Bestiary
The full monster roster — filter by CR, tactical role, habitat and size. Each entry is a 2024-layout stat block.
382 of 382 entries
Awakened Shrub
A Small ambulatory bush the size of a crouching child, its tangled woody stems knotted into crude limbs that drag it forward on root-fingers. Brittle grey bark and dead brown leave
Baboon
A Small wild baboon, lean and wiry, its dog-like muzzle drawn back to bare yellowed fangs. Coarse olive-grey fur clumps with dried mud over ropey muscle; its calloused knuckles gri
Badger
A Tiny, low-slung badger no longer than a forearm, built like a wedge of muscle and claw. Its blunt snout wears the signature black-and-white facial stripes, now dulled grey with g
Bat
A Tiny bat, its wingspan barely a hand's width, caught mid-wheel in the dark. Thin membranous wings stretch translucent over needle-fine finger bones, veined and greasy-grey; a snu
Cat
A Tiny house cat, sleek and low, frozen mid-stalk with shoulder blades jutting and tail lashing. Its short fur is a dusty tabby grey, ribs faintly showing beneath; luminous slit-pu
Commoner
A Medium human peasant of unremarkable build, stooped by hard labour and want. Patched, mud-stained homespun wool hangs off a gaunt frame; a weathered, hollow-cheeked face stares o
Crab
A Tiny shore crab, no wider than a spread hand, sidling low across black tidal mud. Its mottled grey-green carapace is pitted and barnacle-crusted, two stalked eyes swivelling abov
Deer
A Medium deer, tall-legged and nervy, muscles quivering under a coat of dun-brown fur stretched over lean ribs. Its ears flare wide and its dark liquid eyes catch the light as it w
Eagle
A Small eagle, wings spread near two arm-spans wide, riding a cold updraft. Its hooked yellow beak and fierce amber eye fix on prey below; bronze-brown plumage is ragged at the win
Frog
A Tiny frog, small enough to sit in a palm, half-submerged in scummy black water. Its warty skin is slick olive-and-brown, mottled for camouflage, throat pulsing; bulbous gold-flec
Giant Fire Beetle
A Small beetle the size of a loaf of bread, its glossy black chitin armoured in overlapping plates. Two glands set behind its head glow with a steady inner fire — shedding warm bri
Goat
A Medium mountain goat, blocky and sure-footed, standing braced on a narrow ledge. Its shaggy coat is matted grey-white and grimed; curved ridged horns sweep back over rectangular-
Hawk
A Tiny hawk, compact and swift, hovering on rapid wingbeats. Barred grey-brown plumage covers a taut body no bigger than a fist; a sharp hooked beak and piercing golden eyes lock o
Homunculus
A Tiny construct homunculus, no larger than a cat, sculpted from clay-grey flesh over a fragile birdlike frame. Leathery bat wings fold from its back; its oversized head bears a li
Hyena
A Medium hyena, its sloped back higher at the shoulders than the haunches, giving it a hunched, skulking gait. Coarse spotted tan-and-brown fur is patchy and scarred; a heavy, bone
Jackal
A Small jackal, lean and long-legged, slinking low with ears pricked forward. Its coarse sandy-grey coat is dusty and thin over a narrow ribcage; a sharp pointed muzzle and amber e
Lemure
A Medium devil, a wretched blob of molten flesh vaguely shaped like a hunched humanoid. Its formless grey-pink body sags and drips like half-melted wax, featureless save for a sing
Lizard
A Tiny lizard, the length of a finger, clinging flat to a vertical stone. Its scaled hide is a drab grey-brown, dusty and cracked-looking, with splayed toes and tiny curved claws t
Owl
A Tiny owl, soft-feathered and silent, gliding on a broad noiseless wingspan through pitch dark. Mottled grey-and-brown plumage blurs its outline; a flat facial disc frames two eno
Piranha
A Tiny piranha, a palm-sized slab of muscle and teeth, suspended in murky water. Its deep-bodied flanks glint dull silver shading to a red-blushed belly; a jutting underbite reveal
Rat
A Tiny rat, scrawny and quick, its greasy grey-brown fur slicked with filth. A naked scaly pink tail trails behind a lean body; beady black eyes glint and yellow chisel-teeth show
Raven
A Tiny raven, glossy blue-black from beak to tail, perched hunched on a weathered gibbet-beam. Its heavy wedge-shaped bill parts as if to mimic a heard sound; oil-sheened feathers
Scorpion
A Tiny scorpion, no longer than a thumb, its segmented carapace a dull sand-brown gleaming faintly. Two barbed pincers spread wide while its jointed tail arcs overhead, the venom-s
Seahorse
A Tiny seahorse, barely a thumb's length, hovering nearly motionless in dim green water. Its ridged, armour-plated body curls into an S, a prehensile tail coiled around a strand of
Shrieker Fungus
A Medium fungus, a bloated pallid mushroom nearly waist-high, its clammy grey-violet cap slumped and veined with darker rot. A puckered gill-slit down one side gapes like a lipless
Spider
A Tiny spider, the size of a coin, hanging at the centre of a dew-beaded web. Eight thin bristled legs splay from a bulbous dark abdomen marked with faint mottling; a cluster of ti
Vulture
A Medium vulture, hunched and ragged, its bald wrinkled grey-pink head bent low on a scrawny bare neck. Dusty black-brown flight feathers hang like a tattered cloak over a heavy bo
Weasel
A Tiny weasel, a slinking ribbon of muscle barely a hand long, its lithe body low to the ground. Sleek russet-brown fur pales to cream at the throat; a sharp little face with black
Bandit
A Medium human bandit, wiry and hard-eyed, wrapped in scuffed leather armour patched with mismatched scraps. A hood shadows a stubbled, scarred face; one hand levels a worn light c
Blood Hawk
A Small blood hawk, larger and fiercer than a common hawk, its plumage a deep rust-red streaked with crimson as if perpetually blood-soaked. A cruel hooked beak, sharpened for tear
Camel
A Large camel, tall and rawboned, its single humped back rising above knobbly long legs. A shaggy dust-tan coat hangs in ragged clumps over a bony frame; a long sloping neck lifts
Cultist
A Medium human cultist, gaunt beneath a hooded robe of coarse charcoal-grey cloth stained with dark residue. A pale zealot's face, eyes fever-bright with devotion, peers from the c
Flying Snake
A Tiny winged serpent, barely two feet of sinuous coil, its scales a jewel-bright but muted red-and-gold banded with black. A pair of membranous, feather-fringed wings splay from b
Giant Crab
A Medium giant crab, broad as a shield, scuttling sideways on jointed spider-like legs. Its thick mottled grey-green carapace is scarred, encrusted with barnacles and dripping brin
Giant Rat
A Small giant rat, the size of a large dog, its mangy grey-brown fur matted and mange-bald in patches over a lean, sinewy body. A long naked pink tail lashes; oversized yellow inci
Giant Weasel
A Medium giant weasel, the length of a man, a low elongated tube of coiled muscle. Its sleek fur is a dusky russet-brown, glossy over rippling sinew; a narrow wedge-shaped head wit
Goblin Minion
A Small goblin, hunched and scrawny, its sallow mustard-green skin stretched over knobbly bone. Oversized bat-like ears frame a mean, sharp-toothed face with darting yellow eyes; a
Guard
A Medium human guard, broad-shouldered and disciplined, encased in a dull chain shirt over a padded gambeson, a battered wooden shield strapped to one arm. A plain steel-rimmed fac
Kobold Warrior
A Small kobold, a scrawny reptilian dragon-kin barely three feet tall, its pebbled rust-red scales dull and dusty. A narrow snouted head bears tiny nub horns and beady red eyes tha
Mastiff
A Medium mastiff, a heavy-boned war-dog with a broad slab-muscled chest and thick neck. Its short brindle coat is scarred and grimed; jowly lips draw back over powerful bone-crushi
Merfolk Skirmisher
A Medium merfolk, humanoid from the waist up with a long finned fish-tail below, a creature of elemental cold water. Its skin is a pallid blue-grey, sheened with brine and faintly
Mule
A Medium mule, sturdy and thick-legged, standing patient under a heavy pack-frame lashed with worn bundles. Its short coat is a dusty dun-brown, coarse and dull; a heavy head with
Noble
A Medium human aristocrat standing at ordinary height, clad in a fitted steel breastplate chased with tarnished heraldic filigree, a fine but travel-stained cloak thrown over one s
Pony
A small, stocky Medium beast of burden, barely shoulder-high to a person, with a shaggy dun coat matted by mud and burrs, a thick neck and short sturdy legs built for hard hauling.
