Dragonlance Monsters
Monsters of a war-torn world of dragons, knights, tinker gnomes and moons that shape magic. 89 monsters, grouped by the book they come from.
- MC4 Dragonlance Appendix (w/binder #2) (57)
- Other sources (9)
- DLR1 Otherlands (7)
- Time of the Dragon (5)
- Chaos Spawn (4)
- DLA1 Dragon Dawn (2)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4 (2)
- DLR2 Taladas: The Minotaurs (1)
- From the Ashes (1)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2 (1)
MC4 Dragonlance Appendix (w/binder #2)
- Amphi Dragon A warty, toadlike cross of green and sea dragon that lurks in seafloor mud, spits acid, and reels victims in with its sticky tongue to savor their dying.
- Astral Dragon Ancient golden ancestors of every dragon race on their world: feeble and furry alone, but godlike once wed, bound to a mate forever by a divine golden chain.
- Bird [Dragonlance] Plump plume-runners, stampeding bronzefowl, gem-loving kingfishers and the grim skyfisher, a bat-winged raptor that snatches people up and drops them from on high.
- Brass Drakeborn [Drakeborn] The smallest and most common drakeborn, a resentful, hard-drinking brute that ambushes in hooded robes and turns to stone when slain, trapping the weapon that killed it.
- Bronze Drakeborn [Drakeborn] Spellcasting, devoutly evil drakeborn who charge on all fours with blades in their teeth, worship the Dark Queen at scorched forest shrines, and explode in bone shrapnel when slain.
- Copper Drakeborn [Drakeborn] Silent, venom-spitting drakeborn assassins that lick poison onto their blades, strike only when a foe is vulnerable, and melt into a pool of acid when killed.
- Daergar [Dwarf] Brutal dark dwarves who build gloomy cavern cities around prisons and blood arenas, the daergar are led into battle by bonemasters who raise skeletons from their charnel pits.
- Deep Sea Elf [Dragonlance] Shy, blue-skinned elves of the ocean depths who take dolphin shape to scout or flee and veil their foes in innate illusions before they ever lift a trident.
- Dragon Overview [Dragonlance] On this world dragons are the planet's elemental firstborn, bound to mortal fate by a mystic bond, and every one of their great wars has been a war of humans too.
- Drakeborn Overview Dragon-headed soldiers grown from stolen good dragon eggs by a goddess's betrayal, the drakeborn now roam as ageless, sterile, bickering raiders who die in spectacular ways.
- Dreamshadow A perfect illusory double of anyone or anything a dreamer knows, the dreamshadow fights, casts and even kills inside a dream, and only waking reveals how much of the harm was real.
- Dreamwraith A hateful nightmare-thing born from a victim's own fears, the dreamwraith wears the rotting faces of dead friends and strikes with illusions that feel lethal until the dreamer wakes.
- Elder High Elf [Dragonlance] The most ancient and haughty of elves, rigid in caste and pure of blood, whose archers tip their arrows with paralytic venom.
- Eyewing A flying, fur-covered eyeball from the Abyss that bombs foes with tears of poisonous blue fluid and kills for pleasure whenever its dark masters leave it bored.
- Fetch A deathly pale double that waits behind mirrors and still water, steps out when its victim meets its eyes, and drains two levels with every hit.
- Fireshadow A 30-foot Abyssal horror of cold green flame, summoned by evil clerics, whose touch slowly turns living flesh into green fire it can command or devour.
- Giant Sea Anemone Gaudy, rock-anchored predators of the seabed, giant sea anemones lash out with paralyzing tentacles, haul their catch into an acid-filled gut, and digest it alive.
- Gloomvein Dwarf Bulging-eyed, sun-sick renegade mountain dwarves who ambush in murderous trios, poison their crossbow bolts, and dream of ruling every race above and below.
- Gold Drakeborn [Drakeborn] The rarest and deadliest drakeborn, a wingless, sulfur-reeking schemer that savors pain, wears stolen faces, dominates minds, and dies in a storm of green fire and lightning.
