Increase the HIT POINTS DIE COUNT from 2 up to 3.Increase the PASSIVE PERCEPTION from 10 to 13.Change the ARMOR CLASS TYPE from chain mail to Studded Leather.Decrease ARMOR CLASS from 18 down to 17 (Studded leather, + 3 dex bonus, +2 shield).Also, another change also borrowed from the Shadow entry - we want to give our Shadow Goblins a vulnerability to radiant damage. We want these goblins to be tough, but sneaky, so wearing chain mail doesn't really fit, so we're going to drop them down to Studded Leather and increase their dexterity and hit points. Note that we are skipping a number of fields here, that aren't relevant to this monster, such as LEGENDARY ACTIONS and LAIR AND LAIR ACTIONS. Here we modify the description of the Hobgoblin from the standard hobgoblin, to a description of our shadow goblin. Click in the Special Traits text box and, below the description for Martial Advantage, add a new ability called 'Shadow stealth' which we've borrowed and adapted from shadow: We're also going to give them some other special traits. The martial advantage ability that Hobgoblins have remains appropriate for our Shadow Goblins and is part of the reason we used Hobgoblin as a template. Go ahead and click on the dropdown box and select the new alignment. Step 2 - ALIGNMENT field is currently Lawful Evil, but we've decided that the power of the shadow artefact is aligned with chaos, so it is appropriate for our Shadow Goblins to be Chaotic Evil instead. Step 1 - MONSTER NAME field currently contains, 'COPY_OF_Hobgoblin' so click on that field and change that to the name of our new monster, 'Shadow Goblin' or you can call it something different if you prefer. Let's make some changes to create our new monster! The first section, and what you are likely looking at currently, looks like this: The page that shows up next is pretty big and has a LOT of fields for all of the various data that we can edit for our monster! To make the page easier to use, it is broken down into a number of sections that can be expanded and collapsed. Then select Hobgoblin from the MONSTER drop down. We want to create our new monster based on the existing Hobgoblin template, so on the new page, select the MONSTER TYPE of Humanoid, as this will reduce the number of monsters to scroll through in the MONSTER dropdown. The main opponents in these woods are going to be a large tribe of Hobgoblin that are worshipping an artefact that is causing the shadow influence, so we're going to create a variant of the Hobgoblin.įrom the homebrew landing page, click on the CREATE HOMEBREW MONSTER button. We've decided that the magics from the shadow dimension have sufficiently changed some of the standard creatures in the area that they have additional abilities. First off, some themed opposition for our player characters.

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