Monsters: F
104 monsters whose names start with F.
- 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.
- Fachan [Forgotten Realms] A one-legged, single-eyed swamp ambusher that springs from the muck to head-butt and stun its prey, then holds the victim under the water until it drowns.
- Fachan [Savage Coast] A one-legged, one-armed, one-eyed ogre-born brute that bounds across rough country, hears riders miles away, and swings two-handed weapons with a single mighty fist.
- Fael A gluttonous undead that slips into feasts and parties and never stops eating, with a jaw that unhinges a full foot to bite off hands, limbs or heads.
- Faerie Dragon [Dragonet] A tiny, butterfly-winged prankster of tangled forests that turns invisible at will, casts mischievous spells, and leaves its victims grinning in a haze of euphoria gas.
- Faerie Fiddler A tiny, spry old fiddler who guards a faerie community with enchanted tunes, from tireless dancing to a full-moon reel that steals years from anyone who wrongs the fey.
- Faerie Phiz An ancient living face grown into enchanted wood, a sage-like memory of every passerby that spits fire-quenching resin and casts any spell it has ever watched.
- Faerie Unicorn A small, green-eyed unicorn that fades into the forest like a chameleon, rarely seen unless someone wantonly harms the wild places it watches over.
- Fainil Bat-winged descendants of drow and tanar'ri, bred as night-raiding sky troops and now plotting from two impregnable mountain fortresses with hand crossbows, sleep poison and spells.
- Fal Enormous, gentle slug-sages who hollow out lifeless asteroids into book-crammed lairs and will answer any question, eventually, for a worthy gift.
- Fallen Empire Zombie Clever, finely dressed undead serving a lich overlord in a ruined magical empire, who raise every foe they beat into another soldier for his swelling army.
- Familiar [Mystara] Tiny winged humanoids that are really gods in disguise, serving chosen wizards as familiars, lending them power and counsel, and wrecking them if they die or are enslaved.
- Fang Dragon A bone-plated brawler of a dragon, spurred at every joint and armed with twin tail blades, whose bite steals hit points and adds them to its own.
- Fanggen A withered shadow-fey hag who poses as a kindly tree spirit, drains the life from those she lures close, and imprisons their screaming faces in the bark of her black tree.
- Father-of-All-the-Turtles [Sea Serpent] A turtle the size of a small island, 60 feet long, with a mouth that splits its whole head open and a shell shingled like a roof.
- Fathomkin Shark-mouthed survivors of a drowned empire who wear handsome human faces on land and command the beasts of the deep in their hunger for revenge.
- Faux Faerie A tiny, gleeful liar that wears the shape of any common faerie, sends travelers down deadly false trails, and soaks up every spell thrown at it only to fling others back.
- Fearweed [Plant] A common-looking milkweed that breathes out invisible terror, turning friends into imagined monsters so that its victims kill each other and feed its roots.
- Feathered Serpent A gorgeous, human-faced winged snake with a hypnotic sway and a sleep-venom bite, which surrounds itself with charmed slaves, clever traps and sometimes a worshipful cult.
- Fee-faw-fum A smudgy, glowing-eyed little imp that haunts empty houses and talks intruders into blind terror with grisly whispered prophecies of their doom.
- Feeblestar A small deep-sea starfish whose weakening enzyme opens clams, and whose magically bred cousin, clamped to a captive's neck, turns slaves weak and hopeless.
- Feesu Giant glowing void moths that drift between worlds in swarms, steal a ship's air when they leave, and light up a beacon that draws pirates and monsters.
- Feliquine A lion-fronted, horse-backed predator of the frontier steppes that hunts in prides, kicks like a stallion, and bonds only with the cat-folk beast riders who earn its trust.
- Fenette A river spirit born from a widow's grief-spun story, which lures men to the water's edge and crushes them in an iron embrace before dragging them under.
- Feng Huang The vain, gloriously plumed phoenix of the east, a hundred-foot fire-bird whose firestorms can burn a mile of country and whose wings can heal any disease.
- Fenhound A glowing spectral mastiff of the moonlit moors that hunts down anyone who commits evil in its wetlands, and curses whoever kills it to be hunted again each full moon.
- 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.