Stirge
A Tiny bat-mosquito hybrid the size of a large crow, its bloated leathery body slung beneath four grasping insectile legs and a pair of ragged membranous wings. A long needle-sharp
Venomous Snake
A Tiny serpent barely two feet long, coiled tight and taut with its wedge-shaped head reared back to strike, forked tongue tasting the air. Its scales are a muted olive-and-charcoa
Warrior Infantry
A Medium human soldier of common levy, armored in a dented chain shirt over padded gambeson, a plain steel spear leveled forward in a disciplined braced stance. The face is grim an
Animated Flying Sword
A Small enchanted longsword, roughly arm-length, hovering upright and unwielded in empty air, point angled to strike. Its blade is pitted grey steel etched with faint dead runes, t
Axe Beak
A Large flightless predatory bird taller than a man, all long powerful legs and a thick muscular neck ending in an enormous hatchet-shaped beak edged like a cleaver. Its plumage is
Blink Dog
A Medium fey hound the size of a large wolf, lean and noble with a tawny-grey coat that shimmers faintly as if half-phased out of the world. Mid-teleport, its hindquarters dissolve
Boar
A Medium wild boar, low-slung and heavy with a barrel of coarse bristled black-brown hide over slabs of shoulder muscle. Its head is down and driving, a pair of yellowed curved tus
Constrictor Snake
A Large constrictor serpent easily twelve feet long, its thick muscular coils looped over a half-submerged log, patterned in muted olive, umber and black blotches that melt into sw
Draft Horse
A Large, immensely powerful workhorse, broad-chested and thick-limbed with feathered fetlocks over dinner-plate hooves, standing a full head taller than a person. Its coat is a dul
Dretch
A Small, squat demon barely three feet tall, a bloated grey-green paunch on stubby legs with overlong clawed arms dragging near the ground. Its face is a slumped mass of drooping f
Elk
A Large wild elk standing taller than a mounted rider at the shoulder, crowned with a broad rack of many-tined antlers weathered like old bone. Its coarse winter coat is greyed dun
Giant Badger
A Medium badger swollen to the size of a large hound, low and heavily muscled with a broad wedge skull and a coat of coarse grey guard-hairs over black underfur, the signature whit
Giant Bat
A Large bat with a wingspan wider than a doorway, its skeletal wing-fingers stretching taut leathery membranes veined and torn at the edges. A snub, wrinkled muzzle bristles with n
Giant Centipede
A Small but nightmarish centipede as long as a person's arm, its segmented chitinous body a glossy oxblood-and-black, dozens of amber legs rippling in fluid waves. A pair of curved
Giant Frog
A Medium amphibian the size of a large dog, a bloated warty body of mottled swamp-green and bruise-brown slick with slime, its huge distended mouth gaping to swallow prey whole. Bu
Giant Lizard
A Large reptile some eight feet long, thick-bodied and clawed with pebbled slate-grey scales and a ridge of low spines down its spine, clinging impossibly to a sheer cavern wall. I
Giant Owl
A Large celestial owl with a wingspan of nearly twenty feet, its plumage a soft dappled silver-grey that seems to drink the gloom, edged with the faintest holy luminescence. A broa
Giant Venomous Snake
A Medium serpent nearly ten feet of lithe muscle, banded in warning colors of muted gold, black and oxblood that gleam dully on scaled skin. Its broad diamond head rears high on an
Giant Wolf Spider
A Medium hunting spider spanning a person's torso, a squat hairy body of mottled grey-brown and black bristles over eight thick jointed legs built for pouncing. A cluster of glossy
Goblin Warrior
A Small goblinoid fey barely three feet tall, wiry and hunched with sickly grey-green skin, jug ears and a flat-nosed sneering face lit by beady red eyes. It wears scavenged leathe
Grimlock
A Medium grey-skinned aberration of humanoid build, gaunt and sinewy, its face a horror of smooth blank flesh where eyes should be — utterly blind, hunting only by sound and scent.
Panther
A Medium big cat, sleek and low with a sinuous coat of oily blue-black fur over rolling shoulder muscle, taut with predatory tension. Its head is dropped in a stalking creep, green
Priest Acolyte
A Medium human cleric in a mud-hemmed robe over a chain shirt, gripping a heavy mace in one hand while the other raises a tarnished holy symbol that sheds a wan flame of radiant li
Pseudodragon
A Tiny dragon the size of a house cat, catlike and cunning, sheathed in fine brick-red scales with a pair of translucent membranous wings folded at its back. A stubby horned brow,
Pteranodon
A Medium flying reptile with a leathery wingspan wider than a wagon, its body lean and drab olive-brown, ending in a long toothless beak balanced by a swept-back bony head-crest. I
Riding Horse
A Large riding horse, tall and clean-limbed with a lean athletic frame built for speed, its bay coat dull and dusty, mane and tail wind-tangled. Nostrils flared and eyes rimmed whi
Skeleton
A Medium animated skeleton of yellowed, cracked bone held together by dark necromantic sinew, draped in rotted rags and a rusted iron cap. It raises a shortbow with a nocked arrow,
Sprite
A Tiny fey no taller than a hand-span, slender and dragonfly-winged, with pale bark-tinged skin and sharp elfin features set in cold suspicion. It levels a needle-thin sword and a
Steam Mephit
A Small elemental imp of living scalding vapor, its blurred grey-white body wreathed in hissing wisps of steam so that its edges dissolve and shift. Squat and winged with tattered
Violet Fungus
A Medium ambulatory fungus roughly person-height, a fibrous purple-grey stalk topped by a drooping cap, from which several long tendril-arms hang and lash. The tendrils weep a blac
Wolf
A Medium grey wolf, lean and rangy with a coarse ash-and-charcoal pelt over ribs and wiry muscle, hackles raised and head lowered in a hunting crouch. Its yellow eyes glint with pa
Zombie
A Medium shambling undead, a bloated grey corpse of split, sloughing flesh over exposed muscle, jaw slack and empty eyes filmed white. It lurches forward on stiff broken limbs, arm
Ape
A Medium great ape, heavily built with long powerful arms and a barrel chest under coarse black-brown fur, knuckles planted as it rears to hurl a jagged rock. Its brow is furrowed
Black Bear
A Medium black bear, compact and powerful with a shaggy coal-dark coat over rolling muscle, standing half-reared on hind legs with forepaws raised and curved claws spread. Its blun
Cockatrice
A Small monstrosity the size of a large rooster, an unnerving fusion of scaly bird and reptile — bat-like membranous wings, a lizard's barbed tail, and drab mottled grey-brown feat
Crocodile
A Large crocodile some twelve feet long, an armored slab of knobbed olive-black hide over rows of bony ridged scutes, low and half-submerged in murky water. Only its ridged eyes an
Darkmantle
A Small aberration resembling a living stalactite, a squat rubbery body of stone-grey mottled hide that unfurls into a ring of grasping tentacles rimming a maw of tiny teeth. It ha
Dust Mephit
A Small elemental of caked ashen dust and grit, its gaunt winged imp-body crumbling and reforming in a perpetual haze of grey powder, sunken hollow eyes and a sneering cracked face
Giant Goat
A Large mountain goat standing taller than a person at the shoulder, heavy-bodied with a shaggy storm-grey coat, cloven hooves and a pair of thick backswept ridged horns. Its head
Giant Seahorse
A Large aquatic seahorse the size of a warhorse, its armored ridged body curled in an upright S, plated in overlapping bony scutes of muted teal and pearl-grey. A long tubular snou
Giant Wasp
A Medium predatory wasp the size of a large dog, its segmented body sheathed in glossy black-and-amber chitin banded with sickly warning stripes. Four veined, translucent wings blu
Gibberling
A Small, hunched aberration barely waist-high, its pale grey skin stretched taut over a lipless, endlessly babbling mouth crammed with needle teeth and vacant milky eyes that shrin
Gnoll Warrior
A Medium hyena-headed fiend, lean and hunched, its mangy dun fur matted over cords of wiry muscle and a starved rib cage. It bares blood-flecked fangs in a rictus snarl, gripping a
Gray Ooze
A Medium amorphous slime the size of a slumped body, its slick metallic-gray surface deceptively resembling wet stone or spilled mercury as it oozes across a cramped underground fl
Hobgoblin Warrior
A Medium martial goblinoid standing rigid at attention, its orange-red skin taut over a disciplined, broad-shouldered frame clad in dented half-plate with a battered shield slung c
Ice Mephit
A Small winged elemental of jagged blue-white ice, its crystalline body faceted like broken glaciers with frost feathering off tattered sleet-wings. Rime coats its clawed limbs and
Magma Mephit
A Small winged elemental of cracked black basalt veined with molten orange, glowing lava seeping through the fissures of its crumbling skin and dripping from ragged wings. It bares
Magmin
A Small humanoid elemental of hardened charcoal-black rock, its body laced with a lattice of glowing molten seams that pulse like a dying forge. It stands ablaze, wreathed in brigh
Reef Shark
A Medium predatory shark, sleek and torpedo-bodied, its slate-grey hide fading to pale underbelly as it knifes through dim, murky shallows. Rows of serrated teeth line a gaping cre
Rust Monster
A Medium armored monstrosity like a hulking horned insect, its segmented rusty-brown carapace plated and pebbled, four spindly clawed legs and a stiff propeller-like tail behind. T
