Monsters: G
216 monsters whose names start with G.
- Gadabout A living winged suit grown by void-faring elves, the gadabout wraps its wearer in a self-renewing bubble of air and carries him across the empty dark between ships.
- Gaj A beetle-shelled desert horror that cripples minds from afar, then pins its victim in its mandibles and eats his thoughts one point at a time.
- Gaki Hungry ghosts of the wicked, gaki return as flesh-eaters, blood-drinkers, plague-bearers and floating fires, each damned shape matching the sins of the life it led.
- Galeb Duhr Singing boulders with hands and feet, galeb duhr guard their mountain stones like a treant guards its trees and can make the very rock rise up against intruders.
- Gallowsoak [Evil Treant] A once-revered oak brewed into a leafless, flesh-hungry horror by a hag coven, now the druid-powered lord of a poisoned forest who sends wolves after anyone carrying fire.
- Gambado A spring-legged ambusher that hides in a pit wearing a stolen skull, the gambado lunges out at anyone who stoops to look and hoards their coins afterward.
- Gammaroid A snapping turtle the size of a mountain that drifts in the void disguised as an asteroid, then spins into a whirling, fiery buzzsaw to slice ships in half.
- Garbage Golem A faceless heap of rotting refuse that hides among the trash, strikes with a disease of fatal cramps, and serves as eyes and fists for a plague-city's lord.
- Garbug Winged, lobster-like cousins of the corpse creeper, garbugs paralyze prey with stinging tentacles, then sip its blood or tear it apart while it lies helpless.
- Gargantua Titanic reptiles, ape-men and moths that flatten villages and hold grudges across oceans, gargantua are living disasters best left alone on their distant islands.
- Gargantua [Mystara] Ordinary monsters swollen to monstrous scale by a vanished wizard's experiments, these gargantua include a corpse creeper that hunts elephants and a troll twenty feet tall.
- Gargantuan Praying Mantis A brave, brainless, house-sized ambush hunter that hides in plain sight, grabs passing prey in bristling forelegs and bites, refusing to retreat until it is half dead.
- Gargouille A mosasaur-like sea dragon that breathes a crushing torrent of water, the gargouille sinks galleons, drowns whole coastal fields and dines on everything it floods.
- Gargoyle I Living stone grotesques that perch motionless on rooftops and fountains, gargoyles strike when prey comes close and prefer to wound slowly rather than kill quickly.
- Gargoyle II Archers that look like cherubs, acid-spitting spouts, loyal stone lions and stern door-guarding faces: these crafted gargoyles range from murderous to devoted.
- Garigal A legless, blue-armored caterpillar that glides by magic, the garigal shatters potions with its gaze and then laps up the spilled elixirs.
- 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.
- Garrovash [Master Fire Worm] An ancient dragon fused with his own mountain, Garrovash tears free in earthquakes to breathe volcanic lava and is growing hungrier, and angrier, every year.
- Gaund Three-eyed fire-cave lizards that leap and lash in a frenzy, gaunds can heat a knight's armor red-hot with a glance from their hooded central eye.
- 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.
- Gazer Tyrant and Gazer Kin I Floating, many-eyed orbs of pure malice, the gazer tyrants and their bizarre kin wield deadly magical gazes and hate everything unlike themselves, sometimes even each other.
- Gazer Tyrant and Gazer Kin II The hive mother and the specialized abominations that serve gazer communities: mounted warriors, tool-wielding scholars, starfish drones, fungal tree-lords and timid spies.
- 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.
- Geckonid Bright-scaled, bug-eyed lizard folk who scurry across walls and ceilings, geckonids are cheerful, endlessly curious pranksters who see invisible things and steal mostly for the joy of snooping.
- 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.
- Geist A harmless-looking ghost that exists only inside the minds of those it chooses, the geist cannot touch anyone, but its words, true or false, can steer the living toward help or ruin.
- Gello Monster A fruit-flavored mutant of the gelatinous cube that smothers its victims and shrugs off swords and spells alike, the gello monster can be beaten only by eating it as fast as possible.
- 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.
- Gemstone Golem Ruby, emerald, and diamond giants commanded by circles of slaver-wizards, nearly immune to weapons and nature magic and bursting into fortunes in gems when finally destroyed.
- Genie Proud spirits of the elemental planes, genies range from whirlwind-riding djinn and wish-twisting efreet to slaving dao, vain marids and desert-roaming jann, and few of them serve a mortal gladly.
