Forgotten Realms Monsters
Monsters of a classic high-fantasy world of deep caverns, old empires, crowded cities and wild frontiers. 193 monsters, grouped by the book they come from.
- MC11 Forgotten Realms Appendix II (39)
- Other sources (26)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1996 Annual, Volume 3 (23)
- MC3 Forgotten Realms Appendix I (18)
- Ruins of Zhentil Keep (14)
- Ruins of Undermountain I (9)
- Menzoberranzan (6)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2 (6)
- City of Splendors (5)
- FOR11 Cult of the Dragon (5)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1994 Annual, Volume 1 (5)
- FR10 Old Empires (4)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4 (4)
- The City of Ravens Bluff (4)
- The Wyrmskull Throne (4)
- FOR7 Giantcraft (3)
- Monstrous Manual (3)
- FOR13 Secrets of the Magister (2)
- FOR5 Elves of Evermeet (2)
- FR14 The Great Glacier (2)
- Spellbound: Thay, Rasheman, & Aglarond (2)
- The Ruins of Myth Drannor (2)
- Dragon227 (1)
- Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Revised Edition (1)
- How the Mighty Are Fallen (1)
- MC7 Spelljammer Appendix I (1)
- Mystara Appendix (1)
MC11 Forgotten Realms Appendix II
- Alaghi Shy, hairy forest cousins of the yeti, alaghi drift through the woods as silent hunters, though settled clans turn greedy and eat travelers while their hermits play mental chess.
- Alguduir A scaled, eagle-winged marsh hunter nicknamed the swamp dragon, the alguduir drowns prey with its mate and can bounce your spells straight back at you.
- Beguiler A plump, mouselike steppe creature that sees through every illusion and invisibility, melts into any background, and fights with four clawed feet and a weapon-wielding tail.
- Bird [Forgotten Realms] Racing ostriches, a towering poison-proof stork called the boobrie, and the cruel eblis, stork-folk whose spellcasting leaders kill travelers for shiny trinkets.
- Black Willow [Carnivorous Plant] An evil, walking tree that lulls weary travelers to sleep, slides them into its hollow trunk and slowly dissolves them in acid sap.
- Cantobele A six-legged, maned predator with eerily human eyes, the cantobele lures victims with a soft woman's voice and celebrates each kill with a peal like chiming bells.
- Carnivorous Plant [Forgotten Realms] From constricting viper vines to walking, whip-stalked whipweeds and the nerve-draining witherweed, these predatory plants punish anyone who mistakes them for ordinary greenery.
- Cat [Forgotten Realms] Two magical felines of one prime world: the luck eater, a purring cat that feeds on its companions' misfortune, and the change cat, a house pet that becomes a cheetah when its friends are threatened.
- Chitine Four-armed, spider-eyed outcasts of the drow who build entire trap-strewn towns from webbing and dream of overthrowing their former masters.
- Cildabrin A huge, furry black hunter that is half spider and half scorpion, crushing prey in its pincers, stinging with deadly venom, and baiting its lair with treasure.
- Deep Dragon A shapeshifting hunter of the deep underworld that stalks prey as a giant serpent or a disguised humanoid, breathes flesh-eating gas and guards trapped caches of stolen magic.
- Fachan [Forgotten Realms] A one-legged, single-eyed swamp ambusher that springs from the muck to head-butt and stun its prey, then holds the victim under the water until it drowns.
- Fael A gluttonous undead that slips into feasts and parties and never stops eating, with a jaw that unhinges a full foot to bite off hands, limbs or heads.
- Frost Tiny blue-skinned winter fairies who play harmless pranks on polite travelers but turn icy lakes, avalanches and cones of cold against anyone evil enough to threaten their forests.
- Gaund Three-eyed fire-cave lizards that leap and lash in a frenzy, gaunds can heat a knight's armor red-hot with a glance from their hooded central eye.
- Hamadryad A shy, green-haired oak spirit free to roam beyond her tree, the hamadryad charms woodcutters and trespassing spellcasters alike into serving the ancient forest.
- Harrier A beaked, green-skinned jungle glider that drops from the canopy, latches onto its prey with all four claws, and pumps searing venom into the wound.
- Harrla An invisible, bodiless predator that feeds on emotion, the harrla floods its victims with hate, passion, or fear until they commit acts they cannot remember and slowly lose the will to live.
