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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 8636682" data-attributes="member: 53176">Well today is the day that everyone can get the book. I wonder if this means the thread will cool down or blow up more. At any rate today's entry is going to be small, thanks to the simple nature of the creature.<h3>Howler (VGtM)</h3>Howlers are “hounds” from the lower plains. While they are typically found in wild packs in Pandemonium, they are frequently trained by other fiends into warbeasts.Hunting in packs, they will use their Mind-Breaking Howl to hobble their prey, and then pounce upon them. Using Pack Tactics to generate advantage for their Rending Bite, which ignores any resistance that an afraid target might otherwise have. At CR 8, they just barely avoid the common “slow-groundbound-brute” problem thanks to their Howl, which has an AoE movement speed reduction (and also an incapacitation effect). After all, you really only need to trap one party member in order to make the pack a problem for the whole party. Still, they work better as a support unit for other fiends. They can even use their large size to function as a mount for slower creatures.The Howler only has a bit of language cleanup for its changes in this book.</blockquote>