- Ferrous Dragon Overview Iron-hued dragons bound by a rigid chain of rank and shared telepathic links, the ferrous clans may once have been the mightiest wyrms alive, before a civil war split them forever.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fetch A deathly pale double that waits behind mirrors and still water, steps out when its victim meets its eyes, and drains two levels with every hit.
- Fetish Spirits Dim, fawning little justice-spirits that can be bound into amulets, eager to punish any wrongdoer their owner points at as long as the cause looks lawful.
- Feylaar A hulking four-armed ape of the desert world's forests that hides with psionics, crushes heads between its fists, and kills its would-be captors with a death field.
- Feyr A tentacled, brain-skinned horror spawned from a city's nightmares and stray magic, which stalks foggy streets terrifying onlookers, and can merge into a far deadlier invisible great feyr.
- Feystag A clawed, cat-headed, antlered forest creature that senses every enchanted item nearby, learns how it works at a glance, and can trigger it from across the room.
- Fhoimorien [Giant] Earth-bound raiders of the continent's marshes and caves, fhoimoriens batter foes with doubled club blows, then dissolve into reeking green smoke to escape or strike from an unexpected angle.
- 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.
- Fiend Knight Ordinary warriors remade by fiendish relics and sorcery into the mad overking's elite, unthinkingly loyal shock troops, feared even by the soldiers who fight beside them.
- Figurine Overview Tiny, exquisitely crafted golems from a jungle realm of the dread lands that pass for magical trinkets, hate the living, and have murdered every scholar who ever made one.
- Fir [Shadow Fey] Needle-fingered shadow fey tinkerers who become hedgehogs, fir guard their escape with clockwork gadgets and can lecture a listener into helpless confusion.
- Firbolg [Giant] Bearded, magic-touched forest giants who shrink, disguise themselves, and swat arrows out of the air, firbolgs prefer a clever prank to a fight but are deadly tacticians when cornered.
- 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.
- Fire Dragon A mocking counterfeit of true dragons shaped from living magma by a primordial chaos god, the fire dragon rains burning embers as it flies and shrugs off ordinary weapons entirely.
- Fire Drake [Dark Sun] The cruelest of the desert drakes, a spiny red-and-black reptile that calls up raw elemental fire and toys with its prey for sport.
- Fire Drake [Dragonet] A jittery miniature red dragon whose blood ignites on contact with air, so it breathes jets of burning blood and splashes fire on anyone who cuts it.
- Fire Elemental Beast [Dark Sun] A broad-shouldered panther of living flame with a burning mane and empty black eyes, the fire elemental beast streaks like a fireball, breathes searing cones and resents every moment it is summoned.
- Fire Falcon A small russet raptor of the wild places that drives off intruders by flinging sticky, exploding fireballs from its wingtips before raking faces with its talons.
- Fire Giant Soot-black, flame-haired soldiers of the volcanoes, fire giants march in disciplined bands, hurl heated boulders, guard their halls with hell hounds and traps, and crown kings who may keep red dragons.
- Fire Kin [Elemental] The cruel, serpent-bodied salamanders of the plane of fire, who skewer foes with red-hot spears and crush them in burning coils, and the paralyzing fire snakes that may be their young.
- Fire Minion Free-willed spirits of living flame that rise out of fires and volcano craters with swords in hand, healed by magical fire but slowly dying whenever they stray from it.
- Fire Troll Blood-red trolls that swim through lava, hurl molten globs, heal fastest while engulfed in flame, and bleed a mauve ichor that eats steel weapons away.
- Fire/Water Elemental The classic conjured elementals of flame and wave: a furious, blue-eyed pillar of fire that burns all it touches, and a towering crest of water that capsizes ships and drags foes under.
- Fire/Water Elemental of Chaos Two chaotic elementals at opposite extremes: a meteor-swift ember that sets everything it touches ablaze for fun, and an invisible, shape-shifting water serpent that crushes foes in its coils.
- Fire/Water Elemental of Law Two lawful elementals as different as fire and ice: a gentle, peace-loving ring of living flame prized as a negotiator, and a cold, crablike ice artisan with leanings toward evil.
