List of all D&D 5e monsters: WotC + popular third-party sourcebooks

Overview

Xio's Guide to Monsters

If you're a DM like me, and you have multiple sources of D&D 5e monsters that include WotC as well as third-party suppliers, you may have struggled with how to actually make use of it all. The problem is that they're not in one place, so it's difficult to search across multiple books.

This is my attempt to create a single repository that includes:

  • all monster data in one CSV
  • Python scripts to create Markdown files for each monster out of the CSV, for use in tools like Obsidian
  • the created Markdown files with relevant parameters.

Note that the idea is to create an index of monsters to let you find the right one more easily, not a full copy of sourcebooks. Only the following fields for each monster are included:

  • Name
  • Size
  • Type
  • Environment
  • HP
  • AC
  • Initiative
  • Alignment
  • Legendary
  • Lair
  • Unique
  • CR
  • Tags
  • Source

You'll still need to own the relevant sourcebooks to see the full monster stats.

How to Use

If you just want a single list of monsters

... use monsters.csv. It has all the monsters stats, and you can open it up in your IDE or spreadsheet editor.

If you want to import the existing monsters into your Markdown-based editor

... download the Markdown files in /monsterfiles. The monster attributes are listed as frontmatter parameters.

Copy them into the directory used by your Markdown editor. You could use these in conjunction with the Obsidian Dataview plugin to search all monsters by any parameter(s) you choose. (That's what I'm doing!)

If you want to create your own monsters

... first, add new monster data in monsters.csv.

Then, install Python3.

Modify /scripts/create-md.py to change the dir variable with the filepath you'd like the files to be created under.

Run python3 create-md.py. All monsters in monsters.csv should now have a .md file with their parameters filled out.

Sources

The goal is to have everything from the core books and all of the most popular third-party content. Here's what's included now.

Sourcebooks included

Official

  • Basic Rules
  • Monster Manual
  • Hoard of the Dragon Queen, plus supplement
  • Player's Handbook
  • Curse of Strahd
  • Explorer's Guide to Wildemount
  • Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
  • Princes of the Apocalypse , plus supplement
  • Out of the Abyss
  • Rise of Tiamat
  • Storm King's Thunder
  • Tales from the Yawning Portal
  • Volo's Guide to Monsters
  • Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

Third-party

Compilations

I got the initial data for these monsters from other people's work:

Make a contribution

If you have other sources that you'd like to add monsters from, or if you spot typos or other errors in the existing data, feel free to add them to monsters.csv and create a pull request!

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Comments
  • Issues cloning on Windows

    Issues cloning on Windows

    There's one file that isn't able to be cloned due to having a ':' in the filename similar to the Source Column.

    In the CSV it's listed on line 1595:

    • Name: Mador KhWayfinder's Guide to Eberron: Priest of Set

    Error received in Github Desktop:

    Cloning into 'C:\....\xios-guide-to-monsters'...
    remote: Enumerating objects: 3926, done.        
    remote: Counting objects: 100% (3926/3926), done.        
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2755/2755), done.        
    remote: Total 3926 (delta 1244), reused 3848 (delta 1169), pack-reused 0        
    Receiving objects: 100% (3926/3926), 754.46 KiB | 1.05 MiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (1244/1244), done.
    error: invalid path 'monsterfiles/Mador KhWayfinder's Guide to Eberron: Priest of Set.md'
    fatal: unable to checkout working tree
    warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
    You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
    and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'
    
    
    Would you like to retry cloning ?
    

    Updated to remove 1 reference to Tome of Beasts: 331 that was already fixed in a newer version of the Repository.

    opened by ian4uh 2
  • Deleted left over files

    Deleted left over files

    Sorry for the mess of commits. It seems like when the CSV was rerun, it did create the modified files, but the original errored files were still there. The file I renamed became a duplicate and I was still not able to make a local clone due to the Tome of beasts file.

    I was able to find both the files through the online editor and remove them. Sorry for the hassle and confusion.

    opened by ian4uh 1
  • Updated File name to remove ':'

    Updated File name to remove ':'

    Updated Filename and name field on the Markdown file to match the description in the CSV change in 1/1/2022 commit: c8f15a1d82817a1d285794b88b4d23b81b5668ca

    opened by ian4uh 0
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