but a natural born lycanthrope can be freed of the curse only with a wish.
A lycanthrope can either resist its curse or embrace it. By resisting the curse, a lycanthrope retains its normal alignment and personality while in humanoid form. It lives its life as it always has, burying deep the bestial urges raging inside it. However, when the full moon rises, the curse becomes too strong to resist, transforming the individual into its beast form-or into a horrible hybrid form that combines animal and humanoid traits. When the moon wanes, the beast within can be controlled once again. Especially if the cursed creature is unaware of its condition, it might not remember the events of its transformation, though those memories often haunt a lycanthrope as bloody dreams.
Some individuals see little point in fighting the curse and accept what they are. With time and experience, they learn to master their shapechanging ability and can assume beast form or hybrid form at will. Most lycanthropes that embrace their bestial natures succumb to bloodlust, becoming evil, opportunistic creatures that prey on the weak.
Variant: Nonhuman Lycanthropes
The statistics presented in this section assume a base creature of human. However, you can also use the statistics to represent nonhuman lycanthropes, adding verisimilitude by allowing a nonhuman lycanthrope to retain one or more of its humanoid racial traits. For example, an elf werewolf might have the Fey Ancestry trait.
When a werebear transforms, it grows to enormous size, lashing out with weapons or claws. It fights with the ferocity of a bear, though even in its bestial forms, it avoids biting so as to not pass on its curse. Typically, a werebear passes on its lycanthropy only to chosen companions or apprentices, spending the time that follows helping the new lycanthrope accept the curse in order to control it.
Solitary creatures, werebears act as wardens over their territory, protecting flora and fauna alike from humanoid or monstrous intrusion. Though most werebears are of good alignment, some are every bit as evil as other lycanthropes.
Player Characters as Lycanthropes. A character who becomes a lycanthrope retains his or her statistics except as specified by lycanthrope type. The character gains the lycanthrope's speeds in non-humanoid form, damage immunities, traits, and actions that don't involve equipment. The character is proficient with the lycanthrope's natural attacks, such as its bite or claws, which deal damage as shown in the lycanthrope's statistics. The character can't speak while in animal form.
A non-lycanthrope humanoid hit by an attack that carries the curse of lycanthropy must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + the lycanthrope's proficiency bonus + the lycanthrope's Constitution modifier) or be cursed. If the character embraces the curse, his or her alignment becomes the one defined for the lycanthrope. The DM is free to decide that a change in alignment places the character under DM control until the curse of lycanthropy is removed.
The following information applies to specific lycanthropes.
Werebear. The character gains a Strength of 19 if his or her score isn't already higher, and a +1 bonus to AC while in bear or hybrid form (from natural armor). Attack and damage rolls for the natural weapons are based on Strength.
Wereboar. The character gains a Strength of 17 if his or her score isn't already higher, and a +1 bonus to AC while in boar or hybrid form (from natural armor). Attack and damage rolls for the tusks are based on Strength. For the Charge trait, the DC is 8 + the character's proficiency bonus + Strength modifier.
Wererat. The character gains a Dexterity of 15 if his or her score isn't already higher. Attack and damage rolls for the bite are based on whichever is higher of the character's Strength and Dexterity.
Weretiger. The character gains a Strength of 17 if his or her score isn't already higher. Attack and damage rolls for the natural weapons are based on Strength. For the Pounce trait, the DC is 8 + the character's proficiency bonus + Strength modifier.