- Geonid Shelled cave hunters that pass for ordinary boulders until they spring, geonids swarm their prey in packs and lure intruders into rockslides and piercer nests.
- Gethrak Hunched, three-fingered reptilian raiders of the desert world who leap 20 feet into battle with obsidian spears and consider humans and demihumans the finest meat.
- Geyser Dragon [Dragonet] A tiny, eel-like dragonet of hot springs, convinced it is a mighty wyrm, that blasts foes with jets of boiling water and sprays scalding blood when cut.
- 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.
- Ghaunadan [Ooze/Slime/Jelly] A cunning ooze in service to the god of slimes that wears a charming human shape, befriends victims with a look, and swallows their blades into its body.
- Ghost The cursed spirit of someone wicked or wronged, a ghost ages the living with a glance, steals bodies through magic jar, and can only be put to rest by settling its grievance.
- Ghost Dragon The restless spirit of an ancient dragon whose hoard was plundered, haunting its empty lair and demanding every coin intruders carry until its lost wealth is restored.
- Ghost Mount A tireless spectral steed that can carry a rider 180 miles a day across any desert, if it does not first bolt into the wastes or drain that rider into a wraith.
- Ghost Packs Spectral packs of predators wiped out by spreading civilization, ghost packs still hunt their old ranges straight through city walls, and will savage anyone who threatens a shaman ally.
- Ghost-Stone An ordinary-looking stone housing the spirit of a wicked hoarder, the ghost-stone seizes anyone whose shadow touches it and drains their blood through that shadow until they die.
- 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.
- Ghostly Horde The silent phantom army of a crushing defeat, a ghostly horde gets its power from the fear of those who see it and can leave real wounds on anyone who panics.
- Ghoul Corpse-eating undead with paralyzing claws and a wicked animal cunning, ghouls haunt graveyards in packs and turn those they kill into more of their kind.
- Ghoul [Lankhmar] Glass-fleshed cannibals whose pink skeletons seem to walk on their own, these ghouls see themselves as the height of civilization and humans as dinner in need of refinement.
- 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.
- Ghoul Frog A glowing, see-through frog that looks like a walking corpse, the ghoul frog blinds attackers with bursts of light and makes anyone who eats it violently sick.
- Ghoul Lord Nearly indistinguishable from a common ghoul until it strikes, the ghoul lord commands a telepathic army of ghasts and ghouls and spreads a rotting disease that only heal can stop.
- Ghriest A broad-winged sky hunter that will suffocate if it ever lands, the ghriest dives on prey with an impaling beak and spits a gout of flame once a day.
- Ghul Donkey-footed undead cousins of the genies, great ghuls are shapechanging seducers who join caravans, lead them astray into the desert, and feast on the dead.
- Ghul-Kin Undead genies who wear stolen faces, ghul-kin slip into cities as charming neighbors and patrons while they quietly breed cults, possess the unwary, and wait for the day they can rule.
- Giant [Birthright] The giants of the continent's wild places range from root-sleeping forest guardians who shield the woods to rime-clad ice giants who sweep south with every hard winter.
- Giant [Dark Sun] Island-dwelling titans of the silt sea, these short-tempered giants hurl boulders and tree-trunk spears at intruders, and the rare beast-headed kind adds formidable psionic defenses.
- Giant Ant Lion A mole-bodied insect buried at the bottom of a sliding sand pit, the giant ant lion seizes anything that tumbles in and saws it apart with barbed, razor-edged jaws.
- Giant Archerfish A hunter of shallow seas and big lakes, the giant archerfish blasts sailors off decks and rigging with a jet of water, then snaps them up once they hit the waves.
- Giant Beetle Ravenous, armor-shelled beetles the size of ponies or larger, from the acid-spraying bombardier to the ship-sinking water beetle, whose jaws grind prey beyond almost any hope of revival.
- Giant Bladderwort A drifting swamp plant whose underwater bladders snap open in a split second, sucking in swimmers to drown and digest them inside a sealed sac.
- Giant Bloodwing A 13-foot, blood-drinking desert insect that pins prey under six dagger-tipped legs and drains it dry, the curse of every herder on the open plains.
- Giant Butterwort A carnivorous bog plant whose flat, greasy leaves glue down anything that steps on them, then roll up into a tight cocoon that slowly digests the catch.
- Giant Carp A massive golden cousin of the goldfish, the giant carp is usually a lazy bottom-feeder, but disturb its meal and it can swallow a swimmer whole.
