Monster Manual 5th edition

"A menagerie of deadly monsters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game

The Monster Manual presents a horde of classic Dungeons & Dragons creatures, including dragons, giants, mind flayers, and beholders&mdash;a monstrous feast for Dungeon Masters ready to challenge their players and populate their adventures.

The monsters contained herein are culled from the D&D game’s illustrious history, with easy-to-use game statistics and thrilling stories to feed your imagination.

The leader in providing contemporary fantasy entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons is the wellspring for the entire modern game industry, digital as well as analog. This newest edition draws from every prior edition to create a universally compelling play experience, and exemplifies the true spirit of a game that holds captive the hearts and minds of millions of players worldwide."


 * The second of three core rulebooks, this book details all manner of creatures that characters might encounter over the course of their adventures.
 * An essential resource for Dungeon Masters to use in populating any type of challenge they might contrive for their players.
 * Created as part of a massive public playtest involving more than 170,000 fans of the game.

Creatures
Aarakocra • Aboleth • Abominable yeti • Acolyte • Adult Black dragon • Adult Blue Dracolich • Adult Blue Dragon • Adult Brass Dragon • Adult Bronze Dragon • Adult Copper Dragon • Adult Gold Dragon • Adult Green Dragon • Adult Red Dragon • Adult Silver Dragon • Adult White Dragon • Air elemental • Allosaurus • Ancient Black Dragon • Ancient Blue Dragon • Ancient Brass Dragon • Ancient Bronze Dragon • Ancient Copper Dragon • Ancient Gold Dragon • Ancient Green Dragon • Ancient Red Dragon • Ancient Silver Dragon • Ancient White Dragon • Androsphinx • Ankheg • Ankylosaurus • Ape • Arcanaloth • Archmage • Assassin • Awakened Shrub • Awakened tree • Axe beak • Azer • Baboon • Badger • Balor • Bandit • Bandit Captain • Banshee • Barbed Devil • Barlgura • Basilisk • Bat • Bearded devil • Behir • Beholder • Beholder zombie • Berserker • Black bear • Black Dragon Wyrmling • Black pudding • Blink dog • Blood hawk • Blue Dragon Wyrmling • Blue slaad • Boar • Bone devil • Bone naga • Brass Dragon Wyrmling • Bronze Dragon Wyrmling • Brown bear • Bugbear • Bugbear Chief • Bulette • Bullywug • Cambion • Camel • Carrion crawler • Cat • Cave bear • Centaur • Chain devil • Chasme • Chimera • Chuul • Clay golem • Cloaker • Cloud giant • Cockatrice • Commoner • Constrictor snake • Copper Dragon Wyrmling • Couatl • Courtier • Crab • Crawling claw • Crocodile • Cult Fanatic • Cultist • Cyclops • Dao • Darkmantle • Death dog • Death knight • Death slaad • Death tyrant • Deep gnome • Deer • Demilich • Deva • Dire wolf • Displacer beast • Djinni • Doppelganger • Dracolich • Draft Horse • Dragon turtle • Dretch • Drider • Drow • Drow elite warrior • Drow mage • Drow priestess of Lolth • Druid • Dryad • Duergar • Duodrone • Dust mephit • Eagle • Earth elemental • Efreeti • Elephant • Elk • Empyrean • Erinyes • Ettercap • Ettin • Faerie dragon • Fire elemental • Fire giant • Fire snake • Flameskull • Flesh golem • Flumph • Flying snake • Flying sword • Fomorian • Frog • Frost giant • Galeb duhr • Gargoyle • Gas spore • Gelatinous cube • Ghast • Ghost • Ghoul • Giant ape • Giant badger • Giant bat • Giant boar • Giant centipede • Giant constrictor snake • Giant crab • Giant crocodile • Giant eagle • Giant elk • Giant fire beetle • Giant frog • Giant goat • Giant hyena • Giant lizard • Giant octopus • Giant owl • Giant poisonous snake • Giant rat • Giant scorpion • Giant sea horse • Giant shark • Giant spider • Giant toad • Giant vulture • Giant wasp • Giant weasel • Giant wolf spider • Gibbering mouther • Githyanki knight • Githyanki