Summary

• Monsters in Vecna: Eve of Ruin serve themselves or other masters, making them deadly distractions on the journey to face Vecna.
• Creatures like the Deathwolf and Relentless Impaler offer unique powers, adding depth and challenges for players in high-level D&D adventures.
• From the Deadbark Dryad to the Spyder-Fiends, these monsters in Vecna: Eve of Ruin bring a variety of abilities and traits for DMs to use against their party.

While most players have their eyes fixed on a climactic showdown with the titular villain Vecna in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons' Vecna: Eve of Ruin, your party will first have to contend with a slew of monsters presented in the book's artfully decorated pages.

As is fitting with Vecna's generally uncaring attitude towards adventurers, none of these monsters are minions of Vecna himself. Instead, they are creatures who serve themselves or other masters that your party will encounter on your journeys toward the final showdown with the lich-god. How nice of them to do Vecna's dirty work: whether they know it or not.

10 Deathwolf

Because Werewolves Aren't Deadly Enough

The deathwolf is the result of a necromancer working over the remains of a werewolf beneath the power of the full moon. While these undead monsters lose their ability to shapeshift, they gain some other impressive powers that allow them to manipulate people's minds.

Worse yet, the deathwolf's bite makes its targets even more susceptible to its mind-bending will by inflicting disadvantage on their save. These monsters come equipped with two different reactions: one that lets them teleport up to 30 feet to a space of dim light or darkness and another that imposes disadvantage on an attacker and gives the deathwolf the opportunity to attack in retaliation.

9 🍸 Relentless Impaler

A Fan Of Pointy Ends

These creatures are aptly named after the ceremony that births them. A living humanoid is tied down and stabbed through the heart with a ceremonial stake at the apex of a ghastly ritual. The impaler then rises from the sacrifice's blood.

This ceremony binds the impaler to its summoner, and the impaler carries out its summoner's instructions without regard for its own well-being. Consequently, they are deadly adversaries as they have no issue with fighting to the death and can be raised again by the sacrificed victim's body as long as it remains.

8 💛 Deadbark Dryad

When Nature Goes Wrong

The deadbark dryad comes about from a dryad that fails its charge to protect its woodland domain. The dryad's anguish over its failure can sometimes be so great that it transforms into a monster that despises life and wishes to keep all living beings out of its now-ruined home.

High stealth and perception modifiers as well as the ability to speak with beasts and plants make this monster a proficient ambusher. The dryad can also restrain multiple enemies with vines that have a 30-foot reach and poison them with its barbed thorns. The design here is especially great as players can target the dryad's vines directly if they wish to free their allies from her grasp.

7 Blazebear

Anti-Magic Bear Doesn't Really Have The Same Ring To It

Blaz♔ebears result from regular bears being exposed to dangerous levels of magical waste. They are specifically native to the Mournlands of Eberron, but you might find them in any area where errant magic lingers from a catastrophic event.

The blazebear's ability to see through heavy obscurement makes it especially dangerous in areas of fog as few other senses allow creatures to see in these conditions. Blazebears can also stun enemies with a glare, and they have a reaction attack that can stop spells from triggering. A true challenge for any party that relies heavily on magic.

6 𒈔 Priest Of Osybus

Most Necromancers Should Have Tattoos To Be Honest

There's a ton of lore around Osybus and these priests introduced in the adventure. To make a long story short, the priests are necromancers with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:cool tattoos that give them lich-like powers, and they seek to free Strahd from his domain of dܫread and gain immortality for themselves.

The priests have a melee attack with a chance to paralyze their target and a ranged attack that prevents the target from regaining hit points until the priest's next turn. However, their most impressive feature is their tattoo. Upon dying, the priest revives as an undead with half its hit points at the start of its next turn and gains a powerful boon based on a d6 table.

Knowledgeable opponents can prevent this resurrection by destroying the tattoo on the priest's body after they have been felled.

