Monsters: D
174 monsters whose names start with D.
- Daegandal A hopping, kangaroo-like scholar beast, the cleverest of the wizard-bonding magical beasts, which wields fog, illusion and leaping magic and regenerates its wounds as it bounds away.
- Daemon Warrior Shapeless undead soldiers of a primordial chaos god, wearing the face of each viewer's worst nightmare and bursting into flame when finally cut down.
- Daemonlord A sadistic abyssal horror called up through blood sacrifice, the daemonlord deafens, paralyzes and rains summoned chaos-spawn from its smog-built skyship.
- Daergar [Dwarf] Brutal dark dwarves who build gloomy cavern cities around prisons and blood arenas, the daergar are led into battle by bonemasters who raise skeletons from their charnel pits.
- Dagorran Golden-skinned psionic frog-beasts that track minds across the desert, blast prey with shrapnel and wrestle control of its body, and nurse an ancient grudge against mantis warriors.
- Dangerous Plant [Mystara] Golden sleep-lilies, thorn-spitting brambles, strangling grass and blood-drinking white roses work together to turn a pretty glade into a killing field.
- Dangerous Plants I Strangling creepers, luring mantraps, nauseating palm fruit, saw-toothed bushes, thorn-flinging weeds, three-bloomed predators and brain-eating yellow musk all prove that plants can hunt.
- Dangerous Plants II A blood-drinking thorn vine, a palm that drips instant death and a burrowing grass that drills through leather to paralyze, three more reasons to watch where you step.
- Dao Genie [Al-Qadim] Greedy, brutish genies of elemental earth, dao tunnel through rock, run sprawling slave markets and grant wishes that always curdle, yet they keep an honor of their own and build like no one else.
- Dark Creeper Filthy little thieves of the deep caverns who smother every light, pick a party clean of magic in the blackness and explode in blinding fire when slain.
- Dark Lord A mighty evil spellcaster unmade by a sphere of annihilation who clawed back from beyond as a shadowy undead master of gravity, time and dimensional magic.
- Dark Naga Eel-dark serpents with fanged human faces, dark naga read minds constantly, smuggle poison and stolen spellbooks in a hidden inner pouch, and serve evil masters as cunning lieutenants.
- Dark Stalker Gaunt, man-sized overlords of the dark creepers who spend their servants' lives freely, cloak battles in fog and blackness, and die in a fireball-like blast.
- Dark Tree A slimy-barked jungle predator born of a wizard's failed experiment, which confuses travelers until they wander lost, then grabs and drinks them.
- Darkenbeast Ordinary sheep and dogs twisted by a night-cast spell into black-winged, fanged hunters that obey a wizard's mind until the first light of dawn.
- Darkhood A cowled, ghostly undead that fills its empty hood with each viewer's nightmares, then herds the terrified through walls until they collapse and it can feed on their fear.
- 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.
- Darkling An exile cast out by the wandering fortune-teller clans, gaunt and bitter, who can never be surprised, coats its blades in deadly poison and may return as undead if not laid to rest.
- 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.
- Darkness Elemental A creature of distilled undeath and night, called up by the senior priests of dark deities, that strikes through its victim's shadow to blind it and detonates when touched by healing or light.
- Darktentacles A cow-sized, eye-studded amphibious horror with dozens of tentacles that wields weapons, charms and paralyzes its captives, drowns prey and traps foes in spheres of force.
- 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.
- Darkwing Scaly, bat-winged night raiders that swoop on herds in flocks, carry off people in pairs, and turn a farming valley's pastures into a slaughterhouse.
- Darter A lazy, pear-shaped swamp lizard that spits paralytic fangs from its tube-like snout, then waddles over with its friends to drink the helpless victim's blood.
- Deadly Pudding Acidic heaps of cell colonies that drop from dungeon ceilings, dissolve flesh and armor, and split into more puddings every time someone swings a sword at them.