warrior • Githzerai monk • Githzerai zerth • Glabrezu • Gladiator • Gnoll • Gnoll Fang of Yeenoghu • Gnoll pack lord • Goat • Goblin • Goblin boss • Gold dragon wyrmling • Gorgon • Goristro • Gray ooze • Gray slaad • Green dragon wyrmling • Green hag • Green slaad • Grell • Grick • Grick alpha • Griffon • Grimlock • Guard • Guardian naga • Gynosphinx • Half-dragon • Half-ogre • Harpy • Hawk • Hell hound • Helmed horror • Hezrou • Hill giant • Hippogriff • Hobgoblin • Hobgoblin captain • Hobgoblin warlord • Homunculus • Hook horror • Horned devil • Hunter shark • Hydra • Hyena • Ice devil • Ice mephit • Imp • Incubus • Intellect devourer • Invisible stalker • Iron golem • Jackal • Jackalwere • Kenku • Killer whale • Knight • Kobold • Kraken • Kuo-toa • Kuo-toa archpriest • Kuo-toa whip • Lamia • Lemure • Lich • Lion • Lizard • Lizard king/queen • Lizardfolk • Lizardfolk shaman • Mage • Magma mephit • Magmin • Mammoth • Mane • Manticore • Marid • Marilith • Mastiff • Medusa • Merfolk • Merrow • Mezzoloth • Mimic • Mind flayer • Mind flayer arcanist • Minotaur • Minotaur skeleton • Monodrone • Mud mephit • Mule • Mummy • Mummy lord • Myconid adult • Myconid sovereign • Myconid sprout • Nalfeshnee • Needle blight • Night hag • Nightmare • Noble • Nothic • Nycaloth • Ochre jelly • Octopus • Ogre • Ogre zombie • Oni • Orc • Orc eye of Gruumsh • Orc war chief • Orog • Otyugh • Owl • Owlbear • Panther • Pegasus • Pentadrone • Peryton • Phase spider • Piercer • Pirate • Pirate captain • Pit fiend • Pixie • Planetar • Plesiosaurus • Poisonous snake • Polar bear • Poltergeist • Pony • Priest • Pseudodragon • Psychic gray ooze • Pteranodon • Purple worm • Quadrone • Quaggoth • Quaggoth spore servant • Quaggoth thonot • Quasit • Quipper • Rakshasa • Rat • Raven • Red dragon wyrmling • Red slaad • Reef shark • Remorhaz • Revenant • Rhinoceros • Riding horse • Roc • Rogue modron • Roper • Rug of smothering • Rust monster • Saber-toothed tiger • Sahuagin • Sahuagin baron • Sahuagin priestess • Salamander • Satyr • Scarecrow • Scorpion • Scout • Sea hag • Seahorse • Shadow • Shadow demon • Shadow dragon • Shambling mound • Shield guardian • Shrieker • Silver dragon wyrmling • Skeleton • Slaad tadpole • Smoke mephit • Solar • Spectator • Specter • Spider • Spined devil • Spirit naga • Spore servant • Sprite • Spy • Steam mephit • Stirge • Stone golem • Stone giant • Storm giant • Succubus • Swarm of bats • Swarm of beetles • Swarm of centipedes • Swarm of insects • Swarm of poisonous snakes • Swarm of quippers • Swarm of rats • Swarm of ravens • Swarm of spiders • Swarm of wasps • Tarrasque • Thri-kreen • Thug • Tiger • Toad • Treant • Tribal shaman • Tribal warrior • Triceratops • Tridrone • Troglodyte • Troll • Twig blight • Tyrannosaurus rex • Ultroloth • Umber hulk • Unicorn • Urd • Vampire • Vampire spawn • Veteran • Vine blight • Violet fungus • Vrock • Vulture • Warhorse • Warhorse skeleton • Water elemental • Water weird • Weasel • Werebear • Wereboar • Wererat • Weretiger • Werewolf • White dragon wyrmling • Wight • Will-o'-wisp • Winged kobold • Winter wolf • Wolf • Worg • Wraith • Wyvern • Xorn • Yeti • Yochlol • Young black dragon • Young blue dragon • Young bronze dragon • Young copper dragon • Young Green dragon • Young gold dragon • Young Red dragon • Young remorhaz • Young silver dragon • Young white dragon • yuan-ti abomination • yuan-ti malison • yuan-ti pureblood • Zombie

Trivia

 * If you look closely, the petrified adventurers next to the beholder are the same recurring group of adventurers from the Player's Handbook 5th edition and the Dungeon Master's Guide 5th edition.
 * If you look at the image of the green slaad, you can see it has a monkey on its back. The most likely explanation for this is that as only spellcasters become green slaadi, the monkey was probably the spellcasters familiar.