Sahuagin Warrior
A Medium fish-fiend, humanoid but finned and scaled in mottled green-black, with webbed clawed hands, a spined dorsal ridge, and a shark-like head split by a needle-toothed maw and
Satyr
A Medium fey with the torso of a lean man and the shaggy-furred goat legs and cloven hooves below, a pair of curling ram horns crowning a sharp, mocking face. Wild dark hair frames
Scout
A Medium human ranger, weathered and lean in worn leather armor and a hooded travel cloak dulled with road-dust and camouflage. Half-crouched in wary stillness, they draw a longbow
Shadow
A Medium undead of pure living darkness, a humanoid silhouette with no substance — a creeping smear of blackness edged in cold violet, its form dissolving into tendrils of gloom at
Tough
A Medium human brawler, thickset and scarred, in scuffed leather armor over a barrel chest, knuckles heavy on a battered mace with a loaded heavy crossbow slung at the back. A brok
Troll Limb
A Small severed troll's arm, hacked free at the shoulder yet uncannily alive, its rubbery mottled-green hide slick and warty over knotted muscle, ending in a splayed clawed hand. T
Warhorse
A Large destrier, powerfully muscled and broad through the chest, its glossy dark hide gleaming with sweat as it rears mid-charge, forehooves flailing. A tossing mane, flared nostr
Warhorse Skeleton
A Large undead warhorse reduced to bleached, yellowed bone, its skeletal frame draped in tatters of rotted barding and rusted buckles, empty eye sockets glowing with a faint cold l
Worg
A Large fey wolf-beast, hulking and heavy-shouldered, its coarse ash-grey and black pelt bristling over slavering jaws lined with yellowed fangs. Malevolent, intelligent amber eyes
Animated Armor
A Medium suit of empty plate armor standing upright and animate, its dented steel shell moving with no body inside — the visor gaping onto hollow darkness where a face should be. I
Brass Dragon Wyrmling
A Medium metallic dragon hatchling, its warm brass scales dulled and tarnished to a muddy bronze-gold, slender neck and small curved horns above intelligent, curious eyes. It sprea
Brown Bear
A Large brown bear, massive and heavy through the shoulders, its shaggy weather-matted brown fur rippling over slabs of muscle as it rears on hind legs. Jaws gape in a thunderous r
Bugbear Warrior
A Medium goblinoid brute, tall and long-armed, its wiry frame draped in scruffy tawny-brown fur and patchy hide armor, a snout of yellowed fangs beneath small red eyes. It hefts a
Carbuncle
A Tiny fey no larger than a housecat, catlike and lithe with soft dusk-blue fur, oversized soulful eyes, and a deceptively wounded, pitiable posture that begs to be picked up. Set
Copper Dragon Wyrmling
A Medium metallic dragon hatchling, its scales a weathered patina of copper and verdigris green streaking the dull metal, with a broad frill-like crest sweeping back from a sly, cu
Death Dog
A Medium monstrosity like a gaunt, mange-ridden hound with two snarling heads on thick corded necks, its patchy grey-brown hide stretched over jutting ribs. Both maws drip with fet
Dire Wolf
A Large primeval wolf, far bigger than any natural one, its heavy frame layered in thick shaggy grey-black fur over a deep chest and long powerful legs. Lips peel back from oversiz
Dryad
A Medium fey woman grown of and into the forest, her bark-textured skin dappled brown and green, hair a cascade of living leaves and twisting vine, eyes deep amber. One hand lashes
Ghoul
A Medium undead, a hunched emaciated corpse-eater with taut grey-green skin drawn over a jutting skeletal frame, its belly sunken and ribs stark. Blackened claws and a jaw crammed
Giant Eagle
A Large celestial eagle with a wingspan wider than a wagon, its barred brown-and-gold plumage catching a faint radiant sheen at the feather-tips. Hooked golden beak and outstretche
Giant Hyena
A Large hyena swollen to monstrous size, its sloping muscular back and heavy fore-shoulders cloaked in coarse spotted dun-and-grey fur, jaws thick with bone-cracking teeth. It bare
Giant Octopus
A Large cephalopod, its bulbous mottled reddish-grey mantle the size of a barrel and eight muscular sucker-lined tentacles unfurling in a grasping tangle. A single cold, slitted ey
Giant Spider
A Large arachnid the size of a horse, its bulbous abdomen and long jointed legs sheathed in bristled black chitin marbled with dull crimson markings, a cluster of glinting eyes abo
Giant Toad
A Large amphibian, squat and bloated as a boulder, its warty olive-and-brown hide slick with slime, a cavernous mouth splitting its bulk from side to side. Bulging yellow eyes prot
Giant Vulture
A Large monstrous vulture, gaunt and hunch-winged, its filthy black-brown plumage ragged over a wrinkled, featherless red-grey neck and a cruel hooked beak. Cold, cunning malice gl
Goblin Boss
A Small goblinoid warlord, wiry and hunched but swaggering, its warty green skin scarred and its beady red eyes glinting with cruel cunning. Clad in a looted chain shirt with a bat
Harpy
A Medium monstrosity fusing a gaunt, hag-like woman's torso with the wings, legs, and cruel talons of a great filthy bird, ragged brown feathers matted into stringy human hair. Its
Hippogriff
A Large beast-hybrid with the head, taloned forelegs, and folded wings of a giant eagle joined to the muscular hindquarters of a warhorse, brown-and-grey feathers blending into a d
Imp
A Tiny devil, a spindly crimson-skinned imp barely knee-high, with membranous bat wings, a whip-thin barbed tail curling behind, and small curved horns above a sly fanged grin. It
Lion
A Large lion, heavy with muscle, its tawny golden coat and thick dark mane rippling as it rears into a roaring lunge, jaws wide and long claws unsheathed. Fierce amber eyes and bar
Pirate
A Medium human rogue-swashbuckler, lithe and quick, in weathered leather armor over a salt-stained sash, a brace of daggers at the belt and one spinning in hand. A scarred, roguish
Quasit
A Tiny demon, a spidery green-black imp-like fiend the size of a cat, its warty hide slick and dark, spindly clawed limbs and a spined ridge along the back, small horns crowning a
Specter
A Medium undead spirit, a gaunt translucent humanoid wraith trailing off into wisps of grave-mist below the waist, its tattered spectral form drifting weightless and hovering. A ho
Sphinx of Wonder
A Tiny celestial the size of a house cat, a winged feline with sleek black fur faintly haloed by a soft starlit radiance, small feathered wings folded at its flanks and intelligent
Spy
A lean Medium humanoid in unmarked dark travelling clothes and a hooded cloak, built for shadows rather than the open field — poison-dark residue glistening along the edge of a sli
Tiger
A powerful Large hunting cat, roughly nine feet nose to tail, its heavy muscle rolling beneath burnt-orange fur seared with black stripes, white throat and belly gone grimy in the
Allosaurus
A Large predatory dinosaur the size of a warhorse standing tall on powerful bird-like hind legs, its long stiff tail counterbalancing a deep skull crowded with backswept fangs. Peb
Animated Rug of Smothering
A Large ornate carpet risen unnaturally from a dungeon floor, its once-fine weave now faded and moth-eaten, rearing and rippling upright like a hunting manta as if a body still wri
Ankheg
A Large burrowing monstrosity like a nightmare beetle-mantis, its long armored body sheathed in overlapping chitin plates the color of wet slate and dried blood. It erupts from cra
Ashen Creeper
A Medium fire elemental shaped like a low, four-limbed crawler, its body formed of compacted grey ash and cracked cinder-scale over veins of dull orange embers that pulse when it m
Awakened Tree
A Huge animate tree three times the height of a man, its gnarled trunk split by a groaning knothole face and eyes deep in the bark, massive limbs reshaped into reaching arms and sl
Azer Sentinel
A Medium dwarf-like elemental of living bronze and stone, its beard and hair a crackling crest of open flame, skin like sun-hot metal with molten seams glowing between the plates.
Bandit Captain
A Medium humanoid rogue-commander in worn studded leather, a swagger in the stance and old scars across a hard, handsome face. A curved scimitar hangs in one hand while the other r
Berserker
A Medium hulking warrior stripped to hide armor and scarred bare skin, corded with muscle and slick with sweat and blood, eyes wild with battle-madness. A huge notched greataxe is
Black Dragon Wyrmling
A Medium chromatic dragon hatchling the size of a large hound, sinuous and low-slung, its wet-looking scales an oily black shading to bruised grey along the belly. A single blunt h
Bronze Dragon Wyrmling
A Medium metallic dragon hatchling, houndsized but proud, sheathed in overlapping bronze scales dulled to tarnished green-brown at the edges, a ridge of smooth plates crowning its
Centaur Trooper
A Large fey warrior, human torso rising from the powerful body of a war-horse, standing nearly seven feet at the crown. The equine barrel is muscled and dun-coated with a scarred h
Cistern Lurker
A Medium amphibious aberration the size of a large man, its body a slick, eyeless mass of grey-green rubbery flesh ribbed with fluke-like ridges and lined with backward-curving pie
Cultist Fanatic
A Medium robed zealot in leather beneath dark vestments, a bone holy symbol of some forbidden power clutched high, eyes rolled to fervent whites. In the other hand a black pact bla
Druid
A Medium humanoid nature-priest in studded leather layered with pelts, leaves and bark charms, gripping a living vine-wrapped staff that sprouts fresh green even in a dying world.