- 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.
- Dearg-Due [Shadow Host] Eyeless undead axemen in the vanguard of a fey prince's army of the dead, dearg-due spray burning mist from every wound an attacker gives them.
- Death Knight A fallen paladin cursed by the gods into a skull-faced undead warrior who still fights by a twisted code of honor and hurls power words and fireballs.
- Death Linen Pillows, towels and bedsheets animated by the psychic residue of nightmares, which smother sleepers, poison with hidden fangs and may rise again in fresh linen months after being destroyed.
- Death Minnow A tiny orange guard fish that swells to monstrous size, swallows a swimmer whole and shrinks back down, leaving companions wondering where their friend went.
- Death Sheep Grubby hillside sheep with black, dripping fangs whose bite spreads a maddening curse-disease that turns any mammal into a doomed, biting berserker.
- Death's Head Tree A willow-like tree that springs from spilled blood and bears a crop of moaning human heads, which bite, spit burrowing seeds and float off to plant themselves in the living.
- Deathgaze Tyrant [Undead Gazer] A rotting, mold-crusted gazer tyrant raised as a tireless undead guardian, still firing the eyes it has left with deadly skill and obeying only its maker's last orders.
- Deathmare The vengeful ghost of an abused horse, posing as a gentle black mount by the roadside, that carries anyone foolish enough to ride it straight to their death.
- Debbi Spiteful baboon-hyena scavengers of the desert that stamp up crackling waves of magical fear to drive bigger beasts and travelers away from water and food.
- Decapus A hairy, ten-tentacled globe of teeth that swings through forest canopies, hanging by one limb while it slashes prey with the other nine.
- Deceiver Genie [Tasked] Gaunt, mismatched-eyed djinn twisted into living lies, deceiver genies wrap the world in illusion for sheer cruel amusement and lie shamelessly even under the strongest charm.
- Deck Ape Gliding ape-folk who hire on as sailors and marines aboard starships, deck apes fight with a blade in hand and foot and swoop through the gravity plane to board enemy hulls.
- Deep Bat Four strange bats of the surface and the deep underworld: the friendly, spark-tailed azmyth, the shrieking night hunter, the levitating, music-loving sinister and the blood-drinking werebat.
- Deep Dragon A shapeshifting hunter of the deep underworld that stalks prey as a giant serpent or a disguised humanoid, breathes flesh-eating gas and guards trapped caches of stolen magic.
- Deep Glaurant A hulking, winged, scaly humanoid of the deep caverns that glides down on prey in conjured darkness, then rakes and bites until its meal stops moving.
- Deep Ocean Fish Four predators of the black abyss: lure-dangling anglers, a magical minnow that swells to swallow a man and shrinks him away, the endless-tailed gulper, and the cruising viperfish.
- Deep Rothe Shaggy, musk-ox-like herd beasts kept as livestock across the deep underworld, wary of traps, hard to stampede, and devastating when a panicked herd charges.
- Deep Sea Elf [Dragonlance] Shy, blue-skinned elves of the ocean depths who take dolphin shape to scout or flee and veil their foes in innate illusions before they ever lift a trident.
- Deep-Dwelling Octopus A peaceful, farming octopus of the lightless abyss that talks in clicks and glowing patterns, and can paint an attacker with ink that shines for hours.
- Deepspawn A many-armed rubbery sphere that lounges on a hoard of coins and births copies of anything it has eaten, the deepspawn can seed a whole region with monsters.
- Defiler Lich A lich that powers its spells by devouring life itself, the defiler lich leaves rings of gray ash wherever it casts and rots everything it walks beside.
- DeGleash [Plasmoid] A swaying, cream-colored blob shaped like a bowling pin that booms terror before battle, stretches up to 100 feet, and can swallow and digest smaller foes whole.
- DelNoric [Plasmoid] A squat, leather-skinned plasmoid that shrugs off acid, shrieks loud enough to hurt, and keeps a whole belly of digestive acid ready to squirt at anyone in reach.
