Urban Monsters

Same Life Threatening Evil None Of The Travel

by Zachary Tounzen

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Urban Monsters
Those that think the city provides safety from
dangerous monsters risk becoming prey for a new,
growing breed of abominations. These monsters are
the product of civilizations callous expansion,
creatures that stalk the streets at night, bend
influential people to foul ends, or are the product of
magical ambitions with dark intentions.
Urban Monsters
Monster Name Challenge Rating
Animated Slum 15
Muse 1 petrified, poisoned.
Night Stalker 3 Languages: none
Sewer Mutant 1/2
The Stitched 4 points it collapses. Each creature within 25 feet of the slum must
Animated Slum
An Animated Slum is one or more buildings given
life and animus by a spirit of elemental earth. Well
over 50 feet tall these towering golems serve no
master and seek only to level cityscapes, creating
more raw materials to add to its body or give rise to
others of its kind. Once set on its path only its
destruction will stop it.
Agent of Destruction. The Animated Slum seeks
only to level cities. Constructed from buildings that
have fallen into disrepair, it represents nature
reclaiming the land.
Ancient Origins. It takes an epic amount of arcane
power to raise an Animated Slum. When one is made
its typically the will of a scorned nature god or the
elders of a druidic circles final act.
Construct Nature. The Animated Slum doesn’t
require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Animated Slum
Gargantuan, Construct, Neutral
Armor Class: 18 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 225
Speed: 50 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
30 10 25 4 10 2
Saving Throws: Str+15
Damage Resistances: bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage
from nonmagical attacks.
Damage Immunities: poison, psychic
Condition Immunities: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed,
Senses: Darkvision, 500 ft, Passive Perception: 10
Challenge: 15 (13,000 XP)
Harder they fall: when the Animated Slum is reduced to 0 hit
make a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save a target
takes 5d6 bludgeoning damage, is knocked prone, and is buried in
rubble. A creature buried in rubble can escape with a DC 20
Strength (Athletics) check. On a successful save a target takes
half and is not knocked prone or buried.
Siege Monster. The Animated Slum does double damage to
objects and structures.
Legendary Resistance (3/day): if the Animated Slum fails a saving
throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack: the Animated Slum can use its rubble spray and
makes 2 crushing slam attacks.
Crushing Slam: Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, range 20 ft., one
target. Hit: 21 (2d10+10) bludgeoning damage, and the target
must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or be knocked
prone.
Rubble Spray: the Animated Slum unleashes a volley of debris in a
60 foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 18
Dexterity saving throw, taking 10d4 bludgeoning damage on a
failed save or half as much on a successful one.
Lumbering: the Animated Slum cannot take the Dash action.
Legendary Actions
The Animated Slum can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from
the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used
at a time and only at the end of another creatures turn. The
Animated Slum regains spent legendary actions at the start of its
turn.
Stomp: the Animated Slum stomps it foot creating a small tremor.
Each creature within 20 feet of the Animated Slum must succeed
on a DC18 Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone.
Dust Cloud: the Animated Slum releases a cloud of choking dust.
Each creature within 20 feet of the Animated Slum must succeed
on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or become blinded and begin
suffocating. A creature can repeat this save at the end of each of
its turns to end the effect.
Rubble Spray (costs 2 actions): the Animated slum uses its
Rubble Spray ability.
The Muse
A Muse is a normally benign spirit sent with the
intent of inspiring great works or actions in mortals.
Divine Agents. Muses are sent by gods of
craftsmanship and commerce. When not cloaked in
invisibility they appear as lithe felines with sleek fur
and large squirrel-like tails.
Potential Fiends. Not all Muses are sent with
good intentions. Enemies of a god of craftsmanship
may send a fiendish Muse to inspire a devotees rivals,
while some are sent at the behest of a political minded
cultist to cause civil unrest, using their powers to
influence a cities politics.
Reasonable Rivals. When two muses of
opposing goals meet they don’t attack each other
rather they each attempt to sway the same mortal to
their side the loser accepting defeat and leaving
peacefully.
Muse
Small, Fiend (if evil, Devil) Celestial (if good, Angel)
Armor Class: 12 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 22
Speed: 20 ft., Fly 40 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
8 14 10 13 12 17
Saving Throws: Cha+5
Skills: Deception +6, Persuasion +6
Damage Immunities: Fire (if evil), Radiant (if good)
Condition Immunities: charmed, poisoned
Senses: Darkvision, Passive Perception: 14
Languages: Common, Infernal, Celestial
Challenge: 1 (250 XP)
Innate Spellcasting (2/day): The Muse can innately cast
Suggestion (save DC 13) requiring no material
components. Its its innate spellcasting ability is Charisma.
Inspiration: Whenever an ally that can see and hear the
Muse makes an ability check they may roll an additional
1d8 and add that to the result.
Actions
Mind Sting: Ranged Spell Attack: +4 to hit, range 30 ft., one
target. Hit: 8 (2d4+3) psychic damage and the target has
disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the
end of its next turn.
Invisibility: The Muse turns magically invisible until it
attacks or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating
on a spell). Any equipment The Muse wears or carries is
