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Top Rated Monster of the Game World by Vote

Last week there was a poll to determine which D&D monsters were the most loved, and which languished unliked in the back of the cupboard. ​

Let's start with the monsters that nobody liked. Well, to be accurate, there were none that scored 0 votes, but the poor empyrean only squeezed in with a single vote. If there's any monster in need of some love, the empyrean is it. It's the least-liked monster in the Monster Manual.

Joining it at the bottom, though, are some other unpopular critters -- the magmin, darkmantle, sprite, satyr, quaggoth, and merrow.

The top of the chart was a little more predictable. The iconic mind flayer led the pack, followed closely by dragons and beholders. A little way behind those three, we had some other D&D staples in the form of skeletons, the lich, goblins, and the troll.

Demons are more popular than devils. Liches are loved more than vampires. Death knights are in the middle of the pack, neither loved nor disliked. The 'iconic' D&D monsters (i.e. the mind flayers and beholders, which D&D created) are very well loved.

Anyway, here's the full list, in descending order.

1. Mind Flayer

2. Dragons

3. Beholders

4. Skeletons

5. Lich

6. Goblins

7. Troll

8. Demons

9. Ghouls

10. Giants

11. Owlbear

12. Ogres

13. Zombies

14. Vampires

15. Devils

16. Displacer Beast

17. Kobolds

18. Wraith

19. Rust Monster

20. Gnolls

21. Orcs

22. Elementals

23. Hags

24. Umber Hulk

25. Carrion Crawler

26. Golems

27. Wight

28. Death Knight

29. Hobgoblins

30. Lycanthropes

31. Mummies

32. Minotaur

33. Lizardfolk

34. Rakshasa

35. Bugbears

36. Bulette

37. Manticore

38. Wyvern

39. Shambling Mound

40. Yuan-Ti

41. Elves (Inc. Drow)

42. Gargoyle

43. Shadow

44. Hydra

45. Mimic

46. Oozes

47. Dracolich

48. Griffon

49. Modrons

50. Aboleth

51. Chimera

52. Flameskull

53. Hell Hound

54. Purple Worm

55. Medusa

56. Oni

57. Roper

58. Basilisk

59. Otyugh

60. Stirge

61. Intellect Devourer

62. Ankheg

63. Dinosaurs

64. Ghost

65. Hook Horror

66. Doppelganger

67. Genies

68. Harpy

69. Pseudodragon

70. Demilich

71. Drider

72. Gibbering Mouther

73. Animated Objects

74. Grell

75. Nightmare

76. Thri-Kreen

77. Banshee

78. Behir

79. Bullywug

80. Nagas

81. Revenant

82. Will-O'-Wisp

83. Dragon Turtle

84. Faerie Dragon

85. Flumph

86. Gith

87. Mephits

88. Sahuagin

89. Slaadi

90. Tarrasque

91. Treant

92. Cockatrice

93. Kuo-Toa

94. Myconids

95. Scarecrow

96. Specter

97. Sphinxes

98. Ettin

99. Nothic

100. Remorhazes

101. Succubus/Incubus

102. Water Weird

103. Gorgon

104. Roc

105. Troglodyte

106. Unicorn

107. Angels

108. Couatl

109. Kraken

110. Peryton

111. Crawling Claw

112. Helmed Horror

113. Salamanders

114. Yugoloths

115. Centaur

116. Dryad

117. Duergar

118. Grick

119. Kenku

120. Lamia

121. Shield Guardian

122. Xorn

123. Cambion

124. Cloaker

125. Cyclops

126. Fomorian

127. Gnome (Inc Svirfneblin)

128. Hippogriff

129. Invisible Stalker

130. Yetis

131. Ettercap

132. Fungi

133. Jackalwere

134. Grimlock

135. Half-Dragon

136. Homunculus

137. Azer

138. Chuul

139. Merfolk

140. Pegasus

141. Pixie

142. Aarakocra

143. Blights

144. Galeb Duhr

145. Piercer

146. Merrow

147. Quaggoth

148. Satyr

149. Sprite

150. Darkmantle

151. Magmin

152. Empyrean