
These are additional actions the monster can take under certain circumstances.


One neat thing, certain powerful monsters can have Legendary actions and Lair actions. Between the two PDFs you ought to be able to run a ‘basic’ game of 5e now. There’s also a few pages on building encounters, though no guidance on how much treasure to give. It weighs in at about 60 pages, and contains a decent selection of monsters, some common NPCs (thankfully in a separate section, so they aren’t mixed in with the monsters) and a few magic items. I gave the new Basic DMG PDF a quick look through.