5 ꧅ Star Angler

When You're On The Wrong Side Of The Fishing Rod

This ambush predator hunts the deep reaches of wildspace and draws prey near it using the charming power of the light that comes from its lure. As a bonus action, the angler forces a creature it can see to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, the creature becomes charmed, incapacitated, and must use its full movement to approach the st🦩ar angler.

It's the perfect setup for the angler's powerful bite attacks, which it makes three of every turn by the way. While you would think the light would illuminate the angler, its hide is covered in bioluminescent specks that conceal it among the stars. Lastly, the angler has the evasion trait, making area-of-effect spells close to useless against it.

4 ♎ Whirling Chandelier ꧙

Beware Of Whirling

Looking at these monsters, it seems like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:catching the party by surprise will be a frequent occurrence in Eve of Ruin. The chandelier has the false appearance trait, meaning it cannot be recognized as a creature unless a character actively looks at it and succeeds on a DC 18 investigation check. On top of this, if no character notices the chandelier's true nature, it gains advantage on initiative.

The chandelier deals a passive 2d6 fire damage to any creature within five feet of it. While this might normally be easily avoided, its chain attacks with a reach of 15 feet have a decent chance of pulling their target next to the chandelier. Lastly, the chandelier has a blazing vortex recharge ability that deals 8d8 on a failed Constitution save and blinds foes until the chandelier's next turn. Spicy.

3 Hertilod

A Dragon Without Wings Or Skin - Neat

As the boss monster at the end of chapter 3, the hertilod offers a compelling challenge to any party who has failed to discover its susceptibility to lightning damage. This creature looks like a wingless, skinless dragon covered in spines and we are told they sometimes spawn from the body of a dead god to feed on the deity's flesh.

The hertilod has legendary resistance and magic resistance, so it's nearly immune to spells that require saving throws. Its claw attacks are nothing special, but it does have a bite attack it uses as well every turn which will very likely put any creature it hits into the hertilod's gullet.

Creatures inside the gullet are restrained, blinded, and take 2d12 poison damage at the start of the hertilod's turns. Escape is a grim prospect unless the party uses lightning damage to potentially cause the hertilod to regurgitate its meal. As a legendary action, the hertilod can feed on the creature's inside of its stomach dealing 3d6 necrotic damage to them and healing for the same amount.

2 🐠 Spiderdragon ♍

Why Does It Always Have To Be Spiders?

Despite tracing their lineage back to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:black dragons, spiderdragons are not especially cunning nor smart. These monsters are said to have arisen from black dragon wyrmlings birthed in the Underdark that feasted on a heavy diet of spiders. Lolth worshippers find them especially significant, hailing them as a sign of the Spider Queen's favor.

The spiderdragon has the same web walker and spider climb features of regular spiders, allowing itꦗ to move through its restraining webs well-informed and unhindered. Its most threatening abilities are its stifling webs bonus action, which functions like a web spell cast next to the dragon, and its spiderling breath, which deals a horrific 6d10 piercing and 6d10 poison on a failed Dexterity save.

1 Spyder-Fiends🐈 ⭕

Seriously, I Have Had It With These Miska Faithful Spiders In This Miska Faithful Narrative

These servants of the demon lord Miska, the Wolf-Spider resemble their master's terrible visage of a fusion between wolf and spider. They come in four varieties that work together based on their own internal hierarchy. Perhaps unsurprisingly for demons, excelling in this hierarchy often includes a fair amount of treachery against equals and superiors.

All four forms of spyder-fiends have high perception and stealth modifiers making these monsters yet again perfect candidates fo♐r assassination-style attacks. These hideous creatures sport attacks that poison, restrain, stun, and incapacitate. Like many demons, they have resistance to cold, fire, and lightning damage.

The most powerful of their kind can cast formida🌠ble magic including dominate monster, mass suggestion, telekinesis, and teleport. High intelligence scores also mean that spyder-fiends are foes to avoid on the battlefield if at aওll possible. Thanks Wizards of the Coast. We hate it.