Monster Manual (2008)
This is the first monster book for the Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, published in 2008. This book features an alphabetical listing of monsters on page 3, an introduction on pages 4–7, the monster descriptions on pages 8–275, instructions for converting some monsters into NPCs and PCs on pages 276-279, a glossary on pages 280-283, and a list of the monsters in the book ranked by level on pages 284-287.
ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9
| Creature | Page | Other Appearances | Variants | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aboleth | 8-9 | Aboleth lasher, aboleth slime mage, aboleth overseer | Large eel-like aberrations with potent psionic abilities | |
| Aboleth Servitor | 9 | Human aberrations with translucent and slimy skin | ||
| Astral Stalker | 10 | Humanoid abomination with large claws and skull-like face | ||
| Atropal | 10-11 | Floating humanoid abomination resembling a Ghoul | ||
| Blood Fiend | 11-12 | Four-arm humanoid abomination with large claws | ||
| Phane | 12-13 | Half-cat half-humanoid abomination with a misty consistence | ||
| Tarrasque | 12-13 | Huge tyrannosaurus-like abomination with horns | ||
| Angel | 14-17 | Angel of battle, angel of protection, angel of valor, angel of valor cohort,angel of valor veteran, angel of valor legionnaire, angel of vengeance | Varies but generally humanoid forms with wings | |
| Archon | 18-21 | Fire archon emberguard, fire archon blazesteel, fire archon ash disciple, ice archon hailscourge, ice archon rimehammer, ice archon frostshaper | Varies but generally humanoid forms made up from an element | |
| Azer | 22-23 | Azer warrior, azer foot soldier, azer rager, azer taskmaster, azer beastlord | Resembles a dwarf with brass-colored skin, and hair and beard of flames | |
| Balhannoth | 24 | Large worm-like aberration with tentacles | ||
| Banshrae | 25 | Banshrae dartswarmer, banshrae warrior | Humanoids with insect-like features | |
| Basilisk | 26 | Venom-eye basilisk, stone-eye basilisk | Large six (sometimes eight)-legged lizard | |
| Bat | 27 | Shadowhunter bat, fire bat | Large bat-like creatures | |
| Battlebriar | 28 | Warthorn battlebriar, earthrage battlebriar | Plant creatures resembling large frogs with claws and large teeth | |
| Bear | 29 | Cave bear, dire bear | ||
| Beetle | 30 | Fire beetle, tangler beetle, rot scarab swarm | ||
| Behemoth | 31 | Macetail behemoth, bloodspike behemoth | Bloodspike behemoth resembles a large reptile similar in form to the Stegosaurus stenops and macetail behemoth resembles a large reptile similar in form to the Euoplocephalus tutus | |
| Beholder | 32-33 | Beholder eye of flame, beholder eye tyrant | Resembles a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and lots of smaller eyestalks on top with deadly magical powers | |
| Berbalang | 34 | Medium-sized blue demon-like humanoid with bat wings | ||
| Boar | 35 | Dire boar, thunderfury boar | ||
| Bodak | 36 | Bodak skulk, bodak reaver | Humanoids with smooth grayish-black skin and a featureless face | |
| Boneclaw | 37 | Resembles humanoids who are half skeletal and half without skin with three-fingered huge claws | ||
| Bulette | 38 | Bulette, dire bulette | Large armored mole-like creature | |
| Cambion | 39 | Cambion hellsword, cambion hellfire magus | Archetype devil appearance | |
| Carrion Crawler | 40 | Carrion crawler, enormous carrion crawler | Large yellow and green worm-like aberration | |
| Chimera | 41 | Appears to be an amalgam of a goat, lion and a dragon with three heads. | ||
| Choker | 42 | Cavern choker, feygrove choker | Resembles small greyish-black humanoids | |
| Chuul | 43 | Chuul juggernaut | Large pale yellow lobster-like aberrations | |
| Colossus | 44 | Godforged colossus | Large animated statues | |
| Crocodile | 45 | Visejaw crocodile, feymire crocodile | ||
| Cyclops | 46-48 | Cyclops guard, cyclops warrior, cyclops impaler, cyclops rambler, cyclops hewer, cyclops battleweaver, cyclops storm shaman | Single eyed giants | |