- Haun Furry, chattering ice maggots with formidable psionics, hauns burrow into the backs of giant ice slugs and ride them around like living fortresses.
- Haundar A gargantuan, levitating ice slug with an armored back and acid spit, the haundar roams frozen wastes and is prized by hunters for its blubber, eyestalks, and shell.
- Hendar A massive black worm with bat wings and a horse's head, the hendar drowns flying prey in the deep and carries swimmers into the sky to die.
- Inquisitor A rotting undead torturer conjured by evil wizards ages ago, the inquisitor lives on screams, paralyzing captives with a glance and breaking minds on its rack.
- Lightning Golem A jointed golden skeleton wrapped in a crackling, man-shaped halo of electricity, this swift golem opens battle with chain lightning and shocks anything it strikes.
- Loxo Gentle, two-trunked elephant-folk descended from starfaring settlers, the loxoth graze the open grasslands in herds, but a threatened family can drive a male into unstoppable rage.
- Manni Cowardly crow-headed bird-folk who scavenge the bleak steppe, raid graves in lean times, and ambush only when they are sure of winning without a scratch.
- Manscorpion Cursed desert hunters with handsome human torsos atop six-legged scorpion bodies, organized into disciplined squads and swarms whose tail venom kills in minutes.
- Mara Evil spirits riding twenty-foot bodies of living stone, the 'great walkers' crash through frozen forests at night and turn to lifeless standing stones if dawn catches them.
- Monkey Spider An inch-long, eight-limbed jungle monkey long mistaken for a spider, now a prized familiar and, some whisper, the hidden spy network behind southern thrones.
- Morin A hairless, six-clawed burrower of the open steppe that hunts in packs, and when eight or more gather they become a single shredding swarm that drags its kill underground.
- Orpsu Legless, jawless 'night stirges' that freeze prey with a paralyzing glance, slash past on blade-like bone horns, then settle on the helpless to drink.
- Ring-Worm A parasite disguised as a plain gold ring that bonds to its wearer's finger and slowly eats their spells and the power of their magic items.
- Rohch Wolf-headed, beetle-shelled abominations born of a cruel breeding experiment, hunting in chittering packs that swarm prey and burrow under armor until only bones remain.
- Sand Cat A small, tufted desert cat that hunts vermin by night, ignores people unless cornered, and sells as a pricey, half-wild pet in the cities.
- Saurial Bright-scaled lizard folk carried off from another world by a god of rot, the saurials now rebuild their lives in one hidden valley, speaking in voices too high to hear and feelings you can smell.
- Sha'az Six-legged, white-furred insect folk of the glaciers whose winged warriors freeze prey with venom and whose ice hives live and die with their queens.
- Silver Dog A shy, dreamlike hound of quicksilver fur whose beauty drives onlookers into reckless pursuit, and which can grant a wish or doom its captor.
- Simpathetic A drab plains bird from the hells that fakes a broken wing to lure kind-hearted heroes close, then quietly drains the goodness out of them.
- Skuz A life-draining undead slime that floats on stagnant ponds, shapes itself into a drowning child to lure rescuers, and turns those it drowns into more of its kind.
- Tren Brutal hybrids of troglodytes and the biggest, meanest lizard men, tren ambush travelers from chameleon cover, reek of stupefying musk, and covet forged steel above all else.
Other sources
- Balhiir A glittering cloud from the Negative Energy Plane that drifts toward magic and drinks it dry, emptying spells, enchanted items and spellcasters, and nearly impossible to destroy.
- Deep Bat Four strange bats of the surface and the deep underworld: the friendly, spark-tailed azmyth, the shrieking night hunter, the levitating, music-loving sinister and the blood-drinking werebat.
- Deep Rothe Shaggy, musk-ox-like herd beasts kept as livestock across the deep underworld, wary of traps, hard to stampede, and devastating when a panicked herd charges.
- Denizen Fanged aristocrats of a gray afterlife, denizens are the transformed priests of a death god, rewarded with monstrous bodies and the job of tormenting the dead.
- Divine Minion Towering bronze-armored warriors who serve the gods of an ancient desert pantheon, hiding the ability to become lions, crocodiles, hawks or deadly scorpions.
- Dowagu Four-armed, serpent-tailed shadow constructs that serve an undead raja, branding the living with a death-seal that drags them into his army once they die.
