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Sample file Credits About the (Real) Author I'm Danny and this is my first published work to the DMs Designer: Daniel Kay Guild. I am from the absolutely wonderful and not at all in Writer: Daniel Kay decline country of England, and I enjoy animation, hip hop, Artist: Daniel Kay films, video games, and overworking myself with whatever project I get obsessed with doing at the time. Cover Logo Artist: C. R. Bone I have been DMing sessions for D&D for about 5 years now Font Consultants: C. R. Bone, Rozalinde Fairholm after a lacklustre attempt at playing PathFinder led to me Unnamed Search Engine Research Intern: Daniel Kay going to D&D 5e. I had the benefit of being unemployed at Document Made With: GM Binder the time, fresh out of university, riding the waves of a savings account I sensibly couldn't touch until I left. Some stats have been converted from the following sources: The lore is mostly based on research I performed on the D&D 3.5's five Monster Manuals real animals and heavily inspired by the original texts if they D&D Dark Sun come from previous editions. D&D 3.5's Dracanomicon The character that "wrote" this bestiary is one from my D&D 3.5's Frostburn homebrew world, and the lore is written as they act/appear in D&D 3.5's Sandstorm my world. However, I have written it to be as setting neutral D&D 3.5's Stormwrack as possible. Of course, you can just apply your own lore to the Dragon Magazine issues #321 and #344 creatures here as you desire. The hard work and research I put into this doesn't need to mean anything to you at all! (But On the Cover for real, it's chill). Referenced also in this document is the Pewter Pot I've always liked simple covers on books. I wanted to Printing Company, another reference to my world - the first replicate the leather covered books with goldleaf text that has printing press that may be a little less-than-stellar with their a texture to it. I have tried to replicate that here, with a logo business practices and originality of their works. A fun little that has a dragon on one side and a bird on the other, to inclusion for my players really. represent the animal and dragon side of this document. I made this out of passion and just wanting to work on something. It was a one person operation (with the emotional support of my players and friends of course). I wanted to test myself and prove that I can actually work on a project. I did this all in 3-4 months while balancing two campaigns that I DM, one that I play in, and a good ol' 9-5 job (well, 9:30-5:30 but that's besides the point). I even pushed myself into doing the art, which is not exactly something I would want to do (I don't consider myself much of an artist). I love to draw, but this was extremely out of my wheelhouse and comfort. But you don't improve by sticking to comfort zones. I have also made this product a PWYW product because I want to feed back into the community that inspired me with products I could pick up for free or cheap. Not everyone that plays has a disposable income and should still be able to find resources they can use. Though if you do want to pay for this, that's lovely and I appreciate you. This was a long winded way to say that I hope you enjoy what I have written here. I hope that even just one of these is useful to you. If you use any of these, feel free to let me know Legal on Twitter - I'd love to hear if any of these kill a character help DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, D&D, Wizards of the Coast, you with your sessions. And if you want, give me a follow and Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, Eberron, the dragon we might even be able to be friends. What a privilege. ampersand, Ravnica and all other Wizards of the Coast product names, and their respective logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast in the USA and other countries. For DMs Guild Use This work contains material that is copyright Wizards of If you are an adventure writer, feel free to use these stat the Coast and/or other authors. Such material is used with blocks in your adventures. It would be appreciated, though permission under the Community Content Agreement for not necessary, if you credited me and added a link to this Dungeon Masters Guild. product as well. All oSamplether original material in this work is copyright 2019 by Disclaimer: Research was pe rformedfile by a "professional" and cannot be Daniel Kay and published under the Community Content advised to be performed by readers at home. The research was Agreement for Dungeon Masters Guild. performed under strict safety supervisions and with the most state of the art protection. Using the internet is a dangerous endeavour. Please leave the search engine research to those qualified in that field Contents Part 1: Introduction 1 Planar Dragon, Battle ............................................................................. 47 Planar Dragon, Beast .............................................................................. 49 Half-Beast Dragon Template ......................................................... 49 Part 2: Animals 2 Planar Dragon, Chaos ............................................................................. 51 Spell: Cloak of Chaos Akhlut .................................................................................................................... 3 ......................................................................... 51 Planar Dragon, Chole Akhlut, Pup ........................................................................................................ 3 .............................................................................. 53 Planar Dragon, Elysian Astral Fish .......................................................................................................... 4 .......................................................................... 55 Planar Dragon, Gloom Barracuda, Dire .............................................................................................. 5 ............................................................................ 57 Planar Dragon, Hellfire Wyrm Branta .................................................................................................................... 6 .......................................................... 59 Planar Dragon, Howling Cheetah ................................................................................................................ 7 ........................................................................ 61 Planar Dragon, Pyroclastic Dingonek ............................................................................................................. 8 ................................................................. 63 Planar Dragon, Radiant Dragonfly, Giant ............................................................................................. 9 ......................................................................... 65 Planar Dragon, Rust Dunkleosteus ................................................................................................. 10 ................................................................................. 67 Spell: Acidic Breeze Eel, Electric ..................................................................................................... 11 ............................................................................. 67 Planar Dragon, Styx Magic Item: Electric Eel Hide Armour .................................. 11 ................................................................................. 69 Disease: Stygian Wasting Disease Eel, Glowing ................................................................................................... 12 ............................................ 69 Planar Dragon, Tarterian Gliding Lizard, Giant ................................................................................ 13 ...................................................................... 71 Rock Wyrm Glyptodon ......................................................................................................... 14 ...................................................................................................... 73 Stygian Linnorm Grimorian ......................................................................................................... 15 ......................................................................................... 74 Wyvern, Death-Seep Disease: Stinksweat Disease ........................................................ 15 ................................................................................. 75 Poison: Death-Seep Poison Hippopotamus .............................................................................................. 16 ............................................................ 75 Hippopotamus, Dire ................................................................................. 16 Inix ........................................................................................................................ 17 Jellyfish, Swarm ........................................................................................... 18 Part 4: Creatures by Environs 76 Kadtanach ........................................................................................................ 19 Leech, Giant ................................................................................................... 21 Leech, Spectral ............................................................................................ 22 Part 5: Subclasses 78 Manta Ray .......................................................................................................