5e D&D Monster List
Name
Min CR
Max CR
Source
Type
Size
Role
| Name | CR | Type | Size | Official | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | No | ||||
| Awakened Shrub | 0 | plant | small | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Baboon | 0 | beast | small | Yes | ⚔ |
| Badger | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Bat | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Cat | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Commoner | 0 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Crab | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Crawling Claw | 0 | undead | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Crocodile | 0 | creature | medium | No | |
| Dancing Item | 0 | construct | large | Yes | |
| Deer | 0 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Eagle | 0 | beast | small | Yes | ⚔👁🦋 |
| Flying Squirrel | 0 | beast | tiny | No | |
| Frog | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | 🌊 |
| Giant Fire Beetle | 0 | beast | small | Yes | ⚔ |
| Giant Flying Squirrel | 0 | beast | small | No | |
| Goat | 0 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Half-Bat | 0 | good | any | No | |
| Hawk | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Homunculus | 0 | construct | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Hyena | 0 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Jackal | 0 | beast | small | Yes | ⚔ |
| Lemure | 0 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Lizard | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Octopus | 0 | beast | small | Yes | ⚔✙🌊 |
| Owl | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔👁🦋 |
| Quipper | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Rat | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Raven | 0 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔🦋 |
| Tarim | 0 | No | |||
| Wildfire Spirit | 0 | elemental | small | Yes | |
| Animated Knife | 1/8 | construct | tiny | Yes | ⚔👁🦋 |
| Bandit | 1/8 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ➶ |
| Dolphin | 1/8 | beast | medium | Yes | ✙🌊 |
| Finethir the Sheep | 1/8 | beast | medium | No | |
| Flumph | 1/8 | aberration | small | Yes | ⚔✙🦋 |
| Giant Weasel | 1/8 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Kobold | 1/8 | humanoid | small | Yes | ⚔➶ |
| Mantari | 1/8 | monstrosity | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Mastiff | 1/8 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Merfolk | 1/8 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔➶🌊 |
| Monodrone | 1/8 | construct | medium | Yes | ⚔➶ |
| Noble | 1/8 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Aarakocra | 1/4 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔➶🦋 |
| Acolyte | 1/4 | humanoid | medium | Yes | 🧙✙ |
| Axe Beak | 1/4 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔ |
| Boar | 1/4 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Dire Rat | 1/4 | Yes | |||
| Dog | 1/4 | beast | medium | No | |
| Dolphin (Zombie) | 1/4 | undead | medium | No | ⚔🌊 |
| Flying Sword | 1/4 | construct | small | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Giant Badger | 1/4 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Giant Centipede | 1/4 | beast | small | Yes | ⚔ |
| Giant Frog | 1/4 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔✙🌊 |
| Giant Wolf Spider | 1/4 | beast | medium | No | |
| Goblin | 1/4 | humanoid | small | Yes | ⚔➶👁 |
| Pech | 1/4 | fey | small | Yes | ⚔ |
| Pixie | 1/4 | fey | tiny | Yes | 🧙✙ |
| Skeleton | 1/4 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔➶ |
| Swarm of Bats | 1/4 | swarm | medium | Yes | ⚔🦋 |
| Swarm of Ravens | 1/4 | swarm | medium | Yes | ⚔👁🦋 |
| Trader | 1/4 | No | ⚔ | ||
| Velociraptor | 1/4 | beast | tiny | Yes | ⚔ |
| Violet Fungus | 1/4 | plant | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Zoblin | 1/4 | undead | small | Yes | ⚔🛡✙ |
| Zombie | 1/4 | undead | medium | No | ⚔ |
| Zombie | 1/4 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Aarakocra Sharpshooter | 1/2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ➶🦋 |
| Ambush Drake | 1/2 | dragon | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Amphisbaena | 1/2 | monstrosity | medium | Yes | 👁🌊 |
| Ape | 1/2 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔➶ |
| Black Bear | 1/2 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Black Blood Wretch | 1/2 | No | |||