Credits
Anita Williams
 * D&D Lead Designers: Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford
 * Monster Manual Lead: Christopher Perkins
 * Stat Block Development: Chris Sims, Rodney Thompson, Peter Lee
 * Story Development: Robert J. Schwalb, Matt Sernett, Steve Townshend, James Wyatt
 * Editing: Scott Fitzgerald Gray
 * Managing Editor: Jeremy Crawford
 * Producer: Greg Bilsland
 * Art Directors: Kate Irwin, Dan Gelon, Jon Schindehette, Mari Kolkowsky, Melissa Rapier, Shauna Narciso
 * Graphic Designers: Bree Heiss, Emi Tanji, Barry Craig
 * Cover Illustrator: Raymond Swanland
 * Interior Illustrators: Tom Babbey, Daren Bader, John-Paul Balmet, Mark Behm, Eric Belisle, Michael Berube, Zoltan Boros, Christopher Bradley, Aleksi Briclot, Filip Burburan, Christopher Burdett, Sam Burley, Mike Burns, Wesley Burt, Milivoj ´Ceran, Jedd Chevrier, Conceptopolis, Adam Danger Cook, Julie Dillon, Dave Dorman, Jesper Ejsing, Emrah Elmasli, Wayne England, Mike Faille, Toma Feizo Gas, Emily Fiegenschuh, Tomas Giorello, E.M. Gist, Lars Grant-West, E.W. Hekaton, jD, Jon Hodgson, Ralph Horsley, Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon, Lake Hurwitz, Tyler Jacobson, Vance Kovacs, Daniel Landerman, Lindsey Look, Daniel Ljunggren, Raphael Lübke, Titus Lunter, Slawomir Maniak, Andrew Mar, Brynn Metheney, Christopher Moeller, Mark Molnar, Marco Nelor, Jim Nelson, Mark A. Nelson, Hector Ortiz, Ryan Pancoast, Adam Paquette, Jim Pavelec, Kate Pfeilschiefter, Steve Prescott, Vincent Proce, Darrell Riche, Ned Rogers, Scott Roller, Jasper Sandner, Mike Sass, Marc Sasso, Ilya Shkipin, Carmen Sinek, Craig J Spearing, Annie Stegg, Zack Stella, Matt Stewart, Raymond Swanland, Justin Sweet, Anne Stokes, Matias Tapia, Cory Trego-Erdner, Autumn Rain Turkel, Cyril Van Der Haegen, David Vargo, Franz Vohwinkel, Richard Whitters, Sam Wood, Ben Wootten, Kieran Yanner, Min Yum, Mark Zug
 * Additional Contributors: Bruce R. Cordell, Kim Mohan, Chris Dupuis, Tom LaPille, Miranda Horner, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Steve Winter, Chris Youngs, Ben Petrisor, Tom Olsen, R.A. Salvatore
 * Project Management: Neil Shinkle, Kim Graham, John Hay
 * Production Services: Cynda Callaway, Brian Dumas, Jefferson Dunlap, David Gershman, Matt Knannlein,
 * Brand and Marketing: Nathan Stewart, Liz Schuh, Chris Lindsay, Shelly Mazzanoble, Hilary Ross, Laura Tommervik, Kim Lundstrom, Trevor Kidd
 * Based on the original game created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, with Brian Blume, Rob Kuntz, James Ward, and Don Kaye
 * Drawing from further development by J. Eric Holmes, Tom Moldvay, Frank Mentzer, Aaron Allston, Harold Johnson, David “Zeb” Cook, Ed Greenwood, Keith Baker, Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis, Douglas Niles, Jeff Grubb, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, Peter Adkison, Bill Slavicsek, Andy Collins, and Rob Heinsoo
 * Additional feedback provided by Robert Alaniz, Anthony Caroselli, Josh Dillard, Curt Duval, Sam E. Simpson Jr., Adam Hennebeck, Sterling Hershey, Paul Hughes, Doug Irwin, Ken J. Breese, Yan Lacharité, Tom Lommel, Jonathan Longstaff, Rory Madden, Matt Maranda, Paul Melamed, Mike Mihalas, David Milman, Daren Mitchell, Claudio Pozas, John Proudfoot, Karl Resch, M. Sean Molley, Sam Sherry, Pieter Sleijpen, David “Oak” Stark, Vincent Venturella, Fredrick Wheeler, Arthur Wright