Monsters: B
159 monsters whose names start with B.
- B'rohg Fifteen-foot, four-armed desert giants of stone-age simplicity, b'rohg swing spears and clubs all at once, which makes them the prize catch of every gladiator pit.
- 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.
- Baazrag Shy little armored scavengers of the desert badlands, baazrags carry water on their backs and a healing-blocking venom in their teeth, and a lingering fight brings the whole pack.
- 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.
- Baboon Clever, skittish troop monkeys of jungle and mountain, baboons usually scatter at the first threat, but a cornered troop or a threatened infant brings big males screaming in fang-first.
- Bacar Weapon-bearing giant ants bred by ancient magic to guard a sacred valley, bacars grow smarter the more of them gather, until a large patrol can command a creeping doom.
- 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.
- Badger Squat, striped night-diggers with a famously short fuse, badgers will tear into creatures many times their size when cornered, going for the throat and usually fighting to the death.
- Baelnorn Elven mages who chose undeath to keep an ancient trust, baelnorn guard their crypts and towers for centuries, scouting and spellcasting through ghostly projections of themselves.
- Bainligor Ugly, flightless bat-folk of the upper underworld, bainligors hunt by echo in total darkness, blast foes with crushing ultrasound, and grow into mighty undead elders as they age.
- Bajang A sneering jungle spirit bound to a single tree, the bajang slips into villages as a wildcat to carry off sleepers, and it can only truly die when its tree falls.
- Bakemono Mismatched, sake-crazed eastern goblins that never look alike, bakemono rob, raid, and squabble constantly under the rule of an oni or ogre mage.
- Bakhna Rakhna Pale, goblinlike jungle pests that ghost through walls to raid larders at night, bakhna rakhna are harmless if fed, but anyone who fights back invites poison and slow, silent murder.
- 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.
- 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.
- Baldandar A gaunt, saucer-eyed illusionist that hides behind flawless false faces, posing as wizards, dragons or orc chieftains while it schemes, hoards magic and hunts with a sleep-inducing bite.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Baneguard A skeleton guardian that looks perfectly ordinary until it starts blinking in and out of sight and firing magic missiles from its fingertips, all with cold, silent intelligence.
- Banelar A cunning serpent with a humanoid head and a ring of tiny mouth-tentacles that casts priest and wizard spells by voice alone, poisons its foes and hoards magic out of deep paranoia.
- 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.
- Banshee The hate-filled ghost of an evil elf woman whose very sight terrifies and whose nightly keening kills outright, leaving a blighted wilderness of thorns and bones around her lair.
- Baobhan Sith Cruel, cicada-winged sprites descended from a cursed pixie clan, who torment families for sport and spread magical hysterical laughter whenever someone suffers in front of them.
- 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.
- Bardic Lich A cheerful half-elven bard who pried into a lich-king's secrets and was blasted into accidental undeath, he now survives only by devouring the magic of spellcasters.
- Bargda A hulking, ram-headed cousin of the minotaur riddled with a rotting disease, whose bite slows and weakens victims and which marinates its meals in that same contagion.
- 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.
- Barracuda A lean, fang-jawed ocean predator that hunts in patient schools, darting in to tear mouthfuls from weak or lone swimmers and snapping at anything that glints.
- Basilisk Slow, many-legged reptiles whose gaze turns flesh to stone, a family that includes the poison-breathing greater basilisk and the acid-spitting, dragon-blooded dracolisk.
- Bastellus A featureless shadow that slips into sleeping homes, twists dreams into nightmares and drinks life levels from the dreamer, night after night, until its chosen victim dies and rises as another.
- Bat From harmless cave swarms to rabid giants, screeching mobats, spark-tailed azmyths and silent, music-loving sinisters, bats are a nuisance at best and a deadly ambush at worst.
- Bat [Ravenloft] Two bats unique to the misty dread realm: red-eyed sentinel bats that spy for undead masters with borrowed powers, and fear-radiating skeletal bats raised by necromancers.
- Batracine A bulldog-headed river frog that snatches birds from midair with a sticky tongue and a mighty leap, prized as a loyal pet and hunted for blood that wards off magical sleep.
- Battering Ram Giant mountain sheep with massive horns whose charging rams can splinter gates and crack walls, especially when one hears its flock bleating for help.
- Bay Unicorn A chestnut unicorn with ember-red eyes that haunts mines and volcanic tunnels, hurling fire from its horn at anyone who intrudes on its underground realm.
- Bayou Zombie Not undead at all, but living criminals drugged, buried and dug up by a bayou spirit-priest, left gaunt, mute and obedient as punishment for the worst betrayals.