- Giant Clam An enormous shellfish that snaps shut on careless divers and drowns them, guarding pearls as big as a fist, while its hunting cousin, the scallop, stuns prey with poison.
- Giant Clam [Variant] A chalk-white bivalve as tall as a man that snaps its shell closed on anything brushing its lips, pinning limbs in a slow, crushing vise.
- Giant Cobra A hooded serpent big enough to swallow a goat, whose swaying dance freezes lesser beasts in place and whose fangs carry venom that kills within rounds.
- Giant Crustacean Monstrous crabs that scuttle the shoreline snatching prey in crushing pincers, and giant crayfish that lurk on deep river bottoms ambushing sturgeon, eels and the occasional swimmer.
- Giant Damselfish A drab ocean fish whose trailing dorsal streamer mimics a drowning woman, luring would-be rescuers into the water to be rammed and bitten.
- Giant Dragonfly A jewel-bright aerial predator that strikes before its prey can react, snatching small creatures into a basket of legs and eating them alive in midair.
- Giant Fish Outsized catfish, gars and pike of deep lakes and rivers, each big enough to swallow a person whole or burst from the weeds with a crushing bite.
- Giant Hornet A striped, man-length hornet that dives on anything it sees, paralyzing victims with a venomous sting so its larvae can eat them alive in a sealed mud chamber.
- Giant Iguana A motionless, camouflaged forest lizard as long as a wagon, the giant iguana singles out the smallest member of a party, gulps it down whole and bolts.
- Giant Insect Ants with stings, bees as big as dogs, fire-spitting termites and egg-laying assassin bugs: giant insects keep every mundane horror of the bug world and add brute size.
- Giant Jellyfish A drifting, often nearly invisible man-o-war whose long trailing tentacles paralyze anything that brushes them, then reel the helpless victim up to be eaten.
- Giant Jellyfish [Mystara] Three breeds of enormous, near-transparent jellyfish, from the ghostly marauder to the skull-marked death's head and the venom-spitting galley, each trailing stingers as long as 100 feet.
- Giant Mammal Oversized cousins of familiar beasts, including blood-draining weasels, quill-shooting porcupines, castle-building beavers and skunks whose musk blinds foes and rots cloth.
- Giant Mason Wasp A glossy black wasp the length of a man, with glowing red-hot jaws, a fever-bringing sting and fiery breath, revered as a messenger of the gods and a bringer of luck.
- Giant Moray Eel A sluggish, spiteful reef ambusher whose locking jaws stay clamped even after death, and whose filthy bite rots away whatever limb it seizes.
- Giant Nautilus A colossal, telepathic shelled cephalopod nicknamed the druid of the deep, the giant nautilus keeps the sea in balance and can drag a small ship under with twenty tentacles.
- Giant Octopus A cunning, master-of-disguise sea monster that hides among the weeds, drags sailors off night watches, and can halt a small ship dead in the water.
- Giant Overview [Al-Qadim] Proud, literate and bound by ancient protocol, the giants of the desert lands trade, scheme and judge by their own law, slowly reclaiming influence over the smaller races that eclipsed them.
- Giant Rainbow Plant A ten-foot carnivorous plant whose shimmering slime dazzles its prey, then glues sticky, knob-tipped leaves to them, smothering any victim struck in the face.
- Giant Scarab Beetle A shy, dung-rolling cave beetle that flees at first, but when cornered or facing the dead it erupts with a blazing sunlike flare that burns undead and shadow creatures.
- Giant Sea Anemone Gaudy, rock-anchored predators of the seabed, giant sea anemones lash out with paralyzing tentacles, haul their catch into an acid-filled gut, and digest it alive.
- Giant Sea Horse An oversized sea horse prized as a war steed by locathah and sea elves, able to wrap a foe in its tail and outmaneuver land-dwellers in three dimensions.
- Giant Skeleton Twelve-foot skeletons with a magical fire burning in their ribs, wielding bone-bladed scythes and hurling fireballs plucked from their own chests.
- Giant Slug A boneless, house-sized garden slug that squeezes through doorways, batters down walls and sprays acid that dissolves flesh and gear alike.
- Giant Space Hamster Bear-sized, golden, and absurdly fertile, the giant space hamster was bred by tinker gnomes to power their ships and has since spawned dozens of silly and occasionally lethal strains.