Ettercap
A Medium spidery humanoid, hunched and gangly, its distended belly and clawed limbs marking it as half-man half-arachnid. Grey-green skin stretches over a pot-bellied frame; a swol
Gargoyle
A Medium winged elemental of living stone, crouched and gaunt, its granite hide cracked and lichen-stained so that at rest it passes for a mere carving. Batlike wings fold over a h
Gelatinous Cube
A Large near-transparent ooze forming a perfect ten-foot cube of quivering acidic jelly that fills a dungeon corridor wall to wall. Faintly greenish and glass-clear, it drifts forw
Ghast
A Medium undead ghoul-lord, gaunt and hunnaturally lithe, its greyish flesh drawn tight over jutting bone, belly sunken and ribs showing. Blackened claws and a maw crowded with jag
Giant Boar
A Large feral boar the size of an ox, hunched with a bristling humped shoulder ridge, coarse black-brown hair matted with mud and old blood. Yellowed tusks curve up from a slaverin
Giant Constrictor Snake
A Huge serpent as thick as a man's torso and dozens of feet long, its coils looping and re-looping across the frame in glistening muscle. Olive and swamp-brown scales run in a dark
Giant Elk
A Huge celestial stag standing over ten feet at the shoulder, noble and powerful, crowned with a vast sweeping rack of antlers like a cathedral of bone. Its coat is a deep tawny-gr
Gibbering Mouther
A Medium aberration of pure madness — a heaving mound of pinkish-grey flesh studded with dozens of mismatched mouths and rolling eyes, all babbling and weeping at once. Its boneles
Green Dragon Wyrmling
A Medium chromatic dragon hatchling, lithe and serpentine, sheathed in scales of deep forest and emerald green that darken to near-black along the spine. A pair of small horns swee
Grick
A Medium wormlike aberration, its long segmented rubbery body a mottled stony grey that blends perfectly with cavern rock. A cluster of four barbed tentacles fans out around a crue
Griffon
A Large predator fusing the forequarters of a giant eagle with the body of a lion, powerful and fierce, spanning a wingspread far wider than a horse is long. Golden-brown feathers
Hunter Shark
A Large apex shark twelve feet of streamlined muscle, slate-grey above and pale below, built to run down anything that bleeds. Its blunt conical snout leads a maw of ragged serrate
Merrow
A Large aquatic monstrosity, a corrupted merfolk grown huge and brutish — a barrel-chested torso of blotchy blue-green hide above a thick, powerful fish tail. Its face is a nightma
Mimic
A Medium shapeshifting predator caught mid-transformation between an innocent object and its true form — an old iron-bound treasure chest whose lid has split into a cavernous fange
Minotaur Skeleton
A Large undead skeleton of a bull-headed giant, near eight feet tall, its massive horned skull leering above a rack of yellowed, cracked bones held together by dark necrotic will.
Ochre Jelly
A Large amorphous ooze, a heaving mound of translucent ochre-yellow slime that clings to a dungeon wall and drools down its own bulk. Its surface glistens and quivers, faint darker
Ogre
A Large brutish giant near ten feet tall, hunched and heavy-gutted, with slabs of muscle over sallow, warty greyish-brown hide. A small dull-eyed head with a jutting jaw and crooke
Ogre Zombie
A Large undead ogre, its hulking ten-foot frame rotted and swollen, greyish flesh split to show blackened muscle and jutting bone, one arm hanging half-torn yet still terribly stro
Pegasus
A Large celestial horse of proud, powerful build, its coat a weathered dove-grey to off-white, crowned with a vast pair of feathered wings that sweep back like a great bird's. Musc
Plesiosaurus
A Large marine reptile some twenty feet long, a barrel body driven by four broad paddle-fins and topped by an impossibly long, snaking neck ending in a small fanged head. Its hide
Polar Bear
A Large arctic bear, a half-ton of dense muscle under thick, weather-yellowed white fur gone grey-dingy at the edges, its black nose, lips and small eyes stark against the pale pel
Priest
A Medium humanoid cleric of solemn bearing in a chain shirt beneath travel-worn holy vestments, a heavy mace in one hand and a tarnished holy symbol raised in the other. A soft rad
Rafter Stalker
A Small monstrosity, lithe and hunched to the size of a large hound folded into a coil, its limbs disproportionately long and spider-jointed, ending in curved slashing talons that
Rhinoceros
A Large tank of a beast, over two tons of hunched muscle armored in thick, folded grey-brown hide creased like cracked leather plating. A great blunt horn juts from its lowered sno
Saber-Toothed Tiger
A Large prehistoric great cat, heavier and more thickly muscled than any living tiger, its short tawny-grey coat dappled with faint rosettes over a powerful barrel chest. Twin curv
Sea Hag
A Medium fey crone of drowned horror, hunched and gangly, her bloated seaweed-green skin sagging over sharp bones, strung with barnacles, brine-sores and lank kelp-hair. Yellowed f
Sheet Phantom
A Medium undead that looks exactly like a filthy, yellowed bedsheet drifting in the air, its worn linen folds hanging where a body should be, hollow eye-like creases suggesting a f
Wererat
A Medium lycanthrope caught in hybrid form, a wiry human body warped with a rat's coarse-furred head, twitching whiskers, chisel teeth and a long naked scaly tail. Patchy grey-brow
Will-o’-Wisp
A Tiny undead spark, a single hovering orb of cold pale fire no bigger than a lantern-flame, its glow flickering blue-white to sickly green as it drifts and bobs. There is no body
Ankylosaurus
A Huge armored dinosaur the size of a battle wagon, its low-slung body plated in overlapping bony osteoderms like a living fortress, ending in a massive fused tail-club of knotted
Basilisk
A Medium eight-legged reptilian monstrosity, thickset and low, its warty hide a sickly green-brown crusted with mineral spurs, crowned by a bony frill. Its most terrible feature is
Bearded Devil
A Medium infernal fiend, gaunt and wiry with scaled crimson-and-rust skin, wickedly barbed tail and clawed feet, its face split by a writhing serpentine beard of thrashing tendrils
Blue Dragon Wyrmling
A Medium chromatic dragon hatchling, roughly the size of a large hound, its hide sheathed in glossy cobalt-and-indigo scales that spark faintly with static. A single blunt frontal
Bone Weaver
A Medium undead sorcerer-thing, human-sized, robed in tattered grave-cloth over a lattice of fused bone that serves as armor, its skeletal fingers trailing threads of pale marrow-l
Bramble Runner
A Medium fey skirmisher, a lithe elfin creature of green-brown limbs woven from vine and thornwood, a slim thorn-blade in hand and thorn-darts at its hip, caught in a blur of headl
Bugbear Stalker
A Medium hulking goblinoid fey, broad-shouldered and long-armed, its coarse matted fur a dun grey-brown over knotted muscle, clad in a battered chain shirt. Its flat feral face bea
Doppelganger
A Medium shapeshifting monstrosity caught mid-transformation, its true form a gaunt ash-grey humanoid with smooth featureless skin, bulbous colorless eyes, and elongated limbs. Hal
Giant Scorpion
A Large armored arachnid the size of a warhorse, its segmented carapace a glossy blackened chitin banded with sickly amber, eight legs skittering low over cracked ground. Two great
Glimmerfly Swarm
A Large swarm of countless Tiny fey — moth-winged, dragonfly-slender insectoid sprites, each no bigger than a thumb, together boiling into a churning cloud the size of an ogre. The
Green Hag
A Medium fey crone with rubbery bark-green skin slick as pond-scum, warted and mottled, her lank black hair tangled with weeds and her mouth crowded with broken yellow fangs. Long
Hell Hound
A Medium fiendish hound larger than a mastiff, its charred coal-black hide stretched over corded muscle, eyes glowing molten orange and fire seeping between its fangs. Cracks of em
Hobgoblin Captain
A Medium martial goblinoid, disciplined and hard-eyed, with orange-red skin, a broad flat nose and jutting lower fangs, its dark hair bound in a topknot. It wears polished half-pla
Iron Golem
A Medium armored automaton in the shape of a plate-clad warrior, its whole form wrought of dark riveted iron etched with faint sigils, joints venting thin sacred vapor. It grips a
Killer Whale
A Huge apex marine beast, torpedo-bodied and glistening, its sleek hide a stark black above and pale grey-white beneath, the tall dorsal fin slicing the surface. Its blunt head ope
Manticore
A Large monstrosity fusing a tawny lion's body, broad leathery bat-wings, and a grotesque near-human face rimmed with three rows of shark-like teeth. Its most lethal feature is the
Minotaur of Baphomet
