D&D 10 Best New Monsters Introduced in 2021

D&D: 10 Best New Monsters Introduced in 2021

Dungeons & Dragons released five books in 2021, giving players and Dungeon Masters many incredible new monsters to enjoy.

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Dungeons & Dragons released five books in 2021, giving players and Dungeon Masters many incredible new monsters to enjoy. These breathtaking new creatures can be worked into a variety of campaigns and add a lot of flavor to the game.

Some of these are new original creatures that will fill DMs with inspiration for their next adventure. Others are older monsters from past editions that were updated to make their first appearances in Fifth Edition. This year has honestly produced too many great monsters to fit into a top-ten list. As such, honorable mentions include the Star Spawn Emissary and Relentless Killer from Van Richten’s Guide to Everything, the Dragonblood Ooze from Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, and the legendary Jabberwock in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight.

10 Necrichor: Sentient Blood Of An Evil God Or Lich

A Necrichor is an undead being composed of sentient blood, either from a lich who failed in their transformation or from an evil god. Necrichors desperately want to gain a new body and will possess anyone who touches them. They can reform from a single drop of blood even after they are slain, making them nearly unkillable.

Introduced in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, these monstrous entities combine every element of horror imaginable – making them perfect for gothic stories, cosmic horror, dark fantasy, undead campaigns, or folk horror (to name just a few). They have a Challenge Rating of 7, and make for a great boss for adventuring parties of levels four or five, especially as the Necrichor can come back as a recurring villain after the players initially kill it.

9 Eyedrake: Draconic Beholder-Dreams Given Flesh

Beholders are one of the classic D&D monsters. These narcissistic floating many-eyed heads can alter reality with just a thought, and when a Beholder has a rivalry with a dragon and spends enough time obsessing over its rival, then its dreams will manifest into a new creature with attributes of both monsters.

The very idea of a Beholder Dragon is simultaneously bizarre, terrifying, and marvelous, and the Eyedrake does not disappoint! It is a limbless body that flies on outspread wings with a massive eye staring out from its gaping mouth. More eyes sprout from the tips of its wings, each with its own magical effect, shooting different ray attacks. Eyedrakes are found in Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons.

8 Zombie Clots: World War Z’s Zombie Giants

There are so many ways to use zombies in a campaign that they can easily become trite. After all, there are cooler undead villains than mindless corpses. Zombie Clots defy old tropes and embrace new ones. They are massive behemoths composed of many different zombies moving together, famously seen in the film World War Z.

These entities can hurl other zombies off of their bodies to entomb characters in a pile of rotting corpses. The Zombie Clot is from VRGtR and has a CR of 6, though this stat block can be tweaked a bit as needed. They are designed for Zombie Apocalypse-type stories but can be incorporated into almost any undead-heavy campaign.

7 Skitterwidgets: Adorably Bizarre Clockwork Parents

Skitterwidgets are one of the best – and most underrated – monsters to appear in 2021. They were created by writer Amy Vorpahl for the one-shot adventure module “Kandlekeep Dekonstruction,” part of the Candlekeep Mysteries campaign book. Described as metal dog-headed cockroach-like constructs, Skitterwidgets are magical machines that give birth to smaller Kiddywidgets, who in turn grow up to become full-sized Skitterwidgets.

Mechanical protective parents are a unique idea. Their funny name makes them great for lighthearted campaigns, which is a rarity, but their protectiveness of their care of their young also makes them sympathetic. With a CR of 5, just one or two Skitterwidget will be challenge low-to-mid-level heroes, even as the Kiddywidget offspring (with a CR 1/2) are easy fodder for level-one players – making them incredibly versatile.

6 Dracohydra: Multi-Headed Flying Monster

What’s scarier than facing down a fire-breathing dragon? Fighting a massive seven-headed dragon where each head attacks with a different breath weapon! Oh, and when a head is cut off, two grow back in its place.