| Dark One | 49 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Dark creeper, dark stalker | Small humanoids from the Shadowfell plane |
| Death Knight | 50-51 | Death knight (human fighter),death knight (dragonborn paladin) | ||
| Demon | 52-58 | Balor, barlgura, evistro (carnage demon), glabrezu, goristro, hezrou, immolith, marilith, mezzodemon, vrock | Varies | |
| Destrachan | 59 | Destrachan, destrachan far voice | Large reptiles similar in form to the theropod dinosaurs | |
| Devil | 60-67 | Bearded devil (barbazu), bone devil (osyluth), chain devil (kyton),ice devil (gelugon), imp, legion devil grunt, legion devil hellguard, legion devil veteran, legion devil legionnaire,pit fiend, spined devil (spinagon),succubus, war devil (malebranche) | Varies | |
| Devourer | 68-69 | Spirit devourer, viscera devourer, soulspike devourer | Undead humanoids of varied forms but generally with exposed ribcage | |
| Displacer Beast | 70 | Displacer beast, displacer beast packlord | Resembles six-legged black puma with a pair of black tentacles sprouting from its shoulders | |
| Doppelganger | 71 | Doppelganger sneak, doppelganger assassin | Humanoids able to change shape | |
| Dracolich | 72-73 | Dracolich, blackfire dracolich, runescribed dracolich | Resembles undead dragon skeleton | |
| Dragon | 74-85 | Young black dragon, adult black dragon, elder black dragon, ancient black dragon, young blue dragon, adult blue dragon, elder blue dragon, ancient blue dragon, young green dragon, adult green dragon, elder green dragon, ancient green dragon, young red dragon, adult red dragon, elder red dragon, ancient red dragon, young white dragon, adult white dragon, elder white dragon, ancient white dragon | Resembles a reptile-like winged creatures with magical or unusual abilities | |
| Dragonborn | 86-87 | Dragonborn soldier, dragonborn gladiator, dragonborn raider, dragonborn champion | Normal size humanoids with dragon features | |
| Dragonspawn | 88-89 | Redspawn firebelcher, blackspawn gloomweb, bluespawn godslayer | Varies but spawned from corrupted dragon eggs | |
| Drake | 90-92 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Spiretop drake, guard drake, needlefang drake swarm, pseudodragon, spitting drake, rage drake | Varies |
| Drider | 93 | Drider fanglord, drider shadowspinner | Drows which have been transformed from the waist down so they have the lower body of a spider | |
| Drow | 94-95 | Drow warrior, drow arachnomancer, drow blademaster, drow priest | Dark elves | |
| Dryad | 96 | Dryad, briar witch dryad | Resembles humanoids with tree-like features | |
| Dwarf | 97 | Dwarf bolter, dwarf hammerer | Small size humanoids | |
| Efreet | 98-100 | Efreet fireblade, efreet cinderlord, efreet flamestrider, efreet pyresinger, efreet karadjin | Giants with reddish skin and horns and body part flesh and flame | |
| Eidolon | 101 | Eidolon | Resembles a large human-like creature of stone covered in runes | |
| Eladrin | 102-103 | Eladrin fey knight, eladrin twilight incanter, bralani of autumn winds, ghaele of winter | High elves | |
| Elemental | 104-105 | Firelasher, rockfire dreadnought, earthwind ravager, thunderblast cyclone | Varies but composed of one of the four classical elementals of air, earth, fire, or water | |
| Elf | 106 | Elf archer, elf scout | Slender humanoids with pointed ears | |
| Ettercap | 107 | Ettercap fang guard, ettercap webspinner | ||
| Ettin | 108 | Ettin marauder, ettin spirit-talker | Two-headed giants | |
| Flameskull | 109 | Flameskull, great flameskull | Floating skull on flames | |
| Fomorian | 110-111 | Fomorian warrior, fomorian painbringer | Deformed giants | |
| Foulspawn | 112-113 | Foulspawn grue, foulspawn mangler, foulspawn berserker, foulspawn seer, foulspawn hulk | Corrupted humanoids | |
| Galeb Duhr | 114 | Galeb duhr earthbreaker, galeb duhr rockcaller | Boulder-like creature | |
| Gargoyle | 115 | Gargoyle, nabassu gargoyle | Resembres grotesque stone statues | |