A Large bull-headed brute towering over a man, slabs of muscle under shaggy black-brown hide, a broad snorting snout and vast curved horns scarred from countless charges. It wields
Mire Chanter
A Medium fey, roughly human-sized but elongated and hunched, its skin the mottled green-black of bog-slime with reeds, roots, and strands of pondweed growing from its scalp and sho
Mummy
A Medium undead swathed in ancient blackened linen wrappings, dry and cracked, trailing loose tatters that hang from withered limbs; between the bandages shows shrunken leathery fl
Nightmare
A Large demonic steed shaped like a monstrous black horse, its coal-dark coat smoking, mane and hooves blazing with living flame that sheds bright light around it. Fiery eyes burn
Owlbear
A Large apex predator melding a great bear's hulking body with the head of an owl, hooked horn-beak agape in a shriek and round feral eyes glaring. Shaggy brown-grey fur mats into
Phase Spider
A Large arachnid monstrosity whose translucent chitin shimmers with an otherworldly ethereal sheen, half-fading between planes so its bruised violet-and-black carapace looks ghostl
Plaguesong Beggar
A Medium undead disguised as a wretched beggar, a hunched hooded figure in filthy rags with an outstretched, gangrenous hand, its true nature a rotting corpse-thing beneath the tat
Vampire Familiar
A Medium humanoid thrall, pale and hollow-cheeked with faint fangs and dark-ringed eyes, dressed in close-fitting worn leathers hung with a brace of daggers. Shadow seems to cling
Warrior Veteran
A Medium hardened human soldier in battered splint armor, face weathered and scarred beneath a dented helm, jaw set in grim resolve. It wields a heavy greatsword two-handed with a
Werewolf
A Medium lycanthrope in monstrous hybrid form, a towering wolf-headed humanoid corded with muscle beneath coarse grey-black fur, elongated snout peeled back over dripping fangs and
Wight
A Medium undead warrior, a desiccated corpse in rotted studded leather, its skin drawn tight and grey over sharp bone, sunken eyes burning with a cold necrotic light. It bears a da
Winter Wolf
A Large arctic predator the size of a dire wolf, its dense frost-white fur crusted with rime, pale ice-blue eyes and breath fogging the frigid air. Its jaws part to loose a cone of
Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing
A Large predatory plant that squats disguised as an innocent mossy tree stump, its bark-armored bulk hiding a cavernous fanged maw that splits the trunk wide open. From its crown p
Adherer
A Medium aberration wrapped head to toe in filthy, resin-soaked bandages so it appears at rest to be an ordinary shambling mummy, its whole surface glistening with a sticky translu
Archelon
A Huge prehistoric sea turtle, longer than a rowboat, its broad ridged carapace a mosaic of leathery armored plates crusted with barnacles and dark algae, powerful flippers spread
Black Pudding
A Large amorphous ooze, a heaving mound of glossy tar-black slime that flows and drips, pseudopods rising and dissolving as it oozes across stone. Its corrosive body steams where a
Chuul
A Large crustacean aberration resembling a monstrous lobster reared upright, its segmented shell a dull mottled yellow-green, two immense serrated pincers spread wide. Beneath its
Couatl
A Medium celestial feathered serpent, its long sinuous body sheathed in iridescent plumage of muted teal, gold, and rose that seems to hold its own gentle inner light, a pair of ra
Disenchanter
A Large, gaunt aberration built like a starved camel crossed with an anteater, its dusty blue-grey hide hanging loose over jutting ribs and long stilt legs. Its defining feature is
Elephant
A Huge tusked beast, mountainous and broad, its thick wrinkled grey hide dusty and scarred, great fan ears flared and long trunk raised in a trumpeting bellow. Two massive curved i
Ettin
A Large two-headed giant, hunched and hulking, its two ugly heads snarling in different directions atop rounded shoulders, greasy tangled hair and mismatched glaring eyes. Its filt
Ghost
A Medium undead apparition, a translucent grey-blue human figure hovering just off the ground, its lower body trailing away into tattered spectral mist. Its face contorts into a ho
Guard Captain
A Medium seasoned human officer in polished breastplate and shield, a longsword raised and javelins bristling at the belt, bearing of hard command and old scars beneath a crested h
Gutter Wraith
A Medium undead lurker of the city night, a gaunt half-corporeal figure in rotted rags with a rusted shiv, its lower body trailing off into shadow as it seeps through a sewer grate
Hippopotamus
A Large semi-aquatic brute, barrel-bodied and immense, its slick grey-pink hide glistening and mud-caked, tiny eyes and ears high on a huge blunt head. Its cavernous maw yawns impo
Incubus
A Medium fiend of seductive menace, a tall handsome male figure with flawless ashen-pale skin, dark leathering bat-wings folded behind, small horns curling from raven hair and eyes
Lamia
A Large fiend with the upper body of a beautiful pale woman fused to the powerful haunches and clawed forelimbs of a great lion, a serpentine tail lashing behind. Her lovely face m
Red Dragon Wyrmling
A Medium chromatic dragon hatchling the size of a large hound, its scales a smoldering blood-red and blackened crimson, wings still developing, small horns swept back. Smoke curls
Salt Weaver
A Medium aberration encased in a faceted shell of milky-white salt crystal, its hunched insectile body studded with jutting geometric spurs, multi-jointed limbs ending in crystalli
Sirocco Herald
A Large air elemental, a hovering vortex of superheated desert wind given a vaguely humanoid upper form, its 'body' a spiraling column of tan dust, flung grit, and glassy sand-glim
Spore Slinger
A Medium plant artillerist, a hunched fungal creature roughly man-sized, its bulbous body studded with pressurized spore-sacs and a cluster of bloated launcher-pods atop stalk-shou
Succubus
A Medium fiend of dangerous allure, a tall alluring female figure with flawless pale skin flushed faintly rose, great dark bat-wings arching behind her, small curved horns and a ba
Tough Boss
A Medium hard-bitten human enforcer in dark chain mail, thick-necked and broad, a cruel scarred face under a shaved scalp, swinging a heavy warhammer with a loaded heavy crossbow s
Wereboar
A Medium lycanthrope in hybrid form, a burly boar-headed humanoid thick with muscle under bristly reddish-brown hair, a broad snout with jutting curved tusks and small furious eyes
Weretiger
A Medium lycanthrope in hybrid form, a lithe powerful tiger-headed humanoid sheathed in burnt-orange fur banded with black stripes, green feline eyes narrowed and fanged jaws parte
Air Elemental
A Large elemental of living wind, a towering churning vortex of translucent grey air, dust, and debris with no fixed form, a vaguely humanoid whirlwind rising into a spinning colum
Barbed Devil
A Medium humanoid fiend, roughly man-sized but wrong in every proportion, its entire crimson hide bristling with rows of jagged barbs and hooked spines that make it painful to touc
Bulette
A Large armored monstrosity the size of a war-horse, a landshark fusion of shark and armadillo, its back plated in overlapping slate-grey bony scutes that jut into a jagged dorsal
Bulwark Golem
A Large construct built like a walking fortress, broad and squat, its whole front face a single slab of riveted heavy plate scarred by centuries of blows, arms like battering pisto
Chain Warden
A Medium undead jailer clad in rusted, blood-caked plate that has fused to its rotted flesh, its arms trailing into dozens of long barbed chains that snake and coil across the grou
Cliffside Stalker
A Large monstrosity built for the heights, a lean rock-hided predator the size of a bear, its knobbed grey-brown skin an almost perfect match for the stone it clings to, gripping c
Earth Elemental
A Large hulking elemental of living rock and packed earth, taller than two men, its roughly humanoid mass built from boulders, veins of ore, and clods of soil bound by no visible s
Fire Elemental
A Large humanoid vortex of living flame, roughly twice a man's height, its body an ever-shifting column of orange, yellow, and white fire trailing sparks and smoke, with two burnin
Flail Snail
A Large elemental gastropod the size of an ox, hauling a massive spiraled shell of glassy, opalescent mineral that scatters light in shifting rainbow glints even in the gloom. From
Flesh Golem
A Medium construct of stitched-together corpse flesh, hulking and man-shaped but sewn from mismatched cadavers, its grey-green skin crossed with thick black sutures and iron staple
Giant Crocodile
A Huge predatory reptile easily twenty feet long, its armored back a ridge of knobbed olive-black osteoderms half-submerged in murky swamp water so only its eyes and nostril-ridges