- Delphinid Playful three-eyed fish of the flame-sea, delphinids frolic around becalmed ships, rescue sailors who fall overboard and vanish the moment anyone tries to harm them.
- 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.
- 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.
- Demihuman Pets Over the centuries the elder races have bred their own rare companion animals, prized beasts that most humans have never seen and few will ever own.
- Demonic Sawfly A man-tall, winged, blood-drinking horror from another plane that can shrink to the size of a gnat and vanish into any cloud of ordinary flies.
- Denizen Fanged aristocrats of a gray afterlife, denizens are the transformed priests of a death god, rewarded with monstrous bodies and the job of tormenting the dead.
- Denzelian A thousand-pound disk of living stone that dissolves rock with acid, the denzelian is harmless unless cornered, and then it trips foes onto its acid or drops on them from above.
- Derro [Dwarf] Pale, dwarf-sized sadists of the deep underworld who hoard forbidden lore, hunt humans for slaves, and fight to cripple and humiliate rather than to kill cleanly.
- Desert Antloid Giant ants of the desert world's sand-mound warrens, antloids field iron-strong workers, venom-spitting soldiers, psionic overseers, and queens whose scent drives intruders mad.
- Desert Centaur Lean, swift night raiders of the sands, desert centaurs harry their foes for days with arrows from ambush before closing with a thundering lance charge.
- Desert Giant Veiled nomad herders under a slow curse of stone, desert giants ride monstrous mounts, vanish against the sand, and can call petrified ancestors back to fight once more.
- Desert Stirge A flightless, six-legged stirge that hides under the sand, leaps twenty feet onto an unwary traveler's back, and grips so hard that only combined brute strength can pry it loose.
- Desert Wraith Risen from those slain by sandstorm horrors, the desert wraith runs prey down as a jackal, then drains its life with a ghostly human touch.
- Desert Zombie Dried, sand-swimming corpses that lurk just beneath the dunes, seize travelers by the ankles, and drag them down to suffocate, all at the will of an ancient mummy.
- 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.
- 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.
- Devilwhip The vengeful ghost of a cruel slave master, the devilwhip is a floating black whip that hunts its former slaves by night and leaves wounds that refuse to close.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dhampir Half-human children of vampires, dhampir carry their fathers' strength and none of their weaknesses, and must choose between hunting vampires and becoming one.
- Dhaot The weary ghost of someone who died far from home, a dhaot wanders the wastes weaving illusions, begging travelers to carry its bones back and punishing those who refuse.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Diabolus Horned, hoofed and lavender-skinned, diaboli look like devils to humans, yet they are cheerful chaos-loving folk from a nightmare realm who find humans just as horrifying.
- 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.
- Dimensional Warper Bat-winged scholars from beyond the Prime who bend size, speed and space, dimensional warpers spy on adventurers for study and sometimes pick a fight just to take notes.
- Dinosaur I From tank-armored ankylosaurs to the tyrant lizard king, the great dinosaurs survive on lost continents and other planes, and even the plant eaters can kill.
- Dinosaur II A second herd of prehistoric giants and hunters, from the 30-ton thunder lizard to sail-backed dimetrodons and chicken-sized night stalkers that strike from cover.
- Dinosaur III More prehistoric beasts, from stampeding horned grazers and panicky herds to a long-necked swamp ambusher that drags prey under and a nimble plains carnosaur.
- Dinosaur IV Six more great reptiles, including the colossal 90-ton brachiosaurus, gem-swallowing camarasaurs and a herd beast so dim that its stampedes kill.
- Dinosaur V A mixed pack of prehistoric hunters and grazers, from spur-kicking crested carnosaurs to a man-swallowing armored fish and the longest-necked creature alive.