| Bullywug Hunter | 1/2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔➶ |
| Cockatrice | 1/2 | monstrosity | small | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Gas Spore | 1/2 | plant | large | Yes | ⚔👁🦋 |
| Giant Goat | 1/2 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Giant Sea Horse | 1/2 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔✙🌊 |
| Haunted Cannon | 1/2 | object | large | No | |
| Ice Mephit | 1/2 | elemental | small | Yes | ⚔🧙👁🦋 |
| Jisk the Beast Tamer | 1/2 | folk | lizard | No | |
| Magma Mephit | 1/2 | elemental | small | Yes | ⚔👁🦋 |
| Midnight Peddler | 1/2 | fey | medium | Yes | ⚔ |
| Monk | 1/2 | plant | large | No | |
| Reef Shark | 1/2 | beast | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Sahuagin | 1/2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Scout | 1/2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ➶ |
| Skeletal Alchemist | 1/2 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔➶ |
| Skulk | 1/2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Swarm of Spiders | 1/2 | swarm | medium | No | |
| Thug | 1/2 | No | |||
| Vine Blight | 1/2 | plant | medium | Yes | ⚔✙👁 |
| Worg | 1/2 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Animated Armor | 1 | construct | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Bugbear | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡👁 |
| Cave Salamander | 1 | No | |||
| Crabman | 1 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Dark Triton | 1 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔✙🌊 |
| Dragonclaw | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Duergar | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Duergar Soulblade | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙👁 |
| Eblis | 1 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔🧙🦋 |
| Etherian | 1 | undead | medium | No | |
| Faerie Dragon Yellow | 1 | dragon | tiny | Yes | 🧙✙ |
| Firenewt Warlock of Imix | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ➶🧙 |
| Flying Snake | 1 | No | |||
| Ghoul | 1 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Giant Octopus | 1 | beast | large | Yes | 👁🌊 |
| Giant Spider | 1 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Giant Toad | 1 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔✙🌊 |
| Goblin Boss | 1 | humanoid | small | No | |
| Guardian Portrait | 1 | construct | medium | Yes | 🧙👁 |
| Harpy | 1 | monstrosity | medium | Yes | ⚔✙🦋 |
| Imp | 1 | fiend | tiny | Yes | ⚔👁🦋 |
| Jupiter Bloodsucker | 1 | plant | medium | Yes | ⚔✙👁 |
| Naiad | 1 | fey | medium | No | ⚔🧙✙🌊 |
| Nihilethic Zombie | 1 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Sahuagin Coral Smasher | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Sahuagin Hound | 1 | No | |||
| Swarm of Quippers | 1 | swarm | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Tiger | 1 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Yuan Ti Pureblood | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ➶🧙 |
| Yuan-Ti Pureblood | 1 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ➶🧙 |
| Ahmed Noke | 2 | humanoid | medium | No | |
| Allosaurus | 2 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Animated Table | 2 | construct | large | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Ankheg | 2 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔➶✙ |
| Awakened Tree | 2 | plant | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡👁 |
| Azer | 2 | elemental | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Bandit Captain | 2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Berserker | 2 | chaotic | any | Yes | ⚔ |
| Black Dragon Wyrmling | 2 | dragon | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Black Widow Queen | 2 | beast | large | No | |
| Cult Fanatic | 2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | 🧙 |
| Deep One | 2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Faerie Dragon Indigo | 2 | dragon | tiny | Yes | 🧙✙ |
| Firegeist | 2 | elemental | small | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Ghast | 2 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Giant Elk | 2 | beast | huge | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Gray Thirster | 2 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Green Dragon Wyrmling | 2 | dragon | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Guz | 2 | No | |||
