Shadow

D&D 2024 monster: Shadow. Source: Monster Manual (2025). challenge rating 1/2, creature type Undead, Medium size, speed 40 ft. Shadow Disembodied, Life-Drinking Shade Habitat: Planar (Shadowfell), Underdark, Urban Treasure: None Shadows are incorporeal Undead that feed on life. They resent the living for possessing the potential and vitality lost to them. Shadows lurk in dark, lonely places, typically sites that were meaningful to them in life or cursed places with ties to death, sinister magic, or the Shadowfell. Their victims rise as new shadows and prey on the living. Shadows might resemble the silhouettes of who they were in life or take on more menacing forms. Roll on or choose a result from the Shadow Shapes table to inspire a shadow's form and haunting. 1 A distorted stalker that lurks in the woods. 2 A fiend that dwells near a wicked ritual site. 3 Grasping hands that haunt a miser's home. 4 A grim storybook character that follows those who speak its name. 5 Its target, acting in eerie pantomime. 6 An ominous priest that haunts a defiled site. Shadow Shapes Undead Medium 40 ft.