- Dinosaur VI Horned and spiked herbivores, a cannibal pack hunter and a vast pterosaur that dives out of the sun round out the prehistoric beasts of the lost lands.
- Dinosaurs Colossal, dim-witted reptiles from a lost age that still stomp through forgotten continents and strange planes, driven by hunger and dangerous whether they hunt you or simply flee.
- 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.
- Disenchanter A shimmering blue, camel-like beast that sniffs out magic from 120 feet away and drains enchanted gear dry with a single touch of its trunk.
- Disir Slime-coated, hunched horrors of the deep underworld whose painful, paralyzing poison and endless hunger for meat make them the bane of every dwarven hold.
- Divine Minion Towering bronze-armored warriors who serve the gods of an ancient desert pantheon, hiding the ability to become lions, crocodiles, hawks or deadly scorpions.
- Divine Minion [Variant] Towering, bronze-armored servitors of an ancient desert pantheon, divine minions shift between battle forms to carry their gods' messages and, for the serpent god, his killings.
- Dizantar Silent, spike-armored giants of the void who live to hunt down the blue-skinned merchants of starhelms, tracking their quarry with an unbreakable magical line.
- Djinni Genie [Al-Qadim] Tall, silk-clad lords of the open sky, djinn ride living whirlwinds, play elaborate pranks on mortals and serve more willingly than other genies, but never forgive a betrayal.
- Dobie [Brownie] A well-meaning but hopelessly clumsy brownie cousin, the dobie repays its farmer neighbors with chores that usually end in chaos, yet fights fiercely to protect them.
- Doc cu'o'c A one-legged guardian spirit with a glowing woodsman's axe that protects a home or village from evil spirits, as long as the locals keep the offerings coming.
- Dog From scavenging wild packs and loyal mastiffs to teleporting blink dogs and two-headed death dogs carrying a rotting plague, canines cover every role from pet to nightmare.
- Dog-Folk Loyal, keen-nosed canine humanoids who traded steppe nomadism for a feudal merchant kingdom, the dog-folk sniff out werewolves at a glance and carry silver to deal with them.
- Dolphin Playful, brilliant sea mammals that guide drowning sailors ashore, drive off sharks, and raid sahuagin nests to smash their eggs.
- Dolphin [Dark Sun] Silver-white, telepathic dolphins of a ruined world's last sea, hardened by an endless feud with sharks and keepers of their people's memories.
- Domestic Animals I [Dark Sun] The desert world's caravans run on four hardy beasts: egg-laying scale-runners, tireless shellback lizards, honey-bearing pack insects, and the colossal, man-eating dune hulks that drag wagon trains.
- Domestic Animals II [Dark Sun] Farm stock of the desert world: armored shell-pigs, water-humped oxen, ill-tempered horn-nags, and silk caterpillars whose venom can kill a drake that dares to eat one.
- Doom Guard An empty suit of armor brought to grim life on a cursed anvil, standing endless watch and cutting down anyone its master's orders say to kill.
- Doom Locust Swarms of child-faced locusts with stained-glass wings that weep and chant 'doom' over places marked for catastrophe, stripping flesh, metal and stone alike.
- Doomcat A mangy stray that worms its way into a family, then blackmails them with prophecies of disaster it can unleash itself, earthquakes and plagues included.
- Doomsphere [Ghost Gazer] A gazer tyrant that cheated death through magic and rose as a spectral orb, its eyes now firing withering, bone-shattering and flesh-searing beams.
- Doomwarden [Dark Sun] Cruel, paranoid nobles of a walled city of doom deep in a volcanic valley, raised from birth as warriors, mind-masters, templars or life-draining wizards.
- Doppelganger Gray-skinned shapeshifters that read minds, copy a victim down to the clothes, kill the original and slip into a richer, lazier life.
- Doppelganger [Ravenloft] A flawless, mind-reading mimic whose stolen shapes fool even touch, working in tight clans that climb a noble household one murdered servant at a time.