- Bear Powerful omnivores that usually avoid people but crush anyone who provokes them, ranging from the shy black bear to the aggressive grizzly, the huge cave bear and the polar bear.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Beetle Three nasty giant beetles: the skull-marked death watch whose rattle can kill outright, the limb-severing slicer, and the harmless but foul-smelling stink beetle.
- 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.
- 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.
- Behir A blue, twelve-legged serpentine hunter that bites, coils, rakes with six talons, spits lightning, and swallows its victims whole, and it hates dragons above all else.
- 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.
- Belgoi Clawed, toothless desert raiders who ring cursed bone bells to crack a sleeper's mind, lure him into the dark, and drain his vitality with a touch before the feast begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bhut Ordinary-seeming families by day and scaly, fanged man-eaters by night, bhut clans hide inside human towns and feed on the people nobody will miss.
- Bi-nou Living stalagmites that sense heat and tremors, crush intruders in rocky arms and absorb their flesh, bi-nou guard gem-like eggs that dwarves hunt them for.
- 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.
- Biclops A filthy two-headed, two-eyed giant that swings a weapon in each fist and hurls boulders with uncanny aim when both heads look at the same target.
- Bilge Vermin Cat-sized, curse-warped rats of the frontier coast that eat ten times their weight daily, sink through walls to reach the larder, and spread plague with every bite.
- Bionoid Elves remade into living weapons for an ancient war, bionoids hide a bladed insect warrior inside a calm humanoid body, and a single crystal eye holds their soul.
- Bird From gem-hoarding blood hawks and poison-proof boobries to wise talking owls and patient vultures, this field guide covers the ordinary and uncanny birds a party may meet.
- Bird [Dragonlance] Plump plume-runners, stampeding bronzefowl, gem-loving kingfishers and the grim skyfisher, a bat-winged raptor that snatches people up and drops them from on high.
- 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.
- Bird [Mystara] Thieving magpies, flesh-stripping piranha birds and the crackling sprackle, a spark-shedding grackle that shoots lightning from its beak and fears almost nothing.
- 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.
- Bisan A tree spirit bound to a single camphor, teak or mahogany, the bisan hides as a buzzing insect and curses anyone who harvests her grove without an offering.
- Black Cloud of Vengeance A living thunderhead of soot, red lightning and firestorm winds that moves against the breeze to raze godless desert cities, leaving only ash behind.
- Black Dragon [Chromatic] A spiteful swamp dragon that stalks prey from murky water, spits a line of acid, and pickles its meat in lair ponds before eating.
- Black Panther A sleek, vain hunting cat woven from living shadow, the black panther melts into a pool of darkness, slides behind its victim and re-forms to strike again.
- Black Silt Horror The smallest silt horror hunts in matriarch-led packs, herding prey into hidden clutch-mates, then pinning it with barbed tentacles and a paralyzing bite.
- Black Unicorn A jet-black, fanged unicorn wrapped in permanent silence, whose paralyzing horn and taste for living flesh make it a terror for anyone caught in the dark.
- 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.
- 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.
- Blackball A mindless five-foot sphere of pure annihilation that drifts toward thinking creatures and erases anything it touches, the blackball can only be outrun, never fought.
- Blackflame Lich Survivors of a long-dead empire, blackflame liches are wizards of negative energy who wear stolen human bodies like candles, burning each one out and seizing another.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Blazing Bones A spellcaster whose death-cheating magic misfired in a fire, blazing bones is a burning skeleton that hurls flame, explodes into firestorms and grows stronger from fire magic.
- Blazozoid A sphere of living white fire sent across the void by a lonely star, the blazozoid sees mortals as fuel or ferries and detonates if it touches the flame-sea between worlds.
- Bleeding Willow A willow corrupted by an act of great evil, its sap runs like human blood, its fronds strangle, and any violence nearby unleashes a wave of murderous psychic rage.
- 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.
- Blink Wooly Mammoth A mammoth that teleports in short hops when threatened, the blink wooly mammoth may reappear behind you, beside you, or directly on top of you.
- Blood Hound War dogs carrying a trace of divine blood, blood hounds sniff out god-touched heirs across miles of country and serve a master of matching lineage to the death.
- Blood Rose [Plant] A patch of innocent white wildflowers until something steps into its center, the blood rose lashes out with thorny whips and drinks the blood that soaks into the soil.
- Blood Skeleton Blood-steeped skeletons that pull themselves back together one round after being smashed, and can be put down for good only by magic.
- Bloodflower A lovely white-blossomed shrub whose sweet narcotic scent drops passersby into a deep sleep, then feeds on them through spiny leaves until its petals blush red.
- Bloodgrass Innocent-looking green turf that snares whatever walks on it, paralyzes the prey with poisoned tendrils, and slowly bores toward the brain while drinking its blood.
- 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.
