Displacer beast (race)

This article is about the race. For the individual creature type, see Displacer Beast.

Displacer beasts are a non-playable race of the beast type.

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A displacer beast's coat is slick with illusory magic that can bend light, letting it project images of itself and turn invisible. Adventurers say you can never know a displacer beast's true location - until its claws sink into your belly, that is.

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— In-game racial description

About

Displacer beasts are feline, tentacled creatures resembling panthers. They often live in small groups, preferring sheltered habitats such as caves or tree hollows.

Displacer beasts can be spoken to using  Speak with Animals, and can be transformed into by partial-illithids with  Displacer Beast Shape.

Displacer beast characters

•  Nessa
•  Shadow-Whiskers

Gallery

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  Concept art by Tan Bur-Ci

Notes

• Displacer beasts are Large monstrosities in D&D 5e, but were changed to Medium beasts in Baldur's Gate 3.

External links

•  Displacer beast on the Forgotten Realms Wiki