Werewolf. The character gains a Strength of 15 if his or her score isn't already higher, and a +1 bonus to AC while in wolf or hybrid form (from natural armor). Attack and damage rolls for the natural weapons are based on Strength.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 102</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Snow Leopard</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>37 (5d10+10)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>3</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3, Stealth +6</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The leopard has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pounce</name>
<text>If the leopard moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the leopard can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+5|1d10+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claw|+5|1d8+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 183</description>
<environment>grassland, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Snurrevin</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (dwarf)</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (scale mail, shield)</ac>
<hp>45 (7d8+14)</hp>
<speed>walk 25 ft.</speed>
<str>14</str>
<dex>11</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>14</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>9</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Dwarvish, Undercommon</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist>poison</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Duergar Resilience</name>
<text>The duergar has advantage on saving throws against poison, spells, and illusions, as well as to resist being charmed or paralyzed.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, the duergar has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Enlarge (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)</name>
<text>For 1 minute, the duergar magically increases in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage. If the duergar lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size possible in the space available.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>War Pick</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage, or 11 (2d8 + 2) piercing damage while enlarged.</text>
<attack>War Pick|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage, or 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage while enlarged.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+4|1d6+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Invisibility (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)</name>
<text>The duergar magically turns invisible until it attacks, casts a spell, or uses its Enlarge, or until its concentration is broken, up to 1 hour (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the duergar wears or carries is invisible with it.</text>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Snurrevin is a 3rd-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). He has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, mage hand, minor illusion, shocking grasp</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): color spray, shield, silent image</text>
<text>• 2nd level (2 slots): hold person, shatter</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 2</slots>
<spells>fire bolt, mage hand, minor illusion, shocking grasp, color spray, shield, silent image, hold person, shatter</spells>
<description>The tyrannical duergar, also known as gray dwarves, dwell in fantastic cities deep in the Underdark. Using ancient dwarven knowledge and myriad slaves, they work tirelessly to expand their subterranean kingdoms.
Most duergar (including females) are bald and have ashen gray skin. They wear drab clothing designed to blend in with stone, along with simple jewelry that reflects their severe and utilitarian demeanor.
Slaves to Slavers. The duergar were once dwarves, before their greed and endless delving beneath the earth brought them into contact with the mind flayers. Held in captivity for generations by the illithids, the dwarves eventually won their independence with the aid of the evil god Laduguer. Slavery had forever changed them, however, darkening their spirits to make the duergar as evil as the tyrants they had escaped. Despite winning their freedom, duergar are dour, pessimistic, untrusting creatures, always toiling and complaining, with no memory of what it means to be happy or proud. Their craftsmanship and accomplishments endure, yet they are bereft of warmth or artistry.
Duergar make war against their dwarven kin and all other subterranean races. They forge alliances when it is convenient, then break those alliances when they have nothing more to gain. They take and hold slaves to toil in the Underdark, regarding them as free labor and crude currency.
Tough as Stone. Like dwarves, duergar have strong constitutions. Adding to their physical stamina is an incredible mental fortitude resulting from their time as slaves of the illithids. A duergar's mind is a fortress, able to shrug off charms, illusions, and other spells.
Born of Darkness. The Underdark is saturated with strange magical power, which the duergar absorbed over generations of imprisonment. A duergar can increase its size and strength for a short time, becoming a powerful ogre-sized warrior. If it faces a foe it can't fight, or when spying on creatures approaching its territory, it can just as easily become invisible to slip away into the darkness. Eons spent in the Underdark also sharpened their darkvision, allowing them to see twice as far as other dwarves. This keen eyesight comes at a cost, however, as a duergar's vision is compromised by sunlight.
