Planescape Monsters
Natives of the Outer Planes and the spaces between them: fiends, celestials, elemental oddities and the strange folk of the great planar city. 280 monsters, grouped by the book they come from.
- MC8 Outer Planes Appendix (75)
- Planescape II (57)
- Planescape III (43)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1996 Annual, Volume 3 (14)
- Planescape Campaign Setting (13)
- Planes of Chaos (12)
- Planescape I (12)
- Planes of Conflict (10)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4 (8)
- Planes of Law (6)
- The Rod of Seven Parts (6)
- MC14 Fiend Folio Appendix (5)
- Monstrous Manual (4)
- Dark Sun Appendix II - Terrors Beyond Tyr (1)
- Dead Gods (1)
- Dragon Mountain (1)
- Dungeon23 (1)
- Dungeon28 (1)
- Dungeon31 (1)
- For Duty & Deity (1)
- Guide to Hell (1)
- MC10 Ravenloft Appendix I (1)
- MC13 Al-Qadim Appendix (1)
- MC5 Greyhawk Appendix (1)
- MC9 Spelljammer Appendix II (1)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1994 Annual, Volume 1 (1)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2 (1)
- Other sources (1)
MC8 Outer Planes Appendix
- Adamantite Dragon Perhaps the mightiest of all dragons, a shining planar guardian of goodness whose second breath can freeze time itself while it defends its home paradise.
- Air Sentinel Cheerful, whirlwind-bodied guardians of a storm-battered paradise layer, air sentinels sweep endangered travelers to safety and stun attackers with crackling lightning hugs, but never kill the helpless.
- Alu Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri] The half-human daughters of succubi, alu demons pass for beautiful women until their wings show, heal themselves with every blow they land, and sometimes wield a full wizard's arsenal.
- Animal Lord Immortal spirit-sovereigns of the plane of beasts, the animal lords guard their own kind with the ruthless, amoral logic of nature, and nothing ever catches them by surprise.
- Ape Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri] Six-fingered, orangutan-like ambushers that change color to vanish into their surroundings, ape demons leap 40 feet from cover and swarm a single victim.
- Archon The lawful good dead reborn as guardians of the Seven Heavens, archons climb a seven-step ladder from floating lanterns to hawk-headed tomes, and fight with fury when their mountain is threatened.
- Baatezu Overview Disciplined, scheming fiends of a rigid infernal hierarchy, the baatezu fight an eternal war against the tanar'ri and seek to bend humanity to their long, patient plan of conquest.
- Babau [Greater Tanar'ri] Skeletal, horned press-gangers of the Abyss, babaus slink like master thieves, sap strength with a red stare, and sweat an acidic slime that turns blades and eats through steel.
- Balaena Gentle, telepathic whales that ferry worthy travelers along the great river of the upper planes, balaenas sing foes into peace and refuse passage to anyone with evil intent.
- Balor [True Tanar'ri] The mightiest of all true tanar'ri, a flame-wreathed winged giant with a lightning sword and a burning whip, whose very death is a devastating explosion.
- Barbazu [Lesser Baatezu] Bearded, glaive-wielding shock troops of the Nine Hells, barbazu leave bleeding wounds that never close and grow steadily more berserk the longer a fight drags on.
- Bebilith A colossal barbed spider that stalks the Abyss exterminating whole groups of tanar'ri, shredding armor with its forelegs and leaving poisoned victims to burst into flame.
- Bodak Gray, sexless husks of mortals who died in the forbidden depths of the Abyss, bodaks kill with a single glance and hate every living thing, themselves included.
- Buzzing Demon [Greater Tanar'ri] A giant fly with human arms and a needle nose, the buzzing demon hunts deserters through the Abyss, droning its prey into a stupor before drinking their blood.
- Cambion [Lesser Tanar'ri] Black-skinned, fanged children of demon fathers and human mothers, cambions are stealthy assassins and bodyguards who move silently even in spiked plate.
- Celestial Lammasu Mighty winged lions of the mountain realm of the gods, celestial lammasu wield potent priest and wizard magic, regenerate rapidly and wage a private, endless war on evil across the planes.
- Celestial Overview The celestials are the holy servants of the good powers: honorable, compassionate and terrifyingly strong, from the shapeshifting vanguard warriors to the godlike solars.
- Clatter Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Dim, abused, five-armed grunts of the mercenary fiend armies whose spinning insect heads, grappling claws, and mind-shattering chatter make them nasty front-line brawlers.
- Cornugon [Greater Baatezu] Scaled, whip-wielding elite soldiers of the hells, cornugons radiate terror, regenerate as they fight, and serve with a loyalty almost unheard of among devils.
- Deva [Celestial] Winged, impossibly handsome envoys of the good powers, devas carry their masters' word by the sword, each of the three kinds built for a different battlefield of the planes.
- Dretch [Least Tanar'ri] Squat, slobbering and endlessly numerous, dretches are the lowliest true fiends of the Abyss, cannon fodder that summons more of its own kind until a whole horde boils up.
- Einheriar Misty spirit-warriors of the honored dead who march in disciplined companies for the good powers, appearing from the sky to turn hopeless battles.
- Erinyes [Lesser Baatezu] Breathtakingly beautiful winged temptresses, the erinyes are the only devils free to walk the mortal world uninvited, and they hunt for souls to drag back to the hells.
- Gehreleth Hideous fiends that rise from corpses rotting on the lower planes, gehreleths are a grudge-keeping, three-caste race and the creatures summoners most often get when they least want them.
- Gelugon [Greater Baatezu] Towering insect-devils of the frozen eighth hell, gelugons hold the last gate before the infernal heart, stabbing with a freezing tail and calling up legions of lesser fiends.
- Glabrezu [True Tanar'ri] A four-armed, dog-headed fiend that answers mortal summonings, trades gold and magic for footholds of evil, and crushes anyone who spoils its schemes.
- Hamatula [Lesser Baatezu] Barb-covered sentries of the third and fourth hells, hamatula never get surprised, and a victim caught in both claws is crushed against a body made of hooks.
- Hezrou [True Tanar'ri] A bullying toad-demon that enforces the nalfeshnee's will, crushes foes in a hug, and oozes a stench strong enough to leave heroes retching on the ground.
