Monster Manual IV is a 224-page monster sourcebook released in July 2006 for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5.
Official synopsis[]
Scores of Monsters That Are Fun to Play and Easy to Run
This supplement for the D&D game offers a fully illustrated horde of new monsters such as the clockwork steed, the tomb spider, and the evil creatures known as the "spawn of Tiamat." It also includes monsters that have previously appeared as D&D miniatures, including the bloodhulk, the justice archon, and the wizened elder. Finally, the book provides varieties of existing monsters such as the drow arcane guard, the orc battle priest, and the yuan-ti pureblood slayer.
In addition to an easy-to-use statistics format, this supplement features maps of monster lairs, sample encounters, and tactics sections to help DMs run more complex creatures. Additionally, many entries contain information about where monsters are likely to appear in the Forgotten Realms and Eberron campaign settings.
For use with these Dungeons & Dragons core books: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual.
Content[]
Introduction[]
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List of monsters[]
The book provides game statistics for over 100 monsters:
avatars of elemental evil (black rock triskelion (earth avatar), cyclonic ravager (air avatar), holocaust disciple (fire avatar), waterveiled assassin (water avatar)), balhannoth, bloodfire ooze, bloodhulk (bloodhulk fighter, bloodhulk giant, bloodhulk crusher), bloodsilk spider, briarvex, clockroach, clockwork mender (clockwork mender, clockworm mender swarm), clockwork steed (clockwork stallion, clockwork pony), concordant killer, corrupture, defacer, demon (deathdrinker, kastighur, nashrou, whisper demon), demonhive (demonhive attendant, demonet swarm, demonhive queen), dwarf ancestor, elf (drow (Lolth's sting, dark sniper, arcane guard, drow priestess)), giant (craa'ghoran giant), githyanki (githyanki soldier, gish, githyanki captain), gnoll (slave-taker, fiendish cleric of Yeenoghu, half-fiend gnoll warlock), golem (fang golem), howler wasp (howler wasp, howler wasp queen), inferno spider, joystealer, justice archon (justice archon, justice archon champion), lizardfolk (Dark Talon tribe (Dark Talon soldier; Dark Talon champion; Dark Talon wasp rider; dark talon shaman; Yarshag, Dark Talon king)), lodestone marauder, Lolth-touched creature (template; Lolth-touched bebilith, Lolth-touched drow ranger, Lolth-touched monstrous spider), lunar ravager, mageripper swarm, minotaur (greathorn minotaur), nagatha, necrosis carnex, oaken defender, ogre (ogre scout, ogre tempest, ogre guard thrall), orc (orc berserker, war howler, orc battle priest, orc plague speaker, half-orc infiltrator), plague walker, quanlos, sailsnake, skiurid, spawn of Tiamat (blackspawn raider (blackspawn raider, blackspawn exterminator), blackspawn stalker, bluespawn ambusher, bluespawn burrower, bluespawn godslayer, bluespawn stormlizard, greenspawn leaper, greenspawn razorfiend, greenspawn sneak (greenspawn sneak, greenspawn sneak raid leader), redspawn arcaniss, redspawn firebelcher, whitespawn hordeling, whitespawn hunter (whitespawn hunter, whitespawn berserker), whitespawn iceskidder), tomb spider (tomb spider, tomb spider broodswarm, web mummy), varag (varag, varag pack leader), verdant prince, vitreous drinker, windblade (windrazor, windscythe), wizened elder, wrackspawn, yuan-ti (pureblood slayer, halfblood deceiver, abomination cult leader, yuan-ti ignan), yugoloth (corruptor of fate (corruptor of fate, corruptor of fate assassin), voor (voor, dreadful lasher), zern, zern experiments (zern arcanovore, zern blade thrall).
Other material[]
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Development and release[]
Development[]
The book was written by Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker and Andrew Finch. Art was provided by Leon Cortez, Daarken and Wayne England.
Release[]
Monster Manual IV (3.5) was released by Wizards of the Coast in for $34.95 US, or $46.95 Canadian.
On September 3, 2013, it was re-released in digital format. It is currently available on DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Masters Guild for $10.19.
Reception and influence[]
Critical reception[]
As of 2023, Monster Manual IV (3.5) reached the rank of Gold seller on DriveThruRPG.
Influence on other books[]
External links[]
References[]
| Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manuals |
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| Monster Manual (1e) • Monster Manual II (1e) Monstrous Compendium Volume One (2e) • Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (2e) • Monstrous Manual (2e) Monster Manual (3.0) • Monster Manual II (3.0) Monster Manual (3.5) • Monster Manual III (3.5) • Monster Manual IV (3.5) • Monster Manual V (3.5) Monster Manual (4e) • Monster Manual 2 (4e) • Monster Manual 3 (4e) • Monster Vault (4e) Monster Manual (5e) • Monster Manual (5e revised) |