- Gurik Cha'ahl Deformed goblin outcasts left to die in the forest, the 'ghost people' survived by stealth and spite, and now haunt the woods as silent killers who hate goblins above all.
- Half-Elf [Dragonlance] Children of elven and human love who belong fully to neither people, brooding loners prone to reckless bravado on the battlefield.
- High Ogre Graceful, gentle shapechangers with blue-green skin and singers' voices, the high ogres are the last unfallen remnant of the world's first race, hunted wherever their disguises slip.
- Highborn Mountain Dwarf The proud, ancient lords of the dwarven mountain kingdoms: superb soldiers who parley before they fight and rarely care what happens outside their halls.
- Hill Dwarf [Dragonlance] Gruff, loyal hill dwarves exiled long ago from the great halls below, now living in quiet surface villages and fighting bravely only when trouble drags them in.
- Human [Dragonlance] Ice-axe-wielding arctic warriors, an outlawed order of honor-bound knights, isolated plains tribes from gentle herders to cannibals, and freedom fighters waging guerrilla war against tyranny.
- Ice Bear The cleverest of bears, a 1,500-pound white hunter of the far south that tracks prey across ice with uncanny skill, pulls walrus-folk sleds and never forgets a kindness.
- Kalothagh A sluggish, spine-covered sea fish nicknamed the prickleback, the kalothagh fires barbed, venomous quills like an underwater manticore and happily eats any sailor it brings down.
- Kani Doll Painstakingly crafted tribal luck charms of fur, feather and cloth, kani dolls turn into tireless little killers when evil magic twists them against their owners.
- Knight Haunt An empty suit of gleaming armor animated by a fallen knight's unbroken spirit, the knight haunt rises with each full silver moon to fight evil on the field where it died.
- Kodragon A cat-sized, fur-covered dragon with bat wings and a child's voice, the kodragon roams its home plane recording history and shrinks troublesome foes with a puff of gas.
- Kyrie Proud hawk-winged folk of high mountain aeries, kyrie stay peaceful until crossed, then bomb intruders with stones, cast druid magic and choose death over capture every time.
- Lizard Man [Dragonlance] Spawned by a nature god to outbreed their dwindling marsh lizardfolk forebears, the mirespawn are cruel, filthy, acid-spitting warriors who murdered their own ancestors and sacrifice slaves under the black moon.
- Minotaur [Dragonlance] A seafaring warrior empire of bull-headed people who believe they are destined to rule the world, these minotaurs settle everything, from crimes to the throne, in the arena.
- Ogre [Dragonlance] Filthy, lice-ridden brutes descended from a once-beautiful elder race, these ogres kill strangers on sight, slay their own elderly, and torture tribal criminals for sport.
- Phaethon Honest mountain farmers who sprout wings of living fire at will, phaethons quietly watch every stranger and strike with ruthless hit-and-run raids against any who threaten their valleys.
- Proto Drakeborn [Drakeborn] Gaunt, crocodile-snouted failures from the first attempts to make drakeborn, cowardly until a fight begins, then gripped by a frenzied blood-lust that ignores all losses.
- Renegade Dragon Overview [Dragonlance] Dragons cursed or shunned for refusing to join the great war, each renegade color twisted in its own way, from mute, raging whites to cowardly reds and fanatical silvers.
- Saqualaminoi Huge, shaggy snow-dwellers of the highest glaciers, saqualaminoi are gentle and curious at heart, yet hungry storms send them down as the raiders mountain folk fear.
- Sea Dragon A toothless, turtle-shelled ocean dragon that boils intruders with steam, flips ships that cross its waters unbidden, and expects a whole cargo as the price of passage.
- Shimmerweed A harmless crystal wildflower that turns moonlight into a dazzling, mind-scrambling light show, which clever predators use to bewilder travelers before they pounce.
- Shoal Elf [Dragonlance] Proud, nomadic sea elves of the kelp beds and reefs who turn into sleek otters to run down their enemies and gang up on the strongest foe first.
- Silver Drakeborn [Drakeborn] Nine-foot flying drakeborn that kill to steal their victims' shapes, then spy, kidnap and murder in disguise, and even in death take the form of their slayer.