- Giant Squid A ship-sinking cephalopod whose unbreakable tentacles pin arms and crush bodies, and whose colossal cousin, the kraken, rules whole stretches of the deep with slaves and storms.
- Giant Starfish A ship-hunting sea star with ten or twelve sucker-lined rays that latches onto a hull from below and pries it open like a shellfish to reach the crew inside.
- Giant Strider A featherless, fire-spitting volcano bird ridden by firenewts, healed by flame and poisoned by a simple drink of water.
- Giant Toad Warty, dry-skinned toads grown big enough to swallow sheep, sewer workers and careless adventurers, with fire-spitting, frost-radiating and venomous cousins.
- Giant Tube Worm Towering tube worms crowd the scalding vents of the deep sea, and hidden among the harmless filter feeders lurk toothy blood worms waiting to lunge.
- Giant Turtle Ordinary turtles grown to monstrous size, giant turtles can capsize rowboats, swallow swimmers whole and supply both a prized meal and a ready-made roof.
- Giant Waterwheel Plant A rootless, drifting water plant whose clamshell traps snap shut on anything small that brushes their trigger hairs, then drown and digest it inside a sealed chamber.
- Giant Werebat [Lycanthrope] Pale, gaunt wood giants who sprout leathery wings and vampire fangs, these true lycanthropes rule mountain caves as screeching, meat-hungry flocks that feast even on their own elderly.
- Giant Werebear [Lycanthrope] Surly frost giants who become polar bears twenty feet tall, polarweres want nothing but food and a warm cave, and anything that wanders too near either is in trouble.
- Gibbering Mouther A shapeless mass of eyes and mouths that babbles its victims into madness, blinds them with flaring spit, turns the ground to quicksand and swallows them whole.
- Gibberling Howling, hunchbacked hordes that pour out of the night swinging short swords, devour everything in their path, and fear only fire and bright light.
- Giwoitis A tiny, shy green lizard that moves into kindly households and silently turns away vampires and other undead at every door, window and chimney.
- Gk'lok-Lok Steel-tubed, flame-eyed beings from beyond the planes who sleep for millennia on a burning crystal tree, dreaming the borrowed lives of dead warriors.
- 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.
- Gladiator Lizard A fierce, untamable lizard that needs no food, lives for decades and fights with twin claws, prized by the rich as a guardian for their most precious hoards.
- Gladiator Talisman Servant A spike-bracered pit fighter of stone and bronze built by sadistic mages for blood sport, the gladiator servant hugs, bites and sometimes goes berserk, killing everything in reach.
- Glamour Walker A shy, unseen eavesdropper that wades through the illusions of the shadowy faerie realm, quietly stoking every tense encounter so the glamour never fades.
- Glass Nymph Invisible water fey of shadowed lakes, glass nymphs are so vain they crave praise for a beauty that can blind or kill, and they slowly absorb the mortals they adopt.
- Glitterman A charming, impossibly rich stranger who conjures perfect fake fortunes from junk, then watches greed turn neighbors, rivals and families against each other.
- Glitterworm A color-shifting cousin of the purple worm that disguises itself as a vein of gold or mithral, then blasts greedy miners with acid and clamps on with dissolving jaws.
- Glomus A drifting boulder of fused crystals from the quasi-plane of Mineral that rams foes with jagged spires, shatters weapons, explodes when slain and slowly reassembles.
- Gloomvein Dwarf Bulging-eyed, sun-sick renegade mountain dwarves who ambush in murderous trios, poison their crossbow bolts, and dream of ruling every race above and below.
- Gloomwing A huge black-and-silver moth from the plane of Shadow whose dizzying wings confuse, whose scent saps strength and calls more moths, and whose eggs hatch inside corpses.
- Glouras A moth-winged, giggling faerie of the deep underworld whose droning wingsong enslaves bats, spiders and thinking beings into a fawning, fanatical court.
- Gnasher Sorcery-bred hunting dogs with too many teeth and a love of pain, gnashers run their prey ragged as a pack, then drag it down and tear it apart.
- Gnoat [Centaur-kin] Gnome above and mountain goat below, gnoats are wary but peaceful carvers who winter deep in mountain caves and trade their art to trusted merchants each spring.
- Gnoll Hyena-headed raiders who swarm in hungry bands, gnolls will eat anything warm, prefer prey that screams, and turn on their own allies the moment those allies look weak.
- Gnome Big-nosed, illusion-loving kin of the dwarves, gnomes are cheerful miners and pranksters whose subraces range from wary gem hunters of the deep to unseen guardians of the woods.