- Hordling The countless, misshapen rabble of the gray wasteland of despair: no two alike, all spiteful, and able to flood the mortal world by the hundreds through one terrible relic.
- Larva Bloated yellow worms wearing the faces of selfish mortals, larvae are the damned currency of the lower planes, herded by night hags and sold to fiends, liches and devils.
- Lemure [Baatezu] Melted, mindless blobs of tormented flesh, lemures are the lowest of all devils, pouring at intruders in endless waves and regrowing from scraps unless destroyed by holy power.
- Light Celestial A swirling cloud of living radiance, the light celestial is a rare heavenly familiar granted to worthy heroes, whose touch burns evil and whose glow makes good folk miss.
- Maelephant Elephant-headed guardians of the lower planes, bred for perfect obedience, who crush foes in their claws, impale them with a barbed trunk, and erase memories with their breath.
- Manes [Least Tanar'ri] The bloated, mindless souls of evil mortals, manes swarm the Abyss by the thousands, reform a day after being slain, and burst into acid fumes when they die.
- Marilith [True Tanar'ri] A six-armed serpent-woman who plans the demons' wars, wades gleefully into melee with a different magic blade in every hand, and crushes the breath from foes.
- Marut A jointless onyx giant sent from the plane of perfect order to carry out a god's decree, patient enough to wait generations and powerful enough that spells and guards mean nothing.
- Mastermind Fiend [Greater Mercenary] Faceless, opal-eyed rulers of the mercenary fiends whose hypnotic gaze, vast arsenal of spells, and air of cold mystery keep every lower-planar sellsword in line.
- Mediator Agents of the neutral powers: three near-omnipotent crystal balancers that keep the plane of perfect order in equilibrium, and the silver courier spheres that carry the gods' messages.
- Mercenary Fiend Overview Greedy, treacherous sellswords of the lower planes who fight for demons and devils alike, and switch sides the moment someone offers a better price.
- Mindless Devil [Least Baatezu] Faceless, blind lumps of damned soul-stuff, mindless devils are the fodder and spare rations of the Nine Hells, and they rebuild themselves from their own ashes.
- Moon Dog Dark, half-human-faced hounds from the blessed upper planes whose baying terrifies and burns evil creatures and can send fiends howling back to their own planes.
- Mortai Mile-wide living clouds of the plane of beasts, wise and playful, that answer honest questions with perfect lore and answer insults with 10d6 lightning bolts.
- Nalfeshnee [True Tanar'ri] A bloated ape-boar demon that sits enthroned in judgment over damned mortals, feeding on their despair before torturing their remains into new tanar'ri.
- Night Hag Blue-skinned soul traders who rule the gray wasteland, night hags strangle sleeping sinners, ride their dreams to death, and sell the resulting larvae to fiends.
- Noctral Huge, owl-like sages of the heavenly mountain who advise celestials and gods, know a startling amount about everything, and make silent, deadly hunters when they must.
- Oathkeeper Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Lopsided, red-scaled petty lords of the mercenary fiends, with one giant arm that stuns, acid breath, and a hunger for the life force of unconscious foes.
- Osyluth [Lesser Baatezu] Skeletal, scorpion-tailed enforcers of infernal law, osyluths may punish devils far above their own rank, which makes them both feared and quietly murdered whenever possible.
- Overseer Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Lobster-bodied, limb-severing sergeants who whip companies of lesser mercenary fiends into line, summon reinforcements at will, and poison foes with their mouth tentacles.
- Per Plumed, frost-sworded spirits of devoted heroes, pers stand eternal guard over the portals of the upper planes and will fight to the death rather than leave their post.
- Phoenix A blazing, rainbow-feathered bird of freedom and rebirth whose healing touch, battle magic and final fiery sacrifice make it one of the most revered and hunted beasts of the planes.
- Pit Fiend [Greater Baatezu] Winged, flame-wreathed lords of the Nine Hells, pit fiends strike six times a round, hurl fire at will, and lead armies whose mere sight sends mortals fleeing for days.
- Planetar [Celestial] Emerald-skinned, white-winged generals of heaven, planetars wield vorpal greatswords and a vast arsenal of holy magic in service to the greatest mortal champions of good.
- Ruler Devil [Greater Baatezu] Squat, bat-winged greater baatezu who guard the river of forgetting, ruler devils steal a day of memory with each touch and imprison invaders who reach their frozen layer.
- Scaled Devil [Lesser Baatezu] Lean, reptilian gargoyle-devils with venomous tails, scaled devils dive from the sky on mortal visitors and love handing reckless young wizards more magic than they can survive.
- Scholar Fiend [Greater Mercenary] The jackal-headed clerks and brokers of the mercenary fiends, spellcasting dealmakers who sell their kin's swords to demons and devils and play both buyers against each other.
- Shadow Demon [Greater Tanar'ri] A gaunt, gargoyle-winged fiend that grows stronger with every human it devours, the shadow demon stalks other worlds and can curse its victims into ghasts with a single look.
- Solar [Celestial] The mightiest of the celestials, a solar is a metallic-skinned giant of heaven with a dancing vorpal sword, a bow that slays with every hit, and power rivaling a god's.
- Soldier Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Ivory-plated insectile foot soldiers, the most common and most abused of the mercenary fiends, whose knack for wielding any magic item makes a large squad dangerously well armed.
- Spike Devil [Least Baatezu] Cowardly winged couriers of the Nine Hells, spike devils carry messages, herd the damned into armies, and fling burning spines from the sky before fleeing to fetch something bigger.
- Succubus [Lesser Tanar'ri] A winged temptress of the Abyss who courts passionate mortal men, steals a level of life energy with every kiss, and leaves her lovers too enthralled to notice.
- T'uen-rin A golden-scaled celestial unicorn of the upper planes, a 20th-level wizard and peerless foe of fiends whose awe can freeze an entire army in its tracks.
- Tanar'ri Overview The chaotic fiends of the Abyss, the tanar'ri are a numberless horde ruled by appetite and rage, locked in eternal war with the baatezu and fond of terrifying their prey before the kill.
- Titan Twenty-five-foot giants of godlike beauty and temper who swing enchanted mauls, wield twentieth-level magic, and are so often mistaken for gods that some have dared to play the part.