- Handmaiden Demon [Forgotten Realms] A shapeshifting servant of the spider goddess that drifts as a reeking column of gas, then hardens into a spider, a tentacled pillar, or a lovely elf to spread its cruelty.
- Ilvessa [Unique Ghost] A murdered noblewoman whose hatred remade her as a ghost able to turn solid at will, bound to her family's castle until the lich and the brother who killed her pay.
- Kaldravi the Black Courser A towering black stallion housing a reincarnated animal soul, the Black Courser flies in bursts, breathes fire, and grows weak whenever the moon is hidden from him.
- Kalmari A mist-bodied guardian summoned from a plane of endless war, the kalmari hides inside a living host and swallows enemies whole, yet any magic it eats can destroy it.
- Kesh Morvayan [Unique Undead] A deposed necromancer-emperor reborn as a pair of floating golden eyes, Kesh Morvayan rules a mountain kingdom through stolen bodies while plotting to retake his old throne.
- Lichling Skull-headed flying cockroaches hatched from a demilich's husk, lichlings latch on with wood-chewing fangs, feed on terror and grow, over centuries, into monstrous bone-spitting horrors.
- Myrlochar Skeletal, glowing spider servants of the spider goddess that obey one command from a summoner, then roam free, stealing life force with every bite and hunting until something kills them.
- Netherbird Black, dust-feathered carrion birds with oversized talons, netherbirds hunt in shrieking flocks, carry messages for a dark god, and reek of blood and rot.
- Night Rider Cunning, chuckling undead warriors made by the god of the dead and his servants, night riders wield scythes of wounding and ride skeletal gaunts whose touch paralyzes the living.
- Pedipalp Whip scorpions in three sizes, from foot-long rat catchers to crushing giants that gas their foes, these poison-proof hunters serve the drow as guards and hunting hounds.
- Primordial Undying Evils Three ancient horrors older than the gods' current order: a serpent that gorges on forgotten nightmares, a maggot-furred hound that devours souls, and a tentacled shell-beast that hungers only for elves.
- Protein Polymorph A mass of gray, thinking protoplasm that can become a treasure pile, a room, or a whole party of armed adventurers, all of it hungry for the people who come close.
- Saffravi the Greater Purple Dragon Once a holy prince's pet leopard, this reincarnated purple dragon rules the desert winds, choking foes with purple dust and slipping across the world through her astral form.
- Shadevari Eyeless, tusked and horned reptilian hunters from a lost age, the shadevari move first in every fight, track by sound and scent, and swat arrows out of the air.
- Shadowmasters A scheming clan of shapeshifting humans ruled from a castle on the demiplane of Shadow, the shadowmasters slip into the mortal world to devour, impersonate and conquer.
- Shee An eyeless, glowing elf maiden in plate armor who gallops through the night on a shadow steed, lancing every living thing once and vanishing with a killing scream.
- Solifugid Ten-legged hunting arachnids, called sun spiders or camel spiders, whose clamping forelegs lock onto prey so tightly that only death or a severed limb breaks the hold.
- Spectral Harpist The restless ghost of a master agent who died with a mission unfinished, guarding the network's refuges with a chilling touch, a terrifying deathsong and passage through solid stone.
- Spitting Crawler A sticky-toed cave lizard that clings to ceilings and spits metal-eating acid, prized as a loyal familiar by the dark elf wizards of the deep underworld.
- Subterranean Spider Four spiders that flourish in and around drow cities: swarming hairy biters, winged chasm hunters with true sight, blade-legged leapers and bred watch spiders.
Monstrous Compendium, 1996 Annual, Volume 3
- Arctic Dwarf Squat, sunburned, barefoot dwarves of the polar ice who box for fun, sing beautifully and carry a polar bear between two of them, but avoid war as foolishness.
- Bheur Hag The blue hag of northern legend rides in with winter, freezing travelers with a touch and a staff of frost, and anyone who watches her eat may go blind or mad.
- Black Unicorn [Forgotten Realms] A silver-chased, red-eyed unicorn bred from fiendish blood by slaver-wizards, a vicious war mount that will abandon its rider the moment a fight turns sour.
- Bonebat [Bat] Silent skeletal giant bats built by evil spellcasters as guards and messengers, whose freezing bite paralyzes, and which sometimes slip free to kill for the joy of it.
- Chosen One Former slaves tortured and magically twisted into clawed, venom-fanged guardians whose boiling hatred is aimed at everyone except their master, at least until it snaps.