- Fire/Water Fundamental Headless, bodiless pairs of wings that never stop flying, fundamentals are the smallest scraps of elemental life, spilling into the mortal world wherever greater elementals cross over.
- Firebird A blazing, eagle-shaped raptor of the void between worlds that dives on starships, sets their sails alight, and torches its way through hulls to pluck crewmen like mice.
- Firelich A would-be lich who exploded in the flame-sea and became a shrieking comet of undead fire, hurling itself at starships in a mad search for something to put it out.
- Firenewt Cruel, fire-breathing lizardfolk of volcanic wastes who ride giant striders to war, roast their captives alive, and live under the thumb of scheming egg-keeper priests.
- Fireshadow A 30-foot Abyssal horror of cold green flame, summoned by evil clerics, whose touch slowly turns living flesh into green fire it can command or devour.
- Firestar A peaceful, fist-sized mote of living light that dances in the night woods, drinks the fire from campsites, and answers violence with stinging bolts of lightning.
- Firetail A playful, capricious sprite of living flame whose dazzling aerobatics enthrall onlookers, and whose greater form, the tshala, hurls fireballs and walks between planes.
- Firethorn A low, scarlet-blossomed coastal rose whose heady perfume confuses passersby into its thorns, which burn, poison, and can kill outright; by night its flowers glow like embers.
- Fireweed A black, spongy plant of the deep underworld that feeds on heat, grows a foot for every die of fire thrown at it, and turns scorching wastes into livable jungle.
- 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.
- Fish A field guide to the dangerous fish of rivers, lakes and seas, from toe-snapping barracuda and swallowing gars to shocking eels, poison-spined rays and frenzied sharks.
- Fish [Forgotten Realms] Four marvels of the deep: a hypnotic floating eye that lures in sharks, scalding gem-hoarding hetfish, a venom-spined coral masher, and the verme, a river leviathan that swallows prey whole.
- Flailer A rock-colored, six-legged tortoise of the desert world's badlands that ambushes passersby from behind with claws, bite, and a formidable arsenal of psionic powers.
- Flame Linnorm Radiant, greedy and rare, the flame linnorm blazes like a walking bonfire, enslaving mortals with magic to swell a hoard it guards with fire, ash and elemental servants.
- Flame Skull A floating, fire-trailing undead skull that guards forgotten places, spits flame, reflects spells back on their casters, and, once freed, tags along as a lonely, wisecracking nuisance.
- Flame Spirit Savage little suns called out of the Elemental Plane of Fire, these spirits must be coaxed into a bonfire, candle or volcano vent before they can exist in the mortal world, and they burn everything they touch.
- Flareater A cunning, warm-bodied cousin of green slime that pours across cavern walls like dark water, smothers torches to feed, and splits in two once it has eaten enough light.
- Flawder Gentle, shell-backed snail folk who wander the floors of seas and lakes, singing their histories onto carved shells, and whose tasty flesh and pretty shells make them everyone's prey.
- Fleas of Madness Ordinary-looking fleas from the misty dread realm whose bites can set victims laughing or dancing helplessly, and whose disease slowly drowns the mind in delusions.
- Flesh Golem [Ravenloft] A stitched-together corpse with a damaged, hateful spirit inside, this flesh golem strangles its victims, heals by the hour, and flees in terror from even a lit match.
- Floater Translucent, gas-filled jellyfish that drift along the fringes of the silt sea, harmless grazers until provoked, when their stinging tentacles paralyze and their hydrogen bodies can explode.
- Flow Barnacle Mindless, head-sized shellfish that drift through the flame-sea, clamp onto ships and travelers with a near-unbreakable grip, and slowly gnaw and suck their way inward.
- Flowfiend Evil castaways remade by a dark power in the flame-sea into four-armed, regenerating brutes, flowfiends raid passing starships for meat and for fresh converts to their master's cause.
- Flumph A good-hearted, cushion-shaped hoverer that hunts vermin with acid-soaked spikes, fends off bigger threats with a revolting stink spray, and in its rarer form keeps painted cloisters of priestly monks.
- Flying Snake Bat-winged, acid-spitting vipers that swarm at their victims' faces to blind them, plus the deathfang, an undead variant that drinks life through its bite.