- Translator A gleaming silver orb that races across the planes carrying the gods' own messages, stunning anyone who blocks its path and calling divine wrath down on attackers.
- Twisted Demon [Least Tanar'ri] Malformed outcasts even among demons, twisted demons wander the Abyss alone with bizarre weapons, raising the alarm against intruders by gating in reinforcements.
- Vanguard Celestial The shapeshifting shock troops of the upper planes, vanguard celestials fight in borrowed forms, from dragons to enchanted swords, and never show their true luminous shape in battle.
- Vaporighu A bloated, slime-slick horror of the volcanic lower plane whose very sight paralyzes the weak and whose green breath kills outright, harmed only by cold-wrought iron.
- Vorthani Astral warrior-raiders born of slaves who overthrew the mind reavers, the vorthani ride red dragons to war, wield soul-cutting silver swords and answer to an undead queen.
- Vrock [True Tanar'ri] A vulture-headed shock trooper of the Abyss that rakes five foes at once, seeds flesh with burrowing spores, and joins its kin in a lethal dance of ruin.
- Warden Beast Flawless, larger-than-life champions of each animal kind on the plane of beasts, warden beasts shepherd their species, sense every stir of nature around them, and strike with primal power.
- Warden Demon [Guardian Tanar'ri] A two-headed red giant with a vorpal axe, the warden demon is the Abyss's political officer, hunting down true tanar'ri whose loyalty to the war begins to waver.
- Water Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Warty, yellow, frog-faced amphibious commandos of the mercenary fiends that glide on skin flaps, spit sleep poison, and swim the river of the underworld without losing their minds.
- Winged Fiend [Greater Mercenary] Hulking, green-skinned, gargoyle-winged scouts of the mercenary fiends, swinging huge magical axes, leaving bleeding wounds, and seething at the low rank their spying earns them.
- Zerathi Austere, magic-resistant cousins of the vorthani who rule fortress-cities on the plane of raw chaos, hunt mind reavers in sworn bands and wage an endless war against their kin.
- Zoveri Gentle, elf-like octopus-folk of the heavenly mountain's ocean layer who rescue every struggling newcomer, loathe violence, and can sing up a water elemental in need.
Planescape II
- Aasimar Mortals touched by celestial blood, aasimar are radiant, keen-sensed champions whose faces blaze with inner light, and whose spotless reputations make the rare crooked one dangerously easy to trust.
- Abiorach [Rilmani] Quicksilver-skinned youths who keep the balance on the Elemental Planes, slipping through fire, stone and storm as if they were elementals themselves.
- Abrian Man-sized, flightless hunting birds out of the lower planes, abrians work in cunning flocks whose combined shrieks can deafen a whole party before the kicking starts.
- Argenach [Rilmani] Silver-skinned advisers who secretly coach whichever side of a mortal struggle is losing, firing rays that always strike as the energy their target fears most.
- Aurumach [Rilmani] Golden-skinned, ogre-sized masters of the rilmani who weigh the balance of the cosmos and, when it tips too far, wade in with vorpal blades and time-stopping magic.
- Avoral [Guardinal] Eagle-winged sentinels of the blessed fields who can read a face at 200 paces, avorals patrol the skies of paradise and dive on invaders with talons that strike twice as hard.
- Bladevine A black-leaved creeper whose stems carry three razor-hard ridges, bladevine smothers walls across the planar city and the lower planes, flaying anyone who stumbles, climbs or hacks into it.
- Bloodthorn A black, berry-laden briar of the lower planes that waits motionless until prey steps close, then lashes out with barbed vines that cling and drink blood each round.
- Bonespear A twelve-legged, rock-anchored ambusher of the lawful planes that fires its barbed horns like harpoons on sinew cables, then reels its catch into a mouthful of jagged teeth.
- Bralani [Lesser Eladrin] Wild, white-haired eladrins of a windswept upper-plane wasteland, bralani live from one blazing emotion to the next and can turn into whirlwinds that scour and scatter their foes.
- Cervidal [Guardinal] Shy, antlered guardinals who are slow to anger, cervidals carry antlers that cure poison, shatter illusions and hurl summoned fiends back where they came from.
- Coure [Lesser Eladrin] Tiny, gossamer-winged eladrin pranksters who flit about as balls of faerie-light, coures are harmless jesters until evil appears, when they turn into tireless hit-and-run raiders.
- Cuprilach [Rilmani] Copper-skinned assassins of the rilmani who stalk beings of extreme alignment in borrowed shapes, strike first every round, and fight with no notion of fair play.
- Darkweaver A half-shadow predator of the chaotic planes that spins miles of webbing from pure gloom, whispering prey deeper with suggestion and illusion until it can feed.
- Demarax A slow, gem-crusted lizard that eats nothing but spell crystals, the demarax ignores most magic, never forgets a word and becomes a menace only when its dinner is nearby.
- Dhour Psionic blobs of glowing protoplasm, dhours lurk by astral portals, mark a single traveler as prey and will follow that victim across the planes until they eat him.
- Eater of Knowledge A shambling, brain-oozing servant of a vast god-brain that hunts the planes for minds, boring into victims' skulls to devour their memories along with their brains.
- Equinal [Guardinal] Horse-legged, giant-strong brawlers of the blessed fields who box with stone-splitting fists and stun lesser foes with a piercing whinny, equinals never shy from a scrap.
- Ferrumach [Rilmani] Iron-gray, slab-muscled soldiers of the rilmani who wait in misty fortresses for the call to battle, then wade in with halberds and axes on behalf of neutrality.
- Fhorge A bull-sized, bone-headed planar boar with a hair-trigger temper, a bowling-ball charge and the stubbornness to keep fighting long after it should be dead.
- Firre [Greater Eladrin] Flame-haired eladrin bards who live for beauty, sing foes into helplessness, and become living pillars of fire when art and goodness need defending.
- Ghaele [Greater Eladrin] Knight-errant eladrins who quietly rally the oppressed against tyranny, striking down evil with gaze, blazing sword, and searing beams of light.
- Ghostlight A cunning, death-hungry cousin of the will-o'-wisp, the ghostlight lures travelers into danger, possesses their friends, and abandons any fight to feast on the dying.
- Ghoul Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri] A ghoulish fiend that eats its victims to steal their faces, memories and skills, the ghoul demon hides among the friends of the dead while it hunts its next meal.
