D&D Monster Manual (2025)

D&D (2024) D&D Monster Manual (2025)


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Who knows, maybe only the primeval owlbear is a monstrosity?!
Curiously, the DnDBeyond describes the following for the Primeval Owlbear

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Story Opportunities for Primeval Owlbear: Here are some ways to use a primeval owlbear in your campaign:
We're Not in Kansas Anymore. Primeval owlbears are the result of owlbears who have been influenced by the wild magic of ancient forests and Feywild domains. They work well as an indicator that adventurers may face more powerful threats in these untamed regions.

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The Primeval Owlbear is the result of the Feywild wildmagicking regular Owlbears. While the Monstrosity creature type is a vestige of the obsolete (3e-4e) "Magical Beast" creature type, one might expect this Fey magic origins to produce an Owlbear that is a Fey creature type.

It seems less clear what the difference between a Fey and a Monstrosity is. Both might be beastlike, magical, and possibly intelligent.

In any case, the creature type of the standard Owlbear remains uncertain. Probably it too is a "Monstrosity", but might be a natural Beast, or perhaps a Fey native of the Feywild.
 

Weirdly, I'm rather excited for the larvae. They'll appear in the Monster Manual this time, rather in the DMG, a choice I agree with. Hopefully they've got sufficiently nasty art, and maybe a swarm of Larvae stat block?
 

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Full look at the yuan-ti, from Brian Valenzuela's BlueSky! I love the colours and the composition of this piece.
 



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Thursday's video is on Fey! Neat!!

I'm excited to see what higher level Fey there are, especially deets on the arch-hags!

Fey were the second most interested in creature type for me after Celestials, because they had the third least creatures after Oozes and Celestials. Only 8 for a creature type like Fey in 2014, WTF? Hope it's more then just former humanoids and the Archhags and the Centuars.
 




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