Infernal Master. Asmodeus, Lord of the Nine Hells, has been known to impersonate duergar gods in order to cultivate the evil brimming in the hearts of the gray dwarves. He offers them divine guidance and vengeance against their enemies while urging them on toward greater acts of tyranny, all the while concealing his true identity.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 53</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Stone Dragon Statue</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>construct</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>17 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>178 (17d10+85)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>22</str>
<dex>9</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>3</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>understands the languages of its creator but can't speak</languages>
<cr>10</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't adamantine</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Immutable Form</name>
<text>The statue is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Resistance</name>
<text>The statue has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Magic Weapons</name>
<text>The statue's weapon attacks are magical.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The statue makes two slam attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slam</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 19 (3d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Slam|+10|3d8+6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Slow (Recharge 5-6)</name>
<text>The statue targets one or more creatures it can see within 10 feet of it. Each target must make a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw against this magic. On a failed save, a target can't use reactions, its speed is halved, and it can't make more than one attack on its turn. In addition, the target can take either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both. These effects last for 1 minute. A target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 85</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Tarul Var</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>16 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>105 (14d8+42)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>11</str>
<dex>16</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>19</int>
<wis>14</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save>Con +8, Int +9, Wis +7</save>
<skill>Arcana +9, History +9, Insight +7, Perception +7</skill>
<passive>17</passive>
<languages>Abyssal, Common, Infernal, Primordial, Thayan</languages>
<cr>13</cr>
<resist>cold, lightning, necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Focused Conjuration</name>
<text>While Var is concentrating on a conjuration spell, his concentration can't be broken as a result of taking damage.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Legendary Resistance (3/Day)</name>
<text>If Var fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Rejuvenation</name>
<text>If Var is destroyed but his phylactery remains intact, Var gains a new body in 1d10 days, regaining all his hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Turn Resistance</name>
<text>Var has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Paralyzing Touch</name>
<text>Melee Spell Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 10 (3d6) cold damage. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</text>
<attack>Paralyzing Touch|+9|3d6</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Benign Transposition</name>
<text>Var teleports up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space he can see. Alternatively, he can choose a space within range that is occupied by a Small or Medium creature. If that creature is willing, both creatures teleport, swapping places. Var can use this feature again only after he finishes a long rest or casts a conjuration spell of 1st level or higher.</text>
</action>
<legendary>
<text>Tarul can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Tarul regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Cantrip</name>
<text>Var casts a cantrip.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Paralyzing Touch (Costs 2 Actions)</name>
<text>Var uses Paralyzing Touch.</text>
</legendary>
<legendary>
<name>Frightening Gaze (Costs 2 Actions)</name>
<text>Var fixes his gaze on one creature he can see within 10 feet of him. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened for 1 minute. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a target's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to Var's gaze for the next 24 hours.</text>
</legendary>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Var is a 12th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks). He has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>*Conjuration spell of 1st level or higher</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, ray of frost</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): detect magic, magic missile, shield, unseen servant*</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): detect thoughts, flaming sphere*, mirror image, scorching ray</text>
<text>• 3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, dispel magic, fireball</text>
<text>• 4th level (3 slots): dimension door*, Evard's black tentacles*</text>
<text>• 5th level (3 slots): cloudkill*, scrying</text>
<text>• 6th level (1 slots): circle of death</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1</slots>
<spells>fire bolt, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, ray of frost, detect magic, magic missile, shield, unseen servant, detect thoughts, flaming sphere, mirror image, scorching ray, counterspell, dispel magic, fireball, dimension door, Evard's black tentacles, cloudkill, scrying, circle of death</spells>
<description>After failing in an earlier task for the Red Wizards, the lich Tarul Var is sequestered within the Doomvault (Dead in Thay), where he tries to avoid the attention of Szass Tam. Interlopers who discover his quarters are set upon by the lich and his dread warrior guards, but if Var is brought to the brink of death, he might bargain for a chance to escape the dungeon.
Undead Nature. A lich doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 244</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Tecuziztecatl</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>13 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>102 (12d10+36)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft., climb 30 ft., swim 30 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>15</int>
<wis>16</wis>
<cha>13</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Deception +3, Stealth +2</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Olman, Primordial</languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist>bludgeoning from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune>acid</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 30 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amphibious</name>
<text>Tecuziztecatl can breathe air and water.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Glowing</name>
<text>Tecuziztecatl sheds dim light within 20 feet of itself.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Flexible</name>
<text>Tecuziztecatl can enter a space large enough for a Medium creature without squeezing.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>Tecuziztecatl can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Tecuziztecatl makes two pseudopod attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 12 (2d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+5|2d8+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Spit Acid (Recharge 4-6)</name>
<text>Tecuziztecatl exhales acid in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 18 (4d8) acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.</text>
<attack>Spit Acid (Recharge 4-6)||4d8</attack>
</action>
<description>A giant slug named Tecuziztecatl, the Lord of Snails. Tecuziztecatl (TayCOO-zeez-tay-COT-el) is highly intelligent and quite the boaster. In ancient lore it was considered to be related to the moon, a fact of which it is quite proud. During combat the slug will detail, in Olman, what it has in store for the characters and how hopeless their situation is.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 245</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Thayan Apprentice</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (human)</type>
