Greyhawk Monsters
Classic foes from one of the oldest fantasy campaign worlds, full of ancient dungeons and demon-haunted ruins. 80 monsters, grouped by the book they come from.
- MC5 Greyhawk Appendix (39)
- Other sources (7)
- Return to the Tomb of Horrors (7)
- From the Ashes (5)
- Dragon270 (4)
- WG12 Vale of the Mage (4)
- WGA1 Falcon's Revenge (3)
- WGA2 Falconmaster (3)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2 (2)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4 (2)
- WGA4 Vecna Lives! (2)
- Dragon206 (1)
- MC4 Dragonlance Appendix (w/binder #2) (1)
MC5 Greyhawk Appendix
- Aspis Weevil-like insect warriors that fight upright with two blades and two shields, aspis guard an acid-slick queen deep in a trap-riddled hive and take revenge by scent.
- Beastman Slight, fur-cloaked forest folk whose pelts ripple into living camouflage, beastmen strike unseen, shrug off magic they refuse to believe in, and vanish back into the canopy.
- Bonesnapper A thick-skinned, five-foot throwback to the great carnivorous lizards, the bonesnapper is fierce, territorial and astonishingly dim, and its lair is carpeted in cracked bones.
- Booka Butterfly-winged attic fairies who tidy the homes of good farm families, vanish at will, and answer any harm to their kin with traps clever enough to impress assassins.
- Buckawn [Brownie] The brownie's wild, hostile cousin, the buckawn hides in great forest trees, sees the invisible, works magic with a thought, and coats its darts with fearsome poisons.
- Carnivorous Plant [Greyhawk] Twisted cousins of the treants, the rope-coiled kampfult and the spike-trunked giant polyp lurk in ruins and dark caves waiting to strangle or digest whatever wanders close.
- Cloud Dragon An aloof, sunset-colored dragon that dissolves into cloud at will, scatters foes with a freezing gale, and calls down storms when angered.
- Crystalmist Drifting, snowflake-like motes that fuse into a humming globe of light when threatened, searing foes with beams that can set shields and clothing ablaze.
- Dragonnel A beaked, warty cousin of dragons and pteranodons, bred by cruel warlords as a flying war mount that never quite stops looking for a chance to bite its rider.
- Giant Dragonfly A jewel-bright aerial predator that strikes before its prey can react, snatching small creatures into a basket of legs and eating them alive in midair.
- Giant Iguana A motionless, camouflaged forest lizard as long as a wagon, the giant iguana singles out the smallest member of a party, gulps it down whole and bolts.
- Giant Turtle Ordinary turtles grown to monstrous size, giant turtles can capsize rowboats, swallow swimmers whole and supply both a prized meal and a ready-made roof.
- Grugach [Elf] Small, pale, fiercely xenophobic wild elves of the virgin forest whose pits, snares and deadfalls guard woods where even other elves are unwelcome.
- Grung Small, vicious frog-folk of the swamps whose sweat is a lethal poison, grung coat every arrow and spear in it and treat all trespassers as targets.
- Hook Horror A nine-foot, vulture-headed brute with hooks for hands, the hook horror hunts the dark by sound, pinning prey with both hooks while its beak tears into them.
- Horgar A colossal stone slug that eats through bedrock, leaving scorching, acid-pooled tunnels behind it, and without which the deep underworld could not support life at all.
- Ingundi A slim lizard predator that reads your mind and becomes the lover you always wanted, the ingundi charms its prey into removing armor before tearing out its throat.
- Kech Green-skinned, monkeylike forest fiends that fake cries for help and string snares along village paths, kech pick off travelers one by one and drag them into the trees.
- Mist Wolf Noble, fog-breathing wolves sworn to fight evil, mist wolves guard travelers through sinister woods, yet are hunted down by the very people they protect.
- Mite Tiny, twittering dungeon pests that trap and club lone adventurers, drag them into tunnels too small to fight in, poke at them for days, and then dump them robbed and dazed.
- Necrophidius [Golem] A silent serpent of warm white bone crowned with a grinning human skull, the death worm sways victims into a trance, then bites them into paralysis to finish its one assigned task.
- Needleman Gaunt, needle-covered plant men that vanish into conifer thickets and hate elves with a burning passion, needlemen take triple damage from magic but riddle foes with thorns.
- Quickling [Brownie] Brownies corrupted by dark magic into blurring, near-invisible killers, quicklings strike three times a round with needle daggers and burn out their short lives in cruelty.
- Rat [Greyhawk] Two pests of the wild: the camprat, a tiny gnawing thief that devours any unguarded ration, and the vapor rat, a cloud-dwelling rodent that dies in a burst of choking gas.
- Raven/Crow Clever black scavengers with sentinel-run flocks and a taste for glitter, ravens and crows can talk, guard and steal, and their beaks go straight for the eyes.
