Lankhmar Monsters
Monsters of a grim, witty sword-and-sorcery world of thieves, wizards and decadent cities. 22 monsters, grouped by the book they come from.
Lankhmar: City of Adventure (2nd Ed.)
- Astral Wolf Ghosts of starved dogs and wolves that hunt through dreams, astral wolves drag sleepers onto the Astral Plane, and those who starved them to death never escape their vengeance.
- Behemoth Rare, fearless predators shaped like killer whales on four stubby legs, behemoths ambush from water, snow or darkness and always go for the biggest target present.
- Bird of the Raven Mother Cunning raven-shaped servants of a sinister bird goddess, these city birds steal, spy and kill with poisoned claws on behalf of her evil priesthood.
- Cold Woman A unique, woman-shaped mass of pale ooze that lures the greedy into its treasure-filled cave, freezes them rigid, and breeds its young upon their bodies.
- Devourer [Lankhmar] Iron-bodied merchants from another universe, these devourers drape worthless junk in unbreakable illusions, sell it as treasure and leave whole cities bankrupt.
- Fathomkin Shark-mouthed survivors of a drowned empire who wear handsome human faces on land and command the beasts of the deep in their hunger for revenge.
- Ghoul [Lankhmar] Glass-fleshed cannibals whose pink skeletons seem to walk on their own, these ghouls see themselves as the height of civilization and humans as dinner in need of refinement.
- Gladiator Lizard A fierce, untamable lizard that needs no food, lives for decades and fights with twin claws, prized by the rich as a guardian for their most precious hoards.
- Ice Gnome Tough-skinned nomad gnomes of the frozen wastes who roam in hordes big enough to wipe out entire human tribes.
- Invisible Flying Ray An unseen manta that swims through mountain air on a bladder of buoyant gas, the invisible rayfish is gentle in the wild but serves a hidden people as a war mount.
- Jungle Ghoul Spade-handed, earth-colored ghouls of the steaming southern jungles, they tunnel beneath graveyards and drag victims down into the soil before anyone can react.
- Sea Cloaker A manta-shaped cousin of the cloaker that drops from dark reef ceilings, wraps a swimmer in its body, and gnaws away until it is killed or torn loose.
- Snow Serpent Not a snake at all but a legless, white-furred hunting mammal of the frozen north that ambushes travelers from the snow and sprays a corrosive breath.
- Unseen Folk A dwindling, decadent race of invisible xenophobes who swoop from a frozen mountain kingdom on unseen flying rays, loosing arrows and cackling as they vanish.
- War Cats A council of thirteen immortal cats forms the warrior nobility of all felines, appearing as a pack to destroy whatever threatens cat-kind.
LNR1 Wonders of Lankhmar
- Deadly Smog A hungry, incorporeal cloud from the Negative Plane that lashes nearby creatures with fifty misty tentacles, growing stronger with every bit of life it steals.
- Monolisk A big, black-and-gray water-breathing mammal that electrifies the sea around it, stunning whole schools of fish, or swimmers, before scooping them into its huge mouth.
- Stalking Death A colossal mastiff-like avatar of the god of death that drags its chosen prey into a blank, boundless arena and hunts them there with cunning, leaps, and feigned death.
- Wolvern A clever, semi-telepathic canine that reads where prey will dodge next, the wolvern is peaceful toward thinking beings, and fiercely loyal to anyone who can talk with it.
Other sources
- Askhalite An alien will bound into a medallion, the askhalite possesses whoever willingly accepts the gift, and if anyone pries that trinket away, the host's body erupts into a clawed, ebony-skinned brute.
- Coral [Lankhmar] Two deadly reef dwellers: death coral that paralyzes swimmers so its countless polyps can feed, and giant coral whose rock-grinding worms burst out to chew through hulls.
- Ice Cat A cunning white-furred hunter of the frozen north, built like a cheetah, which almost never gets surprised and can become a fiercely loyal companion.