Dungeons & Dragons Bugbear Stalker Miniature

This is a highly detailed miniature of a Bugbear Stalker.

This model was created by MZ4250 who makes amazingly accurate models of the Monster Manual creatures and provided by Commercial License.

A Bugbear Stalker in Dungeons & Dragons is a specialized variant of the standard bugbear, designed to excel in stealth, ambush tactics, and assassination. While typical bugbears are already known for their brutish strength and surprising agility for their size, a stalker takes those traits further, embracing a role that relies on cunning and surprise rather than brute force alone. These creatures are often found in service to darker powers or monstrous warbands, operating as scouts, hitmen, or lone agents of terror.

Unlike their more boisterous kin, Bugbear Stalkers move with eerie silence and precision. They often operate at night or in shadowed terrain, taking full advantage of their racial affinity for darkness and their natural stealth. Their tactics typically involve careful observation, patient stalking, and sudden lethal strikes. Whether they're creeping through the corridors of a dungeon, trailing a caravan from treetops, or infiltrating a fortified outpost, stalkers prefer to avoid direct confrontation unless they have a clear advantage.

In combat, a Bugbear Stalker is deadly. It often uses its long reach and powerful Surprise Attack trait to deliver devastating blows from ambush. When combined with class-like features such as those borrowed from rogues or rangers in custom builds or through specific stat blocks in published adventures, they may also wield poisoned weapons, ranged implements, or magical items designed for infiltration. In some settings, they may serve evil deities such as Hruggek or cults aligned with stealth, murder, or domination, making them even more dangerous as part of a larger plan.

They are typically solitary or work in small elite units, distinguishing themselves from the standard chaotic rabble of goblinoid forces. Their intellect and tactical awareness make them more than just muscle—they are planners, trackers, and executioners. When a Bugbear Stalker is sent, it means someone very important wants someone very specific dead.

28.06mm tall at 32mm scale.