- Gnome Vampire A mute, time-worn gnome horror of the deepest caves whose touch stiffens joints like crippling arthritis and whose ghastly grin makes victims laugh themselves bloody.
- Goatman Sure-footed goat-headed thieves of the high crags, goatmen strike from behind with deadly backstabs and butt careless travelers clean off cliff edges.
- Goblin Small, cruel and endlessly numerous, goblins are cowardly ambushers who swarm out of filthy warrens to kill, steal and drag captives home in chains.
- Goblin [Birthright] On this continent goblins are no mere pests: they rule whole warlike kingdoms in the harsh fringes, raiding for slaves, selling their swords and squeezing tolls from every passing caravan.
- Goblin Rat A plague-carrying rat that can pass as a shifty little man, the goblin rat robs villages by night, hoards shiny loot and flees in terror from anything feline.
- Goblin Vampire A hulking, saber-fanged goblin horror with burning orange eyes that grows stronger on every scrap of terror it inspires and hunts its own former kin by daylight.
- Goblyn Humans twisted by dark magic into slavering, leering servants, goblyns leap for the throat and feast on their victim's face while their master watches through their eyes.
- Gohei P'oh Paper ghosts made from corrupted pages of evil lore, guarding a sorcerer's sanctum by folding into smothering sheets, slashing doves, or boxes that swallow intruders.
- Gohlbrorn [Bulette] A smaller, smarter, pack-hunting cousin of the bulette, the gohlbrorn ambushes from inside cavern walls, targets spellcasters first, and spits stones from its gullet.
- Gold Dragon [Metallic] The noblest of the metallic dragons, a wise crusader that walks among mortals in disguise, breathes fire or chlorine, and blesses good heroes with enchanted luck-gems.
- Gold Drakeborn [Drakeborn] The rarest and deadliest drakeborn, a wingless, sulfur-reeking schemer that savors pain, wears stolen faces, dominates minds, and dies in a storm of green fire and lightning.
- Golden Ammonite A deep-sea mollusk whose coiled shell is solid gold, the golden ammonite blinds intruders with magic globes of light and wraps them in blood-drinking tentacles.
- Golem [Ravenloft] Two horrors of the misty dread realm: the hissing, lightning-wreathed mechanical golem born of a madman's dream, and the silent zombie golem, a sewn-together mass of rotting corpses.
- Golem [Savage Coast] The frontier coast breeds strange golems: glass spiders guarding mountain tombs, gem-hungry crystal shapeshifters, crimson steel brutes that mock their foes, and rolling fortress juggernauts.
- Golem I [Dark Sun] Two desert-world constructs: the ash golem, which burns what it grabs and leaves corrosive dust in its wake, and the faceless chitin golem, whose poisoned claws sap strength.
- Golem I [Mystara] Two crafted guardians: the lovely amber golem, a big-cat tracker that never loses a fresh trail, and the four-armed skeletal golem stitched together from human bones.
- Golem II [Dark Sun] Two stone guardians of the desert world: the towering obsidian golem, whose thunderclap fists spray razor glass, and the armored rock golem, which hammers intruders off their feet.
- Golem II [Lesser] Two of the crudest golems a wizard can make, a stitched corpse giant and a lumpen clay brute, both bound so weakly that every round of battle risks a berserk rampage.
- Golem II [Mystara] Two more constructs: the spiked, fire-breathing iron gargoyle that drops from the sky to crush its prey, and the stinking mud golem that rises from the swamp to smother victims.
- Golem III A skeleton that laughs its foes to death and a smiling toy whose bite leaves victims choking on their own giggles: two golems that turn childish and grim things lethal.
- Golem III [Dark Sun] Two more desert-world guardians: the shifting sand golem that swallows and smothers its prey, and the leafy wood golem, a spell-casting forest warden that can melt into the trees.
- Golem III [Mystara] Two guardian constructs: the weapon-shattering rock golem that pounds relentlessly with stone fists, and the quicksilver-filled silver golem, fastest of all golems and always first to strike.
- Golem IV A grinding stone gargoyle that pounces from rooftops and turns its prey to stone, and a stained glass knight that steps out of a chapel window wreathed in prismatic light.
- Golem Overview Golems are mighty constructs built from clay, stone, iron, flesh and stranger stuff, each driven by a captive earth spirit that resents its maker and the living world.
