Dragonlance Free Monstrous Compendium Volume II Includes Dragon Highlord Verminaard

Over on D&D Beyond you can grab a copy of Dragonlance Creatures, the second digital official Monstrous Compendium volume. This volume includes entries from the original Dragonlance Chronicles storyline of the 1980s, such as Dragon Highlord Verminaard (at CR 17!) and his dragon, Ember, along with the Forest Master (the unicorn from Darken Wood) and others.

Claim Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures now! - D&D Beyond

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WotC did the same with Spelljammer, with Volume 1 of the Monstrous Compendium.

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[dave2008]

No Ember is an Adult Red.

OK, the Dragonlance Wiki said Ember was an ancient dragon. But that may not have been "Ancient" in game jargon.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Oh yeah 100% I’m just looking at this from a conversion standpoint and I’m like “oh. Uh. Guess 5th level as the start for Dragons of Autumn isn’t the intended anymore!”

An 11th level party at the end of the SotDQ could take Verminaard, but it would be a good fight.

 

[dave2008]

I noticed both of these in the blocks, which do you prefer? I assume they mean the same thing...

This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.
This movement ignores opportunity attacks.

I prefer the top one as it seems more clear.

The 2nd option implies someone could make an opportunity attack, but the creature just ignores. So if some cast a spell or uses a maneuver as an OA, would the loose that slot/use/die because technically they could make the attack, but the creature just ignores it? Of course maybe that is working as intended and that is the difference?

 

[Micah Sweet]

They've been around since the 2e Dragonlance Monsrous Compendium at least.

The 2e Taladas box set I believe.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Couldn't irda, ursines and thanois to be PC lineages?

And the gnomes from those pictures are so cutes Hasbro should sell them as toys.

Could and should.

 

[Micah Sweet]

You would think.

For now, the Bearfolk from Kobold Press can be used for the Ursines. And the Dragonlance Companion 3PP book has the Thanoi as a playable pc race option. So those two are covered by that route.

I converted the Bearfolk to a Level Up heritage a while ago. Love me some bears!

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

As much as I'm not a fan of Dragonlance, these monsters look great. I'm glad that they're doing more of these free monster packets.

 

[Micah Sweet]

You would think.

For now, the Bearfolk from Kobold Press can be used for the Ursines. And the Dragonlance Companion 3PP book has the Thanoi as a playable pc race option. So those two are covered by that route.

Irda will be in the Revised Tasslehoff's Pouches of Everything, also on sale tomorrow.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As much as I'm not a fan of Dragonlance, these monsters look great. I'm glad that they're doing more of these free monster packets.

Those two tinker gnome write-ups were great. I can definitely see using both of them in non-Dragonlance games.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Those two tinker gnome write-ups were great. I can definitely see using both of them in non-Dragonlance games.

The claws remind me of the techpriests of Mars in WH40K.