This file has alternatives to the slaad, beholder, yuan-ti, displacer beast, umber hulk, illithid, and carrion crawler. All are clever alterations:
The Ei'risai (slaad) is more chaotic than the frogs as they are individualized by physical mutations. There are 5 different ranks.
Evil Eye (beholder) looks like a huge eye ripped out of the socket. It can fly and the powers come from the single lense. Personally I would drop the flying and make up some creature from with the evil eye was removed.
Greymalkin (displacer beast) uses dimentional movements instead of tentacles to gain reach. I won't spoil the displacement replacement.
Ophiduan (yuan-ti)has 3 castes, all of which have spell-like ablities. All in all a decent replacement.
Phrenic Scourge (illithid)- instead of humanoid, this is a mass of tentacles that can assume humanoid form at will. Adults do not eat brains, but rather implant offspring that do (the mechanics are very different from the illithid attack).
Scavenger Worm (carrion crawler)- uses a spray to paralyse potential prey. Like the ophiduan, there isn't much wiggle room here and so what has been altered, has been done so with a clever twist.
Tunnel Brute (Umber Hulk)- the confusion has been replaced with two things- a poisonous tail and an aura of dispair.
All of these creatures can be considered mutants or varients of the MM versions or can be used as replacements. I like them all and hope to see them used in other publishers' works. Almost everything in the file is open content (the only closed stuff is company names and logos).<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>
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