- Golem Overview [Dark Sun] On the desert world, golems are vessels for captive elemental spirits that hate their makers and all living things, built in secret by sorcerer tyrants, templars and master wizards.
- Golem Overview [Ravenloft] Golems of the misty dread realm draw life from its dark powers rather than elemental spirits, and every one of them secretly longs to kill the master who made it.
- Golem V Two cut-rate golems: a silent serpent skeleton with a human skull that mesmerizes and paralyzes, and a gourd-headed scarecrow whose burning gaze holds victims still while it beats them to death.
- Golem VI [Stone Variants] Cousins of the stone golem: a lovely pillar-maiden that wakes with a steel sword, a rolling stone engine that flattens everything before it, and a hulking stone guardian that blades barely scratch.
- Gonn Planet-sized singing sages who drift through the void in choirs of eight, the gonn heal and protect the innocent, but their war songs can shatter ships and flatten armies.
- 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.
- Goop Ghoul A paralyzing, flesh-dissolving ooze that wears skeletons like a suit, the goop ghoul passes for undead until it engulfs a victim and splits into two.
- Gorak Small desert reptiles with flaring rainbow fins, goraks swarm a target in a dazzling, hypnotic blur of color while their massive alpha bull watches and directs the attack.
- Gorbel A floating red balloon with six eyes and a stretchy mouth, the gorbel latches onto anything that moves and explodes in a burst of flame the moment a blade pierces it.
- Gorgon A huge black bull plated in iron scales, the gorgon exhales a cone of vapor that turns flesh to stone and will track its prey for days to get a clear shot.
- Gorse Faerie [Petty] The tiniest and loveliest of faeries, archers barely a hand high who defend thorny gorse thickets with needle weapons, small magic and potions shared among twenty.
- Gorynych A winged, three-headed wolf-dragon with a dozen whiplike tails, the gorynych binds its prey in coils, then tears victims apart between two sets of jaws.
- Gossamer Drifting shoals of luminous void jellyfish, gossamers sting small prey with paralytic tentacles, while their colossal noble cousins hunt whole starships with hawser-length spiked lashes.
- Gossamer [Shadow Host] A shimmering, stretched-out ghost that bursts from the earth to pass through its victims, stealing their vigor to knit its own wounds.
- Grain Nymph A field spirit who doubles the harvest for farmers who love their land, the grain nymph leaves pursuers reeling drunk among the stalks, then sends the herd to trample them.
- Grav Squat, ultra-dense void miners who can make objects weightless, gravs prefer to float troublemakers harmlessly away, though any foe they drop from the sky falls hard.
- Gravislayer A featureless ball of scarred flesh that turns its victims into miniature planets, the gravislayer lets falling asteroids crush starship crews and then feeds on the pulped remains.
- Gray Linnorm The smallest-bodied Norse dragon is a sadist that kills up close with claw, fang and a venomous whip of a tail, then frames other linnorms for its raids.
- Gray Philosopher The brooding ghost of an evil cleric lost in an endless riddle, the gray philosopher never moves, while its spiteful thoughts swarm the room as fanged little horrors.
- Gray Troll Trolls drained of life by undead yet somehow surviving, gray trolls heal six points a round, fade into mist at will, and crumble to ash in sunlight or flame.
- Gray Unicorn A serene gray unicorn whose body throws every blow straight back at the attacker, a lesson most predators only need to learn once.
- Great Cat From the sprinting cheetah to the man-hunting tiger, the great cats are nature's most refined predators, nearly all of them able to leap huge distances and rake with their hind claws.
- Great Dreamer A colossal three-eyed void whale swimming inside its own ocean between the stars, the great dreamer guards all cetacean life and can swallow a starship whole.
- Great Orm [Sea Serpent] A hundred-foot worm shaped like a plesiosaur, whose writhing, slimy body revolts onlookers and whose warty skin oozes a poison that kills at a touch.
- Great Spirits The mightiest and most aloof of all spirits, great spirits embody forces like the winds, fire and lightning, and they choose only shamans who mirror their own nature.
- Greater Air Elemental [Dark Sun] A shrieking column of desert wind that hides inside ordinary gusts, the greater air elemental can become a killing tornado that, near the silt sea, raises suffocating clouds of dust.
- Greater and Lesser Bogeymen Spirits spun from irrational dread, bogeymen treat cruelty as an art form, faking terrifying blows before biting and clawing in earnest, and tearing held victims apart slowly.