- Bloodsac Silent, star-speckled blobs that drift out of the void onto starship decks, drain sailors of blood, then siphon away their memories through a tube in the skull.
- Bloodsipper [Farther Dark] An alien carpet of pulsing artery-vines rooted in stone, whose great red pods burst open to fling out tethered, many-toothed tadpole things that clamp on and drink.
- Bloodspirit Cowardly, stick-figure spirits born of cruelty, they possess bullies to flood them with crippling guilt or murderous excess, and quietly serve shamans who protect the weak.
- 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.
- Bloodvine A slow, warmth-seeking parasite vine that coils around ironbark trees and creeps up on sleepers at night, numbing its bite while it drinks blood and saps Strength.
- Blue Dragon [Chromatic] A vain, territorial desert dragon that hides beneath the dunes or in the glare of the sky, then strikes from afar with a bolt of lightning.
- 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.
- Boar Wild ancestors of the farmyard pig, boars are short-tempered tuskers that keep fighting after taking deadly wounds, and their undercooked meat can carry a nasty parasite.
- 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.
- Bog Hound Eyeless hounds of mud and straw raised by a curse, led by a coal-black moor hound that cannot truly die until the sun touches it.
- Bog Mummy A marsh-preserved corpse risen for revenge, the bog mummy stalks through mud with leathery hands like hooks, spreading a stiffening rot, slipping through swamp soil, and laughing off fire.
- Bog Wader A pain-maddened, bone-spiked swamp ambusher that hides beneath a false mud crust over its water hole, impales whoever falls through, and pins them at the bottom to drown.
- Boggart Tiny, kindhearted house spirits related to brownies, boggarts quietly do chores for good families and prank evil intruders with harmless magic until they leave.
- Boggle Rubbery, monkey-clever little thieves that stretch like taffy, spill slick oil underfoot, climb walls like spiders and reach through any doorway or pocket to steal from afar.
- Bolandi Nimble, prank-loving jungle tree folk who blur their own outlines, drop nets and poison-powder bombs on intruders, and sometimes study illusion under exasperated mage teachers.
- Bone Naga A skeletal serpent with an oversized human skull, raised by dark naga and evil wizards as a tireless, silent spellcaster that guards their young and their vaults.
- 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.
- Bone-Caller [Human] A crippled old swamp hermit who calls zombies to his side and works any curse for a price, though the debt he names afterward can cost a client his life and soul.
- 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.
- Boneclaw Baazrag The giant, sterile freak born from a lone baazrag pup, a boneclaw is an 8-foot armored eating machine that charges through groups slicing so cleanly victims never feel the cut.
- Boneless Deboned corpses animated by vile necromancy, these rubbery servants slither under doors, fold into tiny spaces and crush victims in an unbreakable, spell-stopping embrace.
- 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.
- 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.
- Boobrie A man-sized, coal-black diving bird that lurks among lakeside reeds, snatching lambs, calves and even small children, and stunning larger foes with a battering wing.
- 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.
- Bookworm An inch-long, color-shifting worm that sniffs out paper from 60 feet away and chews through spell books one spell level per round, making it every wizard's nightmare.
- Boowray A tiny, invisible spirit with mint leaves for hair that poses as a guardian angel, whispering helpful counsel until it can coax a good soul step by step into evil.
- Bosk Giant Grass-haired, green-skinned swamp giants who act first and never think later, bosks guard their bogs with clubs, fists, and a stomach-acid spray that leaves foes reeling.
- Bowlyn The vengeful ghost of a cruel sailor killed in a shipboard accident, the bowlyn returns to its old vessel to stage nightly mishaps that build toward sinking it.
- Brag [Shadow Fey] Pale, black-eyed shadow fey builders who become ponies at will, brag can put mortals to sleep with a glance and convince those they strike that they are horses.
- Brain Golem A hulking body made entirely of harvested brain tissue, crafted by mind reavers as a loyal bodyguard that hunts wizards first and unleashes a stunning psychic blast.
- Brain Mole A small, friendly burrowing rodent that senses psionic activity from 200 yards and quietly feeds on mental energy, prized by nobles as a living shield against psionicists.
- Brain Seed A psionic, carnivorous plant that drifts its seeds onto passersby, roots into their skin, dominates their minds and marches them home to be drained.
- Brain Spider A brain-shaped, eight-legged psionic predator whose venom liquefies a victim's nerves so the pack can sip them, and which grafts captured weapons onto its own limbs.
- Brak Twan [Dwarven Tunnel Hound] A hairless, battle-scarred war dog bred by dwarves for the tunnels, the brak twan locks its jaws on a foe and can crush a throat with one lucky bite.
- 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.
- Bramble Faerie [Petty] A tiny, vicious faerie in spiked plate armor that hurls its thorny body at foes, wrestles anything its size, and rides porcupines and hedgehogs like a knight.