| Ink Devil | 2 | fiend | small | Yes | ⚔🧙✙ |
| Lizardfolk Shaman | 2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙✙🌊 |
| Meenlock | 2 | fey | small | Yes | ⚔✙👁 |
| Monstrous Crayfish | 2 | beast | large | Yes | ⚔✙🌊 |
| Myling | 2 | undead | small | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Nilbog Boss | 2 | humanoid | small | No | |
| Ogre Shaman | 2 | giant | large | Yes | ⚔🧙 |
| Rug of Smothering | 2 | construct | large | No | |
| Rutterkin | 2 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Sahuagin Priestess | 2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | 🧙✙ |
| Shell Shark | 2 | monstrosity | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Skeletal Swarm | 2 | swarm | large | Yes | ⚔ |
| Yuan Ti Broodguard | 2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Yuan-ti Broodguard | 2 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Zizzat, Goblin Caster | 2 | humanoid | small | No | |
| Aarakocra Captain | 3 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔➶👁🦋 |
| Anchorite of Talos | 3 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙✙ |
| Animators Staff | 3 | construct | small | Yes | ⚔➶🧙✙🦋 |
| Ankylosaurus | 3 | beast | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Assassin Vine | 3 | plant | large | Yes | 👁 |
| Azer Artisan | 3 | elemental | medium | Yes | ⚔➶🧙 |
| Basilisk | 3 | monstrosity | medium | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Bearded Devil | 3 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡✙ |
| Chosen Cultist | 3 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔✙👁 |
| Deathlock Wight | 3 | undead | medium | Yes | ➶🧙 |
| Deep Scion | 3 | humanoid | medium | Yes | 👁🌊 |
| Displacer Beast | 3 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Duergar Stone Guard | 3 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Green Hag | 3 | fey | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡👁 |
| Killer Whale | 3 | beast | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🌊 |
| Killer Whale (Zombie) | 3 | undead | huge | No | ⚔🛡🌊 |
| Murder Crow | 3 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡👁🦋 |
| Nathan | 3 | humanoid | medium | No | |
| Phase Spider | 3 | beast | large | No | |
| Phase Spider | 3 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Sahuagin Champion | 3 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Sahuagin Hatchling Swarm | 3 | swarm | large | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Swashbuckler | 3 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Uleg, Ogre Brute | 3 | humanoid | large | No | |
| Wight | 3 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔➶✙ |
| Wooden Golem | 3 | construct | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Aaztar-Ghola | 4 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙✙ |
| Banshee | 4 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔✙🦋 |
| Barghest | 4 | fiend | large | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Black Pudding | 4 | ooze | large | Yes | ⚔✙👁 |
| Chuul | 4 | aberration | large | Yes | ⚔🛡🌊 |
| Cimota Guardian | 4 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Corrupted Goldie | 4 | No | |||
| Deathlock | 4 | undead | medium | Yes | 🧙 |
| Helmed Horror | 4 | construct | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Kobold Chieftain | 4 | humanoid | small | Yes | ⚔➶🛡✙ |
| Ogre Warchief | 4 | giant | large | Yes | ⚔🛡✙ |
| Orc War Chief | 4 | plant | large | No | |
| Sahuagin Deep Diver | 4 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔👁🌊 |
| Shadow Demon | 4 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔👁 |
| Succubus / Incubus | 4 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔✙🦋 |
| Undead Ranger | 4 | humanoid | medium | No | |
| Air Elemental | 5 | elemental | large | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Barbed Devil | 5 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔➶🛡 |
| Cambion | 5 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔➶🧙🛡✙🦋 |
| Dream Eater | 5 | fiend | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙🦋 |
| Drowned Maiden | 5 | undead | medium | Yes | 👁🌊 |
| Giant Shark | 5 | beast | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡👁🌊 |
| Kraken Priest | 5 | evil | any | Yes | 🧙✙🌊 |
| Long Beards | 5 | infantry | dwarf | No | |
