These monsters can hurl a variety of psionic attacks. Mind flayers are even worse in melee combat, since a successful hit can be fatal due to their ability to drain intelligence.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Mind flayer	Drain intelligence, psionic blast, domination and other attacks psionic attacks that can drain intelligence, psionic blast and domination	40	20,000
Ulitharid	Drain intelligence, psionic blast, domination and other attacks; capable of healing	96	11,000
Vampiric	Level drain plus normal mind flayer abilities	68	14,000

Mists/Horrors

Swift and always found in groups, mists are a common foe.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Crimson Death	Magic resistance, +2 or better weapon to hit	102	9,000
Ice mist	Magic resistance	100	8,000
Mist Horror	Magic resistance, casts chaos	50	3,000
Poison	Magic resistance, poison	45	3,500
Spellhaunt	Magic resistance, drain memorized spells	45	2,000
Swamp horror	Magic resistance, level drain, casts horror	100	7,000
Vampiric	Magical weapons need to hit	40	1,000
Wandering	Magic resistance	40	5,000

Mummy

These undead creatures cause disease and are vulnerable to fire.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Mummy	Cause disease	51	3,000

Myconid

These semi-intelligent plants can hurl ranged spell effects, as described in the following chart, but are easily taken out by concentrated ranged fire or melee attacks.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Myconid	Casts confusion	40	420
King	Casts confusion	50	1,200
Spore colony	Casts poison	70	420

Nymph

These creatures appear as beautiful young women, capable of casting spells including dire charm. Druids can summon these creatures using the spell: call woodland beings.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Nymph	Magic resistance (50%), spell-casting	50	2,400

Ogre

You'll only have to fight these large, evil humanoids in your first challenge, when you'll meet several ogre mages. You'll also meet regular ogres as summoned creatures.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Ogre	None	30	270
Ogre mage	Invisibility, spell-casting a few spells, including magic missile, dire charm, cone of cold and flame arrow.	25	750

Orcs

These legendary humanoid monsters pose little threat in Throne of Bhaal, even in numbers. Occasionally, however, orcs will be equipped with powerful magical items and have advanced in experience levels, making them dangerous opponents. A band of experienced orcs lurks in the sewers of Saradush.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Archers	High-level archers can make called shots	10 or 100	34 or 6,000
Mage	Basic spellcasting	30	1,000
Elite	None	40 or 90	650
Orog, elite	Equipped with magic weapons	60 or 86	850 or 6,000

Sahuagin

You won't have much to fear from these amphibious creatures, since they'll only be encountered as part of your character's nostalgic first challenge.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Sahuagin	None	41	2,000

Salamanders

Frequently kept as guards by more powerful creatures, salamanders have an aura that causes elemental damage to those nearby.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Fire	Damaging fire aura	63	3,500
Frost	Damaging cold aura	73	9,000

Shambling Mounds

These gigantic swamp creatures are favorite pets of malevolent druids.

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Shambling mounds	Invulnerable to crushing weapons, entangling and strangling attacks	160	9,000

Shadows

Another common undead foe, these souls are generally easily dispatched by a cleric:

Monster	Notable Special Abilities	Hit Points	Experience Points
Shadow	Drain strength	30	420
Shadow fiend	Drain strength	32	2,000
Shade, devil	Level drain	60	9,000

 

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