Giant Shark
A Huge apex ocean predator over thirty feet long, a slate-grey megalodon-like shark with a pale underbelly, its torpedo body driving forward with a single gaping bite that reveals
Gladiator
A Medium human warrior of arena-hardened muscle, battle-scarred and confident, clad in studded leather and bearing a battered shield and a brace of spears, one cocked back to throw
Gorgon
A Large mechanical-looking construct in the shape of a monstrous bull, its entire body sheathed in overlapping plates of dull iron-grey metallic scales like living armor plate. It
Half-Dragon
A Medium draconic humanoid, a warrior built like a man but armored in glinting reptilian scales, with a fanged draconic head, ridged brow-horns, clawed hands, and a lashing tail. I
Hill Giant
A Huge, gluttonous giant some sixteen feet tall, grotesquely fat and slab-muscled, with sagging leathery hide the color of dirty clay, matted hair, and a dull brutish face with tin
Night Hag
A Medium fiendish crone, gaunt and wiry beneath tattered dark robes, her blue-black skin drawn tight over sharp bones, hooked nose, and a mouth of iron teeth, eyes burning with mal
Otyugh
A Large aberration squatting like a bloated, warty tuber on three stumpy trunk-legs, its filth-crusted grey-brown hide slick with slime. Two long tentacles tipped with leaf-shaped
Roper
A Large aberration that hangs disguised as a stony cave column, its mottled grey rock-like hide pocked and knobbled to mimic living stone. From its trunk uncoil six long prehensile
Salamander
A Large elemental with the torso of a fanged reptilian humanoid rising from a long, thick serpent's tail of coiling molten-orange scales that smolder and crack like cooling lava. I
Shambling Mound
A Large ambulatory heap of rotting vegetation, tangled vines, and dripping black roots, shaped into a hunched trudging mound with two crude tendril-arms and no visible face — only
Thornplate Beast
A Large quadruped plant-beast, ox-massive, its hide an overlapping armor of woody thorn-plates and blackened bark bristling with rigid spines, a broad goring brow of fused thornwoo
Thought Eater
A Medium aberration, a half-real thing that phases between planes, its emaciated body like a hairless platypus-rat with translucent flesh through which a faintly glowing brain-like
Triceratops
A Huge armored dinosaur the mass of a battle-wagon, low and immensely powerful, with a great bony neck-frill and three forward-jutting horns above a hooked parrot-beak. Its thick p
Troll
A Large hunched giant near nine feet tall, gangly and rubbery-limbed, its warty moss-green hide loose over a lean frame, with a long drooping nose, black claws, and a wide mouth of
Unicorn
A Large celestial equine of solemn, mournful beauty, taller and more powerful than a warhorse, its coat a pale luminous ivory that seems lit from within, mane flowing like drifting
Vampire Spawn
A Medium undead in the ruined semblance of a once-living person, gaunt and feral, pallid grey-white skin stretched over sharp features, bloodshot eyes and a hissing mouth crowded w
Water Elemental
A Large elemental of surging living water, roughly humanoid, a churning translucent column of blue-green liquid rising into a cresting wave crowned with a suggestion of a face and
Werebear
A Large lycanthrope in hulking bear-humanoid hybrid form, a wall of shaggy dark-brown muscle standing upright on clawed hind legs, broad-shouldered with a bear's fanged snout and s
Wraith
A Medium incorporeal undead, a hollow silhouette of tattered flowing shadow-robes with no body inside — only a void of darkness where a face should be, pierced by two burning point
Xorn
A Medium elemental of living stone, a squat barrel-bodied creature of pebbled grey-brown mineral hide, radially symmetric with three long powerful arms ending in stony claws, three
Abyssal Angler
A Large deep-sea monstrosity, a bloated anglerfish-beast the size of a horse, its vast fanged maw gaping beneath a dangling bioluminescent lure and its flanks bristling with launch
Alley Weaver
A Medium aberration, a spidery humanoid horror with too-long jointed limbs and a swollen abdomen that spins sticky webs, clinging upside-down beneath a city eave. It skitters acros
Chimera
A Large three-headed monstrosity fused from a lion, a goat, and a dragon: a tawny lion's forebody and clawed forelimbs, a coiling shaggy goat's head jutting from its back, and a sc
Death's Head Tree
A Huge dead tree looming skeletal and leafless in cold mist, its black gnarled branches hung not with fruit but with dozens of human skulls that swivel and stare, jaws slack in sil
Drider
A Large monstrosity — the upper torso of a dark elf grafted obscenely onto the bulbous body and eight bristled legs of a giant black spider. The elven half is gaunt and grey-skinne
Invisible Stalker
A Large air elemental that is all but unseen — a roughly humanoid distortion of the air, its presence betrayed only by a swirling ripple of warped light, streaming dust, leaves, an
Mage
A Medium human wizard, lean and hollow-cheeked, robed in layered dark arcane vestments stitched with faded sigils, a slender wand raised in one hand as a sphere of crackling violet
Magma Brute
A Large fire elemental brute, a hulking humanoid slab of cooling black basalt cracked open to reveal churning molten rock beneath, its heavy fists dripping glowing lava and its who
Mammoth
A Huge prehistoric elephant, a towering wall of shaggy dark-brown wool over a mountain of muscle, with a high domed skull and a pair of enormous curving ivory tusks sweeping forwar
Medusa
A Medium monstrosity with the sinuous body of a beautiful woman crowned by a writhing mass of living venomous serpents in place of hair, each snake hissing and coiling with its own
Pirate Captain
A Medium human buccaneer of lean, acrobatic build, resplendent in a weathered long coat, sash, and plumed tricorn, gold rings and rakish scars marking a charismatic, dangerous face
Reef Razor
A Large aquatic monstrosity, a sleek shark-like predator the size of a rowboat, its hide armored in razor-edged fins and its blunt head split by a maw of serrated teeth, built to s
Sussurus
A Huge immobile plant-creature resembling a towering formation of hollow crystalline reeds and bamboo-like tubes fused to a rooted trunk, each stalk bored through with countless ho
Vrock
A Large demon shaped like a monstrous, half-rotted vulture-humanoid, standing on scaled taloned bird-feet with mangy grey-black feathers, a long naked wattled neck, and a cruel hoo
Wyvern
A Large dragon-kin, leaner and more feral than a true dragon, with a fanged reptilian head, two clawed legs, and a pair of great leathery wings whose forelimbs double as its only a
Young Brass Dragon
A Large metallic dragon, sleek and serpentine, its scales a warm burnished brass dulled by grime, running from a triangular head crowned with a broad sweeping frill-like plate and
Dune Shade
A Medium earth-and-sand elemental, humanoid-torsoed but eyeless, its body a swirling column of compacted sand, gravel, and dark grit bound into a shifting solid form with grinding
Giant Ape
A Huge ape the size of a siege engine, a mountain of dense black-brown fur and knotted muscle, long powerful arms and gnarled fists, a broad craggy face with a heavy brow and small
Gloom Panther
A Large aberrant panther of living shadow, sleek and over-long, its fur a depthless blue-black that swallows light, six eyes glinting faintly and inky vapor trailing from its paws
Oni
A Large ogre-like fiend, some ten feet of slab muscle sheathed in bruised blue-grey skin, with a broad tusked and fanged face, jutting brow-horns, wild black hair and beard, and bu
Scree Dancer
A Medium fey-elemental skirmisher of the mountains, a wiry humanoid figure formed of loose shale and grey stone shards held in living motion, sharp shale claws and a trail of clatt
Shield Guardian
A Large hulking construct of riveted iron plating, carved stone, and dense wood, broad-shouldered and faceless but for a single glowing rune-slot eye, an amulet-sigil glowing at th
Stone Giant
A Huge giant near eighteen feet tall, lean and ascetic with smooth grey stone-like skin drawn over long sinewy limbs, a gaunt hairless head, and deep-sunk dark eyes that see far. I
Thicket Dancer
A Medium fey skirmisher of eerie grace, a slender leaf-clad dancer with bark-flecked skin and a pair of curved sylvan blades, frozen mid-whirl amid a storm of spinning leaves. It p
Verdant Ambusher
A Large six-limbed monstrosity, panther-sleek but bark-skinned, its hide a living camouflage of leaf-green and mottled brown moss that dissolves it into the canopy, with two great
Young Black Dragon
A Large chromatic dragon, sleek and predatory, sheathed in glossy jet-black scales that fade to gunmetal, with a distinctive deep-socketed skull, curving swept-back horns, and a ri