| Ghost | 116-117 | Phantom warrior, trap haunt, wailing ghost (banshee), tormenting ghost | Varies | |
| Ghoul | 118-119 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Ghoul, horde ghoul, abyssal ghoul, abyssal ghoul hungerer, abyssal ghoul myrmidon | Undead decomposed corpses |
| Giant | 120-125 | Death giant, death titan, hill giant, earth titan, fire giant, fire giant forgecaller, fire titan, storm giant, storm titan | Large to huge humanoids | |
| Gibbering Beast | 126-127 | Gibbering mouther, gibbering abomination, gibbering orb | amorphous aberrations covered with eyes and mouths | |
| Githyanki | 128-129 | Githyanki warrior, githyanki mindslicer, githyanki gish | Tall and gaunt humanoids with almost skeletal features | |
| Githzerai | 130-131 | Githzerai cenobite, githzerai zerth, githzerai mindmage | Tall and gaunt humanoids with almost skeletal features | |
| Gnoll | 132-133 | Gnoll huntmaster, gnoll claw fighter, gnoll marauder, gnoll demonic scourge | Hyenas-like humanoids | |
| Gnome | 134 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Gnome skulk, gnome arcanist | Small and slender humanoids |
| Bugbear | 135-141 | Bugbear warrior, bugbear strangler | Stocky hairy humanoids | |
| Goblin | 135-141 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Goblin cutters, goblin blackblade, goblin warriors, goblin sharpshooters, goblin hexer, goblin skullcleaver, goblin underboss | Small green humanoids |
| Hobgoblin | 135-141 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Hobgoblin grunts, hobgoblin warrior, hobgoblin archer, hobgoblin soldiers, hobgoblin warcaster, hobgoblin commander, hobgoblin hand of bane | Normal size humanoids covered in coarse fur |
| Golem | 142 | Flesh golem, stone golem | Varies | |
| Gorgon | 143 | Iron gorgon, storm gorgon | Magical beasts resembling a bull | |
| Grell | 144 | Grell, grell philosopher | Aberration resembling a floating brain with a frontal beak and ten tentacles originating on its underside | |
| Grick | 145 | Grick, grick alpha | Large snake-like aberrations with beak and four barbed tentacles originating at the base of the beak | |
| Griffon | 146-147 | Hippogriff, hippogriff dreadmount, griffon, rimefire griffon | Creatures with the forequarters, wings and head of an eagle, hindquarters of various forms depending on type of griffon | |
| Grimlock | 148 | Grimlock minion, grimlock follower, grimlock ambusher, grimlock berserker | Gray skinned humanoids without eyes or eye sockets | |
| Guardian | 149 | Shield guardian, battle guardian | Constructs of various materials and humanoid form | |
| Hag | 150-151 | Howling hag, bog hag, night hag, death hag | Resemble wretched old women | |
| Halfling | 152-153 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Halfling slinger, halfling stout, halfling thief, halfling prowler | Small humanoids |
| Harpy | 154 | Harpy, bloodfire harpy | Humanoid creatures with avian wings and talons for feet and hands | |
| Helmed Horror | 155 | Helmed horror, greater helmed horror | Resembles an animated suit of armor | |
| Homunculus | 156-157 | Clay scout, iron defender, iron cobra | Varies | |
| Hook Horror | 158 | Hook horror | Bipedal subterranean monster that looks like a vulture-like humanoid with bony hooks in place of hands | |
| Horse | 159 | Riding horse, warhorse, celestial charger | ||
| Hound | 160-161 | Hell hound, shadow hound, wild hunt hound | Varies | |
| Human | 162-163 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Human rabble, human lackey, human bandit, human guard, human berserker, human mage | |
| Hydra | 164-165 | Fen hydra, mordant hydra, primordial hydra | Large snake-like creatures with multiple heads | |
| Hyena | 166 | Hyena, cacklefiend hyena | ||
| Kobold | 167-169 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Kobold minions, kobold skirmisher, kobold slinger, kobold dragonshields, kobold wyrmpriest, kobold slyblade | Small reptilian humanoids |
| Kruthik | 170-171 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Kruthik hatchlings, kruthik young, kruthik adult, kruthik hive lord | Four-legged reptilians with natural plate armor covering most of their body |