- Doppelganger Plant A melon-like vine whose pods steal the souls of sleepers miles away, turning them into hollow, perfectly normal-seeming puppets that lure in more victims.
- Dorvesh [Centaur-kin] Bearded dwarven miners with the hindquarters of a donkey, dorvesh are stubborn, standoffish clansfolk who fight with discipline when their mining towns are threatened.
- Dowagu Four-armed, serpent-tailed shadow constructs that serve an undead raja, branding the living with a death-seal that drags them into his army once they die.
- Dracimera The monstrous child of an evil dragon mated with a chimera, a three-headed horror that bites, gores and breathes with a dragon's fury six times a day.
- Draco-Sphinx A dragon-headed, feather-maned sphinx of the desert highlands that weaves illusions like a master, breathes fire, and tests every visitor for strength before deciding whether to talk or eat.
- Dracohydra A muddy brown, many-headed winged dragon that spits acid from every mouth, bullies anything weaker, and serves a dragon cult as a sullen, ever-hungry guard beast.
- Dracolich An evil dragon that traded death for undeath, its spirit anchored in a gemstone so that destroying its body only sends it hunting for a new corpse.
- Dracon Herd-minded dragon-centaurs newly arrived among the stars, bound by formal dueling codes, led by mystical genealogy, and sworn enemies of the web-eel slavers.
- Dragger A boulder-like earth elemental creature that lurks beneath an illusion of solid floor, then opens its stony maw and swallows whoever steps on it.
- Dragon [Birthright] The last of an ancient, solitary dragon race, iron-scaled serpents who paralyze with a glance, breathe fire and acid, and hold lore older than humankind.
- Dragon [Dark Sun] Not a beast but a destination: a mighty defiler-psionicist who tortures itself through ten stages of agony into an immortal, sand-breathing, world-ruining dragon.
- Dragon [Maztica] A limbless, two-headed turquoise rain serpent, part priest and part storm, that can bless parched land with rain or drown it, poison or scald its foes, and summon storms.
- Dragon Beetle Foot-long crimson beetles that nest in buried ruins, swarm intruders in packs, and carry a sting that is a mere itch to humans but burning poison to dragons and their kin.
- Dragon Fish Huge, fang-crammed eels that track prey by scent, motion and electric sense, toy with the wounded before swallowing them whole, and hoard sunken metal in their lairs.
- Dragon Overview Ancient, greedy and terribly powerful, dragons grow through twelve age categories from hatchling to great wyrm, gaining armor, magic, fear and a bewildering arsenal of attacks along the way.
- Dragon Overview [Dragonlance] On this world dragons are the planet's elemental firstborn, bound to mortal fate by a mystic bond, and every one of their great wars has been a war of humans too.
- Dragon Overview [Mystara] On this world, dragons care more about law and chaos than good and evil, its gem dragons have no psionics, and four unique gem species roam its wilds.
- Dragon Overview [Savage Coast] On the frontier coast dragons are rare, theatrical and locked in an ancient feud with the spider-folk, a war that helped forge the crimson curse itself.
- Dragon Turtle A shell-backed terror of seas and great lakes, first mistaken for moonlight on the waves, that capsizes ships from below, scalds sailors with steam and hoards the plunder of its wrecks.
- Dragon-kin Winged, dragon-faced humanoids driven by an overpowering urge to snatch magic items, who swoop down to wrestle enchanted gear out of their victims' hands and fly off with it.
- Dragonet A small, nimble blue dragon with fire breath and poison in its blood, often sold to gullible buyers as a shrunken full-size dragon in a classic wizard's con.
- Dragonfish A shy, flat bottom-feeder hidden in streambeds whose venomous back spines punish careless waders with hours of mounting fever that may end in death.
- Dragonfly Yard-long hybrids of insect and dragon that zip and hover with impossible agility, breathing tiny jets of fire, frost, acid, gas or lightning at anything small enough to eat.