Young Copper Dragon
A Large metallic dragon of clever, sardonic bearing, its scales a warm ruddy copper dulled to weathered patina and streaked with verdigris, running from a broad frilled head with t
Assassin
A Medium humanoid killer, lean and unremarkable at a glance, wrapped in dark studded-leather armor with a hood drawn low over shadowed eyes. It crouches on a fog-choked rooftop or
Aurumvorax
A Medium monstrosity the size of a wolverine but impossibly dense and heavy, its entire body sheathed in a pelt of interlocking golden metallic fur that gleams harder than plate ar
Chain Devil
A Medium humanoid fiend of flayed red muscle and iron, its entire body wound and pierced with barbed, animate chains that whip and coil of their own will, ends smoldering with infe
Cloaker
A Large aberration that hangs like a monstrous black manta or living cloak, its underside a leathery membrane fringed with a barbed tail and a maw of needle teeth, two pale bone-wh
Crystal Sniper
A Medium elemental sniper of living crystal, a lean angular humanoid grown from faceted translucent quartz, one arm elongated into a needle-sharp lance that fires armor-piercing sh
Frost Giant
A Huge giant, easily twice the height of a house, with pale blue-white skin cracked like glacier ice and a shaggy beard hung with frost and icicles. It hefts a great frost-rimed ba
Glacial Bulwark
A Large elemental bulwark of solid ice, a broad slab-shouldered wall of a creature hewn from blue-white glacier, its fists great blocks of frozen stone and jagged rime-armor sheeti
Hezrou
A Large demon, a bloated toad-like horror standing upright on powerful hind legs, roughly the mass of an ogre, its warty green-grey hide slick with foul slime. A visible haze of re
Hydra
A Huge reptilian monstrosity the size of a war-elephant, its scaled serpentine body crowned with five long sinuous necks, each ending in a snapping fanged head that strikes indepen
Spirit Naga
A Large fiendish serpent, a great coiling snake-body ending in the malevolent face of a beautiful, cruel humanoid. Its scales shimmer dark iridescent purple and black, and sickly n
Tyrannosaurus Rex
A Huge apex-predator dinosaur, taller than a barn, balanced on massive pillar-legs with a colossal head and jaws lined with banana-sized teeth, tiny forearms tucked against a scarr
Young Bronze Dragon
A Large metallic dragon, horse-sized and lithe, sheathed in weathered bronze scales gone green-verdigris at the edges, with tall ribbed neck-frills and curved horns. Crackling ligh
Young Green Dragon
A Large chromatic dragon, sinuous and horse-sized, clad in overlapping forest-green scales that darken to near-black along a crested spine and a single sweeping horn. A cloud of co
Aurora Screamer
A Large aberration adrift in the frozen sky, a translucent jellyfish-manta hybrid whose membranous body ripples with ceaseless shifting aurora colors, trailing luminous ribbon-tend
Bone Devil
A Large devil resembling a gaunt, skeletal insect-man, its emaciated frame sheathed in bleathery chitinous hide stretched over jutting bones, hook-clawed hands and a towering scorp
Cinder Harrier
A Large fire elemental skirmisher, a swift hovering wisp of living flame and swirling ember shaped into a lean, streaking figure with lashing whip-like arms of fire, leaving a burn
Clay Golem
A Large humanoid construct sculpted from dense reddish clay, crude and powerful, its surface incised with faded holy sigils and bearing the seams and thumb-marks of its maker. Crac
Cloud Giant
A Huge giant of regal bearing, pale as storm-cloud with silver-white hair, towering as high as a keep's wall, draped in fine but weather-stained finery over marble-pale skin. It wi
Fire Giant
A Huge giant with coal-black, soot-streaked skin and a fiery orange beard, built squat and immensely muscular, clad in blackened iron plate scarred by cinders. It hoists a massive
Glabrezu
A Large demon of monstrous bulk, dog-headed and towering, with a barrel torso from which sprout four arms — two ending in enormous crushing pincers, two in clawed humanoid hands. I
Peak Shadow
A Large winged monstrosity of the high peaks, a sinewy dark-feathered predator with a raptor's beak, hooked talons, and broad silent wings, roughly the size of a warhorse. It cling
Rime Caller
A Medium ice elemental, a gaunt crystalline humanoid of blue-white glacial ice, sharp-edged and translucent, frost fuming from its shoulders and jagged ice-lances forming at its ou
Treant
A Huge animate tree, tall as an oak and broad as a tower, its trunk-body of gnarled bark forming a craggy face with deep-set glowing eyes, limbs like great boughs and roots for fee
Young Blue Dragon
A Large chromatic dragon, horse-sized and sleek, armored in deep indigo-blue scales with a single great forward-curving horn on its snout and frilled cheeks. Arcs of lightning crac
Young Silver Dragon
A Large metallic dragon, horse-sized and noble, clad in polished silver-white scales that gleam like frost-touched steel, with a smooth frill sweeping back from its brow. A freezin
Aboleth
A Large aberration, a primordial fish-like horror the length of a rowboat, its eel-slick body ending in a fluked tail and a blunt head bearing three slit red eyes stacked verticall
Deva
A Medium celestial angel of severe beauty, human-sized but radiant, with great feathered wings and luminous skin, wielding a mace wreathed in holy radiant light. Even in a broken w
Guardian Naga
A Large celestial serpent, a great coiled snake-body twice the length of a horse, crowned with a serene, wise humanoid face framed by a golden cobra-hood. Its scales glimmer soft g
Pressure Lancer
A Huge water elemental artillerist, a towering coiling column of dark pressurized ocean given form, its upper body a swirling torso that spears out compressed jets of water like la
Stone Golem
A Large construct hewn from a single block of grey granite, monolithic and slab-limbed, carved in the stylized likeness of an ancient armored warrior with runic glyphs graven acros
Young Gold Dragon
A Large metallic dragon, horse-sized and majestic, sheathed in burnished gold scales edged with fine barbels trailing from its chin like a sage's whiskers, twin horns swept back. M
Young Red Dragon
A Large chromatic dragon, horse-sized and aggressive, armored in overlapping crimson-and-black scales that glow with inner heat, a pair of great backswept horns and a spined frill
Behir
A Huge serpentine monstrosity like a crocodile-headed dragon-snake, its long many-legged body — a dozen short crocodilian legs running its length — able to climb and coil around pr
Deepspawn
A Large aberration, a bloated amorphous mass of slick grey-purple flesh studded with three unblinking eyes and a lamprey-ringed central maw that yawns wet and toothed. From its sha
Djinni
A Large elemental genie, a towering blue-skinned humanoid whose lower body dissolves into a swirling column of wind and storm rather than legs. Lightning and thunder crackle at its
Efreeti
A Large elemental genie of fire, a towering red-and-bronze-skinned humanoid crowned with flame, its lower body streaming into smoke and cinders. It hoists a scimitar of white-hot m
Hoarfrost Warden
A Huge giant warlord of the frozen north, three times a man's height, its blue-grey flesh sheathed in self-forged plate of solid ice and gripping a massive frost-rimed maul. It str
Horned Devil
A Large devil, a towering winged brute with crimson scaled hide, a great pair of curving horns, membranous bat-wings, and a barbed, whip-like tail that inflicts festering infernal
Remorhaz
A Huge arctic monstrosity like a colossal segmented centipede-worm, its chitinous plated body glowing red-hot from within along the seams so that heat-shimmer and steam roil off it
Roc
A Gargantuan bird of prey, vast enough to blot the sun, with a wingspan spanning a valley, hooked scimitar beak and boulder-crushing talons. Ragged storm-grey and brown plumage str
Sphinx of Lore
A Large celestial with the powerful tawny body and paws of a lion, broad feathered wings, and the solemn, ageless face of a robed sage or queen. Ancient arcane runes shimmer faintl
Abyssal Gaoler
A Large demon jailer, broad and hulking with charred crimson-black hide, cloven feet and vestigial leathery wings, its arms ending in fused iron manacles from which barbed abyssal
Adamant Sentinel
A Huge construct guardian, three times the height of a man, sculpted from seamless dark adamantine plate over a blocky, monolithic frame, its faceless helm-head set with a single d
Archmage
A Medium humanoid wizard, robed and hooded, human-sized but wreathed in crackling arcane force — a nimbus of force-bolts and shimmering mage-armor haloing an aged, sharp-eyed face.