- Guardinal Overview The beast-featured champions of the blessed fields, guardinals laugh easily at home but become relentless, honorable hunters of evil the moment they step off their peaceful plane.
- Handmaiden Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri] A shapeshifting mound of slime that serves the spider goddess as spy and enforcer, wearing the face of a drow beauty, a giant spider, or a reeking cloud.
- Hollyphant A tiny winged golden elephant from the upper planes, the hollyphant is a cheerful messenger of good powers whose trumpet can shatter stone or scorch fiends with sunlight.
- Hook Spider A cunning, nearly human-smart giant spider of the lower planes that hunts in sibling packs, hides with psionics, and pins victims with hooked forelegs before its venom does the rest.
- Horned Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri] Diseased, ram-horned minotaur-fiends bred only for battle, horned demons are the Abyss's heavy infantry, too stubborn and stupid ever to retreat and prone to berserk rampages.
- Hound Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] An eyeless, armor-plated fiendish mastiff that tracks by scent and sound, reels victims in on a barbed tongue, and serves its masters with rare, unthinking loyalty.
- Incantifer Last relics of a vanished faction that believed magic was everything, incantifers are ancient, silver-eyed archmages who drink spells cast at them and starve without fresh magic.
- Ironmaw A carnivorous tree of the fiendish planes that can pass for any ordinary hardwood, lashing out with grasping limbs to drag travelers into a bark-lined maw that never lets go.
- Keeper Gray, rubbery strangers from another universe, keepers hunt down secrets and silence anyone who learns them, still obeying orders from a master they murdered long ago.
- Khaasta Scaly, crested lizard-folk who roam the planes as treacherous traders, slavers and raiders, khaasta live for loot and prestige, and their code rewards stabbing allies in the back.
- Leomarh A scaled, lion-like planar predator with a bladed tail and chameleon hide, the leomarh hunts in cunning prides that herd prey into ambushes no one sees coming.
- Leonal [Guardinal] Lion-maned lords of the guardinals, leonals roar with the force of a holy word, hurl fireballs and walls of force, and can grant a wish once a year.
- Lupinal [Guardinal] Wolf-headed hunters and the vanguard of the blessed fields, lupinals stalk evil intruders in silent packs, drag their prey down, and howl terror into every wicked heart nearby.
- Monster of Legend The one true archetype behind every tale of hydras, gorgons and sphinxes: a unique planar beast, bigger and deadlier than its mortal kin, beatable only through its single hidden weakness.
- Noviere [Lesser Eladrin] Sea-green eladrins of an island-studded upper-plane ocean, novieres are the most approachable of their kind, yet they wield entangling nets, water bolts and bodies of living, crushing water.
- Planar Gazer [Gazer Kin] A coolly neutral, three-eyed cousin of the gazer tyrants that rules hidden planar fiefdoms of mind-wiped slaves with telekinetic gazes, blood-draining mouths and formidable psionics.
- Plumach [Rilmani] Stocky, lead-gray commoners of the rilmani who just want to be left alone, but who fight with stubborn, coordinated fury once someone finally makes it their business.
- Quill Armored, spine-flinging grazers that thrive even in the harshest Outer Planes, whose barbed quills fester in wounds and whose tail can kill an armored man.
- Reave Four-armed, face-hiding mercenaries who slip into the Astral at will, reaves sell their violence across the planes and keep every oath, though they hunt down anyone who sees their faces.
- Rilmani Overview The rarest and quietest of the planar races, metal-skinned guardians of true neutrality who work in the shadows to keep law, chaos, good and evil forever in balance.
- Rot Demon [True Tanar'ri] A glowing green blob of living corruption that serves the demon lords as envoy and assassin, bringing acid, disease and despair to any world it can reach.
- Shadowdrake A forked-tailed, flightless dragon of the Lower Planes' rivers and bogs that eats lesser fiends, spits corrosive slime, and leaves survivors rotting with gangrene.
- Shiere [Lesser Eladrin] Tall, crystal-armored eladrin knights who ride flying war-horses through the starlit wilds, shieres hunt down evil with enchanted blades, fear-casting eyes and freezing magic.
- Spellhaunt A glowing, mindless scrap of botched magic that senses enchantment from far away, then lashes out to devour spells, charges and pluses until its hunger is sated.
- Sunfly A golden, singing dragonfly of the upper planes whose dazzling flashes and protective circle dances can blind an evil intruder or pin it in place until stronger help arrives.
- Sword Spirit The furious ghost of a warrior slain in a pointless battle, rising as a howling whirlwind of rust and grit that snatches up fallen weapons and feeds on those it cuts down.
- Terlen A silent, gliding shark of the lower planes that stalks prey for miles, bleeds it with hit-and-run bites, and gathers in frenzied flights of up to forty.
- Tso Spider-bodied, eel-headed planar slavers who ply the lawful planes in flying spider-ships, charming bodyguards by touch and binding every deal in a contract full of traps.
- Tulani [Greater Eladrin] The radiant faerie lords who rule the eladrin courts, wielding swords of light, deadly gazes, and power enough to stop time or grant wishes.
- Ursinal [Guardinal] Bearlike sages and wizards of the guardinals, ursinals ramble happily through any topic, but an angered one hugs like a giant and casts spells like an archmage.
- Vorr Hyena-like pack hunters from the plane of howling winds, vorrs are cleverer than they look, drag prey to the ground, and can melt into living shadow to strike unseen or slip away.
- Wastrel Mangy, crow-like birds of the bleakest planar wilds that peck travelers just once to taste their blood, then trail them for days, draining their strength until they collapse.
- Wraithworm A black, spine-backed desert serpent whose bite drains life and freezes the blood, and which can melt into ghostly vapor to stalk prey through the narrowest crack.
Planescape III
- All-Elements Fundamental The humblest true elementals, fundamentals are flapping ribbons of raw element that ram intruders, vanish into their native substance and may be nothing more than the planes' own wildlife.
- Animental Echoes of dead beasts reborn in raw element, animentals are fire hawks, ice elk and lightning dragons that hit harder and resist blows better than the creatures they copy.
- Belker A black-winged, demon-shaped native of the Plane of Smoke that turns to vapor, slips down a victim's throat, and rakes him from within, while insisting it is not really a monster.
