Monsters: N
54 monsters whose names start with N.
- Naga Long-lived serpents with human heads and a scholar's patience, naga guard old secrets and hoards with spells first, venomous fangs second, and memories that outlast human dynasties.
- Nagpa Vulture-headed, mummy-skinned wizards cursed by the gods for their selfishness, nagpa sense anyone who speaks of them within 100 miles and murder every gossiper they find.
- Nalfeshnee [True Tanar'ri] A bloated ape-boar demon that sits enthroned in judgment over damned mortals, feeding on their despair before torturing their remains into new tanar'ri.
- Nasnas Half-bodied, one-legged warriors born from cursed fruit, nasnas hop tirelessly through the halls of evil sorcerers, hooting a scream that freezes enemies with terror.
- Nat Squat, fanged, brightly colored house and village spirits, nats bless the families who feed them and bring ruin, curses, or plague on those who forget their offerings.
- Nathri Swarming, green-skinned ethereal nomads who raid tiny demiplanes for food and loot, the nathri know secret paths to countless hidden worlds and hate to share them.
- Nature Elemental A towering, uncontrollable giant of sod, water and living spirit, called by an ancient priest spell to wipe every trace of civilization from a square mile and return it to wilderness.
- Nature Spirit Spirits of trees, stones, streams and mountains that walk as lovely youths or children, gentle or vicious by turns, and that die when their home is felled or broken.
- Nawidnehr A roaring, shapeshifting great shark that walks ashore as a castaway or fisherman, the nawidnehr kills for the joy of it and swallows victims whole.
- Nay-Churr A mindless, drifting stomach that hoovers up anything in its path, the nay-churr can swallow whole starships intact, and killing it the wrong way blows everyone inside to pieces.
- Naâruk [Golem] A lifelike ten-foot bronze winged bull that guards the temples of the winged bull-folk and carries their holy warriors, melded inside it, across great distances to battle.
- Nebkhaset [Greater Mummy] A treacherous priest entombed alive by his pharaoh and awakened by a fallen priestess, Nebkhaset is a greater mummy who trades spells for an army of desert zombies and plots his old master's overthrow.
- Necromantic Sludge A failed lich potion poured down the sewer, necromantic sludge hunts thinking beings, reflects every spell thrown at it, and wears its victims' corpses as zombie shells.
- Necrophidius [Golem] A silent serpent of warm white bone crowned with a grinning human skull, the death worm sways victims into a trance, then bites them into paralysis to finish its one assigned task.
- Needleman Gaunt, needle-covered plant men that vanish into conifer thickets and hate elves with a burning passion, needlemen take triple damage from magic but riddle foes with thorns.
- Negative Energy Elemental A black flame shaped like a man, drawn from the plane of negative energy, whose very presence withers life and whose touch rots flesh and drains two levels at a stroke.
- Negative Fundamental Flocks of featureless black wings that drink the life from anything warm, negative fundamentals sometimes burst from a new vampire's tomb alongside the creature that called them.
- Negative Quasielemental Living embodiments of decay from the planes where the elements meet negative energy: heat-drinking ash, disintegrating dust, moisture-leeching salt, and invisible breath-stealing vacuum.
- Neh-thalggu Bloated, crab-legged aliens that slip through warped spots in reality to harvest brains, each neh-thalggu gains a new spell for every skull it carefully opens.
- Nemesis Spirits The great villains of a people's legends, nemesis spirits wage endless war on the hero spirits who defeated them, and grant curses and spells to shamans who join the fight.
- Neo-Orog [Orc] Battle-bred hybrids of orc, ogre and stranger stock, raised in wizard-run barracks as loyal shock troops and silent scouts who live only for war.
- Neshezu Orc-faced, poison-wielding ape pirates of the forest canopy, neshezues swing between treetop villages, ambush travelers with nets and pistols, and fear their poisoner wives.
- Netherbird Black, dust-feathered carrion birds with oversized talons, netherbirds hunt in shrieking flocks, carry messages for a dark god, and reek of blood and rot.
- Ni'iath Gravity-defying sky-worms that hunt in packs where the layers of a twin paradise meet, ni'iaths fling their prey sideways, upward, or into trees with a whip of the tail.
- Nic'Epona Rainbow-hued, plane-hopping war mares descended from a horse goddess, the nic'Epona trample her enemies in thunderous stampedes and carry worthy riders anywhere in the planes, once.
- Nickel Dragon [Ferrous] The smallest and weakest ferrous dragon makes up for it with sheer viciousness and wild unpredictability, as likely to swallow one adventurer and wander off as to slaughter the whole party.
- Night Hag Blue-skinned soul traders who rule the gray wasteland, night hags strangle sleeping sinners, ride their dreams to death, and sell the resulting larvae to fiends.
