Bloodied & Bruised Vol. 2 – Volo's Guide to Monsters (Fantasy Grounds)

The Bloodied & Brused Series is now on Fantasy Ground Unity

With Automatic Functionality using the Equipped Effects FG Extension!

New Combat Actions for the Creatures in Volo's Guide to Monsters

The bugbear chief nurses a gushing wound in her side before issuing an order of retreat to her allies. A bright light forms around the angel’s dying body, blinding everyone near it as it passes on from the world of the living. With blood streaming down its torso, an enraged hill giant slams its fists into the ground and causes the earth around it to quake. 

Bloodied & Bruised is a series providing new combat actions for the creatures in the 5e roster. When pushed to their limits in combat, these monsters, critters, fiends, and foes gain new abilities that aid them in battle, or perhaps spell their doom depending on the circumstances. Bloodied & Bruised takes inspiration from the "bloodied" condition from 4e, making entirely new combat actions that can completely change the nature of a fight.

In addition, Bloodied & Bruised also introduces several "death throes" to the game, marking the demise of certain creatures with a grand explosion, heavy fall, or other unique effect to make the slaying of a great monster a truly unique experience.

Examples of Bloodied Actions

Flind

When bloodied at 63 HP, the flind has the following features.

• New Ability: Point Blank Range. While bloodied, the flind suffers no disadvantage on ranged attack rolls while within 5 feet of a hostile creature.
• Strength: Sprint Attack. While bloodied, when the flind moves at least 20 feet in a straight line and then hits a creature with a melee attack, the attack deals one extra die of damage.
• Trigger Ability: Brutality. When first bloodied, the flind lets out a loud, manic cackle, infecting all allies in a 60-foot radius who hear it with an insatiable bloodlust. An allied creature who hears the cackle has advantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn. If this advantage causes the creature to hit, its attack deals one extra die of damage.