Monster Manual IV is an accessory for the 3.5th-edition of Dungeons & Dragons® ruleset, presenting a variety of new and expanded races and monsters.
Scores of monsters that are fun to play and easy to run.
This supplement for the D&D game offers a fully illustrated horde of new monsters such as the clockwork steed, the tomb spider, and the evil creatures known as the spawn of Tiamat. It also includes monsters that have previously appeared as D&D Miniatures, including the bloodhulk, the justice archon, and the wizened elder. Finally, the book provides varieties of existing monsters such as the drow arcane guard, the orc battle priest, and the yuan-ti pureblood slayer.
In addition to an easy-to-use statistics format, this supplement features maps of monster lairs, sample encounters, and tactics sections to help DMs run more complex creatures. Additionally, many entries contain information about where monsters are likely to appear in the Forgotten Realms and Eberron campaign settings.Contents[]
- Introduction
- The Monsters
- Sample Lair: The Deephollows
- Monster Feats
- Glossary
- Monsters by Type (and Subtype)
- Monsters Ranked by Challenge Rating
- List of Monsters by ECL
- Full-Page Maps
- Templates
- For Player Characters
- Mounts/Companion Creatures
- Power Components
- Summonable Creatures
- Weapons
Description[]
Monster Manual IV contains a variety of new creatures as well as expanded variants on staple monsters. What separates it from past volumes is the level of detail given to each creature subtype, including probable behavior in combat and even a complete pre-prepared encounter complete with a map.
Each entry also contains a table listing DC ratings for skill checks made using the Knowledge ability. In general, a low DC check results in revealing all the monster's subtype traits to the player, while higher ratings reveal their origins or various special offensive and defensive abilities.
Monster Manual IV uses the new stat block format that was introduced in the Dungeon Master's Guide II. Monster Manual IV contained fewer actual monsters than Monster Manual II and Monster Manual III, but had sample lairs and encounters for them, gave stats for classes and templates applied to old creatures, and full page maps.
Index[]
Creatures[]
- avatars of Elemental Evil (black rock triskelion, cyclonic ravager, holocaust disciple, waterveiled assassin) • balhannoth • bloodfire ooze • bloodhulk (bloodhulk crusher, bloodhulk fighter, bloodhulk giant) • bloodsilk spider • briarvex • clockroach • clockwork mender • clockwork steed • concordant killer • corrupture • craa'ghoran giant • defacer • demon (deathdrinker, kastighur, nashrou, whisper demon) • demonhive (demonet swarm, demonhive attendant, demonhive queen) • dwarf ancestor • drow (arcane guard, dark sniper, drow priestess, Lolth's Sting) • fang golem • githyanki (gish, githyanki captain, githyanki soldier) • gnoll (fiendish cleric of Yeenoghu, half-fiend gnoll warlock, slave-taker) • greathorn minotaur • howler wasp (howler wasp queen) • inferno spider • joystealer • justice archon • lizardfolk (Dark Talon tribe) (Dark Talon champion, Dark Talon king, Dark Talon shaman, Dark Talon soldier, Dark Talon wasp rider) • lodestone marauder • Lolth-touched (Lolth-touched bebilith, Lolth-touched drow ranger, Lolth-touched monstrous spider) • lunar ravager • mageripper swarm • lunar ravager • nagatha • necrosis carnex • oaken defender • ogre (ogre guard thrall, ogre scout, ogre tempest) • orc (half-orc infiltrator, orc berserker, orc battle priest, orc plague speaker, war howler) • plague walker • quanlos • sailsnake • skiurid • spawn of Tiamat (blackspawn raider, blackspawn stalker, bluespawn ambusher, bluespawn burrower, bluespawn godslayer, bluespawn stormlizard, greenspawn leaper, greenspawn razorfiend, greenspawn sneak, redspawn arcaniss, redspawn firebelcher, whitespawn hordeling, whitespawn hunter, whitespawn iceskidder) • tomb spider (tomb spider broodswarm, web mummy) • varag (varag pack leader) • verdant prince • vitreous drinker • windblade (windrazor, windscythe) • wizened elder • wrackspawn • yuan-ti (abomination cult leader, half-blood deceiver, pureblood slayer, yuan-ti ignan) • yugoloth (corruptor of fate, dreadful lasher, voor) • zern (zern arcanovore, zern blade thrall)
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External links[]
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the following links do not necessarily represent the views of the editors of this wiki, nor does any lore presented necessarily adhere to established canon.
Monster Manual IV article at the Eberron Wiki, a wiki for the Eberron campaign setting.- Monster Manual IV Art Gallery. Wizards of the Coast. (2006-07-10). Archived from the original on 2017-08-27. Retrieved on 2020-11-29.
- Monster Manual IV Map Gallery. Wizards of the Coast. (2006-10-18). Archived from the original on 2008-09-30. Retrieved on 2021-12-25.
- Excerpts: Monster Manual IV (HTML). Excerpts Archive. Wizards of the Coast. (2006-06-26). Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved on 2021-12-23.
- Dungeon Masters Guild product page