D&D 5E What Are Your Favorite D&D Monsters (MM Edition)?

What are your favorite D&D monsters? The ones you go back to time and time again? The ones you love to use to terrify your players, or the ones you love to slay with wild abandon? They don't have to be the biggest, or the most awe-inspiring; they might just be something you find incredibly useful, thematic, or which appeals to you directly. Perhaps they've been the ones you use from every edition. Perhaps you used one recently and just had so much fun with it.

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This is a poll. You can choose as many monsters as you like. Let's find out what are D&D's most popular monsters! We'll be using the D&D 5E Monster Manual for this list, more specifically the main monsters section of that book (not the animals or NPC sections).

Will dragons, demons, and devils rule the roost as expected? Or might there be some surprises in there?

 

[Omand]

Thanks for sharing the poll Morrus, great idea!

 

[Micah Sweet]

I use undead and constructs a lot.

 

[Scribe]

Stuck to 4.

Angels, Devils, Demons, and Goblins.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Honestly, I could have voted for more...

Ankheg
Chimera
Displacer Beast
Gargoyle
Remorhazes
Revenant
Wyvern

 

[Bitbrain]

Bulettes, Dragons, Giants, and Griffins.

 

[el-remmen]

I just chose those I tend to use the most.

Bugbear
Bulette
Bullywug
Dinosaur
Displacer Beast
Flumph
Giants
Gnome
Grimlock
Hobgoblin
Lizardfolk
Manticore
Hook Horror
Otyugh
Owlbear
Piercer
Skeleton
Stirge
Troglodyte
Troll
Umber Hulk
Wight
Wyvern
Zombie

 

[Fifinjir]

Almost all undead
animated objects
angels
blights
chimera
Demons
Devils
Dryads
Gargoyles
Gibbering Mouthers
Golems
Gnolls
Hags
Hell hounds
Homunculi
Manticores
Mephits
Modrons
Oni
Oozes
Parytons
Pixies
Scarecrows
Shield guardians
Unicorns

…I don’t have a problem you have a problem.

 

[aco175]

I picked around 10. It mostly seems to be undead and constructs like what @Micah Sweet said above. I also like the classic low level ones like goblins and hobgoblins. These are the things of dungeons and tombs. Big threats like dragons are cool and I tend to have one in each campaign, but the PCs always run into skeletons and zombies.

 

[DeviousQuail]

Cambion, Dragon Turtle, Golem, Purple Worm

All have featured in some of my favorite encounters I've ever run and tend to make appearances even if they don't fit the themes of my current adventures.