| Kuo-toa | 172-173 | Kuo-toa guard, kuo-toa marauder, kuo-toa harpooner, kuo-toa monitor, kuo-toa whip | Fish-like humanoids | |
| Lamia | 174 | Lamia | Varies | |
| Larva Mage | 175 | Larva mage | A mass of worms and maggots taking the form of a mage | |
| Lich | 176-177 | Lich (human wizard), lich (eladrin wizard) | Undead spellcasters | |
| Lich Vestige | 176-177 | Animated remains of a former lich | ||
| Lizardfolk | 178-179 | Greenscale hunter, greenscale darter, greenscale marsh mystic, blackscale bruiser | Reptilian humanoids | |
| Lycanthrope | 180-181 | Wererat, werewolf | Shapechanger humanoids | |
| Magma Beasts | 182-183 | Magma claw, magma hurler, magma strider, magma brute | Varies | |
| Manticore | 184 | Manticore | Large magical beasts with the body of a lion, dragon wings, and a somewhat humanoid head | |
| Marut | 185 | Marut blademaster, marut concordant | Astral humanoids | |
| Medusa | 186-187 | Medusa archer (female), medusa warrior (male), medusa shroud of zehir (female) | Scaly skinned humanoids with powerful gaze | |
| Mind Flayer | 188-189 | Mind flayer infiltrator, mind flayer mastermind | Humanoid aberrations with psionic powers and octopus-like heads | |
| Minotaur | 190-191 | Minotaur warrior, minotaur cabalist, savage minotaur | Bull-like Humanoids | |
| Mummy | 192-193 | Mummy guardian, mummy lord (human cleric), giant mummy | ||
| Naga | 194-195 | Guardian naga, bone naga, dark naga, primordial naga | Varies but snake-like creatures | |
| Nightmare | 196 | Nightmare | Resembles black horse with flaming hair | |
| Nightwalker | 197 | Nightwalker | Humanoid being formed of shadow | |
| Ogre | 198-199 | Ogre thug, ogre bludgeoneer, ogre savaga, ogre skirmisher, ogre warhulk | Brutish and dull-witted humanoids | |
| Oni | 200-201 | Oni night haunt, oni mage | Ogre-like humanoids with horns | |
| Ooze | 202 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Ochre jelly, gelatinous cube | Amorphous creatures that dwell in dungeons |
| Orc | 203-205 | Orc drudge, orc warrior, orc raider, orc berserker, orc eye of Gruumsh, orc bloodrager, orc chieftain | Savage humanoids that revel in combat | |
| Orcus | 206-210 | Orcus, aspect of Orcus, Doresain, the Ghoul King, deathpriest hierophant, deathpriest of Orcus, crimson acolyte | Orcus, Demon Prince of the Undead, and the members of his cult | |
| Otyugh | 211 | Otyugh | Creature that lives in piles of waste | |
| Owlbear | 212 | Owlbear, winterclaw owlbear | A creature with the front half of an owl and the back half of a bear | |
| Panther | 213 | Fey panther, spectral panther | ||
| Purple Worm | 214 | Purple worm, elder purple worm | Enormous armored "worms" that burrow through the ground | |
| Quickling | 215 | quickling runner, quickling zephyr | Fey creatures that can move incredibly fast | |
| Rakshasa | 216-218 | Rakshasa warrior, rakshasa archer, rakshasa assassin, rakshasa noble, rakshasa dread knight | Feline humanoids that can alter their appearance | |
| Rat | 219 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Giant rat, dire rat, rat swarm | |
| Roc | 220-221 | Roc, phoenix, thunderhawk | Enormous birds of prey. Phoenixes and thunderhawks have ties to the Elemental Chaos. | |
| Roper | 222 | Roper | A creature that roughly resembles a stalagmite when at rest. | |
| Rot Harbinger | 223 | Rot harbinger, rot slinger | Undead creatures that spread rot with their claws. | |
| Sahuagin | 224-225 | Sahuagin guard, sahuagin raider, sahuagin priest, sahuagin baron | Shark-like humanoids that live in the sea. | |
| Salamander | 226-227 | Salamander lancer, salamander firetail, salamander archer, salamander noble | Evil creatures associated with the element of fire. | |
| Satyr | 228 | Satyr rake, satyr piper | Goat-like humanoids of fey origin | |
| Scorpion | 229 | Stormclaw scorpion, hellstinger scorpion | ||
