D&D 5E Strixhaven's Monsters: Groffs, Mage Hunters, & Oriq Recruiters

Gizmodo has a preview of Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos, showing off some of the new monsters in the book.

The Oriq Recruiter is an agent of a dark mage cult; a Groff is a canine swamp creature; and a Mage Hunter is a spider-legged drone. The article also talks about trudges, daemogoths, the Oracle, founder dragons, and the archaic.

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D&D 5E - Strixhaven Previews Start to Appear

It's that time in the D&D pre-release publicity phase where previews of the upcoming book start to appear across the web on various sites. It looks like each site is getting a different college to preview -- Screenrant has Prismari, and Polygon has Silverquill, for example. There are 5 colleges...

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[BookTenTiger]

Wow these romance rules are pretty gnarly!

 

[aco175]

I kind of like having the spellcasting in the actions and allowing the multitrack to cast a spell and make a knife attack.

They only need a power to manipulate metal with that mask of theirs.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

The article also talks about . . . the Oracle

I wonder if they'll use the same Oracle stat block that appeared in Mythic Odysseys of Theros in this book, or if this will be something new?

 

[crashtestosi]

I hope misdirecting defense will become a warlock invocation.

 

[AtomicPope]

Psychic Knife seems over powered. That's a lot of damage (5d6+4) for a CR4 monster to be putting out there twice a round.

 

[HammerMan]

I hope misdirecting defense will become a warlock invocation.

yeah I would like to see more unarmered defense options for adding an off stat.

I would also like to see more 'use X stat' for attack... Zen archry style.

then again I think every class should be built like warlock so I am weird.

 

[crashtestosi]

yeah I would like to see more unarmered defense options for adding an off stat.

I would also like to see more 'use X stat' for attack... Zen archry style.

then again I think every class should be built like warlock so I am weird.

I homebrew an entire class based on that 'gish' because its such a popular mechanic. might break the entire game when multiclassing is allowed but hey, the hexblade warlock does that too. are you interested?

 

[HammerMan]

I homebrew an entire class based on that 'gish' because its such a popular mechanic. might break the entire game when multiclassing is allowed but hey, the hexblade warlock does that too. are you interested?

is it up on the DMs guild?

 

[Weiley31]

I kind of like having the spellcasting in the actions and allowing the multitrack to cast a spell and make a knife attack.

Have they done that before or is this part of the updated format to Monsters? Cuz yeah it's pretty cool.