Dracohydras are the result of mages infusing Chromatic Dragon magic with Hydra blood. They have multiple tales, multiple heads, and a fully functional wingspan to strafe their enemies while exhaling blasts of fire, ice, acid, poison, and lighting. They are among the coolest enemies one could hope to encounter in an epic fantasy campaign. The Dracohydra appears in FToD.

5 Vampiric Mind Flayer: Undead Aberrant Nightmare Fuel

Mind Flayers are terrifying extraplanar aberrations from the beginning of time that perform sick experiments on other life forms and suck out the brains of their victims into tentacle-toothed mouths. Vampires are undead immortals who feed on blood but can be slain by sunlight. A Vampiric Mind Flayer is a diseased combination of both.

These undead aberrations first appeared in 3rd Edition D&D, but were brought back in VRGtR’s as part of the Bluetspir campaign setting. It is difficult to think of a more unnervingly horrific monster. Imagine an adventuring party going to kill a vampire noble and finding this instead, or thinking they are about to face an ordinary Mind Flayer in the Underdark only to stumble upon a sickening blood-sucking nightmare!

4 Daemogoth: Fiend That Literally Feeds On Suffering

Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos is a campaign book set at a magical university. The book introduces a lot of great content, including many fantastic monsters. However, most of them are niche and difficult to incorporate into an adventure outside the book’s setting. Daemogoths are the exception, though adventurers who meet one might wish they hadn’t.

Sometimes known as “tear lickers,” these massive Fiends slide through darkness and congregate at sights of great suffering, drinking in people’s pain. They wield powerful magic and hold arcane secrets, sometimes making pacts to give mortals necromantic power… but this comes at a steep cost. Worse, as they grow in power, they can become colossal giants called Daemogoth Titans.

3 Animated Breath: A Chromatic Dragon’s Attack Given Life

Dragons use their breath weapons in devastating attacks. They are also creatures of great magical power who are capable of drinking in numinous energy from the outer planes. When a Chromatic Dragon draws such power into themself, they can imbue their breath with sentience.

Each Chromatic Dragon has a unique breath weapon, so each Animated Breath is also unique. A Red Dragon’s fiery blast looks like a fire elemental, the lightning breath of a Blue Dragon forms a constantly crackling bolt, and a green Dragon’s poison becomes a noxious cloud. Found in FToD, these creatures of living draconic magic are just so visually and conceptually cool it’s impossible not to love them.

2 Hoard Mimic: Shapeshifting Monster Taking The Form Of A Dragon Hoard

Mimics are shapeshifting creatures that emulate inanimate objects. They are best known for taking the shape of treasure chests, thereby resulting in adventurers being attacked when they expect to cash in on a rich reward.

Introduced in FToD, Hoard Mimics are particularly large and powerful Mimics that take the shape of a dragon’s hoard. This distracts adventurers from finding the real hoard when entering a dragon’s lair, so dragons encourage it, while the Mimics get a tasty adventurer-flavored meal. The joy adventurers feel when they stumble upon what they assume are mountains of gold will quickly turn to fear as they fight for their lives.

1 Elder Brain Dragon: The Result Of Mind Flayers’ Experiments On A Dragon

Two of the most iconic monsters in D&D are dragons (for obvious reasons) and Mind Flayers (whose horrors have already been discussed). Mind Flayers live in colonies ruled by an Elder Brain, a giant many-tentacled psychic brain that lives in a briny pool. When Mind Flayers capture a dragon, an Elder Brain can attach itself to the creature, burrowing tentacles into the dragon’s brain, a process described in FToD.

The result is a flying psychic Elder Brain Dragon that rains death and aberrant alchemy from the sky. Its breath weapon unleashes briny torrents filled with tiny tadpoles that can infect people and turn them into more Mind Flayers. Players who encounter the Elder Brain Dragon will never forget it, though their characters may suffer a fate worse than death.

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