<alignment>Any Non-Good Alignment</alignment>
<ac>12 (15 with mage armor)</ac>
<hp>27 (5d8+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>15</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Arcana +4</skill>
<passive>11</passive>
<languages>Common, Thayan</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Doomvault Devotion</name>
<text>Within the Doomvault, the apprentice has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Dagger</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Dagger|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>The apprentice is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It has the following wizard spells prepared:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, mage hand, prestidigitation, shocking grasp</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): burning hands, detect magic, mage armor, shield</text>
<text>• 2nd level (3 slots): blur, scorching ray</text>
</trait>
<slots>4, 3</slots>
<spells>fire bolt, mage hand, prestidigitation, shocking grasp, burning hands, detect magic, mage armor, shield, blur, scorching ray</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 245</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Thayan Warrior</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (human)</type>
<alignment>Any Non-Good Alignment</alignment>
<ac>16 (chain shirt, shield)</ac>
<hp>52 (8d8+16)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +2</skill>
<passive>12</passive>
<languages>Common, Thayan</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Doomvault Devotion</name>
<text>Within the Doomvault, the warrior has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pack Tactics</name>
<text>The warrior has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the warrior's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The warrior makes two melee attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage, or 8 (1d10 + 3) slashing damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+5|1d8+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 246</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Therzt</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (elf)</type>
<alignment>Any alignment</alignment>
<ac>10</ac>
<hp>4 (1d8)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>10</str>
<dex>10</dex>
<con>10</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +1</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>any one language (usually Common), Elvish</languages>
<cr>0</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 120 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Fey Ancestry</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt; has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put Therzt to sleep.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, Therzt has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Club</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Club|+2|1d4</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>&lt;$title_short_name$&gt;'s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 9). &lt;$title_short_name$&gt; can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:</text>
<text>At will: dancing lights</text>
<text>1/day each: darkness, faerie fire</text>
</trait>
<spells>dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire</spells>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 158</description>
<environment>arctic, desert, coastal, grassland, hill, urban, forest</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Thorn Slinger</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>plant</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>11</ac>
<hp>32 (5d10+5)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft.</speed>
<str>13</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>12</con>
<int>1</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>1</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1/2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, deafened, frightened</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Adhesive Blossoms</name>
<text>The thorn slinger adheres to anything that touches it. A Medium or smaller creature adhered to the thorn slinger is also grappled by it (escape DC 11). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage.</text>
<text>At the end of each of the thorn slinger's turns, anything grappled by it takes 3 (1d6) acid damage.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While the thorn slinger remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an inanimate bush.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Thorns</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft., one target. 8 (2d6 + 1) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Thorns|+3|2d6+1</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 246</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Tloques-Popolocas</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>15 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>82 (11d8+33)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>16</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>11</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>12</cha>
<save>Dex +6, Wis +3</save>
<skill>Perception +3, Stealth +6</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>the languages it knew in life</languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist>necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks</resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Regeneration</name>
<text>The vampire regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point and isn't in sunlight or running water. If the vampire takes radiant damage or damage from holy water, this trait doesn't function at the start of the vampire's next turn.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>The vampire can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Vampire Weaknesses</name>
<text>The vampire has the following flaws:</text>
<text>• Forbiddance. The vampire can't enter a residence without an invitation from one of the occupants.</text>
<text>• Harmed by Running Water. The vampire takes 20 acid damage when it ends its turn in running water.</text>
<text>• Stake to the Heart. The vampire is destroyed if a piercing weapon made of wood is driven into its heart while it is incapacitated in its resting place.</text>
<text>• Sunlight Hypersensitivity. The vampire takes 20 radiant damage when it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Shapechanger</name>
<text>If the vampire isn't in sunlight or running water, it can use its action to Polymorph into a Tiny bat, or back into its true form.</text>
<text>While in bat form, the vampire can't speak, its walking speed is 5 feet, and it has a flying speed of 30 feet. Its Statistics, other than its size and speed, are unchanged. Anything it is wearing transforms with it, but nothing it is carrying does. It reverts to its true form if it dies.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The vampire makes two attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claws</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage. Instead of dealing damage, the vampire can grapple the target, escape DC 13.</text>
<attack>Claws|+6|2d4+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Children of the Night (1/Day)</name>
<text>The vampire magically calls 2d4 swarms of bats, provided that the sun isn't up. The called creatures arrive in 1d4 rounds, acting as allies of the vampire and obeying its spoken commands. The beasts remain for 1 hour, until the vampire dies, or until the vampire dismisses them as a bonus action.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tloques' Berserker Axe +2</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (1d8 + 5) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Tloques' Berserker Axe +2|+5|1d8+5</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Innate Spellcasting</name>
<text>Tloques can cast hold person (DC 14) at will, requiring no components, but his target must be able to see him.</text>
<text>At will: hold person</text>
</trait>
<spells>hold person</spells>
<description>Awakened to an endless night, vampires hunger for the life they have lost and sate that hunger by drinking the blood of the living. Vampires abhor sunlight, for its touch burns them. They never cast shadows or reflections, and any vampire wishing to move unnoticed among the living keeps to the darkness and far from reflective surfaces.