- Spectral Minion The translucent ghost of someone who died before fulfilling a vow, bound to the place of death and replaying its unfinished duty as a guardian, scholar, reveler, searcher, warrior or berserker.
- Spider [Dragonlance] Two giant spiders: the whisper spider, a silent web-weaver that hides behind silk decoys, and the trap door spider, which bursts from a hidden shaft to drag its prey below.
- Stag From the herd-guarding wild stag to the towering giant stag and the glowing white messenger of the good gods, these antlered beasts fight hard when their herd is threatened.
- Tayling Telepathically bonded twins, one a delicate elflike spellcaster and the other a hulking beast, who fight as a single mind and avenge each other to the death.
- Tinker Gnome Tireless, chattering inventors who build steam-belching contraptions that almost never work, tinker gnomes pour their lives into gadgets that magic could outdo with a single word.
- Tylor Wingless, color-shifting land dragons born of evil dragons and giant desert lizards, tylors make fierce mounts right up until their rider falls and becomes lunch.
- Undead Beast Mindless, dragon-sized undead killers: the barbed-ribbed stahnk that flings and traps victims in its rib cage, the funnel-dwelling gholor that lures prey for miles, and the green-glowing anhkolox.
- Vapor Imp Cackling red imps that rise from tropical seabeds on stormy nights, vapor imps seep into ships as crimson mist, then cripple the vessel and hurl its crew overboard.
- Veiled Dwarf Small, whispering, hooded mountain dwarves ravaged by an ancient mold plague, who shun every other race and kill intruders without a word of parley.
- Walrus Folk [Dragonlance] Tusked, blubbery walrus folk of the frozen coasts who kill for pleasure, ride ice bears to war, and answer intruders with strap-hurled harpoons and pots of burning oil.
- Wanderkin Fearless, endlessly curious little folk whose pockets fill with other people's things, wanderkin can taunt foes into blind fury and talk their companions straight into trouble.
- Western High Elf [Dragonlance] Warm, outgoing high elves who broke from their rigid elder kin to build freer forest realms, only to see them battered by the chaos after the great cataclysm.
- Wichtlin Cursed elven undead seen only as two floating green eyes and a pair of skeletal hands, wichtlin hunt the living so their god of death can harvest the souls.
- Wild Elf [Dragonlance] Painted, muscular wilderness elves who scorn city life, ride stags and sprint like deer, and still nurse bitter memories of enslavement by their high elf cousins.
- Wyndlass A ten-armed, barbed horror that waits beneath a pit of frictionless quicksand on a busy trail, dragging travelers and whole horses down to drown before it feeds.
Other sources
- Chulcrix A titanic ethereal worm that opens a thirty-foot maw and drags whole parties helplessly into its acid-filled gut, then turns itself inside out to escape.
- Curotai Six-armed, three-torsoed giants twisted from captive wild elves by a spider-priestess, fanatically loyal slaves whose many shields swat aside blows and arrows alike.
- Gk'lok-Lok Steel-tubed, flame-eyed beings from beyond the planes who sleep for millennia on a burning crystal tree, dreaming the borrowed lives of dead warriors.
- Handmaiden of the Dark Queen Once the proudest servant in the dark dragon queen's court, the spider princess Veshyra dared to rival her mistress and now rules her drow as a tyrant inside a prison realm.
- Ice Vampire The grieving ghost of a drowned wild elf woman, the ice vampire haunts waterfalls and leeches body heat from anyone it touches or lures into its pool.
- Living Weapon An evil spirit bound into a sword or other weapon by a powerful mage, the living weapon flies out to attack anyone who strays within range of the spot it guards.
- Spider Dragon A tailless, eight-legged dragon bred out of a dark goddess's envy, which smothers prey in slowing webs and sprays acidic venom in its underground hunting grounds.
- Spider Horse A drow-bred hybrid with a horse's body, spider legs and venomous fangs, equally at home galloping across stone or dropping from a web onto unsuspecting riders.
- Tyin A slime-slick, peeling humanoid that clings to cave ceilings, spits sticky acid and spreads a wasting sickness with its bite, the tyin rules whatever caverns it calls home.
