Fiend Folio Monsters
An eclectic gathering of odd, alien and hard-to-classify monsters. 42 monsters, grouped by the book they come from.
MC14 Fiend Folio Appendix
- Adherer Mistaken for a mummy until it leaps, the adherer is a living glue trap whose resin swallows weapons and pins victims while it beats and smothers them.
- Al-Mi'raj A unicorn-horned rabbit that teleports around its foes to stab them, the al-mi'raj looks adorable, and one in ten can darken the sky and make your armor explode.
- Algoid A lumbering green brute that is really a colony of thinking algae, the algoid pounds foes senseless, shrugs off blades and fire, and turns riverside trees against intruders.
- Apparition A bandage-wrapped skeleton that slides out of walls from the Ethereal Plane and convinces its victims they are being strangled, often frightening them to death outright.
- Caterwaul A blue-furred, elfin-faced mountain cat that drops from ambush, shrieks loud enough to wound everything nearby, and can magically double its own speed.
- Coffer Corpse A zombie-like corpse cheated of its funeral rites that throttles the living, plays dead when struck, and rises again to terrify anyone watching.
- Dark Creeper Filthy little thieves of the deep caverns who smother every light, pick a party clean of magic in the blackness and explode in blinding fire when slain.
- Dark Stalker Gaunt, man-sized overlords of the dark creepers who spend their servants' lives freely, cloak battles in fog and blackness, and die in a fireball-like blast.
- Darter A lazy, pear-shaped swamp lizard that spits paralytic fangs from its tube-like snout, then waddles over with its friends to drink the helpless victim's blood.
- Denzelian A thousand-pound disk of living stone that dissolves rock with acid, the denzelian is harmless unless cornered, and then it trips foes onto its acid or drops on them from above.
- Dune Stalker A gaunt fiend of the magma plane summoned to carry out an evil wizard's quest, the dune stalker tracks flawlessly and kills good folk with a sonic kiss of death.
- Faux Faerie A tiny, gleeful liar that wears the shape of any common faerie, sends travelers down deadly false trails, and soaks up every spell thrown at it only to fling others back.
- Fire Falcon A small russet raptor of the wild places that drives off intruders by flinging sticky, exploding fireballs from its wingtips before raking faces with its talons.
- Flawder Gentle, shell-backed snail folk who wander the floors of seas and lakes, singing their histories onto carved shells, and whose tasty flesh and pretty shells make them everyone's prey.
- Fyrefly A sluggish leaf-eating beetle most of its life, the fyrefly flies into a fire to breed and comes out as a swarm of sixty-four burning larvae bent on setting the world alight.
- Gambado A spring-legged ambusher that hides in a pit wearing a stolen skull, the gambado lunges out at anyone who stoops to look and hoards their coins afterward.
- Garbug Winged, lobster-like cousins of the corpse creeper, garbugs paralyze prey with stinging tentacles, then sip its blood or tear it apart while it lies helpless.
- Gorbel A floating red balloon with six eyes and a stretchy mouth, the gorbel latches onto anything that moves and explodes in a burst of flame the moment a blade pierces it.
- Ice Lizard A small frost lizard that passes for a white dragon hatchling, can swell into a full-sized white dragon at will, and guards its hoard with frigid breath.
- Ice Troll Small, cunning, glassy-skinned trolls that lurk in frigid lakes, regenerating only in water and keeping captured humans fattened in their lairs like cattle.
- Iron Cobra A segmented metal serpent with emerald eyes, built by forgotten wizards to guard, kill, or hunt down anyone whose true name it is given.
- Mantari Flying ray-like dungeon hunters that skim over their prey, whipping it with venomous tails until it can no longer move, then settle down to feed.
- Penanggalan By day a charming traveling companion, by night a flying severed head trailing its own guts, the penanggalan hypnotizes sleeping women and drinks them dry over many nights.
- Pernicon A gaudy desert grasshopper whose antennae hum near water, the pernicon is a prized living dowsing rod, but disturbed swarms latch on and suck their victims dry.
- Phantom Stalker A fire spirit pressed into service as a mage's bodyguard, the phantom stalker twists every order to the letter and, if its master is murdered, hunts the killer across the Ethereal Plane.
- Ruve Brilliant psionic dogs that roam the planes in disciplined packs, battle evil mind-eaters with fury, and never stop lecturing anyone less clever than themselves.
- Scathe Milky-white arctic predators that sail across the ice on arm membranes and skate-like claws, scathes hunt warm bodies from a mile away and inject a burning venom.
- Sheet Ghoul/Sheet Phantom A haunted bedsheet that drops from the ceiling to smother sleepers, then fuses with their corpses to make acid-spitting ghouls trailing shroud-like wisps.
- Spanner A living stone bridge that loves gossip and lets wildlife pass freely, but drops or flings rude travelers and sport hunters into the chasm or river below.
- Stwinger A tiny, sickeningly cute winged sprite whose charm pheromone turns bearded dwarves into living swing sets until they drop from exhaustion.
- Sussurus A headless heap of rotting bamboo whose droning song lulls travelers, and even lesser undead, into deep sleep before its spiked embrace crushes them.
- Symbiotic Jelly A palm-sized jelly clinging to a cave ceiling that charms a predator into guarding its lair, disguises it as a harmless weakling, baits the trap with illusory treasure, and feeds on the kill.
- Terithran A spindly, big-eared sleeper of the Ethereal that wakes when powerful wizardry ripples through its plane, then hunts down the caster to punish him.
- Thunder Children Gaunt black storm imps that rattle shutters and bang doors on stormy nights, feeding on the terror they cause until their victims die of fright.
- Tween An invisible ethereal parasite that clings to a host and doubles their luck, the tween pays for that fortune by quietly siphoning it from everyone else nearby.
- Umpleby A shaggy, dim-witted mound of hair that tags along with adventurers, the umpleby crackles with stored lightning and will trade its loyalty for a meal and a share of the gems.
- Urdunnir [Dwarf] A forgotten, god-blessed dwarven people who swim through solid rock, mold stone and metal like clay, eat gems, and can drag a foe into the earth to die.
- Volt Hairy, floating spheres that ride thunderstorms, volts latch onto a victim's neck, drain blood or nerve energy and zap their prey with an electric tail stinger.
- Xvart Small, bald, blue-skinned cowards who ambush in swarms, bully kobolds, hate halflings, and drag sleeping travelers off as captives for ransom or cruel sport.
- Zygraat Part bird of prey and part spider, the six-legged spider hawk strings silken nets in the treetops and dives on whatever blunders into them with a venomous bite.
Monstrous Compendium, 1994 Annual, Volume 1
- Aballin A living puddle of weak acid, the aballin waits beneath a scatter of dead adventurers' coins, then surges up as a jelly to swallow and drown whoever reaches for them.
Planes of Law
- Achaierai Giant spherical bird-heads on four long metal legs, achaierai stalk the deep caverns in starving flocks and, when crippled, belch a smoke that shatters the mind.