Kick. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) bludgeoning damage.
Increase the Challenge Rating of this creature to see what our editor can do!
A Super Powerful monster editor for D&D 5e
- Increase or decrease the Challenge Rating of every creature
- Edit the statistics of every creature inside the website
- Generate NPC stat blocks and apply races, classes and templates with one click
- Share your creations with the community
Saved actions, subscriptions removed, and the future of this project
Sunday, 2 October 2022
After a few months during which I went on vacation, got covid, found a new job and learned new programming skills, I'm finally updating the website and giving you some great news.
First of all: it is now possible to save creatures' actions as templates and reuse them for other creatures. Most of the actions of the SRD monsters uploaded in the previous months are already available as templates, which is super cool because they're almost all dynamic (they have [tags] and {variables} in them, so they should adapt and scale in power to the monsters you add them to).
I also decided to remove all "paywalls", which means that all features inside the website are now free for everyone. All users can now:
- create folders in Your Creations;
- edit all creatures (official and homebrew) inside Community Creations.
A huge thanks goes to everyone who supported the website with subscriptions in the last 4 months: you've given me so much inspiration and courage, and I'll do all I can to keep this project alive.
If you still want to support Monstershuffler, you can do it through Patreon.
Last but not least... there's something I should tell about how this project was built, something an expert eye could tell from its weird looking components and its quirky buttons: it was made entirely in pure JavaScript, pure CSS, and HTML.
I didn't know much about JavaScript Frameworks when I started working on Monstershuffler in November 2021, and now that I've been using them for a few months, building new features in pure JavaScript has become torture, an excruciating experience that worsens every time I realize how much time I'm wasting. The project is getting too complex and difficult to maintain, and drastic measures must be taken to ensure its survival.
This is why I've decided to rebuild the whole website using a JavaScript framework, and make it open source so that hopefully, in the future, other developers can help me improve it. I've been using Vue.js at work, and it's what I'm probably going to use to rebuild Monstershuffler.com.
-Ismael
Creature Export: Improved-Initiative & Markdown text
Thursday, 23 June 2022
It's now possible to export monsters and NPCs from Monstershuffler to other sources. You can convert any stat block into the Markdown format of GMBinder and Homebrewery, and you can also generate the JSON format of Improved-Initiative.com to add new creatures to that website and manage combat rounds.
The Markdown format is especially useful since other developers have already created tools that let you import that format into other platforms like VTT-Foundry. Check out this tool by Hadalonut for instance:
We're looking for other export options that the community might need, and we're open to suggestions!
-Ismael
Creature Import: Markdown text
Friday, 17 June 2022
Our third choice for importing creatures, the Markdown text format of GMBinder, Homebrewery and TetraCube, is now available in Your Creations.
I must admit that I couldn't find sources of Markdown text other than TetraCube, so wasn't able to test this import as thoroughly as I wanted to. If you're having problems with it let me know in our subreddit.
-Ismael
Creature Import: dndbeyond.com
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
We've added another import option, this time from D&D Beyond. If you want to use it, click on the Import button in Your Creations and paste the webpage URL of an official or homebrew creature from D&D Beyond, like this one:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/16762-aboleth
As always, give it a try and let us know if you found it useful.
-Ismael
Creature Import: improved-initiative.com
Wednesday, 08 June 2022
TL;DR: It is now possible to import monsters from improved-initiative.com! Check the new button in Your Creations.
We're working on ways to import creatures from other sources; we've identified three websites/formats that the D&D community might need most, and the first one we've developed is from improved-initiative.com, an awesome tool that helps hundreds of dungeon masters every day to keep track of combat turns; the guys at improved-initiative have worked hard to create a huge database of creatures from all the free-to-use sources they could find. Their format, JSON, is clean and reliable, and it's been relatively easy for me to convert it to Monstershuffler's format in the last two days.
The conversion is still far from perfect, though, since it doesn't create {values} and {attacks} inside actions yet; nevertheless it's going to save us a lot of time when we need to create variants of SRD or OGL creatures.
The other two websites/formats we'd love to import creatures from are dndbeyond and gmbinder(Markup format), and I'll probably work on that in the following weeks.
Give the new import a try and let us know if it works for you!
-Ismael
Creature Export: which formats do you need?
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
Are you the owner of a website, or app, that can import D&D creatures from other sources, or are you the user of such a website? We can easily create an export option inside Monstershuffler for that website if you give us the details of the file or text format. Send us a request via email or from our subreddit.
Monstershuffler.com is online!
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
Yayy! A big thanks to my girlfriend and all the friends who supported me during these months. Creating something so complex has been challenging, and at the same time so much fun. I'm now looking forward to hear what the D&D community has to say about this project. I hope that the tools I created will make Dungeon Mastering easier for all of you, and that your creativity will benefit from the freedom they give you. -Ismael
