Mounted harpoon crossbow (an oversized heavy crossbow with a long bolt attached to a 60-foot length of rope). Creatures that are Huge or larger can have a number of weapons mounted upon its saddle or carriage.
The platform also has space for 1 additional Medium creature to drive the monster, or use its weaponry if the monster is intelligent and needs no driver. A Gargantuan creature wearing a war carriage can carry up to 16 Medium creatures or 4 Large creatures, or 1 Huge creature.
Each of the straps of this war carriage are Tiny objects with AC 18 and 10 hp and immunity to poison and psychic damage most war carriages are attached by four straps connected to the monster’s limbs.Ī Huge creature wearing a war carriage can carry up to 4 Medium creatures or 1 Large creature. This carriage is attached to the creature by a number of leather straps and harnesses which, if severed, cause it to tumble off the creature’s back. This creature carries a custom-made carriage that allows a number of soldiers to fight from, and be transported on, the back of their carrier. These creatures are its allies, and you can use the D&D Beyond Encounter Builder to see how powerful an encounter with this war band is compared to your party. However, a war monster is frequently accompanied by other creatures on its war carriage. The challenge rating of a war monster doesn’t change when this template is applied. While this template usually only applies to creatures with beast-like anatomy, it can be applied to more alien creatures like aberrations, fiends, or oozes at the Dungeon Master’s discretion.Ĭhallenge.
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Depending on the creature’s size, and the size of their riders, they can carry as many as a full platoon of soldiers. War monsters are domesticated beasts, allied dragons, or tamed monstrosities that have been equipped with back-mounted carriages large enough to carry warriors into battle. In order to accurate discover the creature’s new challenge rating, you’ll need to enter the creature’s new statistics into the monster creation guidelines in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
This article gives rough guidelines on how much each template will increase a creature’s challenge rating, but the increase in power is much more significant for low-CR creatures than it is for high-CR creatures. Just like the templates provided in the Monster Manual, these templates don’t consistently increase a creature’s challenge rating. These monsters were specifically chosen to enhance your Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign, but can be used in any adventure that takes place in an arctic environment. Additionally, it provides two new homebrew monsters that you can use in your D&D campaign: the white dragon of war and the war mammoth.
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This installment of the Homebrew Horrors series gives you a brand-new template that you can apply to any creature large enough to carry other creatures. The time has come for the warriors of your campaign to don armor, unsheathe their weapons, and ride to war upon the backs of hulking monsters.
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Welcome to Homebrew Horrors, a series where you get a set of brand-new homebrew monsters, plus lore and worldbuilding details that you can use to anchor them in your own D&D setting.
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