Yuan-ti Malison (Type 1)

D&D 2024 monster: Yuan-ti Malison (Type 1). Source: Monster Manual (2025). challenge rating 3, creature type Monstrosity, Medium size, speed 30 ft., climb 30... Malisons exhibit snakelike features that make them deadly in combat. Type 1 These malisons have human bodies and the heads of giant, venomous snakes. Malisons possesses deadly venom, which some manipulate into magical strikes. They can also shape-shift into snakes, helping them to position themselves for surprise attacks or to slither away with nary a trace. Yuan-ti Power-Hungry Serpentine Conspirators Habitat: Desert, Forest, Swamp, Urban Treasure: Random Magic Items - Relics Exploiting pacts with sinister supernatural forces, yuan-ti bargain away their humanity for the lethality and predatory deviousness of serpents. From hidden bastions, they manipulate rulers and the wealthy, seeking to control the world. Many yuan-ti possess venomous magic, which often manifests as fangs or striking serpents. Yuan-ti have humanlike forms with a variety of horrifying serpentine transformations. Some have a scattering of reptilian scales, while others are giants that are more snake than human. Typically, the more snakelike yuan-ti are, the greater esteem they hold among their kind. Yuan-ti might gain their reptilian features through dangerous supernatural rites. Roll on or choose a result from the Yuan-ti Transformations table to inspire how yuan-ti obtain their serpentine aspects. 1 Bargaining parts of its soul to a pantheon of serpentine demigods. 2 A curse laid on its people in the distant past. 3 The dream-venom of Merrshaulk, a slumbering snake god. 4 Experiments by spirit nagas or other yuan-ti. 5 A ritual involving the skin of a fiendish snake. 6 Trials to excise its "weak" human parts. Yuan-ti Transformations Great magic, twisted and corrupted... Malice beyond reckoning... Flesh reshaped, becoming serpentine horrors... Monstrosity Medium 30 ft., climb 30 ft. (snake form only)