- Bzastra A living stack of coral-like ring beasts threaded on a blue vine, the bzastra is a contemplative scholar of the elemental seas whose telekinetic force can crush, hold, or shield.
- Chososion A rippling, never-quite-present creature of the Inner Planes, immune to almost everything, whose two real tongues can paralyze a traveler and erase him from existence.
- Darklight A lost soul that fled the Negative Energy Plane into the Quasielemental Plane of Radiance, now a shadow wreathed in rainbow light that drinks life levels to grow stronger.
- Devete Blue-skinned astral wanderers with no feelings of their own, devetes mirror whatever emotions and intentions approach them, so a hostile traveler meets a hostile devete.
- Devourer [Planescape] A towering skeletal horror with a suffering soul caged in its ribs, the devourer drains levels with its claws and burns stolen spirits to fuel its spells.
- Dharum Suhn Ancient spirits of unmoving stone, the dharum suhn rival the princes of elemental earth in power, yet they mostly just watch, wait and remember everything that happens near rock.
- Egarus A demonic fungus exiled to the emptiness of Vacuum that learned to feed on nothing at all, and now teleports to unmake any matter or energy that intrudes.
- Elemental Homunculus Living breathing masks and full-body skins crafted by wizards, elemental homunculi let travelers survive the fire, ash and void of the Inner Planes, as long as the creature stays alive.
- Entrope Many-mouthed, wormlike constructs bred by entropy-worshiping planar fanatics to gnaw through the walls between the elemental planes, blasting anyone nearby with raw foreign elements.
- Evil Archomental Five elemental tyrants of fire, earth, water, air and ice who have embraced evil, these archomentals stand one step below gods, granting spells and corrupting every servant they summon.
- Facet Salt-crystal humanoids sharing one mind, whose touch drinks the moisture from flesh and who multiply as they quietly wage war against the Elemental Plane of Water itself.
- Garmorm A limbless astral predator whose skin is crowded with the singing faces of minds it has devoured, the garmorm can bite, cast spells and use magic items through its stolen choir.
- Good Archomental Champions who rose to oppose their evil counterparts, the four good archomentals of water, air, earth and fire are proud, flawed and frequently at odds with one another.
- Immoth A crystalline ice giant studded with frozen words, the immoth shatters those trapped syllables to unleash spells, and its venomous tail can strip a victim of language before killing him.
- Incandescent Swarms of tiny, steady sparks on the quasiplane of Radiance, incandescents feed on the colors of travelers and leave them clumsy, transparent ghosts of themselves.
- Klyndes A living shadow born in the haze of the plane of Steam, convinced it is the only one of its kind, that slips through solid walls and leaps out to carve up prey.
- Magran Invisible, fishlike reptiles of the Deep Ethereal that dangle a hypnotic glowing lure, then swallow entranced travelers whole while they visibly struggle inside.
- Menglis An invisible elemental spirit born where two inner planes meet, whose mere presence breaks living flesh and gear down into raw elements.
- Nathri Swarming, green-skinned ethereal nomads who raid tiny demiplanes for food and loot, the nathri know secret paths to countless hidden worlds and hate to share them.
- Negative Quasielemental Living embodiments of decay from the planes where the elements meet negative energy: heat-drinking ash, disintegrating dust, moisture-leeching salt, and invisible breath-stealing vacuum.
- Ooze Sprite A quiet heap of sentient muck from the plane of Ooze that bends minds with a single slimy touch, and may be pulling far more strings than anyone suspects.
- Opposition A contrary planar sect of fighters who believe struggle makes everything stronger, so they resist everyone and everything, including each other and their own creed.
- Paraelemental Living embodiments of ice, magma, ooze and smoke, the paraplanes' native spirits feed on the act of destroying their opposites and are deadly simply to stand near.
- Phirblas Gaunt, hovering beings who talk by writing glowing script in midair, the phirblas are a gentle, nearly deathless race with fists far harder than anyone expects.
- Positive Quasielemental Children of the planes where elements meet positive energy: leaping lightning, merging gem-giants, beam-casting radiance and scheming, scalding steam.
- Primal Members of a sect so secretive that outsiders know only that it exists, adepts of the Inner Planes who claim to have mastered the elemental building blocks of reality and reshape matter at will.
- Rast A many-clawed hunter of the plane of ash whose glare roots victims in primal terror, the rast latches on with its jaws and drinks until its prey is dead.
- Ravid A glowing, one-armed serpent of pure positive energy, the ravid wakes everything around it to life, leaving a trail of animated furniture, living weapons and churning elemental creatures behind it.
- Ruvoka Ageless, gaunt warrior-druids found across nearly every Inner Plane, each tribe shaped by its element, each traveler bound to a secret errand it will never explain.
- Salamander II [Fire Kin] The two ends of the salamander life cycle: brutish, red-hot iron-wielding foot soldiers of the plane of fire, and the immortal, spellcasting nobles who rule them as lonely tyrants.
- Shad Tiny, gray, wiry squatters on the Elemental Plane of Earth, survivors of a dead druidic garden who carve warning runes, slip any bond and outlast everything that hunts them.
- Sislan A one-eyed living whirlwind of the Elemental Plane of Air that batters intruders senseless or sweeps them into its spinning body as a helpless prisoner.
- Suisseen A living membrane of water drifting through the elemental depths, able to crush like a breaking wave or drown a victim from the inside, and slowly corrupted by a cult that feeds it sacrifices.
- Thoqqua A short, searing worm that tunnels through solid rock by melting it, bursting from walls to scorch victims and their gear, and growing stronger from any fire thrown at it.
- Trilloch An invisible, untouchable feeder from the Negative Energy Plane that drifts beside killers and quietly stokes every nearby fight toward bloodshed, so it can drink the life of the dying.
- Tsnng Spindly living gemstones of the plane of Mineral whose warriors grow spear-hands and whose wizards hold twice the spells of any mortal mage, each cabal convinced it rules the plane.
- Ungulosin A wandering water spirit that builds itself a body from hundreds of borrowed fish, eels or squid, the ungulosin bites with paralyzing venom and laughs off sword blows that kill only one of its parts.
- Vacuous A crack-skinned undead spirit lost in the endless void, whose gaping mouth sucks victims into its hollow body to suffocate in darkness.