- Scarecrow A gourd-headed construct of stakes and rags whose burning eyes hold victims spellbound while it beats them to death, one at a time.
- Skulk Hairless, color-shifting humanoid cowards who melt into any background, murder whole families in their beds, and frame others for their killings.
- Slow Shadow Shapeless black undead that cling to their prey, chill and slow it to death, and turn the fallen into more of their kind in an ancient feud with ordinary shadows.
- Snail Gaudy, magic-warping flail snails batter foes with club-tipped tentacles, while giant sea snails paralyze the water around them and summon armies of tritons.
- Son of Ulmorrak Zombie-like undead crawling with green worms, sons of Ulmorrak spread terror and a rotting curse, and every worm that reaches a victim's brain makes one more of them.
- Steel Dragon [Greyhawk] A shapeshifting dragon of burnished steel that lives disguised among city folk as a scholar or patron of the arts, and whose breath is a cube of instantly lethal poison gas.
- Taer Shaggy, ape-like mountain nomads whose rank fur oil sickens anyone close by, taer defend their snowy peaks with avalanches, hidden pits and a stubborn reluctance to actually kill.
- Tentamort An eyeless, shell-capped dungeon ambusher that clings above doorways, one tentacle crushing prey while the other injects a fluid that liquefies its insides.
- Tyrg Half watchdog, half stalking tiger, the tyrg opens every fight with a stunning howl before its fang-crowded jaws go to work.
- Valley Elf Tall, gold-haired elven fighter-mages who guard a reclusive archmage's monster-haunted valley, strike first, and answer to a drow commander.
- Vampire Cactus [Carnivorous Plant] A deep-desert succulent that fires barbed needles on rubbery threads into anything warm-blooded, then sucks its victims dry to quench its endless thirst.
- Wild Grell A floating, brain-like horror that drifts silently along cave ceilings, the grell drops on passersby, snares them in ten paralyzing tentacles and hauls them up into darkness.
- Wraith [Greyhawk] Two battlefield horrors: swordwraiths, dead soldiers too stubborn to stop fighting, and soul beckoners, whispering shadows that grow stronger with every life level they steal.
- Zygom A cluster of alien mushrooms whose sticky blue sap glues foes together and sows spores that wire into a living host's nerves, puppeting it until the body is eaten.
Other sources
- Greater Gibbering Mouther A single swollen mouther that has crowned itself a god-king, spitting fire, regenerating and seeding tiny blood-drinking spawn that whisper its will to their hosts.
- Horag The rare offspring of an oversized ogre and an undersized hill giant, the horag is a thousand-pound brawler that hides its weak throwing arm behind savage close combat.
- Onco A bear-sized jungle elephant with a foul temper, short tusks of unusually strong ivory, and a habit of driving every other creature out of its patch of forest.
- Ravenous Starved, stiff-limbed undead born of a cursed famine, the ravenous drain the life from humans and snakes alike, and each victim they kill rises hungry within a day.
- Thousandtooth A mutated medusa reduced to a giant fanged head on a lump of flesh, scuttling on snake-headed limbs whose bites kill and whose presence slowly turns intruders to stone.
- Tlokasazotz [Bat-Vampire] A jungle king remade by his god into a towering bat-man who breathes fire, regenerates, and turns his blood-drained victims into loyal werebats.
- Wolf [Greyhawk] Shy, brilliant and slandered by the humans who fear it, this wolf lives by a strict pack hierarchy and flees people far more often than it ever fights them.
Return to the Tomb of Horrors
- Bone Weird A shapeless thing from the Negative Energy Plane that animates a heap of bones into a skull-headed serpent, dragging victims into the pile and tearing out their bones.
- Negative Energy Elemental A black flame shaped like a man, drawn from the plane of negative energy, whose very presence withers life and whose touch rots flesh and drains two levels at a stroke.
- Negative Fundamental Flocks of featureless black wings that drink the life from anything warm, negative fundamentals sometimes burst from a new vampire's tomb alongside the creature that called them.
- Rimebound Heart A frost-crusted, disembodied heart left as a necromancer's trap; it lies dead until the living draw near, then starts to beat by drinking their life.
- Rimebound Zombie The frost-sealed dead of a cursed city that never sees dawn, lying motionless until warm bodies come near, then rising to drain their life and freeze them in place.
- Vestige A drifting bank of glowing, moaning fog born from the dying nightmares of a cursed city's sleepers, the Vestige devours minds and dissolves whatever bodies it leaves empty.
- Winter-Wight A skeleton armored in clear ice with a skull wreathed in black flame, the winter-wight sets victims alight with blackfire that devours life itself and leaves nothing to resurrect.
