D&D 5E MM Excerpt: Bone Devil

[jrowland]

Bone Devil Excerpt:

View attachment MM_BoneDevil.pdf

 

[Dausuul]

Bone Devil Excerpt:

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Huh. Bone devils can fly now. With funky-looking dragonfly wings. They look like Hell's answer to pixies.

Not much else to say about it. Monster with claw/claw/sting. Sting inflicts the poisoned condition and poison damage. Standard devil resists and immunities. Pretty dull, mechanically. The hooked polearm option spices things up a bit, but only a bit.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Huh. Bone devils can fly now. With funky-looking dragonfly wings. They look like Hell's answer to pixies.

Not much else to say about it. Monster with claw/claw/sting. Sting inflicts the poisoned condition and poison damage. Standard devil resists and immunities. Pretty dull, mechanically. The hooked polearm option spices things up a bit, but only a bit.

They had the wings back in 1e. It just vanished for some reason after.

 

[Ranes]

Huh. Bone devils can fly now.

Actually, that made me do a double take. I've never used one in 3e, in which they're flightless, but a bone devil was the first creature I ever faced in 1e (yes, really) and it could fly then. Tricky critter.

The new art is very good but makes the beastie look too draconic for my taste.

Thanks for the link, MonsterEnvy.

 

[Roger]

I'm glad these sorts of monsters got their old names back. That said, I can live with them not being "TYPE XXXIV" if I have to.

 

[Mirtek]

So Asmodeus is demoted back to the level of lesser deity and the other eight are even less powerfull. Interesting.

 

[Derren]

I think this is the first non legendary monster with weapon immunities, is it? Ok, it can be harmed also by silver weapons instead of just magical ones but so far I thought this was reserved for legendary monsters.

 

[jadrax]

I am thinking Grapple target with polearm, fly upwards at 20 ft. per round dragging victim, while repeatedly stinging them in face each round.

 

[jrowland]

I am thinking Grapple target with polearm, fly upwards at 20 ft. per round dragging victim, while repeatedly stinging them in face each round.

That was my first thought, or rather, a swarm of them..so more like a level 14 encounter, 2 or 3 or per PC...

 

[The Crimson Binome]

Did I miss something? Is 'poisoned' a status condition now? I understand that it deals poison damage, but I'm unsure what is meant that the target is poisoned for one minute.