- Greater Animator The mightiest of the possessing spirits, a greater animator turns a whole mansion or sailing ship into a living death trap that slams, bleeds threats and raises its buried dead.
- Greater Doppelganger A shapeshifter that eats its victims' brains to steal their whole identity, then lives their life so perfectly that only true seeing can tell the difference.
- Greater Earth Elemental [Dark Sun] A towering, gold-eyed figure of stone or ore that hides within walls and open ground, the greater earth elemental tears down fortifications and shakes the land with rolling earthquakes.
- Greater Fire Elemental [Dark Sun] A furious, red-eyed sheet of living flame that can hide in a single torch and leap from fire to fire, the greater fire elemental engulfs and roasts its enemies.
- Greater Gibbering Mouther A single swollen mouther that has crowned itself a god-king, spitting fire, regenerating and seeding tiny blood-drinking spawn that whisper its will to their hosts.
- Greater Golem I Bound elemental spirits in bodies of carved stone or forged iron, greater golems obey their makers absolutely, slowing foes with magic or choking them with poison breath.
- Greater Leucrotta The changesteed is a leucrotta that can wear the shape of a horse, hound or griffon, hiding its shield-crunching jaws among ordinary animals and city streets.
- Greater Mimic A mimic big enough to be the room itself, the greater mimic lures whole parties into a fake treasure chamber, glues them to the floor and slams its walls shut.
- Greater Mummy Mummified high priests bound to guard sacred tombs forever, greater mummies cast powerful priest spells, spread a rot that kills in days, and grow deadlier with each passing century.
- Greater Raven A sardonic, prophetic black bird that adopts adventurers to watch their misfortunes unfold, the greater raven is easy to kill but curses its slayer with a rhyming doom.
- Greater Sea Hag Rarer and far cleverer than her lesser kin, the greater sea hag charms sailors with a look, wrecks ships with illusions, and commands the spells of a true mage.
- Greater Shedu [Savage Coast] The one greater shedu of a frontier coast is really a god's avatar, a diamond-crowned guardian of the winged bull-folk and the sworn foe of the utukku.
- Greater Snow Golem A marble-hard sentinel of packed snow that breathes killing frost, shatters the swords that strike it, and bursts into scalding steam when burned.
- Greater Treant A colossal, century-sleeping guardian of the deepest forests that wakes to evil, commands ten giant trees at once and wields sixteenth-level nature magic.
- Greater Water Elemental [Dark Sun] A towering crested wave with glassy eyes, the greater water elemental capsizes boats, batters ships and drags swimmers into itself to drown, but on a parched world it is extraordinarily rare.
- Greater Wolfwere A towering dire wolf, a taloned half-wolf brute, or a charming bard: the greater wolfwere regenerates almost every wound and calls whole packs to its howl.
- Greatswan Snow-white war birds bred by void-faring elves, greatswans carry lancers into screaming power dives, spot invisible intruders, and break foes' ranks with hammering wings.
- Greelox A shadow-walking spider with scythe legs, humanlike arms and a lethal bite, the greelox webs, poisons and ambushes from darkness, then vanishes through the shadows.
- Green Dragon [Chromatic] A cruel, scheming forest dragon that loves to terrorize, interrogate and enslave, breathing chlorine gas and drawing out its victims' suffering for fun.
- Gremishka Wingless, cat-eyed kin of the gremlin that nest beneath big houses, steal anything loose, and swarm larger folk in a biting, pocket-picking heap when cornered.
- Gremlin Bat-winged goblinoid pranksters, immune to ordinary weapons, that infest buildings and wreck them one cruel trap at a time, with several odd offshoot races besides.
- Griffon Golden eagle-lions with a ravenous craving for horseflesh, griffons will tear a rider from the saddle to reach his mount, yet a hatchling raised right becomes a fearless lifelong steed.
- Grillig Scaly, knuckle-walking pack hunters of angular badlands that no blade can touch, grilligs always pick on something bigger and meaner than themselves.
- Grim A sleepless spectral guardian bound to one forgotten place, the grim takes the shape of a black hound, cat or owl and howls doom at any evil that intrudes.
- Grim Reaper A robed, scythe-bearing skeleton drawn from the negative plane to the bedside of the dying, the grim reaper devours departing souls and slays anyone who tries to stop it.
- Grimlock Blind, scaly cave warriors who hunt by scent and sound, grimlocks climb out of the deep caverns at night to drag humans back to their larders.