- Night Rider Cunning, chuckling undead warriors made by the god of the dead and his servants, night riders wield scythes of wounding and ride skeletal gaunts whose touch paralyzes the living.
- Nightcrawler [Ravenloft] Drowned children hollowed out and stuffed with leeches, crayfish and snakes, nightcrawlers giggle through the bayou hunting grown-ups to play with, and they keep stitching themselves back together.
- Nightmare Black, fire-hoofed horses of the lower planes, nightmares carry fiends and undead lords between worlds, hate every living thing, and obey their riders only when it suits them.
- Nightmare Beast A twenty-foot engine of claws, horns and life-draining sorcery that flattens city walls, hunts its prey through their dreams, and is feared on the desert world second only to the dragon-tyrant.
- Nightshade [Forgotten Realms] Bearded, root-limbed spirits of poisonous plants, these wood woses haunt cursed forests, poison blades with their own sap, and turn their dead victims into new nightshades.
- Nightshade [Mystara] Jet-black horrors from the Negative Energy Plane, nightshades kill with a poisonous touch, chill the air and spoil every potion around them, and come in three dreadful shapes: worm, giant and bat.
- Nikaal Purple-scaled lizard folk who roam the desert world as traders, the nikaal haggle peacefully until provoked, then fight savagely with claws, acid spit and their prized ring-bladed polearms.
- Nikt'oo Enormous, leathery turtle-like amphibians that turtle-folk ride and load like barges, nikt'oos can swim for days, rarely bite, and sometimes cost a careless foe a hand.
- Ningyo Gentle, red-haired merfolk of eastern seas who cast priestly and sorcerous spells, ningyo shun the surface world yet watch over storm-tossed sailors.
- Nishruu A glowing red mist from another world that drifts relentlessly toward magic and devours it, draining wands, erasing memorized spells and leaving wizards feebleminded.
- Nixie Green-skinned lake sprites who bear humans no malice yet charm passing men into a year of underwater servitude, keeping them alive with water breathing while they haul and dig.
- Noble Dao [Genie] Squat, scheming aristocrats of elemental earth, noble dao rule vast slave-dug labyrinths, bribe and ambush rather than fight fairly, and answer only to a gluttonous khan who hides behind mirrors.
- Noble Djinni [Genie] Haughty sky-lords who refuse to let their feet touch the ground, noble djinn rule the realm of elemental air from a hurtling glacier palace and grant three wishes only under protest.
- Noble Efreeti [Genie] Bare-chested warlords of the City of Brass, noble efreet scheme like fiends, hunt slaves from chariots drawn by nightmares and answer only to a sultan wreathed in scorching flame.
- Noble Marid [Genie] Twenty-two-foot sea lords with skin like pearl, noble marids command the strongest genie magic of all, ignore lesser beings entirely and can sink fleets when they finally want something.
- Nocnitsa A hunched crone of living shadow who slides down chimneys at night, lulls households to sleep with her gaze, and drinks the blood of the youngest night after night.
- Noctral Huge, owl-like sages of the heavenly mountain who advise celestials and gods, know a startling amount about everything, and make silent, deadly hunters when they must.
- Nomadic Centaur Shaggy, proud horse-archers of the open steppe, nomadic centaurs live by strict clan custom, scorn outsiders, and rain arrows on foes from a gallop.
- Noran A stony, petrified tree-thing that wanders the underground spitting fist-sized rocks from a knothole in its trunk, so feared that whole dungeons empty out when it shuffles in.
- Norker [Hobgoblin] Small, fanged, hairless cousins of hobgoblins, norkers swarm their prey in stinking packs, clubbing and biting until sheer weight of numbers drags the victim down.
- Nosferatu [Ravenloft] A blood-dependent vampire that slowly drinks Constitution from charmed prey, binds every victim it bites to its will for life, and withers if it goes hungry.
- Nosferatu [Savage Coast] Blood-drinking undead who walk in daylight, mingle easily with the living and keep their old skills, nosferatu can be monsters, schemers or tragic, even compassionate, victims.
- Noviere [Lesser Eladrin] Sea-green eladrins of an island-studded upper-plane ocean, novieres are the most approachable of their kind, yet they wield entangling nets, water bolts and bodies of living, crushing water.
- Nuckalavee A skinless-looking, centaur-shaped horror from the sea whose mere presence kills small animals, whose breath is a cone of cold, and who hates all living things.
- Nymph A single look at her can steal a man's sight and her bare form can kill: the nymph is a spirit of nature's loveliest hidden places, with druidic magic and secrets of her own.
- Nyth A glowing orb of living light often mistaken for a will o' wisp, the nyth hunts with magic missiles, feeds on fire and lightning, and makes a clever, loyal guardian.
- Nzunta Ogre Dark-skinned, beautiful and utterly malevolent, these pure-blooded heirs of the first ogres rule from hiding through brutish slaves and poison their blades with killing sea snake venom.