D&D 5E Monsters You Miss

[the Jester]

There is a hippogrif. And vine blight=assassin vine

Huh- is this made explicit in the book, or does the vine blight just have basically the same thing going on?

Kirin
Sylph

Oooh, good ones!

 

[Shroomy]

There is a hippogrif. And vine blight=assassin vine
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Archfiends*
Barghest
Bodak
Dracolisk
Kirin
Quickling
Spriggan
Sylph
Nymph
Catoblepas


*With statblocks.

This assumes that green slime, yellow mold, etc are in the DMG.

I thought that the vine blight was a renamed vine horror.

 

[TerraDave]

[MENTION=1210]the Jester[/MENTION] [MENTION=32739]Shroomy[/MENTION]

(3E) Assasin vine is a large plant that can look like a plant, then constrict and entangle targets. As an attacking plant, it has blindsight.

(4E) Vine horror is an evil medium plant that can look like a plant, then constrict and entangle targets. As an attacking plant, it has blindsight.

(5E) Vine Blight is an evil medium plant that can look like a plant, then constrict and entangle targets. As an attacking plant, it has blindsight.

Note that all three have some reach/area affects, so can attack a wider area then a standard medium creature. If you had to differentiate the 3, vine horror is more mobile, and less dependent on looking like a plant to get prey then the assasin or blight.

EDIT: well, and the vine blight can speak...and this is linked to its new shiny lore...

 

[Beleriphon]

Everything super-weird from the Planescape bestiaries. Particularly the mute race that talks in pictures.

The Dabus? They're pretty fun but they can be a bugger to run when as the DM if you want to use actual to rhebuses in play.

 

[Stalker0]

Just the nightwalker for me, as it was my absolute favorite picture in the 3e MM. I wanted to run high levels just to put that guy in!

But 5e has a good showing, and gorgeous art. I am a satisfied customer.

 

[bleezy]

Gorgon and Nymph were the big two I was surprised to see absent. It also would have been nice to see the Kirin, the other two Sphinxes and at least a couple of unique fiends. I've actually never used a demon prince or anything similar in a game, but they are still fun to read about.

The AD&D monster manual had a huge number of "sexy" female monsters, and these were all removed from 5e or given male counterparts in order to be more inclusive, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I'm glad the majority of them were removed, because they were redundant IMO, even if mythology is full of such things. I still wish there was a least one though, just for old times sake.

 

[Hereticus]

The cave troll, a favorite for 3.5e polymorphing into.

 

[the Jester]

Gorgon and Nymph were the big two I was surprised to see absent. It also would have been nice to see the Kirin, the other two Sphinxes and at least a couple of unique fiends. I've actually never used a demon prince or anything similar in a game, but they are still fun to read about.

The AD&D monster manual had a huge number of "sexy" female monsters, and these were all removed from 5e or given male counterparts in order to be more inclusive, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I'm glad the majority of them were removed, because they were redundant IMO, even if mythology is full of such things. I still wish there was a least one though, just for old times sake.

For the record, the gorgon and succubus (& incubus) are both in there.

I am extremely eager to see a 5e MM2 already, and really hope it includes ki-rin. They're a great powerful good monster. And I completely agree on unique fiends. The other sphinxes I could take or leave, but no two people have the exact same taste in monsters.

 

[Ravenheart87]

Bodak
Derro
Froghemoth
Winged apes
Stats for Demon Lords

 

[Lucas Yew]

Well, for me...

- Aasimar
- Formian
- Lamia (the classic ones with snake under-torsos)
- PHOENIX

...aside from these, none seems to come to my mind apparently.

 

[SoulsFury]

Wow is there really no Nymph in the MM? That's a pretty iconic creature from all prior MMs.

This was the first monster that I looked up that wasn't there... and that just happened tonight before I opened this thread.

Nymph should have definitely been put in.

 

[Tortoise]

Someone already mentioned Inevitables, and Froghemoth.

Caryatid Column
Huecuva

 

[practicalm]

I'm not sure why they didn't add Water Naga to the Naga types.

 

[Grazzt]

Well, for me...

- Lamia (the classic ones with snake under-torsos)

That was/is the Lamia Noble (1e FF). The original Lamia (1e MM) has the same type lower torso as in the 5e MM.

 

[Elderbrain]

Neogi! I love 'em. Asuras would be nice... a Chaotic Good Celestial would help since they made all the Angels/Aasimon Lawful Good. Plus, there's only one type of Asura, so only one Stat block needed. I also like the psionic Psurlons...

 

[Elderbrain]

Duuuh, I can't believe I forgot to mention my namesake, the ELDER BRAIN! Gotta have one of those, I anticipate awesome lair powers...

 

[Fion]

Besides my Astral Dreadnought post above;

I miss that rarer demon/devil from earlier eds that had like an Anubis head and multiple arms with heavy claws. I'm not sure why but both me and my players love that monster.

 

[Authweight]

The roper! AC 20 makes him almost impossible to hit, I miss the bastard constantly.

Oh, wait. That's not what you're asking at all...

 

[rjfTrebor]

Besides my Astral Dreadnought post above;

I miss that rarer demon/devil from earlier eds that had like an Anubis head and multiple arms with heavy claws. I'm not sure why but both me and my players love that monster.

this is the glabrezu and it's on page 58.

 

[dwayne]

thessalmonster template or and Thessalhydra
Kamadan or one crossed with a displacerbeast
Kamatlan which was a Maztica creature in forgotten realms
more oozes and puddings there's always room for gelatinous things.