- Wavefire A boiling, living wave that hurls scalding water at anything carrying dry air, the wavefire may be the last survivor of a forgotten arrangement of the elemental planes.
- Xag-Ya and Xeg-Yi Floating orbs of pure positive and negative energy whose tendrils burn or rot everything they touch, and which annihilate each other in a catastrophic blast if they ever meet.
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- Bladeling Xenophobic humanoids bristling with blades of ice, wood and steel, bladelings shrug off rust and arrows and can blast foes with a storm of their own shrapnel.
- Chaos Imp Shapeless little pests from the plane of raw chaos, chaos imps sink into your sword or armor and ride it home, turning gear into pudding at the worst possible moment.
- Chronovoid A splitting, oil-sheened bubble of the Demiplane of Time that hunts linear travelers, shrugging off ordinary weapons and rotting anything it swallows.
- Ethyk A one-eyed, lemur-sized tree climber that turns people against each other with a mental nudge, then slips away while they argue and brawl.
- Formian Intelligent ant-folk of the orderly upper planes who walk half-upright like centaurs, obey a rigid caste system without question, and build vast cities that sprawl for miles underground.
- Kyton Chain-wrapped enforcers of a clanking city in the hells, kytons stalk lawbreakers to the sound of rattling links and giggles, bending every nearby chain to lash, grow and flay.
- Lillend Winged, serpent-tailed singers of the chaotic heavens, lillendi are merry bards who defend the wild with crushing coils and can choose the hour of their own death.
- Temporal Dog Distant cousins of blink dogs that roam the Demiplane of Time, hasting themselves into a blur and slipping out of reality whenever a fight turns against them.
- Temporal Glider A tailless black manta that soars through the Demiplane of Time, skimming temporal tides for food and hurling unwanted riders into strange timestreams.
- Temporal Stalker Mist-bodied undead of the Demiplane of Time, often fallen chronomancers, that stalk lone travelers for months and drain them into new stalkers.
- Tether Beast A many-legged, rainbow-scaled predator that crawls along the silver lifelines of the demiplane of time, attacks anything for any reason, and breathes a mist that ages victims to dust.
- Time Dimensional A drifting intelligence made of pure time, able to call its own past and future selves into a fight and to feast on any chronomancer's spells cast near it.
- Vaath A scaled, insect-headed hunter of the prison plane's jungles whose burrowing mouth-tentacle severs a victim's spine so it can torment him at leisure.
- Vortex Spider A color-shifting offshoot of the phase spider that strings invisible, time-slowing webs across the swirling vortices of the time demiplane and baits them with its victims' treasure.
Planescape Campaign Setting
- Aleax A god's personal avenger made in the exact image of the sinner it hunts, the aleax can be hurt only by its target, and losing to it means bargaining with your deity.
- Astral Searcher Mindless phantoms spun from rage and terror in the silver void, astral searchers claw at the minds of planar travelers and move into the bodies of those they kill.
- Barghest A fiendish shapeshifter that passes as a large goblin or a stray dog, growing stronger with every human life it devours until it can return to rule a rift on its home plane.
- Bariaur Ram-bodied, human-torsoed wanderers of a wild heroic plane who live for honor and good fun, swing heirloom clubs, and charge their enemies with skull-cracking force.
- Clockwork Drone The geometric, caste-bound beings of the plane of perfect order, each rank shaped to its task and blind to all but its neighbors, forever striving to impose order on the multiverse.
- Cranium Rat Vermin with glowing, exposed brains that link into a single telepathic mind, growing smarter with every rat that joins, and secretly spying for an alien god of thought.
- Ferryman Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Skull-faced boatmen in hooded robes who pole skiffs along the river of the underworld for a steep fare, and may still deliver their passengers to ruin.
- Magman Gleeful, gnome-sized imps of living lava who set everything alight for fun, melt weapons that strike them, and see burning victims as slapstick comedy.
- Minion of the Serpent God Black-armored warriors who are really fanatical servants of the serpent god of evil, these minions hide monstrous animal forms until the moment they choose to strike.
- Nic'Epona Rainbow-hued, plane-hopping war mares descended from a horse goddess, the nic'Epona trample her enemies in thunderous stampedes and carry worthy riders anywhere in the planes, once.
- Rebus Keeper Silent, floating caretakers of the great planar city who speak only in shifting picture-puzzles and endlessly tear down and rebuild its streets, perhaps its true masters.
- Spirit of the Air Rainbow-robed, monkey-headed bat creatures born from the breath of the gods, bound to obey any wind power yet secretly living a second, dreaming life between breaths.
- Vortex A tiny, mindless sphere wrapped in a whirling coat of wind, the vortex careens about at random and swallows whoever it bumps into, spinning them until they break free or die.
Planes of Chaos
- Asrai Tiny golden-haired water faeries who melt in sunlight, asrai schools weave hypnotic dances on the surface, luring sailors overboard to the sharks that follow them.
- Astral Dreadnought A storm-giant-sized horror with crushing claws, an antimagic eye and an endless silver tail, the astral dreadnought hunts astral travelers and frightens even the mightiest fiends.
- Bacchae Drunken, howling mobs of transformed revelers, the bacchae rip armor off their foes, offer them wine the next moment, and slowly turn anyone who parties with them into one of their own.
- Chaos Beast A shape-shifting horror of the plane of raw chaos whose feeble blows barely bruise, but whose bare touch can melt a hero's body into formless, mind-shredding flux.
- Charger Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri] Pale, ram-horned demon centaurs in black fluted armor, charger demons are the Abyss's mercenary cavalry, galloping into the sky and loosing lightning-charged bolts for plunder.
- Fensir Shy, stone-skinned trolls of the northern warrior heaven who turn to rock in daylight, live in hidden sod houses, and whose matrons swell into house-sized devourers.
- Howler Ox-backed, quill-maned pack scavengers of the plane of howling winds whose charge is murderous and whose keening drives listeners steadily toward madness.
- Murska Pack-hunting beetle beasts of the plane of howling winds that molt into the shape of their last meal, borrowing its memories and voice to lure the next victim close.
- Oread Stone-skinned mountain spirits who guard their peaks with charming songs, stone-melding ambushes and, among their eldest, a petrifying touch for persistent miners.