- Disenchanter A shimmering blue, camel-like beast that sniffs out magic from 120 feet away and drains enchanted gear dry with a single touch of its trunk.
- Dread Warrior Elite undead soldiers raised from slain fighters within a day of death, strong and skilled but dangerously literal, serving a lich-lord of the slaver-wizards in his wars.
- Ghost Dragon The restless spirit of an ancient dragon whose hoard was plundered, haunting its empty lair and demanding every coin intruders carry until its lost wealth is restored.
- Lesser Undead Dragon Mindless zombie and skeleton dragons raised from the corpses of evil wyrms, these lumbering guardians keep a dragon's immunities and innate powers but lose its fear, flight and breath.
- Magic Golem A wizard fused with a zone of wild magic into a glowing yellow figure of raw sorcery, this golem drinks every spell and enchantment near it and hurls blasts that ignore magical protection.
- Messenger Snake A small, parrot-winged courier serpent bred by a cabal of wizards, able to fly unseen, sense lies, and track down one chosen recipient up to a hundred miles away.
- Neo-Orog [Orc] Battle-bred hybrids of orc, ogre and stranger stock, raised in wizard-run barracks as loyal shock troops and silent scouts who live only for war.
- Orglash [Ice Spirit] Fickle little whirlwinds of snow and razor ice that guard the peaks of a cold eastern land, tearing apart foreign invaders and sometimes the locals too.
- Rockseer Elf Silver-haired, ice-eyed elves sealed in the deep underworld since mythic times, who melt into solid rock, walk through stone and call up huge earth elementals together.
- Scalamagdrion A silent, gray-scaled dragon-thing that waits behind a page in a book, cloaked in magical silence and turning spells back on the wizards foolish enough to face it.
- Snow Tiger [Great Cat] A coat that changes with the seasons lets the snow tiger stalk cold mountains so invisibly that its first strike almost always comes as a total surprise.
- Stingcone Sorcerer Floating, cone-bodied sorcerers who cast spells by silent will, absorb or reflect hostile magic, and implant ravenous eggs with a barbed tail, stingcones are among the deadliest mages alive.
- Thomil [Rock Spirit] Guardian spirits sleeping inside the stones of a cold eastern land, which heave up as rocky torsos to crush miners, despoilers and foreign invaders.
- Tomb Tapper Faceless, rock-skinned humanoids with fanged mouths in their bellies who tunnel up from the deep earth to steal and worship every magic item they can find.
- Tome Guardian [Fire Kin] A fire elemental bound into a spellbook or other small object that sears any thief, attacker or mind-prober with an unerring, blood-boiling lance of white-hot flame.
- Uthraki [Forest Spirit] A spiteful shapechanging spirit of lonely forest roads that poses as a friendly fellow traveler until nightfall, then sheds the disguise and throttles its companion.
- Werecrocodile [Lycanthrope] Gaunt, long-faced riverfolk who play the weeping stranger until you step close, werecrocodiles then become huge crocodiles that drag their victims under to drown.
- Wood Man [Forest Spirit] A fifty-foot giant of living timber that strides out of the forests of a cold eastern land in its darkest hours, crushing invaders and punishing natives who neglect the land.
MC3 Forgotten Realms Appendix I
- Ascallion [Fish] An 18-foot shark-like ocean hunter that carries her brood in her mouth, unleashes them on prey, and is finally devoured from within when they come of age.
- Asperii Wingless sky horses that ride the wind itself, asperii see through illusion into other planes and make devoted mounts, if you can raise one from a foal.
- Belabra A rock-like shelled tangler that springs through the air on twelve barbed tentacles, wraps its prey, tears with a beak, and sprays sneeze-inducing blood when wounded, yet can be trained like a hound.
- Berbalang A bat-winged ghoul that lies in a deathlike trance while its spirit roams the Astral, sending a perfect duplicate out under the full moon to kill and carry back a human meal.
- Bhaergala A wolf-and-lion shaped jungle hunter that smells of fresh bread, sings in borrowed human and elven voices, and drops on its prey from the treetops.
- Bichir A huge, lizard-like swamp fish that breathes air, hauls itself ashore like a seal, and tangles foes in magical vines when a fight turns against it.
- Darkenbeast Ordinary sheep and dogs twisted by a night-cast spell into black-winged, fanged hunters that obey a wizard's mind until the first light of dawn.