DLR1 Otherlands
- Bolandi Nimble, prank-loving jungle tree folk who blur their own outlines, drop nets and poison-powder bombs on intruders, and sometimes study illusion under exasperated mage teachers.
- Funno A timid, rat-faced rodent with a remarkable hide, the funno is the humble animal that an entire underground people relies on for armor, tools and even houses.
- Mischta Ogre Fallen kin of the gentle high ogres, these twilight ogres still sing, shapechange and shun violence on their jungle island, ruled by a line of ancient kings.
- Nzunta Ogre Dark-skinned, beautiful and utterly malevolent, these pure-blooded heirs of the first ogres rule from hiding through brutish slaves and poison their blades with killing sea snake venom.
- Razhak A twelve-ton creature of living stone that swims through rock and heals as it goes, the razhak is ancient, patient and peaceful, but terrifying when it finally loses its temper.
- Ursoi Tool-using, honor-bound bear folk who hunt in tribes, crush enemies in a deadly hug, and may serve a rescuer to repay a life debt.
- Wisdom Spirit One of eight shards of a legendary ogre sage's soul, appearing at night to counsel and shield his descendants and filling every other creature with awe and terror.
Time of the Dragon
- Disir Slime-coated, hunched horrors of the deep underworld whose painful, paralyzing poison and endless hunger for meat make them the bane of every dwarven hold.
- Fire Minion Free-willed spirits of living flame that rise out of fires and volcano craters with swords in hand, healed by magical fire but slowly dying whenever they stray from it.
- Horax A swarming, twelve-legged tunnel insect that hunts from walls and ceilings, clamping bone-crushing mandibles onto prey and grinding away until someone pries it loose.
- Skrit A man-high desert beetle that poses as a boulder, spears a single victim with a barbed mouth-probe, and pumps in an enzyme that paralyzes the body and slowly melts it into soup.
- Yaggol Jungle-dwelling, color-shifting cousins of the mind reavers who have lost their ancestors' mental powers but kept the brain-eating tentacles and the appetite.
Chaos Spawn
- Cedar Spawn Dead-looking trees animated by raw chaos, cedar spawn lash everything living with whipping branches and go up like torches at the first spark.
- Daemonlord A sadistic abyssal horror called up through blood sacrifice, the daemonlord deafens, paralyzes and rains summoned chaos-spawn from its smog-built skyship.
- Sand Spawn Whirling knee-high funnels of grit called up by a chaos fiend, sand spawn slash with whips of sand and blast blinding grains into the eyes of anyone they face.
- Scavenger Spawn Skeletal vulture-things raised from corpses by a chaos fiend, scavenger spawn slow their prey with every bite until it can only lie still and be eaten alive.
DLA1 Dragon Dawn
- Hurdu Brutal, towering lizardfolk of poisoned volcanic mountains who fight with two-handed weapons, fangs and a club-like tail, and torture any prisoner they take.
- Quicksilver Drakeborn [Drakeborn] Hunched, misshapen drakeborn rejected for being too clever to obey, who survive by snares, crossbow ambushes and treachery rather than open battle.
Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4
- Child of the Sea Sea-born folk raised by unwitting human parents in lonely coastal villages, who command fish and tides, then vanish beneath the waves, sometimes returning as vengeful living water.
- Grain Nymph A field spirit who doubles the harvest for farmers who love their land, the grain nymph leaves pursuers reeling drunk among the stalks, then sends the herd to trample them.
DLR2 Taladas: The Minotaurs
- Yrasda Sea-changed kin of the fair ogres who shift into squid, savage carp-like fish, or orcas, ranging from gentle traders and loyal friends to vicious ambushers of fishermen.
From the Ashes
- Derro [Dwarf] Pale, dwarf-sized sadists of the deep underworld who hoard forbidden lore, hunt humans for slaves, and fight to cripple and humiliate rather than to kill cleanly.
Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2
- Brine Dragon A grinning, salt-crusted, flipper-limbed sea dragon of pure chaos that sprays caustic alkaline brine and will eat almost anything, even the undead.