- Ratatosk Flying-squirrel folk of the World Tree, ratatosk carry messages between planes for a price, steal offerings meant for the gods, and hurl insults so sharp they are truly magical.
- Siege Demon [Greater Tanar'ri] A colossal, bull-faced brute as tall as a tower, the siege demon batters fortresses for the demon lords who own it while a war platform of riders sways on its shoulders.
- Viper Tree Pale, scaly Abyssal trees whose branches are living serpents, viper trees paralyze prey with crippling venom, swallow it whole, and hold an ancient grudge against every devil.
Planescape I
- Baku Invisible elephantine beasts from the neutral planes who live secretly among humans, baku protect or prey on mortals according to their nature, with a trumpet that terrifies their enemies.
- Incarnate Invisible living virtues and vices, incarnates drain a host's vitality until they can move in, then feed on that person's courage, pride, greed or hope from the inside.
- Mephit I [Air/Smoke] Two petty elemental imps: the giddy, tornado-legged air mephit that abandons its masters after one errand, and the idle smoke mephit sent as an insult to one's enemies.
- Mephit II [Earth/Ooze] Two more elemental pests: the dour, gem-hungry earth mephit with its doomed money schemes, and the reeking, flattering ooze mephit that begs to become something better.
- Mephit III [Fire/Radiant] Two very different mephits of flame and light: the fire mephit is a sneering prankster with a burning touch, while the radiant mephit is a mirror-skinned dreamer lost in its own dazzle.
- Mephit IV [Water/Ice] The water mephit is a brine-dripping busybody that tags along uninvited to spit acid and insult its hosts; its cousin the ice mephit is a cold-hearted torturer of the frozen lower planes.
- Mephit V [Dust/Salt] Mopey, black-clad dust mephits romanticize their own doom and fill the air with itching powder, while foul-mouthed salt mephits leave stinging wounds and turn drinking water to brine.
- Mephit VI [Lightning/Mineral] Hyperactive lightning mephits zap foes and recharge one another endlessly unless someone throws water, while greedy mineral mephits guard treasure they do not own and walk through stone.
- Mephit VII [Magma/Ash] The slow, touchy magma mephit melts gear with every scratch, and the endlessly whining ash mephit chokes foes with soot while boring them half to death with its troubles.
- Mephit VIII [Mist/Steam] Born of the same quasi-plane and locked in an ancient feud, sneaky mist mephits spy and smother while pompous steam mephits ambush entire parties with boiling rain.
- Tiefling Proud, quick-tempered, plane-touched folk with a fiendish streak, as likely to be a poison-bladed duelist or wily mage as a con artist, and never to be called a half-breed.
- Vargouille A shrieking, bat-winged human head from the lower planes whose bite wounds will not heal and whose kiss slowly turns a victim's own head into another vargouille.
Planes of Conflict
- Aeserpent A twenty-foot snake as black as a moonless night, the aeserpent strikes unseen from the dark, and its venom turns a victim's body into a starving drinker of its own blood.
- Delphon Silver songsharks of the great planar river, delphons sing music so alien it can madden or enlighten a listener, and they slip between planes as easily as they swim.
- Diakk Flightless, human-faced carrion birds of the gray wasteland, diakka are cowardly pack hunters that weaken their prey with magic and a hypnotic screeching dance.
- Elder Fiend [Greater Mercenary] A gangly, horned horror of the gray wasteland that tortures without pleasure or regret, reopening old wounds from afar and healing its victims only to hurt them longer.
- Gautiere Gaunt, rag-wrapped nomads of the prison plane's howling sand-wastes, the gautiere swing barbed battle staves and can turn a victim's own flesh into searing acid with one touch.
- Linqua Squat, sexless servants built by a cruel god of a volcanic hell, linquas are sneaky backstabbers hooked on divine power, and the few who escape often wish they hadn't.
- Ni'iath Gravity-defying sky-worms that hunt in packs where the layers of a twin paradise meet, ni'iaths fling their prey sideways, upward, or into trees with a whip of the tail.
- Phiuhl A man-shaped storm of scalding steam and toxic vapor born in the volcanic lower planes, the phiuhl poisons the air, cooks anyone nearby and drinks the life from those it holds.
- Quesar Radiant constructs of living sunlight who rebelled against their celestial makers, blinding, searing and disintegrating evil, and rising again with each dawn.
- Slasrath A flat, razor-winged flying worm sorcerously bred as cavalry for mercenary fiends, it swoops through armor with slicing dives and stings with a venom that kills in six rounds.
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- Brood Gibberling Twisted progenitors from beyond the planes whose bites plant brain-boring slugs in their victims, turning each one into a fresh, screaming gibberling within a day.
- Darklore A blind, puddle-like blob of the lower planes that feeds on wicked secrets, sucking evil knowledge out of victims' minds or forcing foul truths into the pure.
- Dharculus An alien horror lurking just beyond the veil, the dharculus pokes eel-like tentacles into the world, latches onto prey and drags it into the Ethereal to be devoured.
- Mercurial Peaceful thinkers from a heightened layer of reality who can step out of their own skin, borrow your body, and wish themselves anywhere, mercurials are rarely hostile and nearly impossible to kill.
- Rat Demon [Lesser Tanar'ri] A hunched, leprous rat-fiend that runs errands for greater demons, paralyzes victims with its bite, and commands every rat in the slums where it hides.
- Ravager Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Four-legged ebony saboteurs of the mercenary fiends that scuttle across walls, shock foes rigid with terror, and may serve a master loyally for centuries before turning on him.
- Troll Mutate Three-armed, many-eyed trolls warped by generations near a gate to the Farther Dark, whose every major regeneration risks sprouting a fresh, twitching deformity.
- Wyste A 25-foot translucent worm from an alien dimension, the wyste lurks in pools of poisonous blue slime and lunges out to shred or drown anything that comes near.
Planes of Law
- Busen Featureless, oil-black shapeshifters that guard the passages of a lawful upper plane, buseni question travelers telepathically, read their alignments, and spin into lethal whirlwinds of blades.
- Equation Wisp A flat, translucent string of living mathematics that runs the gear calculations of the plane of perfect order, quietly resenting the work that keeps it from its one true obsession: pi.