- Dinosaur IV Six more great reptiles, including the colossal 90-ton brachiosaurus, gem-swallowing camarasaurs and a herd beast so dim that its stampedes kill.
- Dinosaur V A mixed pack of prehistoric hunters and grazers, from spur-kicking crested carnosaurs to a man-swallowing armored fish and the longest-necked creature alive.
- Dinosaur VI Horned and spiked herbivores, a cannibal pack hunter and a vast pterosaur that dives out of the sun round out the prehistoric beasts of the lost lands.
- Dinosaurs Colossal, dim-witted reptiles from a lost age that still stomp through forgotten continents and strange planes, driven by hunger and dangerous whether they hunt you or simply flee.
- Firestar A peaceful, fist-sized mote of living light that dances in the night woods, drinks the fire from campsites, and answers violence with stinging bolts of lightning.
- Rhaumbusun A shy, eight-legged lizard cousin of the basilisk whose gem-like eyes paralyze anything that meets them, leaving frozen animals scattered around its lair.
- Sull A living flying saucer that drifts among the clouds, dives on prey in a cloud of blinding gas, and quietly resents every wizard who tries to ride it.
- Svirfneblin [Deep Gnome] Gnarled, stone-quiet gnomes of the deep underworld who hunt gems through narrow tunnels, vanish into the rock at will, and greet pursuers with poison darts and gas crystals.
- Thessalmonster A family of unstable hydra hybrids, each with a ring of biting serpent heads around a great central maw, crossbred with chimeras, gorgons and cockatrices into fresh horrors.
- Thylacine A smoke-gray, tiger-sized hunting cat that pounces from 50 feet away, vanishes against rock and forest, and makes a special point of mauling wizards and smashing magic.
- Vulture Patient carrion birds that circle every battlefield and drop in to feed on the fallen, joined by bigger giant and condor cousins that can be trained as scouts, spotters or even mounts.
Ruins of Zhentil Keep
- Banedead Withered zealots of a slain tyrant god, raised by dark ritual into cunning undead whose bite and twisted claw sap Dexterity, and who single out priests and paladins above every other foe.
- Banelich A high priest of a tyrant god made immortal by a secret rite, wielding freezing coldfire, a hopeless touch and a death-grip while growing stronger every century it endures.
- Burnbones Fanatical priests of a mad god of strife, burned down to blazing skeletons by his power, burnbones cast clerical spells with a pointed finger and sear everything near them.
- Cabal Spirit The furious ghost of a powerful cabal wizard murdered by rivals or allies, it refuses judgment, possesses the living, and drains its killers' lives away permanently until every one is dead.
- Fortress Sewer Rat Bred in the magic-polluted sewers of a ruined fortress-city, these yellow-eyed, half-human-faced rats hunt in packs, cling to drink blood, and are always missed by the first blow aimed at them.
- Guardgoyle [Gargoyle] A poison-fanged stone statuette crafted by a secretive wizard cabal, the guardgoyle sits among its master's belongings until an intruder appears, then shrieks and strikes.
- Hybsil Shy antelope-bodied fey of the deep woods who strike from the shadows with sleep-poisoned arrows and blades, then vanish without a trace.
- Magedoom A blind, sludge-mound assassin built from a living wizard, the magedoom hunts other mages by their spells, strips away their casting power, and explodes in wild magic when slain.
- Nature Elemental A towering, uncontrollable giant of sod, water and living spirit, called by an ancient priest spell to wipe every trace of civilization from a square mile and return it to wilderness.
- Ondonti [Orc] Gentle, orc-like farmers devoted to a goddess of peace, now hunted and enslaved by a wizard cabal that hopes to breed them into a perfect army.
- Render A unique horror born when a botched spell fused a fiend with a dying prisoner, the render lives in endless agony, regenerates almost anything, and never stops hunting.
- Sacaanti A tailless, spellcasting fusion of imp and quasit, bound mind and life to the wizard who made it, so that each one's death can ruin the other.
- Scarlet Dancer Mist Swarms of tiny blood-drinking red vapors that drift through the sewers beneath a ruined fortress-city, slipping misty tendrils through any armor to reach the skin.
- Vault Guardian [Golem] A tireless stone-and-steel sentinel with ruby eyes and true sight, the vault guardian strikes intruders even across the Ethereal and Astral planes, but anyone who learns its key word can command it.