| Shadar-Kai | 230-231 | Shadar-kai chainfighter, shadar-kai gloomblade, shadar-kai witch, shadar-kai warrior | Humanoids of darkness and shadow. | |
| Shambling mound | 232 | Shambling mound, stormrage shambler | Animated mass of vines and foliage. | |
| Shifter | 233 | Longtooth shifter, razorclaw shifter | Offspring of humans and lycanthropes | |
| Skeleton | 234-235 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Decrepit skeleton, skeleton, blazing skeleton, boneshard skeleton, skeletal tomb guardian | Reanimated bones that serve their creator. |
| Skull Lord | 236 | Skull lord | Three-headed skeletal creature that commands lesser undead. | |
| Slaad | 237-239 | Slaad tadpole, grey slaad (rift slaad), red slaad (blood slaad), blue slaad (talon slaad), green slaad (curse slaad), black slaad (void slaad) | Frog-like beings of pure chaos. | |
| Snake | 240-241 | Deathrattle viper, crushgrip constrictor, flame snake, shadow snake | ||
| Sorrowsworn | 242-243 | Sorrowsworn soulripper, sorrowsworn reaper, sorrowsworn deathlord, shadowraven swarm | Gaunt humanoids drawn to places of conflict. | |
| Specter | 244 | Specter, voidsoul specter | Twisted undead creatures driven to madness. | |
| Sphinx | 245 | Sphinx | Winged lion-like creature tasked with guarding a specific location. | |
| Spider | 246-247 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Deathjump spider, bloodweb spider swarm, blade spider, demonweb terror | |
| Stirge | 248 | Stirge, dire stirge, stirge swarm | Bat-like creatures that feed on blood. | |
| Swordwing | 249 | Swordwing, crownwing | Insect-like humanoids that collect a specific type of item. | |
| Tiefling | 250 | Tiefling heretic, tiefling darkblade | Humans that made a pact with infernal creatures. | |
| Treant | 251 | Treant, blackroot treant | Animated tree with roughly humanoid features. Blackroot treants are undead creatures that appear wilted and dying. | |
| Troglodyte | 252-253 | Troglodyte warrior, troglodyte mauler, troglodyte impaler, troglodyte curse chanter | Reptilian humanoids that leave beneath the earth. | |
| Troll | 254-255 | Troll, war troll, fell troll | Ugly, brutish humanoids that will eat anything that moves. | |
| Umber Hulk | 256 | Umber hulk, shadow hulk | Insect-like creatures that burrow through the earth. | |
| Unicorn | 257 | Unicorn, dusk unicorn | Fey creatures that resemble hoses, but with a single horn on their head. | |
| Vampire | 258-259 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Vampire lord (human rogue), vampire spawn fleshripper, vampire spawn bloodhunter | Humanoid undead that feed on the blood of others. |
| Vine Horror | 260 | Vine horror, vine horror spellfiend | Roughly humanoid plant creatures formed of vines. | |
| Warforged | 261 | Warforged soldier, warforged captain | Magic constructs that possess sentience. | |
| Wight | 262-263 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Deathlock wight, wight, battle wight, battle wight commander, slaughter wight | Undead creature that feeds on the life force of others. |
| Wolf | 264 | Gray wolf, dire wolf | ||
| Worg | 265 | Worg, guulvorg | Evil, intelligent creatures related to wolves. | |
| Wraith | 266-267 | Wraith, mad wraith, sword wraith, dread wraith | Undead creatures that feed on souls and spawn more wraiths from their victims. | |
| Wyvern | 268 | Wyvern, fell wyvern | Bipedal, dragon-like creature with a poisonous tail stinger. | |
| Yuan-Ti | 269-273 | Yuan-ti malison sharp-eye, yuan-ti malison incanter, yuan-ti malison disciple of Zehir, yuan-ti abomination, yuan-ti anathema, snaketongue initiate, snaketongue zealot, snaketongue warrior, snaketongue assassin, snaketongue celebrant | Evil, snake-like humanoids that live in jungles. Snaketongues are cultists who believe the yuan-ti are emissaries of the god Zehir. | |
| Zombie | 274-275 | Keep on the Shadowfell (2008) | Zombie rotter, zombie, gravehound, corruption corpse, rotwing zombie, chillborn zombie, zombie hulk | Undead creatures animated from the corpses of the deceased. |
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