| Revenant | 5 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Sahuagin Baron | 5 | humanoid | large | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Sahuagin Wave Shaper | 5 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🌊 |
| Skum | 5 | Yes | ⚔🌊 | ||
| Tanarukk | 5 | No | |||
| Wormhearted Suffragan | 5 | undead | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙✙ |
| XXXBonetacion | 5 | fire | large | No | |
| Dragon Knight | 6 | humanoid | medium | No | |
| James, The road man | 6 | man | road | No | ⚔ |
| Sahuagin Blademaster | 6 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡🌊 |
| Vrock | 6 | fiend | large | Yes | ⚔✙🦋 |
| Young White Dragon | 6 | dragon | large | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| abominable sloth | 7 | beast | large | No | |
| AIR ELEMENTAL MYRMIDON | 7 | elemental | medium | No | |
| Air Elemental Myrmidon | 7 | elemental | medium | Yes | ⚔🦋 |
| Black Abishai | 7 | fiend | medium | No | |
| Cult Priest | 7 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙✙ |
| Fire Elemental Myrmidon | 7 | elemental | medium | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Firefist | 7 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ➶🧙 |
| Killer Whale (Deep) | 7 | beast | gargantuan | No | ⚔🛡🌊 |
| Aarakocra Priest of Aerdrie | 8 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙✙ |
| Assassin | 8 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔➶👁 |
| Black Guard | 8 | No | |||
| Deathlock Mastermind | 8 | undead | medium | Yes | 🧙 |
| Diviner | 8 | humanoid | medium | No | |
| Drow Priestess of Lolth | 8 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔➶🧙✙ |
| Abjurer | 9 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔🧙✙ |
| Aethis | 9 | humanoid | medium | No | |
| Clay Golem | 9 | construct | large | Yes | ⚔ |
| Lonely Sorrowsword | 9 | monstrosity | medium | No | ⚔ |
| Treant | 9 | plant | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Aboleth | 10 | aberration | large | Yes | ⚔✙🌊 |
| Deva | 10 | celestial | medium | No | |
| Stone Defender | 10 | construct | large | Yes | ⚔🛡 |
| Behir | 11 | monstrosity | huge | Yes | ⚔✙ |
| Horned Devil | 11 | fiend | large | Yes | ⚔➶🛡🦋 |
| Aboleth,Nihileth | 12 | undead | large | Yes | ⚔🦋🌊 |
| Archmage | 12 | humanoid | medium | Yes | ⚔➶🧙✙ |
| Adult Brass Dragon | 13 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Adult White Dragon | 13 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Narzugon | 13 | fiend | medium | No | |
| The Paradox | 13 | humanoid | medium | No | |
| Adult Black Dragon | 14 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Adult Copper Dragon | 14 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Adult Bronze Dragon | 15 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Adult Green Dragon | 15 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Adult Blue Dragon | 16 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Adult Silver Dragon | 16 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Planetar | 16 | celestial | large | No | |
| Adult Gold Dragon | 17 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Adult Red Dragon | 17 | dragon | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Androsphinx | 17 | monstrosity | large | Yes | ⚔🧙✙🦋 |
| Balor | 19 | fiend | huge | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Ancient Brass Dragon | 20 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Ancient White Dragon | 20 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Ancient Black Dragon | 21 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Ancient Copper Dragon | 21 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| ArchMage Montgomery Leighton, Curator of Existence | 21 | beast | small | No | |
| Solar | 21 | celestial | large | No | |
| Ancient Bronze Dragon | 22 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Ancient Green Dragon | 22 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Archfey | 22 | fey | medium | No | 🧙🦋 |
| Ancient Blue Dracolich | 23 | undead | gargantuan | No | |
| Ancient Blue Dragon | 23 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Ancient Silver Dragon | 23 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Ancient Gold Dragon | 24 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋🌊 |
| Ancient Red Dragon | 24 | dragon | gargantuan | Yes | ⚔🛡🦋 |
| Tarrasque | 30 | monstrosity | gargantuan | No |
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