Ruins of Undermountain I
- Bloodkiss Orb [Gazer Kin] Mistaken for a gazer tyrant nine times in ten, this mouthless orb lashes out with ten bloodsucking tentacles and turns stolen blood into electric power for moving and healing.
- Darktentacles A cow-sized, eye-studded amphibious horror with dozens of tentacles that wields weapons, charms and paralyzes its captives, drowns prey and traps foes in spheres of force.
- Elder Gazer An ancient, scheming gazer tyrant that has traded some of its eyes for wizard spells, commands squads of undead deathgaze tyrants, and plots its faction's rise over all tyrantkind.
- Flying Snake Bat-winged, acid-spitting vipers that swarm at their victims' faces to blind them, plus the deathfang, an undead variant that drinks life through its bite.
- Lurker in Darkness Bred from fire lizards by a secretive cult, these wingless, fire-breathing temple guardians pin intruders beneath their bulk and serve a god who died long ago.
- Sharn Aloof, many-eyed blobs that strike through tiny purple portals with fanged heads and three-handed arms, scrambling minds and preying on deep-dungeon explorers.
- Slithermorph An acid-spitting black ooze that can rear up as a four-armed serpent, the slithermorph haunts underground rivers, tending herds of crayfish and fish like a monstrous farmer.
- Steel Shadow A flatworm-like creature that seeps into metal and animates it, turning empty armor, swords, and even scattered coins into weapons while barbed tentacles lash from inside.
- Watchghost Graceful undead sentries, half beautiful and half bare bone, that drift through stone walls, fire draining rays of cold light, and guard tombs and vaults with tireless intelligence.
Menzoberranzan
- Cloaker Lord A giant-sized cloaker that bullies its lesser kin into raiding bands, drinks victims to bare bone, and moans with far greater range and cruelty than its cousins.
- Foulwing A lumpy, horse-headed, toad-bodied flier with three needle-toothed mouths that pins prey to drink its blood at leisure, and serves evil humans and drow as a night-riding steed.
- Riding Lizard Swift, sticky-footed reptiles that serve as the horses of the deep underworld, leaping chasms and running silently along cavern ceilings with riders strapped in.
- Subterranean Lizard [Forgotten Realms] Broad, placid pack lizards that haul heavy loads up cavern walls, crush armor in their jaws, and pin careless foes beneath their bulk until little remains.
- Undying Mind Reaver A mind reaver that cheated death through wizardry, the undying mind reaver hoards spells, enslaves its living kin, and still savors a fresh brain for the secrets inside.
- Wingless Wonder A clumsy, egg-shaped waddler with sticky tentacles and a ridiculous flapping gait, the wingless wonder hides an anti-magic aura, a wild magic burst, and sometimes a trapped archmage.
Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2
- Cath Shee [Great Cat] A greenish-gray faerie cat that teleports onto its prey, the cath shee is a proud solitary hunter that may, rarely, choose an elf ranger as its partner.
- Ice Sheet Fish [Forgotten Realms] Five small, timid fish of the frigid seas around a vast polar ice sheet, from a living canteen and a fish that burns like a candle to a crystal eel that burrows into sleepers.
- Kholiathra Invisible, glass-edged luck spirits that drift over elven homelands, tipping fortune toward their charges and away from anyone who means them harm.
- Moon-Horse Silver-white, spell-casting horses of a hidden elven isle, wise as their riders and immune to the draining touch of the undead.
- Subterranean Fish Three lovely but treacherous fish of lichen-lit underground waters: paralyzing wattleys, poison-barbed lemon fish, and glittering plecos whose venom slowly withers a victim to death.
- Wild Dwarf Tattooed, grease-slick jungle dwarves who hunt in shifting bands, lace their blowgun darts with sleep venom, and turn their home caves into a maze of deadly traps.
City of Splendors
- Animerge Hybrid Two animals fused into one by a specialized transmutation spell, animerge hybrids range from comic failures to stable new breeds such as the wing-spurred wolveraven.
- Hakeashar A drifting red globe of hands, eyes and mouths that hunts magic, the hakeashar drinks spells, drains charges, and strips memorized magic from any caster it engulfs.
- Sewerm A sewer and swamp water snake that numbs its prey with anaesthetic oil and quietly drinks their blood, often draining a wader dead before they notice anything.
- Shadowrath Black-boned or hollow-bodied undead raised by a dead god's artifact crown, shadowraths drain strength or life levels and hunt wizards in revenge for their fallen master.
