Son Goku
Son Goku — The Encounter
Stone-born Monkey King, Sage Equal to Heaven · a boss your table can run with almost no prep. SRD 5.1-compatible.
Who Is Son Goku
Born from a stone egg atop the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, the Monkey King schooled himself in the Way until he could leap a thousand leagues on a somersault cloud and split himself into a legion of squabbling copies. From the Dragon Lord of the Eastern Sea he took the As-You-Wish Cudgel, an iron pillar that swells to bridge the clouds or shrinks to hide behind his ear. He feasted on the peaches of immortality and the elixir of the alchemists, struck his name from the ledgers of death, and styled himself Sage Equal to Heaven. For his riot among the celestial courts a band of gold was clamped upon his brow, its spell a leash for his pride. Tamed at last, he walked west as a pilgrim's guardian, his cudgel breaking every demon that barred the road. He is loyal, vain, and utterly unkillable, and he knows it.
Run Son Goku in Sixty Seconds
- He never stands still. Son Goku moves without provoking, climbs walls, and triples his jumps. Track his position every round and let him reposition past the front rank to reach the people you most want him to reach.
- Open by growing the staff. Bonus-action the cudgel to reach 15 ft. and +2d6 damage, lead with a shove that knocks a heavy PC prone, then beat on them while they are down.
- When bloodied, ride the cloud. His Somersault Cloud reaction (on taking damage) teleports him 30 ft. and lets him swing on arrival. Use it to flee a focus-fire and land next to the squishiest target.
- Kill-priority is the healer. Hair Soldiers (recharge 5-6) is a 15-ft. cube of prone-and-bludgeon; save it for two or more clustered PCs, ideally including whoever is keeping the party up.
- Three ways to run him. Pure brawler (staff every round), trickster (Seventy-Two Transformations to infiltrate or feint), or skirmish-leader paired with monkey minions or a bigger boss as the real centerpiece.
Son Goku
Medium celestial (shapechanger), chaotic good
CR 6 · 2,300 XP · GUIDELINEAs-You-Wish Cudgel. Son Goku wields a self-sizing iron staff that obeys his will. As a bonus action he can shrink it to the size of a needle (vanishing it) or grow it to enormous length. When he grows it, his next melee attack this turn has reach 15 ft. and deals an extra 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage.
Seventy-Two Transformations. Shapechanger. As a bonus action, Son Goku can magically polymorph into a Small or Medium beast or humanoid he has seen, or back into his true form. His statistics are the same in each form. Anything he is wearing or carrying transforms with him. He reverts on death.
Cloud-Somersault. Son Goku's movement does not provoke opportunity attacks. He can move along vertical surfaces and across liquids without falling, and his jump distance is tripled.
Actions
Multiattack. Son Goku makes three Iron Cudgel attacks. He can replace one with a use of Hair Soldiers (if available).
Iron Cudgel. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) bludgeoning damage, and if the target is Large or smaller it must succeed on a DC 15 Strength save or be pushed 10 ft. and knocked prone.
Hair Soldiers (Recharge 5-6). Son Goku plucks a tuft of fur and breathes on it, conjuring a swarm of tiny duplicate monkeys in a 15-foot cube within 30 feet. Each creature of his choice in the area takes 21 (6d6) bludgeoning damage and must make a DC 15 Dexterity save, taking half on a success. Creatures that fail are also knocked prone.
Bonus Actions & Reactions
Somersault Cloud. Reaction (when Son Goku takes damage from an attacker he can see within 30 ft.): He vanishes in a streak of cloud and reappears in an unoccupied space he can see within 30 feet, halving the triggering damage. He can make one Iron Cudgel attack against a creature adjacent to his new position.
A wiry, monkey-faced warrior caught mid-swing, his flame-crested fillet blazing and his iron cudgel a blur. Prayer beads loop his fist as he plants one bare foot and unloads, every muscle wound like a spring.
Son Goku, Bound
Companion · acts on your initiative
Bound · GUIDELINERide the Cloud (signature). While standing on the cloud, its rider gains a flying speed of 60 ft. and can take the Dash action as a bonus action. The cloud carries up to two Medium creatures.
Actions
Buffeting Gust. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6+3) bludgeoning damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength save or be pushed 10 ft.
Reactions
Whisk Away. When its rider is hit by an attack, the cloud can dart aside, granting the rider +3 AC against that attack. If this causes the attack to miss, the cloud moves its rider up to 20 ft.
A churning knot of golden mist that comes when whistled for, swift and wilful as the one who calls it.
Guideline numbers — formula-tuned and read from the miniature's design, not yet table-proven. Tell us how it ran in the comments.
How It Fights — by Tier
Same creature, scaled threat. The traits never change; only the numbers move.
Open by growing the cudgel and shoving the heaviest-armored PC prone, then leapfrog past the front line to harry squishy casters. If the party clusters, save Hair Soldiers for the knot. Run him as a hit-and-run skirmisher who never stands still; pair him with a lair gimmick or a heavier brute so the action economy stays fair.
Open by growing the staff for 15-ft. reach, knock the tank prone, and use Somersault Cloud the instant he is bloodied to peel onto a caster. Hold Hair Soldiers until two or more PCs bunch, then drop the AoE and prone them. Kill-priority is the party healer; pair him with a bigger threat or a swarm of monkey minions rather than running him as the whole fight.
Open with a growing-staff prone-shove, then bounce around the battlefield with Somersault Cloud each round so he is never where the burst lands. Lead Hair Soldiers into any cluster and focus the healer. At this tier he reads as a flashy lieutenant: pair him with a flagship boss or a lair full of monkey duplicates, not as a solo encounter.
Put Son Goku on the table
Download the presupported STL and run the fight tonight — the model, and the encounter that comes with it.
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How a bound creature acts
- A companion acts on its owner's initiative, immediately after the owner.
- It uses the Companion block above — roughly ×0.6 HP and damage, no recharge abilities, and at most one reaction trait.
- It moves freely; it takes its Action only while its owner is conscious.
- At 0 HP a companion is broken, not dead — restored on a long rest unless your table rules otherwise.
Original Clay Cyanide material © Clay Cyanide LLC — explicitly not the non-SRD official sidekick rules.
Questions, Asked at the Table
What CR is Son Goku?
His home stat block is CR 6 (2,300 XP), tuned for a level 5-10 party. The sheet also scales to CR 2 (levels 1-4) and CR 11 (levels 11-15) with the same traits and actions; only the numbers move.
Can Son Goku be a companion or ally?
Yes. He makes a brilliant trickster ally or rival-turned-friend, and his Somersault Cloud is a summonable companion in its own right (AC 13, 76 HP) that any rider can fly and fight from.
Is Son Goku a solo boss?
No. He has a strong skirmish reaction but no legendary actions, so a full party will out-act him. Run him as a flashy lieutenant or duelist alongside monkey minions or a bigger flagship threat.
Tell Us How It Ran
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
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Technical Specifications
32mm, 75mm
STL, Pre-supported STL
Standard or ABS-like resin, 0.05mm layer height
Yes — ready to print, optimized supports included
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