Dungeons & Dragons Reference Cards: Monsters Animals and NPCs

The guard, the mule and the rat. Statistically, most of what your party actually fights.

One of three monster decks splitting the 2024 Monster Manual by taxonomy, this one covering animals and non-player characters. It is the least glamorous of the three and probably the most used — bandits, guards, cultists, wolves, horses, the entire supporting cast of any campaign that takes place somewhere people live.

These are the statblocks a Dungeon Master improvises around most often and prepares for least, because nobody writes session notes about a mule. Having them as cards means a random encounter takes ten seconds to assemble instead of a flick through the index, and the mule has the correct number of hit points for once.

Perfect for: The Dungeon Master who has been running every town guard off the same half-remembered statblock since the campaign began.

Monster reference deck | Animals and NPCs | For the 2024 D&D rules