Dark Desires. Whether or not a vampire retains any memories from its former life, its emotional attachments wither as once-pure feelings become twisted by undeath. Love turns into hungry obsession, while friendship becomes bitter jealousy. In place of emotion, vampires pursue physical symbols of what they crave, so that a vampire seeking love might fixate on a young beauty. A child might become an object of fascination for a vampire obsessed with youth and potential. Others surround themselves with art, books, or sinister items such as torture devices or trophies from creatures they have killed.
Born from Death. Most of a vampire's victims become vampire spawn-ravenous creatures with a vampire's hunger for blood, but under the control of the vampire that created them. If a true vampire allows a spawn to draw blood from its own body, the spawn transforms into a true vampire no longer under its master's control. Few vampires are willing to relinquish their control in this manner. Vampire spawn become free-willed when their creator dies.
Chained to the Grave. Every vampire remains bound to its coffin, crypt, or grave site, where it must rest by day. If a vampire didn't receive a formal burial, it must lie beneath a foot of earth at the place of its transition to undeath. A vampire can move its place of burial by transporting its coffin or a significant amount of grave dirt to another location. Some vampires set up multiple resting places this way.
Undead Nature. Neither a vampire nor a vampire spawn requires air.
A Vampire's Lair. A vampire chooses a grand yet defensible location for its lair, such as a castle, fortified manor, or walled abbey. It hides its coffin in an underground crypt or vault guarded by vampire spawn or other loyal creatures of the night.
Player Characters as Vampires. The game statistics of a player character transformed into a vampire spawn and then a vampire don't change, except that the character's Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores become 18 if they aren't higher. In addition, the character gains the vampire's damage resistances, darkvision, traits, and actions. Attack and damage rolls for the vampire's attacks are based on Strength.
The save DC for Charm is 8 + the vampire's proficiency bonus + the vampire's Charisma modifier. The character's alignment becomes lawful evil, and the DM might take control of the character until the vampirism is reversed with a wish spell or the character is killed and brought back to life.
Strahd von Zarovich.
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A brilliant thinker and capable warrior in life, Strahd von Zarovich fought in countless battles for his people. When war and killing finally stripped him of his youth and strength, he settled in the remote valley of Barovia and built a castle on a towering pinnacle, from which he could survey his lands. His brother Sergei came to live with him in Castle Ravenloft, becoming Strahd's adviser and constant companion.
In his brother, Strahd saw everything he had lost. Sergei was handsome and young, while Strahd had become old and scarred. Resentment colored their relationship, eventually turning into hatred. Strahd's beloved, Tatyana, spurned him for Sergei, whom she pledged to marry.
In a desperate attempt to win Tatyana's heart, Strahd forged a pact with dark powers that made him immortal. At the wedding of Sergei and Tatyana, he confronted his brother and killed him. Tatyana fled and flung herself from Ravenloft's walls. Strahd's guards, seeing him for a monster, shot him with arrows. But he did not die. He became a vampire-the first vampire, according to many sages.