Erinyes
A Medium devil in the form of a terrible fallen angel — a beautiful, cruel-faced humanoid with great black-feathered wings, clad in blood-red infernal plate armor. She wields a wit
Guildmaster's Shadow
A Medium humanoid master assassin, lean and predatory, sheathed in supple dark studded leather, twin poisoned blades dripping sickly green venom. Half-melted into the shadows of a
Adult Brass Dragon
A Huge metallic dragon the size of a cottage, sheathed in warm brass scales gone dull and sand-scoured, a broad wedge-shaped head crowned with a distinctive plate-like frill and lo
Adult White Dragon
A Huge chromatic dragon the size of a cottage, lowest and most feral of dragonkind, clad in jagged frost-white scales like broken ice, a sleek horned head and a spined crest rimed
Caldera Titan
A Huge fire giant of the volcano's heart, a towering ash-grey colossus whose cracked stony skin glows with veins of internal fire, wielding a massive maul of fused volcanic rock. I
Nalfeshnee
A Large demon of grotesque bulk, a bloated boar-headed horror with a huge sagging belly, tiny useless-looking feathered wings, and cloven, ill-fitting limbs. Tusks jut from its sla
Rakshasa
A Medium fiend in the guise of a tiger-headed humanoid draped in decadent silks, its fur striped orange and black, eyes gleaming with malice, and its hands set backward at the wris
Riot Herald
A Medium humanoid demagogue, arms flung wide mid-shout, wrapped in ragged rabble-rouser's clothes and a tattered banner, mouth open in a roaring incitement that seems to visibly ri
Storm Giant
A Huge giant of heroic proportions, taller than a tower, with pale violet-grey skin and dark storm-cloud hair, clad in weathered scale-mail and bearing a greatsword crackling with
Thornmantle Archon
A towering Large fey warden clad in living thorn-plate armor grown rather than forged, knotted bramble and blackened bark layered like overlapping spined scales, a long thorned hal
Vampire
A Medium undead noble of pallid, aristocratic beauty, human-sized, clad in tattered finery, with bloodless white skin, elongated fangs, and eyes glinting crimson in the dark. It ha
Adult Black Dragon
A Huge chromatic dragon the size of a cottage, gaunt and skeletal in build, sheathed in oily black scales dulled by swamp muck, with a long ridged skull, deep-socketed horns curvin
Adult Copper Dragon
A Huge metallic dragon the size of a cottage, clad in weathered coppery scales gone green with verdigris at the edges, a broad frilled head with backswept horns and a sly, mischiev
Hollow King
A Medium fey hunter-lord, man-shaped but hollowed out and half-translucent, its regal frame draped in tattered dark finery beneath a jagged crown that seems grown from shadow. It h
Ice Devil
A Large devil like a towering upright insect, its segmented white-and-blue chitinous carapace glazed with frost, mandibled reptilian head, clawed limbs, and a long thick tail tippe
Vault Warden
A Huge unaligned construct guardian, a hulking blocky sentinel of seamless stone and dark metal built into the very architecture of a sealed vault, its fists like battering rams an
Adult Bronze Dragon
A Huge metallic dragon the length of a war-galley, its overlapping scales a dull weathered bronze gone green-black at the edges like a drowned monument, ridged with a smooth swept-
Adult Green Dragon
A Huge chromatic dragon, sinuous and serpentine, sheathed in scales of oily forest-green and bruised olive, a single tall neck-frill running from brow to shoulders and cunning slit
Ironwrought Enforcer
A Large construct law-enforcer, a broad slab-bodied automaton of riveted iron plate standing head and shoulders above a man, its blunt faceless head lit by a single cold sensor-glo
Leviathan Warden
A Gargantuan deep-sea monstrosity, whale-vast and armored in barnacle-crusted grey-green scale plating, its blunt head split by a cavernous fanged maw and its lower body fanning in
Mummy Lord
A Medium undead king wrapped in blackened, resin-stained burial linen, gaunt beneath rotted royal regalia — a tarnished pharaonic crown, corroded pectoral of gold and lapis, and a
Purple Worm
A Gargantuan burrowing monstrosity, a segmented armored worm as thick as a tower and dozens of feet long, its dark violet chitinous plates slick with subterranean slime and grit. I
Adult Blue Dragon
A Huge chromatic desert dragon armored in ridged cobalt-and-indigo scales, its signature a single massive backswept horn crowning a wedge-shaped head, crackling arcs of static play
Adult Silver Dragon
A Huge metallic dragon of polished silver-grey scales frosted with rime, sleek and noble-featured with a smooth frilled crest and a mane-like ruff of icy spines. Its signature is t
Iron Golem
A Large humanoid construct of blackened riveted iron, twice the height of a man and impossibly massive, its slab-like plates pitted with rust and forge-scars, one arm ending in a g
Marilith
A Large demon with the upper body of a beautiful, cruel warrior-woman fused to the coiling lower body of an enormous serpent, six muscular arms each gripping a black pact-blade dri
Peak Tyrant
A Gargantuan dragon that hunts by stealth, a mountain-sized wyrm of slate-grey and cloud-white scales that blends into rock and fog, silent broad wings folded as it perches unseen
Planetar
A Large celestial angel, a towering blue-skinned warrior of severe unearthly beauty, bald and grave, with vast feathered wings and a body carved like living marble. Its signature i
Primordial Fracture
A Huge elemental anomaly, a churning humanoid rift of raw primordial matter caught mid-shift between four forms at once: one arm molten fire, one a curling wave of water, its torso
Verdant Sovereign
A Huge fey monarch of the wildwood, roughly two stories of living wood and vine shaped into a crowned, robed figure, bark skin knotted with the four seasons at once: blossom, high
Adult Gold Dragon
A Huge metallic dragon sheathed in scales of tarnished antique gold, regal and immense, with elegant backswept horns, twin chin-frills like a sage's whiskers, and broad wings edged
Adult Red Dragon
A Huge chromatic dragon armored in deep blood-red and charred-black scales, crowned with a crest of curving horns and a spined frill, wisps of smoke rising from its nostrils. Its s
Crown of Thieves
A Medium humanoid underworld king, sleek and impossibly fast, wrapped in gleaming dark mithral mail beneath a shadow-cloak, a slim poisoned crownblade in each hand and a battered t
Dragon Turtle
A Gargantuan sea-dragon the size of a warship, a colossal turtle with a barnacle-crusted, ridge-spined shell of dark green and slate, thick clawed flippers, and a fanged draconic h
Labyrinth Mind
A Large aberration, a bloated hovering brain-thing of pallid folded flesh trailing nerve-tendrils, its many-lidded eyes staring in every direction as the stone walls of the maze ar
Sphinx of Valor
A Large celestial with the powerful tawny-golden body of a lion, immense eagle wings folded high, and the grave, ageless face of a robed guardian. Its signature is the world-shakin
Sapling Titan
A Gargantuan primeval plant colossus, a walking mountain of ancient tree taller than the forest canopy, its trunk-torso armored in thick fissured bark and its limbs colossal roots
Balor
A Huge demon lord wreathed in living flame, a towering horned figure of cracked obsidian-red skin glowing with molten fissures, vast bat wings blotting the sky. Its signature is du
Living Cataclysm
A Gargantuan elemental disaster given shape, a walking mountain of molten rock and roaring flame the size of a keep, its cracked obsidian body veined with rivers of glowing lava an
Ancient Brass Dragon
A Gargantuan metallic dragon of immense age, its scales a dull weathered brass gone dark and sand-scoured, a distinctive plate-like head crest and long trailing chin-barbels framin
Ancient White Dragon
A Gargantuan chromatic dragon of feral, primitive aspect, its jagged ice-white and pale-blue scales sheathed in frost and crusted snow, a swept-back spined crest and a narrow preda
Oubliette Horror
A Gargantuan chaotic aberration filling the bottom of a dungeon pit, a vast maw-and-tendril mass of glistening dark hide, its central gullet a cavern of hooked teeth ringed by doze
Pit Fiend
A Large archdevil, a towering crimson-scaled tyrant with great leathery bat wings, curved horns, a barbed lashing tail, and a fanged maw dripping venom. Its signature is the crushi
Ancient Black Dragon
A Gargantuan chromatic dragon of skeletal, sinister build, its ridged scales a wet oil-black flecked with corrosion, deep-set eye-ridges and a long curving pair of skull-like horns
Ancient Copper Dragon
A Gargantuan metallic dragon of immense age, scaled in weathered verdigris-streaked copper going green with tarnish, a broad frilled crest and two backswept horns above sly, glitte
Lich
A Medium undead archmage, a gaunt skeletal figure draped in rotted regal robes of faded black and gold, dry parchment skin stretched over a fleshless skull, pinpoints of cold green
Quintessence Weaver
A Large elemental artillerist of pure crystalline order, a hovering angular figure woven from prismatic energy, five swirling motes of the elements orbiting its core and channeling
Solar
A Large celestial angel of the highest order, a radiant golden-skinned warrior of overwhelming presence, four or six great luminous wings and a halo of blinding light framing a fac
Ancient Bronze Dragon
A Gargantuan metallic dragon of colossal age, its vast overlapping scales a deep sea-tarnished bronze streaked green with verdigris, a great swept crest and immense brine-slick win
Ancient Green Dragon
A Gargantuan chromatic dragon of ancient, serpentine cunning, its enormous sinuous body sheathed in layered emerald and bruise-dark scales, a towering horned neck-frill and eyes br
Ancient Blue Dragon
A Gargantuan chromatic dragon crowned by a single colossal backswept horn, its immense body plated in ridged cobalt and deep-indigo scales that crackle with constant static, hide s
Ancient Silver Dragon
A Gargantuan metallic dragon of regal immensity, its polished silver-platinum scales sheened with frost, a sweeping frilled crest and a noble frost-maned head atop a serpentine nec
Kraken
A Gargantuan titan of the deep, a mountainous cephalopod with a bulbous ridged head, vast slit-pupiled eyes glowing cold in the abyss, and ten colossal barb-suckered tentacles each
Ancient Gold Dragon
A Gargantuan metallic dragon of supreme age and majesty, sheathed in vast overlapping scales of deep antique gold, crowned with elegant swept horns and long sage-like chin-frills,
Ancient Red Dragon
A Gargantuan chromatic dragon, the apex tyrant of its kind, its mountainous body armored in deep blood-red and soot-blackened scales, crowned with a forest of curving horns and a g
Tarrasque
A Gargantuan monstrosity and living apocalypse, a mountain of muscle and armor plated in near-impervious grey-brown carapace, two great curving horns, a fanged maw that could swall