List of monsters confirmed in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

[gyor]

Thats kind of strange given that she has been lawful evil in everything else.

I think the idea is the lawful aspect is a byproduct of being trapped in hell, its not a natural element to her nature, but rather the influence of hell seeping in.

She never really acted Lawful to be honest, in FR she had a habit of trying to start rebellians against governments, something very Chaotic.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Thinking over things concerning the Archdevils, as well as the Fiend Folio comments earlier (in which we discussed how many creatures in MToF seem to be old school 1e or Basic D&D monsters), I'm wondering if the selection of Archdevils we'll be seeing will be the currently non-ruling Archdevils who originally appeared in 1e MM and MM2? Bael, Geryon, and Moloch all fit that description, so might we also be seeing Amon, Hutijin, and Titivilus as the other Archdevils in MToF?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Thinking over things concerning the Archdevils, as well as the Fiend Folio comments earlier (in which we discussed how many creatures in MToF seem to be old school 1e or Basic D&D monsters), I'm wondering if the selection of Archdevils we'll be seeing will be the currently non-ruling Archdevils who originally appeared in 1e MM and MM2? Bael, Geryon, and Moloch all fit that description, so might we also be seeing Amon, Hutijin, and Titivilus as the other Archdevils in MToF?

It would be kind of strange. Normally when the devils are talked about it's the Lords of the Nine. Hopefully we eventually get them all. Though I wonder what was the reasoning for these choices.

 

[Demetrios1453]

It would be kind of strange. Normally when the devils are talked about it's the Lords of the Nine. Hopefully we eventually get them all. Though I wonder what was the reasoning for these choices.

My best guess would be that they are just holding the Lords of the Nine off for a later product. A bit disappointing, but it would make for a good selling point for said product, while freeing up a whole bunch of pages in MToF for other creatures in the bestiary.

Granted, they could split them, giving us some now and some later, but they would have to come up with some reason to not make it arbitrary. But Baalzebul would likely be part of the first group to be detailed, given his popularity and importance, so since he's not going to be in MToF, I'm beginning to lean towards the Nine being detailed in a later release.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

One of the entries screenshots implies that Blue Abishai are CR 17, which would be quite a power boost from before where Abishai were low-powered Devils.

There's Bulezau which makes sense if they're including Baphomet in the book.

 

[Demetrios1453]

One of the entries screenshots implies that Blue Abishai are CR 17, which would be quite a power boost from before where Abishai were low-powered Devils.

It doesn't imply it, it outright says it!

That is a change! I wonder if abishai are going to be all powered up, or whether we'll get a large CR range for the type based on the power of corresponding dragon type, with white and black around the previous low-to-mid CR range, and with a CR 20+ red abishai?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

It doesn't imply it, it outright says it!

That is a change! I wonder if abishai are going to be all powered up, or whether we'll get a large CR range for the type based on the power of corresponding dragon type, with white and black around the previous low-to-mid CR range, and with a CR 20+ red abishai?

I doubt Red Abishai will be that strong. I am going to bet CR 18 for the Red.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Frost Salamanders have been around since 1e days, although with only a handful of mentions they've never gotten much attention compared to their fiery cousins!

The crop up a quite major way in the Icewind Dale CRPG and in BG2 avenger druids can shapeshift into one.

 

[QuietBrowser]

The crop up a quite major way in the Icewind Dale CRPG and in BG2 avenger druids can shapeshift into one.

Except the videogame versions of Frost Salamanders actually have nothing in common with their TTRPG counterparts. The videogame frost salmanders are literally just salamanders palate-swapped to being blue with "coldfire" auras; the tabletop versions look like giant, six-legged lizards, have an intelligence level only slightly higher than animalistic, and have no culture beyond being just animalistic predators.

 

[gyor]

Does anyone remember how powerful Abashai we're in previous editions?