Isaac Minarik

Ratfolk 2

More ratfolk cuties. These guys have so many diseases. 

Ratfolk 1

I love rats, and I love ratmen even more. They're doing their best, and their best is rarely good enough. They've got rusty weapons that break when they swing em wrong, and while they are very brave, they are also extremely ready to run away.

Raccoons

More just regular animals. These trash pandas will get where you don't want them and look cute doing it. There's a dire variant. They both have rabies.

Cats!

You ever want your druid to transform into a big cat, but not like a lion or anything? Just a giant housecat? No? Just me?

Anyways, here's an updated cat. It's got darkvision. Also got a bear-sized version of it, which is a little horrifying when you think about it. The only thing that keep...

March Chonk Poll

We'll be doing things a little differently with our dice polls. Dice making in general takes a fair bit of time, so to avoid being rushed, all our dice polls will be for the next month's dice drop. Which 50mm chonk would you like to see? 

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Archons 2

The warden archon is a bear who is secretly Heimdal. He guards ancient temples and whatnot. He saw your ambush coming the second you thought of it, and has prepared an ambush of his own. He is wearing full plate armor. 

The trumpet archon is starting to get toward traditional angel ter...

Archons 1

5e's got a real shortage of celestials, especially gameable ones at low-mid levels.

The lantern archon is there to guide your players where they need to go, particularly in the upper planes, though these guys can pop up wherever they're needed. They're like a nice will-o-wisp.

The hou...

Nilbogs!

I love a tricksy monster, and the nilbog is tricksy as they come. We've got us a base nilbog here that is a fun nuissance encounter, and the nilbog pandemoniac, which is potentially an existential threat if you're running an all goblin campaign, which you absolutely should be doing.

Cave Fisher and Lava Child

The cave fisher is a fun hybrid of a big scorpion and the Barnacles from half life. They drip down some sticky stuff, then drag it back up. Now that's pretty cool already, but I did some work to clean up the stat block and make it easier to parse. It can now Reel as a reaction to a creature stick...

100+ Magic Items, and The Wrestler class

I had intended to post smaller chunks more regularly, but aparently I'm not great at keeping up with that so here's a big old dump:

In the first doc we've got magic items for each published subclass. When I started DMing, I was constantly googling "What is a good magic item for an X" and fi...

Crag Cat and Winter Wolf

The crag cat is notable in being definitely a monstrosity that was mislabeled as a beast. The upshot is that you can wildshape/polymorph into a creature that can deflect any spell that it saves against, which is mad busted. I found I was stuck between taking away its spell turning and being unabl...

Gladiator and Blackguard

The gladiator was born from ideas a buddy and I had while working on homebrew wrestler class: he gains the favor of the crowd by doing cool stuff and showboating, then uses that to fuel some cool abilities.

The blackguard is honestly just some bookkeeping; it's the larval form of the Death ...

Banderhobbs

Y'all know about banderhobbs? Of all the numerous frog-monsters in D&D history, they are the nastiest. They swim here from the shadowfell, splashing their way out of pools of shadow, swallowing adventurers, and jumping back in. Their tummies are wallpapered in giant human faces, and you slowl...

Flesh Mound and Plague Brush

For Valentines Day we've got two monsters that just want a hug. A Flesh Mound (meant to take the place of the Shambling Mound in Curse of Strahd's Death House), and a Plague Brush

The Flesh Mound is really just an ickier variant of my other Shambling Mounds, scaled down and with some weakne...

Efreets 2

The Cinderlord is another exploding punch-wizard, like the tanarukk, except unlike the tanarukk he actually is immune to fire. He can hit you with a curse that is mildly inconvenient in the moment (unless there's a red dragon around), but white-knuckle terrifying if you're still in the elemental ...

Efreet 1

Every efreet is a noble of their own little perfect sovereign Ancapistan on the elemental plane of fire; no such thing as an efreet commoner. They've got money and they love to spend it, specifically on entourages. If you run an efreet, make sure they are rolling DEEP.

The basic efreet will...

Dao

Anyone know an artist that does good genies? I don't know if I've ever seen a depiction that didn't furrow my brow a bit. Anyways, here's three dao for you. The basic fella knocks you down, grabs you with a big earthen hand, and can open up big fissures in the ground. He's also got a cool play pa...

Velociraptor and Hadrosaur

There are roughly a jillion dinosaurs and I'm never gonna get to them all, but I will eventually do enough for you to play a Jurassic Park game and have it feel properly dinosaury. I dropped the multiattack on the velociraptor because multiattack+pack tactics on a summonable CR 1/4 creature is lo...

Black Puddings

I've really avoided tackling oozes up to this point. They're dumb and slow, which kind of limits the design space available, and there's loads of them, which means they have to share it. That said, I think these black puddings are pretty cool. They got a unique mechanic other than the split, and ...

Owls

I love an owl familiar, but it's got a problem; flyby is the perfect familiar ability. Truly, outside of something like a chain pact warlock, nothing can ever compete with flyby. This is great for everyone who wants an owl, but bad for everyone who doesn't, because they have to take a huge mechan...

Yuan-Ti Mummies

This is a little bit of a departure from what I usually do, so I'm doing a bigger drop to compensate. Here are six stat blocks I recently used in a Yuan-Ti mummy invasion in my own game. Let me know if y'all would like to see more niche stuff like this, or if I should stick to focusing on things ...

Stone and Clay Golem

The MM golems have some problems. Like all monsters with nonmagical weapon damage immunity, they lead one of the following scenarios:

1. The party has no magical weapons. Basically a guaranteed party loss, so DMs just don't use them in this situation. Tragically, this is the situation it se...

Harengon and Quickling

This Harengon was for a patron's feywild oneshot; I tried to strike a balance between whimsical with with double jump and Borrow Luck, but with the ability to suddenly get very serious if you're outnumbered by them.

For the Quickling, I tried to give them more to do with that crazy speed an...

Werebears

A buddy of mine needed a werebear grandmaster, so I figured it was as good a time as any to tackle these guys. I think the idea of a bear using kung-fu is deeply compelling to a lot of people, as evidenced by how excited everyone gets when they realize that Druid 2/Monk X is a viable multiclass. ...

Tanarukk

Orcs are fast, fearless, and industrious. Demons are just, like, the worst at teamwork and strategy. The tanarukk throws the two in a blender, and what you get is an orc with any shred of humanoid complexity stripped away. These fellas have two modes: angry and extra angry. We've got two variants...

Rats

Rats. I love 'em. Hopefully you love 'em. What we've got here is a number of rats of different sizes, so you can play a Rat-Druid to your heart's content, spreading plague like nobody's business. This Giant Rat is, by the way, giant. I don't cotton to size Small giants, so my dog-sized rat is a S...

Shadar-Kai: Oh god I can't stop making edgelords send hel

This has been a journey of self-discovery for me. Why are shadar-kai the first humanoids to get 8 variants? I've never used them in a game. I don't particularly like them. But here we are. I am become Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Ravenway, destroyer of worlds.

Anyways, the Gloom Weaver<...