In the centuries since his transformation, Strahd's lust for life and youth have only grown. He broods in his dark castle, cursing the living for stealing away what he lost, and never admitting his hand in the tragedy he created.
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Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 68</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Torlin Silvershield</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>undead</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>14 (studded leather armor)</ac>
<hp>45 (6d8+18)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>15</str>
<dex>14</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>15</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3, Stealth +4</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>the languages it knew in life</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist>necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>exhaustion, poisoned</conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, Torlin has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Torlin makes two longsword attacks or two longbow attacks. It can use its Life Drain in place of one longsword attack.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Life Drain</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. 5 (1d6 + 2) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.</text>
<attack>Life Drain|+4|1d6+2</attack>
<text>A humanoid slain by this attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under Torlin's control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed. Torlin can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) slashing damage, or 7 (1d10 + 2) slashing damage if used with two hands.</text>
<attack>Longsword|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longbow</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Longbow|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 159</description>
<environment>underdark, swamp, urban, desert</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Werejaguar</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (human, shapechanger)</type>
<alignment>Neutral</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>120 (16d8+48)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>13</wis>
<cha>11</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +5, Stealth +4</skill>
<passive>15</passive>
<languages>Common (can't speak in jaguar form)</languages>
<cr>4</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>bludgeoning, piercing, slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Shapechanger</name>
<text>The werejaguar can use its action to polymorph into a jaguar-humanoid hybrid or into a jaguar, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Keen Hearing and Smell</name>
<text>The werejaguar has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pounce (jaguar or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>If the werejaguar moves at least 15 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the werejaguar can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>In humanoid form, the werejaguar makes two scimitar attacks or two longbow attacks. In hybrid form, it can attack like a humanoid or make two claw attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite (jaguar or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with werejaguar lycanthropy.</text>
<attack>Bite (jaguar or Hybrid Form Only)|+5|1d10+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Claw (jaguar or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Claw (jaguar or Hybrid Form Only)|+5|1d8+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Scimitar (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Scimitar (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only)|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Longbow (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only)</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Longbow (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only)|+4|1d8+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Variant: Nonhuman Lycanthropes</name>
<text>The statistics presented in this section assume a base creature of human. However, you can also use the statistics to represent nonhuman lycanthropes, adding verisimilitude by allowing a nonhuman lycanthrope to retain one or more of its humanoid racial traits. For example, an elf werewolf might have the Fey Ancestry trait.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 79</description>
<environment>grassland, forest, desert</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>White Maw</name>
<size>G</size>
<type>ooze</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Neutral</alignment>
<ac>5</ac>
<hp>217 (14d20+70)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>1</dex>
<con>20</con>
<int>12</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>3</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>telepathy 50 ft.</languages>
<cr>10</cr>
<resist>acid, cold, fire</resist>
<immune>poison</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune>blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned, prone</conditionImmune>
<senses>blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)</senses>
<trait>
<name>Amorphous Form</name>
<text>White Maw can occupy another creature's space and vice versa.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Corrode Metal</name>
<text>Any nonmagical weapon made of metal that hits White Maw corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to damage rolls. if its penalty drops to 5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition made of metal that hits White Maw is destroyed after dealing damage.</text>
<text>White Maw can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While White Maw remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from white stone.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Killer Response</name>
<text>Any creature that starts its turn in White Maw's space is targeted by a pseudopod attack if White Maw isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Pseudopod</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 22 (4d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 9 (2d8) acid damage. If the target is wearing nonmagical metal armor, its armor is partly corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative 1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.</text>