- Dragonfly Turtle Nicknamed the hovershell, this wizard-bred cross of giant turtle and giant dragonfly buzzes through the sky as a flying armchair, usually with an armed spellcaster perched on top.
- Dragonne Part lion and part brass dragon, this solitary desert hunter tears into intruders with claw and fang, then unleashes a roar that saps strength and shatters hearing.
- 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.
- Dragonslayer [Human] Warriors and mages sworn to hunt dragons, clad in wyrm-shaped armor, fearless before draconic terror, and trained in blows that ground, silence or dazzle their quarry.
- Drake [Mystara] Man-sized, shapeshifting dragon-kin who hide among humans, elves, dwarves and giants as compulsive thieves and quiet agents of chaos, shrugging off any spell below 5th level.
- Drake Overview [Dark Sun] Gargantuan, psionic reptiles that crossed from the elemental planes to hunt the desert world, feared as second only to the dragon-tyrant and hunted for parts worth a fortune or a death sentence.
- Drakeborn Overview Dragon-headed soldiers grown from stolen good dragon eggs by a goddess's betrayal, the drakeborn now roam as ageless, sterile, bickering raiders who die in spectacular ways.
- Draknor A colossal, immobile larva rooted in the deep earth by mile-long tendrils that drink magma, it swallows intruders into a furnace gut and leaves a volcano behind when it finally departs.
- Dread Disembodied skeletal arms, bound by spell to guard vaults and deathtraps, that swoop out of hidden niches with sword in hand and knit their bones back together afterward.
- Dread Linnorm The rare two-headed dread linnorm lays waste to human lands with alternating blasts of freezing wind and scorching dust, then makes its lair in the ruins it leaves behind.
- Dread Warrior Elite undead soldiers raised from slain fighters within a day of death, strong and skilled but dangerously literal, serving a lich-lord of the slaver-wizards in his wars.
- Dread Wolf Rotting undead wolves bound to an evil mage's mind, dread wolves regenerate like trolls, spread a lethal wasting rot, and serve as their master's distant eyes and ears.
- Dream Spawn Overview Featureless shapeshifters of the nightmare realm, half solid and half dream, that lull waking travelers with lullaby voices and steal their minds to borrow the shapes of their memories.
- Dream Stalker A tiny glowing orb that lures grieving people into the mists in the shape of a lost pet, then hovers over their sleeping faces and feeds on their dreams until they fall into a coma.
- Dreamshadow A perfect illusory double of anyone or anything a dreamer knows, the dreamshadow fights, casts and even kills inside a dream, and only waking reveals how much of the harm was real.
- Dreamslayer An astral parasite that slips into the dreams of sleeping void travelers, butchers the people they love, then strips away the dreamer's mind and steals the body for a final wild binge.
- Dreamweaver Palm-sized spiders that spin the scenery of dreams and nightmares, harmless unless provoked, though their bite drops a victim into a long, vivid sleep.
- Dreamwild Nomad [Human] Tall, painted hunters of the nightmare realm who shrug off illusions and believe that anything they cannot see has simply stopped existing.
- Dreamwild Shaman [Human] Outcast holy folk of the dreamwild nomads who embrace the madness of the nightmare realm, banishing dream spawn and slipping into the sleep of others.
- Dreamwraith A hateful nightmare-thing born from a victim's own fears, the dreamwraith wears the rotting faces of dead friends and strikes with illusions that feel lethal until the dreamer wakes.
- 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.
- Drik A five-ton armored herd lizard with a snake-quick head, the drik is a living battering ram prized by desert warlords, and its sorcerously twisted cousin, the high drik, is far worse.
- Drolem [Golem] A dragon-shaped construct with true dragon strength and none of the wit, the drolem flies, rends, and breathes a deadly poison cloud while shrugging off most magic.