From the Ashes
- Abyss Bat Rotting, skull-faced bats of the Abyss that come in six outwardly identical breeds, each hiding its own breath weapon or sorcery, so you never know which defenses you need until it is too late.
- Animus Murdered nobles and generals forced back into undeath by a tyrant's priests and fiends, animuses rule with iron will, dominating gazes, and bodies that crawl back together after death.
- Losel A cowardly, tree-dwelling cross of orc and baboon that marks its forest territory with scent and claw, settles feuds with shouting matches, and harbors a burning hatred of beastmen.
- Lyrannikin Treants turned evil by blight, magic or ancient rage, these solitary tree giants batter intruders with massive limbs and may soak their roots in blood.
- Thassaloss A four-armed automaton of blackened bone raised by a cruel demigod's priests, its emerald-lit gaze able to shatter a spellcaster's mind or freeze a warrior where he stands.
Dragon270
- Blackroot Marauder A thorny, man-shaped sapling animated by a cruel demigod's priests, the blackroot marauder hides among the trees and riddles passersby with poison thorns.
- Dirtwraith Not a ghost at all but a cunning fungus from the Abyss that hides in plant roots and turns its host into a club, leaving tidy skeletons behind.
- Hound of Ulmorrak A rotting undead scarab the size of a mastiff, the hound of Ulmorrak drives victims mad with its scraping chitter, plants hatching eggs with its stinger and crawls with lethal vermin.
- Murdakus A 90-foot, six-legged, twin-headed war beast built by a demigod's servants, the murdakus regenerates by drinking heat, fires paired beams of searing light, and turned on its makers.
WG12 Vale of the Mage
- Grist A ton-heavy 'true gargoyle' sculpted and spellbound by an archmage, the grist poses as stone carving on a wall until its single order tells it to kill.
- Griveling Gentle, half-ton earth-folk who swim through solid rock and mold their stony faces into clumsy copies of the people they watch, but fight relentlessly when pushed.
- Jakar A druid bound by an archmage's enchanted collar, able to become any natural beast from mouse to mammoth and nearly impossible to tell from the real thing.
- Jaleeda Bird A deranged ape-eagle hybrid from a wizard's failed experiments, whose agonized shriek scatters its prey before it swoops to snatch and smash them.
WGA1 Falcon's Revenge
- Carpet Snake Red serpents that lie dormant as patterns woven into a rug, carpet snakes rise writhing from the floor at a master's word and swarm whoever dares to walk across them.
- Grythok Palm-sized, shell-backed sewer scavengers that shriek for their kin and latch onto bare flesh, chewing ring-shaped bites until they have eaten their fill.
- Scryxull An undead serpent crusted with dead, dusty skin, the scryxull rears up to bite away its victim's strength and spits a numbing glob that spreads paralysis.
WGA2 Falconmaster
- Strangleweed A black, razor-leafed cave vine that wraps anyone who brushes it, slices through clothing, and slowly chokes its prey before storing the body for later.
- Weisshund A plump, sleepy white temple dog that seems like a pampered lapdog until hostility appears, when it swells to twice its size and pins intruders by the throat.
- Yphoz A translucent, leech-like blob that hides unseen in stagnant cave pools, wraps whip tentacles around swimmers, and numbs their limbs with poison until they drown.
Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2
- Fish [Forgotten Realms] Four marvels of the deep: a hypnotic floating eye that lures in sharks, scalding gem-hoarding hetfish, a venom-spined coral masher, and the verme, a river leviathan that swallows prey whole.
- Meenlock Small, furry horrors of dark forests that stalk a chosen victim with telepathic whispers for a day, then drag him underground to become one of them.
Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4
- Amazon [Human] Tall, hard-eyed warrior women who are almost never caught off guard, raiding from chariots, horseback or swift galleys and punishing anyone who thinks them easy prey.
- Blindheim A yellow, frog-like cave dweller whose eyes snap open like searchlights, blinding anyone close, and whose tribes sometimes swarm the tunnels in devouring hordes.
WGA4 Vecna Lives!
- The Eye A tall, robed servant with a giant eyeball for a head that devours souls with its gaze and tracks spellcasters across miles for the cult of a maimed lich-god.
- The Hand A headless brute with a giant hand sprouting from its neck, the Hand is the cult enforcer of the maimed lich-god, crushing foes and drinking the strength from flesh and steel.
Dragon206
- Fiend Knight Ordinary warriors remade by fiendish relics and sorcery into the mad overking's elite, unthinkingly loyal shock troops, feared even by the soldiers who fight beside them.
MC4 Dragonlance Appendix (w/binder #2)
- Shadow Folk Gentle, gliding, ape-like telepaths who hide beneath cities and ruins, the shadow folk guard their secret with deadly hooked staffs and a mind-linking ritual that summons a wise spirit.