- Grippli Clever, peaceable tree-frog folk of the jungle who vanish into the foliage, snare intruders in nets and darts, and covet any bauble bright enough to catch the eye.
- Grisk [Unique Meazel] A cunning meazel who strangles lone wanderers in the sewers beneath a lich-king's capital, leading pursuers into slime pits he alone knows how to avoid.
- Grist A ton-heavy 'true gargoyle' sculpted and spellbound by an archmage, the grist poses as stone carving on a wall until its single order tells it to kill.
- Griveling Gentle, half-ton earth-folk who swim through solid rock and mold their stony faces into clumsy copies of the people they watch, but fight relentlessly when pushed.
- Grommam Copper-furred, kimono-wearing ape folk of starfaring forests, ruled by living demigods and given to painting their starships in wild, swaggering colors.
- Gronk Deaf, foul-tempered 'stone frogs' that bound across the neutral planes to smash anything in sight with spiked headplates, breeding through the very collisions they love.
- Groundling Dwarves twisted into badger-snouted burrowing assassins by a wizard cabal, groundlings track a target by scent and erupt from the earth to drag it underground.
- Growler A cunning, telepathic predator disguised as a drifting chunk of arctic ice, the growler baits its back with carrion, stuns whoever steps aboard with a sonic blast, and drowns them.
- Grudgling Cat-bodied, human-faced pets bred by a mad cat-folk wizard, grudglings totter about on two legs pretending to be people, then bolt at the first sign of trouble.
- Grugach [Elf] Small, pale, fiercely xenophobic wild elves of the virgin forest whose pits, snares and deadfalls guard woods where even other elves are unwelcome.
- Grung Small, vicious frog-folk of the swamps whose sweat is a lethal poison, grung coat every arrow and spear in it and treat all trespassers as targets.
- Grythok Palm-sized, shell-backed sewer scavengers that shriek for their kin and latch onto bare flesh, chewing ring-shaped bites until they have eaten their fill.
- Guardgoyle [Gargoyle] A poison-fanged stone statuette crafted by a secretive wizard cabal, the guardgoyle sits among its master's belongings until an intruder appears, then shrieks and strikes.
- Guardian Daemon Fire-breathing fiends called up by evil spellcasters to guard a treasure, guardian daemons never stray from their charge and may turn on a summoner who bungles the call.
- Guardian Fiend Fire-breathing fiends that evil casters summon to protect a treasure, from horned frog-things to colossal winged bears, each chained to within 90 yards of its charge.
- Guardian Genie [Tasked] Ten-foot, four-armed, two-faced efreet remade as sleepless sentinels, guardian genies cannot be surprised or bribed and breathe green fire on anyone who tries to take what they protect.
- Guardian Life-Shaped Creation Living tools grown by cliff-dwelling halflings, these guardian beasts climb, lurk, scream alarms and swarm to shield their masters, obeying every command without question.
- Guardian Spirits Ghostly sentinels born where defenders once made a legendary last stand, guardian spirits keep that vigil forever and sap the vigor of anyone they strike.
- Guardian Warrior Dull red ceramic soldiers and horses from a forgotten age, guardian warriors wake when the right liquid is poured over them and serve, ignore or attack their maker by alignment.
- 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.
- Gulguthhydra A rock-skinned cross between a filth-eating otyugh and a hydra, the gulguthhydra snares prey with two ridged tentacles and feeds it to a ring of six snapping heads.
- Gullion Gaudy space-adapted seagulls that ride starships from world to world, gullions steal dinners, waste precious air, and in a hungry enough flock will mob a sailor and eat him.
- Gully Dwarf Grubby, cowardly, endlessly self-important scavenger dwarves who cannot count past two, worship rotten fruit and bent sticks, and grovel their way out of every fight.
- Gulper A deep-sea fish that is mostly mouth and endless tail, the gulper swallows prey larger than itself and digests it alive while the tail strangles anything else.
- Gurik Cha'ahl Deformed goblin outcasts left to die in the forest, the 'ghost people' survived by stealth and spite, and now haunt the woods as silent killers who hate goblins above all.
- Guttar [Dwarven Ox] Shaggy, tunnel-bred cattle of the dwarves, guttar graze on deadly fungi, talk in musk, and when stampeded down a corridor they leave little of an orc warband behind.
- Gyerian Skittish, flightless bird-folk who migrate across grasslands each year, gyerians flee at the slightest scare, yet a cornered flock answers with claws, beaks, and a sneeze that bowls people over.