- Drow [Elf] Black-skinned elves exiled to the lightless underworld, armed with poisoned darts, uncanny adamantite gear and innate spells, and forever plotting against the sunlit races that cast them out.
- Drow Lich Undead dark elf wizards, priestesses and even driders, drow liches pair a lich's terrors with towering magic resistance, spider swarms and a gift for deceiving the living.
- Drow Vampire A radiant, cruel dark elf granted undeath as a holy honor, who drains bodily fluids with a touch, rules spiders and driders, and dies at a single ray of sun.
- Dryad A shy, enchanting oak spirit whose beauty shifts with the seasons, the dryad can charm a handsome traveler so completely that he may vanish into her grove for years, or forever.
- Duckbunny The beginner's project of magical crossbreeding, a fluffy, egg-laying cross between a hare and a duck that quacks at intruders, swims like a champion and charms nearly everyone.
- Duende Bone-white goblin things that live inside the walls of houses and tap all night, the duende feed on the nightmares their knocking plants in every sleeper nearby.
- Duergar [Dwarf] Gaunt gray dwarves of the deepest caverns who vanish or swell to giant size at will, shrug off poison and illusion, and ride leaping giant spiders into battle.
- Dune Freak Sand-swimming humanoids that feel footsteps from miles away, dune freaks erupt from beneath their prey, paralyze it with a venomous bite and drag it down to smother.
- Dune Reaper Ten-foot hive predators with scythe arms and glowing red eyes, dune reapers leap from the dunes onto caravans, impaling travelers and dragging the bodies home to a matriarch's pride.
- Dune Runner The undead ghost of an elf who died mid-errand, the dune runner sprints across the desert every night, psionically dragging travelers along until they drop dead of exhaustion.
- Dune Stalker A gaunt fiend of the magma plane summoned to carry out an evil wizard's quest, the dune stalker tracks flawlessly and kills good folk with a sonic kiss of death.
- Dune Trapper A plant-animal the size of a field that disguises itself as a desert oasis, the dune trapper swallows thirsty travelers whole and dissolves them in acid.
- Duruch'i-lin The towering, rainbow-coated unicorn of eastern legend, whose rare appearance heralds long life and good fortune, and whose blunt horn fires volleys of magic bolts when it must fight.
- Dusanu A walking skeleton packed with intelligent mold, the dusanu or rot fiend roams deep wilderness in packs, spreading spores that turn victims into new rot fiends.
- Dvati Slender, three-fingered humanoids of the neutral planes who are always born as identical twins sharing one soul, fighting in deadly unison and dying if separated by death.
- Dwarf Stubborn, long-lived masters of stone and steel, dwarves carve eternal cities beneath the mountains and wage endless war on the evil races of the deep.
- Dwarf [Dark Sun] Bald, sun-scorched and immensely strong, the dwarves of the desert world pour their whole lives into a single obsessive task, and those who die before finishing it rise as restless banshees.
- Dwarf Banshee A rotting dwarf who died with its life's work unfinished, now guarding that task forever with a curse that drives intruders into berserk rage against their own companions.
- Dwarf Crusher A two-faced, swivel-jointed golem built by a dwarf-hating wizard, the dwarf crusher has no back to sneak up on, radiates searing heat and swallows the blades that strike it.
- Dwarf Vampire A bearded, armored undead dwarf that hates what it has become, strides through solid rock to ambush the living, and drains Constitution with every bare-handed blow.
- Dwarf-Human Crossbreed Bred by sorcerer tyrants for their arenas and labor gangs, these bald, sterile, tireless dwarf-human crossbreeds hit harder than either parent and are worth a dozen human slaves.
- Dweomerborn A ghostly, taloned phantom born from the magical exhaust of starships, which climbs aboard along the ship's wake to drain spells and enchanted items dry.
- Dzalmaus Dragon A drab, three-headed steppe dragon that follows nomad tribes to feed on horses and humans, and whose breath drains life to swell its own strength.