- Watchspider Purpose-bred hunting spiders that lurk beside vault doors, leap 30 feet onto intruders and paralyze them one by one, sold as living alarms to the merchants of a great coastal city.
FOR11 Cult of the Dragon
- Dracimera The monstrous child of an evil dragon mated with a chimera, a three-headed horror that bites, gores and breathes with a dragon's fury six times a day.
- Dracohydra A muddy brown, many-headed winged dragon that spits acid from every mouth, bullies anything weaker, and serves a dragon cult as a sullen, ever-hungry guard beast.
- Elder Vasshari Thrall An undead serpent-thrall raised by cult necromancers, a hissing, eyeless guardian that flies into a berserk frenzy the moment a blade draws its rotten blood.
- Mantidrake The scaly, dragon-headed child of an evil dragon and a manticore, armed with tail spikes, claws, fangs and a breath weapon as strong as its own life force.
- Wyvern Drake Half dragon and half wyvern, this clever winged hunter pairs a lethal stinger with its dragon parent's breath weapon and often serves dragon cultists as a mount and scout.
Monstrous Compendium, 1994 Annual, Volume 1
- Dark Tree A slimy-barked jungle predator born of a wizard's failed experiment, which confuses travelers until they wander lost, then grabs and drinks them.
- Dragon-kin Winged, dragon-faced humanoids driven by an overpowering urge to snatch magic items, who swoop down to wrestle enchanted gear out of their victims' hands and fly off with it.
- Helmed Horror A suit of plate armor with nobody inside, the helmed horror is a thinking, fearless guardian that keeps obeying its maker's orders long after the maker is dust.
- Laraken A glowing yellow sphere that blinks from place to place in steaming swamps, the laraken whips casters and magic items with its tentacles, stealing spells, charges and pluses to use as its own.
- Nightshade [Forgotten Realms] Bearded, root-limbed spirits of poisonous plants, these wood woses haunt cursed forests, poison blades with their own sap, and turn their dead victims into new nightshades.
FR10 Old Empires
- Desert Wraith Risen from those slain by sandstorm horrors, the desert wraith runs prey down as a jackal, then drains its life with a ghostly human touch.
- Divine Minion [Variant] Towering, bronze-armored servitors of an ancient desert pantheon, divine minions shift between battle forms to carry their gods' messages and, for the serpent god, his killings.
- Skriaxit Packs of malevolent, sand-bodied air spirits whose combined storm flays flesh from bone and smothers magic, waking every century to revel in ruin.
- Stone Colossus A towering stone golem built by a vanished giant race to guard its monuments, whose thunderous march sends lesser creatures fleeing and whose fists level foreign buildings.
Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4
- Firetail A playful, capricious sprite of living flame whose dazzling aerobatics enthrall onlookers, and whose greater form, the tshala, hurls fireballs and walks between planes.
- Groundling Dwarves twisted into badger-snouted burrowing assassins by a wizard cabal, groundlings track a target by scent and erupt from the earth to drag it underground.
- Lythari [Lycanthrope] Gentle silver wolves who are secretly elves, the lythari roam hidden faerie forests, shun bloodshed, and will bond a willing elf into their kind with a single scarring bite.
- Vurgens [Fish] A giant, spine-ridged gulper eel of the deep sea that swallows prey as large as itself in one go and dissolves it in paralyzing, acidic saliva.
The City of Ravens Bluff
- Dragger A boulder-like earth elemental creature that lurks beneath an illusion of solid floor, then opens its stony maw and swallows whoever steps on it.
- Greater Raven A sardonic, prophetic black bird that adopts adventurers to watch their misfortunes unfold, the greater raven is easy to kill but curses its slayer with a rhyming doom.
- Greater Sea Hag Rarer and far cleverer than her lesser kin, the greater sea hag charms sailors with a look, wrecks ships with illusions, and commands the spells of a true mage.
- Orrumvast [Unique Bronze Dragon] An old bronze dragon who has guarded a port city's treasury for fifty years at ten gold a day, slowly and with perfect honesty, bankrupting the city that hired him.
The Wyrmskull Throne
- Feeblestar A small deep-sea starfish whose weakening enzyme opens clams, and whose magically bred cousin, clamped to a captive's neck, turns slaves weak and hopeless.