invisible with it. The Muse may choose one creature it can
see when it uses this ability, that creature can see The
Muse as if it were not invisible for the abilities duration.
Night Stalker
Everyone has felt it, you’re alone at night and you
cant shake the feeling that something is watching you
in the shadows, always 2 steps behind you. Night
Stalkers are the gaunt, dessicated corpses of murder
victims whose bodies were never found and their
killers never caught.
Vicious Killers. Night Stalkers are vengeful
beings filled with anger and hatred at a society that
granted them neither justice nor dignity in death. They
hunt their victims at night using their unseen stalker
ability to follow them until they are sure that when they
strike no one else will interfere. Night Stalkers are
territorial and will move a corpse far from their resting
place in case they too rise from the dead.
Nocturnal. Night Stalkers only hunt at night,
during the day they return to the place they died and
rest until nightfall.
Intelligent Undead. Night Stalkers revel in
tormenting their prey with whispered taunts and
threats. They sometimes drag out a kill over several
nights learning a victims routine and harassing them
until they fear every shadow and jump at every noise.
Night Stalkers have no memory of their previous life.
Night Stalker
Medium, Undead, Lawful Evil
Armor Class: 14
Hit Points: 45
Speed: 35 feet.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
8 16 12 14 16 16
Saving Throws: Dex+5
Skills: Deception+5, Stealth+5
Damage Immunities: Poison, Necrotic
Condition Immunities: Poisoned, Frightened
Senses: Darkvision 120 ft., Passive Perception: 13
Languages: common
Challenge: 3 (700 XP)
Unseen Stalker: The Night Stalker can sense when it can
be seen. Anytime it would be seen by a creature it can use
its reaction to become invisible. This invisibility is broken
when the Night Stalker makes an attack, takes damage, or
enters sunlight.
Sneak Attack: if the Night Stalker hits a creature with an
attack made with advantage, the target takes an extra 14
(4d6) damage from that attack.
Actions
Dagger: Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 5 ft., one
target. Hit: 6 (1d4+3) piercing damage.
Sewer Mutant
Large bustling cities are built on industry. When
large amounts of alchemical runoff come in contact
with creatures living in a cities sewer system
grotesque mutations can occur.
Vaguely Familiar. A Sewer Mutant only barely
resembles what it was before its transformation. Its
flesh has melted and taken on brilliant colors, its limbs
have grown or multiplied and its intelligence has been
greatly altered, now able to speak only in a halting
slurred manner.
Xenophobic. Sewer Mutants know what they
were before they changed and live in small close
communities. They shun people from above ground
out of fear of prosecution and shame for their
appearance. When threatened they will attack en mass
in an almost mindless rage.
Sewer Mutant
Medium, Monstrosity, Chaotic Neutral
Armor Class: 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 24 (4d8+8)
Speed: 30 feet, swim 30 feet
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
16 9 14 8 16 4 effect that would alter its form
Senses: Passive Perception: 16
Languages: Undercommon
Challenge: 1/2 (100 XP)
Sewer Dweller: the Sewer Mutant ignores difficult terrain
created by water up to 3 feet deep. While submerged in
water the Sewer Mutant has advantage on dexterity checks
made to hide.
Actions
Slam: Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one
target. Hit: 8 (1d8+4) bludgeoning damage.
The Stitched
There exist those that believe progress is worth
any cost. Mages with dark ambitions use forbidden
transmutation magic to create horrific hybrids of man
and beast.
Twisted Hybrids. The stitched were once normal
humanoids, now, changed by a sinister, immoral ritual,
their minds and bodies have been fused with those
belonging to one or more beasts. Its appearance is
always undoubtedly humanoid but will incorporate
monster parts like massive claws, grotesque biting
tusks, or even slimy skin and tentacles.
Tragic Transmutation. The magic that created
The Stitched can be undone with suitably strong
restorative magic. Once a stitched witnesses this
ability they beg for salvation and if it is denied they
attack viciously and to the death. This magic also
muddies the mind of The Stitched making them
fiercely loyal to the mage that created it while also
making it almost impossible for it to realize that they
are the reason for their transformation.
The Stitched
Medium, Humanoid, Lawful Evil
Armor Class: 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 75
Speed: 35 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
16 10 16 10 14 8
Saving Throws: Str+5, Con+5
Condition Immunities: Petrified, Stunned
Senses: Passive Perception: 14
Languages: understands Common, cannot speak
Challenge: 4 (1,100 XP)
Immutable Form: the Stitched is immune to any spell or
Restorative Vulnerability: A restoration or Remove Curse
spell cast at 4th level or higher on The Stitched restores it
to its human form permanently.
Monster Parts: The Stitched are humanoids with
monstrous body parts grafted onto them. They typically
only have one of the weapon options below but
exceptionally obscene examples can have as many as you
wish.
Actions
Multiattack: the Stitched makes 2 weapon attacks.
Claws: Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 5 ft., one
target. Hit: 12 (2d6+5) slashing damage.
Stinger: Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit. range 10 ft., one
target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison
damage.
Bite: Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 10 (2d4 +5) piercing damage and the target must make
a DC 13 Strength save. On a failed save they are knocked
prone.
Mind Thrust: the Stitched targets one creature it can see
within 30 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 13
Charisma saving throw or take 24 (6d8) psychic damage.