<attack>Pseudopod|+8|4d8+4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 248</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Xilonen</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Neutral Evil</alignment>
<ac>20 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>93 (11d10+33)</hp>
<speed>walk 10 ft., climb 10 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>17</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>16</wis>
<cha>6</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +6, Stealth +5</skill>
<passive>16</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>5</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>False Appearance</name>
<text>While Xilonen remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal cave formation, such as a stalagmite.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Grasping Tendrils</name>
<text>Xilonen can have up to six tendrils at a time. Each tendril can be attacked (AC 20; 10 hit points; immunity to poison and psychic damage). Destroying a tendril deals no damage to Xilonen, which can extrude a replacement tendril on its next turn. A tendril can also be broken if a creature takes an action and succeeds on a DC 15 Strength check against it.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Spider Climb</name>
<text>Xilonen can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>Xilonen makes four attacks with its tendrils, uses Reel, and makes one attack with its bite.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 22 (4d8 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Bite|+7|4d8+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Tendril</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 50 ft., one creature. The target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained and has disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and Xilonen can't use the same tendril on another target.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Reel</name>
<text>Xilonen pulls each creature grappled by it up to 25 feet straight toward it.</text>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 83</description>
<environment>underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Yeti Leader</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>monstrosity</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>12 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>51 (6d10+18)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft., climb 40 ft.</speed>
<str>18</str>
<dex>13</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>8</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3, Stealth +3</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages>Yeti</languages>
<cr>3</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune>cold</immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Fear of Fire</name>
<text>If the yeti takes fire damage, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the end of its next turn.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Keen Smell</name>
<text>The yeti has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Snow Camouflage</name>
<text>The yeti has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in snowy terrain.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Multiattack</name>
<text>The yeti can use its Chilling Gaze and makes two greatsword attacks.</text>
</action>
<action>
<name>Frost Brand Greatsword</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 3 (1d6) cold damage.</text>
<attack>Frost Brand Greatsword|+6|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Chilling Gaze</name>
<text>The yeti targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see the yeti, the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw against this magic or take 10 (3d6) cold damage and then be paralyzed for 1 minute, unless it is immune to cold damage. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If the target's saving throw is successful, or if the effect ends on it, the target is immune to the Chilling Gaze of all yetis (but not abominable yetis) for 1 hour.</text>
<attack>Chilling Gaze||3d6</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 183</description>
<environment>arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Young Fire Giant</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>11 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>59 (7d10+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>7</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+6|2d8+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+6|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 192</description>
<environment>grassland, forest, swamp, hill, desert, coastal, arctic, underdark, mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Young Frost Giant</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>giant</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>11 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>59 (7d10+21)</hp>
<speed>walk 40 ft.</speed>
<str>19</str>
<dex>8</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>5</int>
<wis>7</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>Common, Giant</languages>
<cr>2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<action>
<name>Greatclub</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Greatclub|+6|2d8+4</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+6|2d6+4</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 187</description>
<environment>grassland, forest, swamp, hill, desert, coastal, arctic, underdark, mountain</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Young Hill Giant</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (giant)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>15 (2d8+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Intimidation +2</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, giant</languages>
<cr>1/2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Aggressive</name>
<text>As a bonus action, the giant can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Greataxe</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (1d12 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Greataxe|+5|1d12+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 167</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain, grassland, forest, swamp, hill, arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Young Ogre Servant</name>
<size>M</size>
<type>humanoid (ogre)</type>
<alignment>Chaotic Evil</alignment>