- Quelzarn A slime-coated, forty-foot water serpent that freezes sailors with hold monster from the shallows, then rears up to swallow them whole.
- Shalarin Graceful, finned sea folk with dolphin skin and coral-bright colors, the shalarin live by a rigid four-caste order that even their eggs reveal before hatching.
- Slithering Hoard A twenty-foot gelatinous blob armored in glued-on coins, gems and weapons, it lies in wait as a treasure pile and then wraps victims in a grinding, suffocating embrace.
FOR7 Giantcraft
- Ice Spire Ogre Bigger, smarter and better drilled than common ogres, these frost-mountain brutes ambush from choking cave mists, and some carve demonic friezes that twist the minds of onlookers.
- Krotter Shaggy, humpbacked arctic oxen that are almost defenseless one by one but can trample a hunter flat when the whole herd stampedes.
- Shadowhound Silent, bodiless black hounds of the Abyss that chill flesh with a touch, flood their quarry with terror, and feed on the fear of the people they run down.
Monstrous Manual
- Brown Dragon A wingless desert dragon that burrows deep beneath the sand, hears footsteps from 500 feet below, and erupts in silence to drag down travelers and their horses.
- Dark Naga Eel-dark serpents with fanged human faces, dark naga read minds constantly, smuggle poison and stolen spellbooks in a hidden inner pouch, and serve evil masters as cunning lieutenants.
- Deepspawn A many-armed rubbery sphere that lounges on a hoard of coins and births copies of anything it has eaten, the deepspawn can seed a whole region with monsters.
FOR13 Secrets of the Magister
- Shadowstaff Faithful spirits remade by the gods of magic, shadowstaves drift unseen through walls, spy on wizards, hide in enchanted staves, and steer the course of magic itself.
- Tarsardar Ghostly magic-bound spirits that slip into enchanted swords, staves and rings, wield them as expertly as any master, and make magic seem to move by itself.
FOR5 Elves of Evermeet
- Reverend One Silent, silver-armored elven warriors who appear in their hundreds at the turning point of a battle, dazzling foes and banishing undead and fiends with a single blow.
- The White Stag The red-eyed, snow-white servant of the elven god of long life, whose appearance heralds great events and whose trail leads followers to divine visions.
FR14 The Great Glacier
- Kupuk A tusked, walrus-skinned sled dog of the polar ice, the kupuk is a gentle worker and babysitter that turns savage when its people or its gold-like eggs are threatened.
- Tirichik A silent, snow-white cross between dragon and centipede that lurks in glacier crevasses, probing for prey with metal-tough tentacles and devouring humans with bottomless appetite.
Spellbound: Thay, Rasheman, & Aglarond
- Gemstone Golem Ruby, emerald, and diamond giants commanded by circles of slaver-wizards, nearly immune to weapons and nature magic and bursting into fortunes in gems when finally destroyed.
- Vrexhaal the Imprisoned An ancient abyssal lord bound for centuries beneath a slaver-wizard capital, a horned, red-plated fiend whose gaze kills and whose prison weakens with every stolen map.
The Ruins of Myth Drannor
- Aratha [Killer Beetle] A tentacled, psionic killer beetle hunted almost to extinction, the aratha stalks lone travelers by thought and scent and seizes them with crushing claws from 20 feet away.
- Doomsphere [Ghost Gazer] A gazer tyrant that cheated death through magic and rose as a spectral orb, its eyes now firing withering, bone-shattering and flesh-searing beams.
Dragon227
- Blue-Ring Octopus A shy, clever octopus of the deep underworld's hidden seas whose ink and grasping arms carry a venom strong enough to kill a gilled swimmer in moments.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Revised Edition
- Tressym Clever, mischievous winged cats that hunt birds on the wing, spot the invisible and taste out any poison, making them beloved pests and superb wizard familiars.
How the Mighty Are Fallen
- Fallen Empire Zombie Clever, finely dressed undead serving a lich overlord in a ruined magical empire, who raise every foe they beat into another soldier for his swelling army.
MC7 Spelljammer Appendix I
- Wizshade A robed spirit of pure magic rising from a rainbow vortex, the wizshade flings random spells with whimsical abandon and can only be hurt by magic, which steals its spell levels away.
Mystara Appendix
- Dimensional Warper Bat-winged scholars from beyond the Prime who bend size, speed and space, dimensional warpers spy on adventurers for study and sometimes pick a fight just to take notes.