- Focoid A nearly invisible chain of three jelly spheres that bends starlight into burning beams, setting rigging ablaze and roasting crews from thousands of yards away near bright stars.
- Fog Giant Pale, silver-haired hunters who vanish into the mist, fog giants are sharper and stealthier than legend claims, ambushing prey with boulders from the fog before closing with clubs.
- Fogwarden A blue-eyed shape of freezing mist and crackling charge that haunts icy fog banks, feeding on terror, hurling lightning when provoked and raising nearby corpses to fight for it.
- Fomorian [Giant] Each one twisted in its own grotesque way, fomorians creep through dark tunnels to club victims senseless, then torture and devour them; they are the cruelest of all giant-kin.
- Foo Creature Bug-eyed, lion-bodied guardians from the planes of good who eat gems and silver, slip in and out of the Ethereal at will, and fight hardest against evil, especially the lawful kind.
- Fordorran A stinking, three-horned armadillo beast of the city-state heartlands whose reek drops foes retching, whose mind powers turn friends against each other, and whose attention wanders with no warning.
- Forest Linnorm A vain, cruel serpent of tangled forests that lures prey with mimicked cries of wounded animals and saves its special hatred for anything it finds beautiful.
- Forest Ray A ton-and-a-half manta that glides between tree trunks, the forest ray buries itself in the leaf litter, swallows passersby whole, and stings anything that tries to fight it from behind.
- 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.
- Fortress Sewer Rat Bred in the magic-polluted sewers of a ruined fortress-city, these yellow-eyed, half-human-faced rats hunt in packs, cling to drink blood, and are always missed by the first blow aimed at them.
- Foulwing A lumpy, horse-headed, toad-bodied flier with three needle-toothed mouths that pins prey to drink its blood at leisure, and serves evil humans and drow as a night-riding steed.
- Fractine A tumbling, mirror-bright plane of folded space that drifts through the void, devouring life and magic, warping whatever it passes through, and reflecting harm back on anyone who strikes it.
- Frelôn A dragon-headed wasp bred by dragons to exterminate spider-folk, the frelôn now hunts every humanoid race, planting eggs in victims who forget they were ever stung.
- Freshwater Ray-Folk Underground lake cousins of the evil ray-folk, with thicker hides, sharper magic and stranger mutations, who scheme with brinekin and aboleth in the lightless deep.
- Frog Swamp-colored frogs grown to the size of a man, giant frogs snatch prey with tongues three times their length and can gulp down anything under 3 feet tall.
- Froghemoth An 18-foot amphibian nightmare with four shoulder tentacles, a stalked triple eye and a swallowing tongue, the froghemoth rules deep swamps and underground pools as their apex predator.
- Frost Tiny blue-skinned winter fairies who play harmless pranks on polite travelers but turn icy lakes, avalanches and cones of cold against anyone evil enough to threaten their forests.
- Frost Giant Crude but cunning raiders of the glaciers, frost giants ambush from beneath the snow, swing massive battle axes, and follow jarls who may keep winter wolves, yeti, or even white dragons.
- Frost Linnorm Patient, calculating raiders of the frozen north, frost linnorms plan their wars for months and will not rest until every thinking creature in their domain is dead.
- Frost Salamander A six-legged lizard from the Paraelemental Plane of Ice whose very presence freezes flesh, the frost salamander tears foes apart and chills its kills before eating.
- Fungus From harmless bread mold to deadly shriekers, violet fungi, phycomids, ascomoids and gas spores, the fungus family ranges from kitchen nuisance to dungeon killer.
- Funno A timid, rat-faced rodent with a remarkable hide, the funno is the humble animal that an entire underground people relies on for armor, tools and even houses.
- Furies Three winged sisters who hunt the repentant, the Furies drag would-be penitents back toward damnation and, failing that, torture them to death in public as a warning to others.
- Furnace Golem A thinking three-ton iron giant with fire in its throat, able to crush foes in its fist, hurl boulders a sixth of a mile, and fly between worlds by eating magic items.
- Fyrefly A sluggish leaf-eating beetle most of its life, the fyrefly flies into a fire to breed and comes out as a swarm of sixty-four burning larvae bent on setting the world alight.