<ac>13 (hide armor)</ac>
<hp>15 (2d8+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>16</str>
<dex>12</dex>
<con>16</con>
<int>7</int>
<wis>11</wis>
<cha>10</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Intimidation +2</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, ogre</languages>
<cr>1/2</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Aggressive</name>
<text>As a bonus action, the ogre can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Greataxe</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 9 (1d12 + 3) slashing damage.</text>
<attack>Greataxe|+5|1d12+3</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Javelin</name>
<text>Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Javelin|+5|1d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 171</description>
<environment>underdark, mountain, grassland, forest, swamp, hill, arctic</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Young Troglodyte</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (troglodyte)</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>12</ac>
<hp>5 (2d6-2)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>7</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>9</con>
<int>8</int>
<wis>7</wis>
<cha>8</cha>
<save></save>
<skill></skill>
<passive>8</passive>
<languages>Common, Draconic</languages>
<cr>1/8</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, the troglodyte has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pack Tactics</name>
<text>The troglodyte has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the troglodyte's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Dagger</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Dagger|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<action>
<name>Sling</name>
<text>Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) bludgeoning damage.</text>
<attack>Sling|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 176</description>
<environment>forest, swamp, hill, urban, desert, coastal, arctic, mountain, underdark</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Young Winter Wolf</name>
<size>L</size>
<type>beast</type>
<alignment>Unaligned</alignment>
<ac>14 (natural armor)</ac>
<hp>37 (5d10+10)</hp>
<speed>walk 50 ft.</speed>
<str>17</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>15</con>
<int>3</int>
<wis>12</wis>
<cha>7</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Perception +3, Stealth +4</skill>
<passive>13</passive>
<languages></languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses></senses>
<trait>
<name>Keen Hearing and Smell</name>
<text>The wolf has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pack Tactics</name>
<text>The wolf has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the wolf's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Bite</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.</text>
<attack>Bite|+5|2d6+3</attack>
</action>
<description>
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 181</description>
<environment>forest, hill</environment>
</monster>
<monster>
<name>Yusdrayl</name>
<size>S</size>
<type>humanoid (kobold)</type>
<alignment>Lawful Evil</alignment>
<ac>12 (15 with mage armor)</ac>
<hp>16 (3d6+6)</hp>
<speed>walk 30 ft.</speed>
<str>8</str>
<dex>15</dex>
<con>14</con>
<int>10</int>
<wis>10</wis>
<cha>16</cha>
<save></save>
<skill>Arcana +2, Insight +2, Stealth +4</skill>
<passive>10</passive>
<languages>Common, Draconic</languages>
<cr>1</cr>
<resist></resist>
<immune></immune>
<vulnerable></vulnerable>
<conditionImmune></conditionImmune>
<senses>darkvision 60 ft.</senses>
<trait>
<name>Sunlight Sensitivity</name>
<text>While in sunlight, Yusdrayl has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.</text>
</trait>
<trait>
<name>Pack Tactics</name>
<text>Yusdrayl has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of her allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.</text>
</trait>
<action>
<name>Dagger</name>
<text>Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.</text>
<attack>Dagger|+4|1d4+2</attack>
</action>
<trait>
<name>Spellcasting</name>
<text>Yusdrayl is a 2nd-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). She knows the following sorcerer spells:</text>
<text>Cantrips (at will): mage hand, prestidigitation, ray of frost, shocking grasp</text>
<text>• 1st level (4 slots): burning hands, chromatic orb, mage armor</text>
</trait>
<slots>4</slots>
<spells>mage hand, prestidigitation, ray of frost, shocking grasp, burning hands, chromatic orb, mage armor</spells>
<description>Kobolds are craven reptilian humanoids that worship evil dragons as demigods and serve them as minions and toadies. Kobolds inhabit dragons' lairs when they can but more commonly infest dungeons, gathering treasures and trinkets to add to their own tiny hoards.
Strength in Numbers. Kobolds are egg-laying creatures. They mature quickly and can live to be "great wyrms" more than a century old. However, many kobolds perish before they reach the end of their first decade. Physically weak, they are easy prey for predators. This vulnerability forces them to band together. Their superior numbers can win battles against powerful adversaries, but often with massive casualties on the kobold side.
Tunnelers and Builders. Kobolds make up for their physical ineptitude with a cleverness for trap making and tunneling. Their lairs consist of low tunnels through which they move easily but which hinder larger humanoids. Kobolds also riddle their lairs with traps. The most insidious kobold traps make use of natural hazards and other creatures. A trip wire might connect to a spring-loaded trap that hurls clay pots of flesh-eating green slime or flings crates of venomous giant centipedes at intruders.
The Lost God. In addition to the dragons they revere, kobolds worship a lesser god named Kurtulmak. Legends speak of how Kurtulmak served as Tiamat's vassal in the Nine Hells until Garl Glittergold, the god of gnomes, stole a trinket from the Dragon Queen's hoard. Tiamat sent Kurtulmak to retrieve the trinket, but Garl Glittergold played a trick on him, collapsing the earth and trapping the kobold god in an underground maze for eternity. For this reason, kobolds hate gnomes and pranks of any kind. Kurtulmak's most devoted worshipers dedicate themselves to finding and releasing their lost god from his prison-maze.
Source: Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 248</description>
<environment></environment>
</monster>
</compendium>