- Brambleweed A fast-spreading thorn vine whose dead, hardened growth becomes a near-impassable wall of razor spines, cultivated by desert settlements as both barrier and weapon.
- Brass Dragon [Metallic] A sunbathing desert dragon that would rather chat than fight, and may gas you to sleep and bury you to the neck if you try to leave mid-conversation.
- Brass Drakeborn [Drakeborn] The smallest and most common drakeborn, a resentful, hard-drinking brute that ambushes in hooded robes and turns to stone when slain, trapping the weapon that killed it.
- Brass Minotaur Golem A brass bull-headed avenger that wakes when a shrine is violated, tracks the guilty without rest, and drags them through the gem in its axe into an inescapable maze.
- Braxat A towering, shell-backed hunter of the desert wastes that savors its victims' terror, battering minds with psionics before wading in with a spiked club and acid breath.
- Bred Shock Trooper Tall, green-haired warrior women remade by the void artisans into identical elite soldiers, bred shock troopers have scoured a thousand worlds and fight in berserk fury beside golem-like helots.
- Breiryn A four-legged, spider-shaped beast with an ape's face and tusks, the breiryn is a night-dwelling companion to young wizards that strikes with venomous hooves and acidic webs.
- Brine Dragon A grinning, salt-crusted, flipper-limbed sea dragon of pure chaos that sprays caustic alkaline brine and will eat almost anything, even the undead.
- Brinekin Slimy, fish-headed humanoids of the deep underworld, brinekin loathe sunlight and surface folk, raiding upward for slaves and sacrifices with glue-smeared shields, barbed harpoons and priestly lightning.
- Broken One Humans fused with animal essence by failed magic or reckless science, broken ones live in hidden tribes, heal every round, and dream of killing the one who made them.
- Bronze Dragon [Metallic] A curious, war-loving sea dragon that spies on adventurers in animal form, fights for just causes at fair wages, and wrecks pirate ships on sight.
- Bronze Drakeborn [Drakeborn] Spellcasting, devoutly evil drakeborn who charge on all fours with blades in their teeth, worship the Dark Queen at scorched forest shrines, and explode in bone shrapnel when slain.
- 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.
- 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.
- Brown Unicorn A gentle, telepathic desert unicorn that hears the thoughts of everyone nearby and sings even mighty intruders to sleep, so it is almost never caught off guard.
- Brownie Tiny, scrupulously honest field folk who glean farmland and secretly help worthy households, brownies cannot be surprised and drive off troublemakers with a pouchful of minor spells.
- Bruja Hideous, hag-like crones cursed to foresee their own deaths, the bruja quietly turn their great strength and healing magic toward aiding travelers against the darkness.
- 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.
- Bugbear Huge, hairy goblin kin with a bear's nose and an ambusher's patience, bugbears raid from cave lairs for food, slaves, and anything that glitters.
- Bulette The landshark: an armored, burrowing eating machine that erupts from the ground at any vibration, devours everything including armor and coins, and empties whole regions of life.
- Bullywug Frog-faced swamp raiders who strike in hopping, spear-doubling ambushes, bullywugs strip their marshes bare and kill and eat any human they meet.
- Bunyip A shaggy, gilled cross between seal and shark, the playful bunyip roars swimmers into panic, capsizes boats, and may bite a limb clean off a small creature.
- 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.
- Burbur A harmless, cinnamon-scented worm that sucks up deadly slimes and molds, the burbur is a prized adventurer's companion and a poisonous meal for anything that eats it.
- 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.
- Burnflower A patch of mirror-petaled desert vines that track the sun and focus it into searing heat rays, burnflowers can set a traveler's gear ablaze from 50 yards away.
- Burning Man Golem A walking bonfire of glowing coals that showers foes with searing cinders, screams them into terror, and rebuilds itself from a speck of ash while plotting to burn its own master.
- 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.
- Buso Lanky, one-eyed, ghoul-like eaters of the dead whose fear aura paralyzes and whose claws spread a disease that turns victims into nightly monsters.
- Bussengeist The weary ghost of someone whose own deeds caused a catastrophe, the bussengeist drifts from disaster to disaster, its aura of despair crippling the defenders it watches.
- 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.
- Buzzjewel Glittering, gem-eating insects of the void between worlds, buzzjewels swarm toward light, bite with poison when provoked, and leave a small gemstone when they die.
- Bvanen Clawed, turret-eyed amphibians of the steaming swamps, bvanen are kindly at heart but so wary of outsiders that they glue intruders in place first and ask questions later.
- Byut [Fey Deer] A tiny, color-shifting deer bred as a pampered elven pet, the byut vanishes into its surroundings when startled and can leave pursuers dazed in a cloud of sweet musk.
- 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.