Dungeons & Dragons is a recreation stuffed with highly effective monsters of various strengths. But these ones are the scariest.

In all of Dungeons & Dragons, there may be a whole guide stuffed with monsters and fearsome foes. Each one has claws and fangs sufficient for an entire catalog of elements. Some have lethal poison. Others wield highly effective magic.

But for our cash, these are 5 of essentially the most scary monsters in Dungeons & Dragons. Not essentially the deadliest. You gained’t discover Tarrasques right here, essentially. But somewhat monsters that make for these intense moments the place the entire course of your character may change in a heartbeat. And destiny itself teeters on the roll of the die.

Ghost

This one’s fairly easy as a result of it’s actually scary. Ghosts are fairly tough foes to struggle as a result of they’re incorporeal and immune to most harm. In addition, they will possess your allies, turning them into ablative armor whereas wielding your hit factors.

But what actually makes them terrifying is their capacity horrifying visage, which might actually scare you to dying. A single failed save can age you 10-40 years in a single on the spot.

If you’re most characters (who solely dwell to be 100 or so), that’s wherever from round 1/tenth to 1/third of your lifespan. And that’s assuming you solely face one ghost that day. You may actually be scared to dying with a poor saving throw.

Intellect Devourer

These are the lovable mind canine pets of Mind Flayers. But don’t let their cute cerebral countenance idiot you. An Intellect Devourer could make you completely rue the day that you just dumped Intelligence. These crafty little creatures can stalk their prey, and after they discover an incapacitated humanoid, they will teleport into their cranium, magically devouring their mind and taking up the physique and character of their unwilling host.

They achieve entry to their goal’s recollections and motivations. And can adapt the goal’s techniques, however now it has management and may use the physique for the nefarious finish. But on high of that, they will render anybody incapacitated, they don’t want to attend so that you can go to sleep. A particular assault can scale back a creature’s Intelligence to 0, beautiful them till they will regain that misplaced Intelligence, permitting the Intellect Devourer to create a bunch in the course of a struggle.

Death Tyrant

If you ever wish to watch a celebration of adventurers begins to stress, throw a Death Tyrant at them. These undead beholders are highly effective foes who retain many of the energy of their dwelling kin. They have 10 eye rays, every extra lethal than the final. Chief amongst them are the Disintegration Ray and Death Ray, which outright kill characters whose hit factors they scale back to 0.

But what makes Death Tyrants so significantly terrifying is their Negative Energy Cone. This is a 150-foot cone of unfavorable vitality that enervates any creature inside. Any creature caught in its blast can’t regain hit factors. Any humanoid that dies whereas inside turns into a zombie beneath the Death Tyrant’s command.

Suddenly gamers whose characters drop to 0 hit factors can’t simply bounce again up once more with a therapeutic phrase. And for those who die outright, you turn out to be a zombie serving to the Death Tyrant. Worse but, even for those who handle to defeat the Death Tyrant, your buddy is now a zombie. So no Revivify or Resurrection will carry them again. They’ve turn out to be undead. And weirdly sufficient, for those who kill them, Revivify returns them to life as a Zombie.

Nightwalker

We’ve talked concerning the terrifying Nightwalker earlier than, These creatures not solely paralyze and enervate foes, they deal scads of injury. And any creature whose hit factors they scale back to 0 dies outright. Creatures slain by a Nightwalker have their life devoured, and can’t be revived besides by a want spell.

Making Nightwalkers one of many only a few monsters whose risk can’t be overcome with a 300gp diamond.

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To date, this monster has defeated extra events of adventurers than something within the Monster Manual.

Happy adventuring

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and from time to time eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

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