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Created with the use of powerful and arcane magic, formerly ultra powerful magic-users now non-human and non-living Mimic: 70: Subterranean creatures that are able to perfectly mimic stone and wood Mind flayer: 70: Eldritch Wizardry: Evil subterranean creature that considers humanity as cattle to feed upon, draws forth brains with its tentacles ...
In particular, the Ethereal and Shadow planes are coexistent with the Material Plane. In effect, the "boundary" between the two extends through all of space. Thus a ghost in Dungeons & Dragons, which is an ethereal creature, has a location on the Material Plane when it is near the border of the Material and Ethereal planes. It can "manifest ...
A displacer beast is a magical six-legged black panther-like feline with a pair of tentacles growing from its shoulders; the beast has an innate "displacement" ability, causing it appear to be several feet away from its actual location.
The Outer Planes were presented for the first time in Volume 1, Number 8 of The Dragon, released July 1977 as part of the Great Wheel of Planes. [1] In the article "Planes: The Concepts of Spatial, Temporal and Physical Relationships in D&D", Gary Gygax mentions that there are 16 Outer Planes and describes the Seven Heavens, the Twin Paradises, and Elysium as "Typical higher planes", Nirvana ...
Kenku were inspired by tengu, a mythological creature from Japanese folklore that takes the form of an avian humanoid. [ 7 ] [ 16 ] In particular, the symbolic mask of their deity, Quorlinn, was directly inspired by the red, large-nosed masks often worn by tengu in Japanese mythology.
Kalavinka – a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso and long flowing tail; Karura – divine creature with human torso and birdlike head; Kinnara – Half-bird musicians; Lamassu (Mesopotamian) – goddess with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings
Alhoon: Undead mind flayer. Even more powerful than other illithids because it has developed "powerful sorcery to augment their already fearsome psionic powers". [16] Death knight: A "powerful undead warrior", [17]: 167 Shannon Applecline considered this creature created by Charles Stross one of the game's especially notable monsters. [18]: 38
This creature's eyestalks are replaced with blood-draining tentacles, and its body roils with a powerful electric aura. The Death Kiss, or "bleeder", is a fearsome predator found in caverns or ruins. Its spherical body resembles that of the dreaded beholder, but the "eyestalks" of this creature are bloodsucking tentacles, its "eyes" are hook ...