- Gear Spirit Small living machines with free will, gear spirits tend the vast cogs of the plane of perfect order, reshaping their arms into tools or crossbows and ruining the metal armor of anyone they hit.
- Parai Hollow porcelain-faced hunters from the plane of perfect order, parai stalk travelers of rare beauty, strength or wit and seal them inside a black dress until they become parai too.
- Rust Dragon A corroded, butterfly-winged dragon of the iron-cube plane that hatches from a cocooned rust monster and breathes a cone of oxidant that turns metal to dust.
- Torturer Devil [Lesser Baatezu] Beetle-shelled scholars of agony, torturer devils study every body and mind they can catch, wield scalpels with surgical malice, and can spread fatal plague or healing through the same bite.
The Rod of Seven Parts
- Beast of Chaos Ordinary animals warped by waves of raw entropy into mangy, tentacled, purple horrors that roam aimlessly, rage in bright light and leave behind only toxic, rotting carcasses.
- Hound of Law A firefly-faint sphere of light that serves the wind lords as tracker and spy, slipping between planes and following quarry even through teleportation.
- Skarrow the Wolf-Spider A three-headed, four-armed spider-fiend general who once led the armies of Chaos to the brink of victory, now caged in a shell of pure Law and hungry for a second war.
- Spyder Fiend Wolf-headed spider demons of a reeking Abyssal salt marsh, ambush hunters whose paralytic bites, invisible silk and treacherous wiles serve a primordial queen of chaos.
- The Primordial Chaos Queen A colossal, squid-bodied tyrant of the plane of raw chaos who rules every spider-fiend, wields a +5 trident on a silken tether, and schemes endlessly to free her imprisoned general.
- Wind Lord Ebony-skinned, androgynous immortals of Law who once ruled an empire spanning several worlds and now watch over the Sevenfold Rod from a perfectly ordered hidden vale.
MC14 Fiend Folio Appendix
- Hellcat Nearly invisible in any light, the tiger-sized hellcat is a fickle, telepathic familiar of devils that serves the mightiest lawful evil master it can find and devours a living victim each week.
- Khargra Metal-hungry predators that swim through solid rock on the elemental plane of Earth, khargra burst from the stone to seize travelers and bite through armor, weapons and flesh alike.
- Retriever An elephant-sized spider construct forged by demon lords to hunt down their enemies and runaways, carving with four cleaver legs and blasting with ray-firing eyes.
- Shocker Living lightning from the Quasielemental Plane of Lightning that projects armored or crackling humanoid shapes across the planes, chain-blasting metal-clad fighters and never truly dying away from home.
- Xill Four-armed red reptilians from the Ethereal Plane who slip out of the mist, paralyze victims with a bite, and drag them home to serve as living nurseries for their eggs.
Monstrous Manual
- Arcane Tall blue merchants of magic who turn up wherever starships sail, the arcane sell starhelms to anyone, both sides of any war, and never explain where they come from.
- Chaos Toad Huge-headed, frog-like natives of the plane of raw chaos who loot the battlefields of fiendish wars, breeding new generations inside wounded captives held in grisly camps.
- Mephit Overview Mephits are spiteful, pipe-smoking errand fiends, conjured from elemental stuff by lower-planar masters to carry messages, fetch victims and spread misery wherever they are sent.
- Nightmare Black, fire-hoofed horses of the lower planes, nightmares carry fiends and undead lords between worlds, hate every living thing, and obey their riders only when it suits them.
Dark Sun Appendix II - Terrors Beyond Tyr
- Nikaal Purple-scaled lizard folk who roam the desert world as traders, the nikaal haggle peacefully until provoked, then fight savagely with claws, acid spit and their prized ring-bladed polearms.
Dead Gods
- Visage Masked, wraithlike undead fiends that rewrite their victims' senses, dominate their minds, and steal both their faces and their very souls.
Dragon Mountain
- Sea Demon [Greater Tanar'ri] A leering, fish-faced lord of the deep, the sea demon rules its stretch of ocean through terrified minions, spits boiling water, and steals command of water elementals sent against it.
Dungeon23
- Abhir A six-armed, serpent-bodied fiend of the lower planes, the abhir hunts strong warriors as sacrifices for her dark masters and terrorizes even lesser planar evils.
Dungeon28
- Kroggareth A crocodile-headed, antlered fiend lord of the Abyss whose stinging tail steals life levels and who returns from death to hound his killers.
Dungeon31
- Lesser Minion of the Serpent God A spy that looks like any ordinary townsperson until it sheds its disguise and becomes a giant serpent, pinning its prey in coils and biting again and again.
For Duty & Deity
- Abyssal Lord Each Abyssal lord is a one-of-a-kind demon king ruling a layer of the Abyss; here, a silver-tongued six-fingered schemer and a storm-winged vulture tyrant torn between cunning and rage.
Guide to Hell
- Chain Devil [Lesser Baatezu] Exiled devil-souls that drift invisibly through the mortal world, chain devils possess the living to spread sickness and terror, easing their own agony by causing more.
MC10 Ravenloft Appendix I
- Shadow Fiend A bat-winged stalker of living darkness that pounces from the gloom, steals brilliant minds into dark gems, and sells them at auction in the Lower Planes.
MC13 Al-Qadim Appendix
- Buraq Human-faced heavenly horses that choose only the most virtuous riders, the buraq gallop through the air, stop time for those they carry, and live on good intentions.
MC5 Greyhawk Appendix
- Yeth Hound Silent, flying black hounds of the night whose bell-like baying sends prey fleeing in panic, and who can be hurt only by silver or by magic, a point at a time.
MC9 Spelljammer Appendix II
- Fire Bat Clever, pack-hunting bats with burning bodies that latch on to drink blood, multiply by splitting when gorged, and simply re-form elsewhere on the Plane of Fire when killed.
Monstrous Compendium, 1994 Annual, Volume 1
- Abyss Ant Giant, acid-spitting ants from the Abyss, these telepathic vermin swarm one victim at a time and herd captured people like cattle around their sprawling nests.
Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2
- Chronolily A giant, light-drinking flower whose golden nectar shows silent visions of past, present or future, and which dies in a cloud of poison when cut down.
Other sources
- Eladrin Overview The wild, joyous fey-like natives of the plane of passion, who roam the planes in mortal disguise to protect free will from demons and devils alike.