Monsters: P
98 monsters whose names start with P.
- P'oh A pint-sized, insufferably arrogant spirit that settles near farming villages, demands tribute, and withers crops with drought whenever the offerings displease him.
- Pahari Shy, shapeshifting sea nymphs and gifted water wizards who are endlessly curious about the surface world, sometimes to the point of marrying into it.
- Paka Cat-souled shapechangers who live hidden among humans, turning household cats into spies and assassins to pursue an ancient, nameless grudge against humankind.
- Pakubrazi Blood-drinking tick-fly parasites that reshape their bodies into convincing humanoid disguises, feeding on city folk and leaving some victims tainted with their own bloodlust.
- Palimpsest A hungry, half-aware sheet of enchanted parchment that hides among books, then draws lone readers into its pages as screaming illustrations while it devours them.
- Palomino Unicorn A cream-colored arctic unicorn that hurls ice and frost from its horn, vanishes against the snow, and kills anything that strays into its frozen range.
- Paper Dragon [Dragonet] A flat, parchment-bodied dragonet that lives in spellbooks and scrolls, eats the magic off the page, and burps its last meal back at anyone who disturbs it.
- Paraelemental Living embodiments of ice, magma, ooze and smoke, the paraplanes' native spirits feed on the act of destroying their opposites and are deadly simply to stand near.
- Paraelemental Beast Overview [Dark Sun] Summoned shards of the four mixed planes of magma, rain, silt and sun, paraelemental beasts grow angrier and madder every day they spend away from home, until their fury finally breaks loose.
- Parai Hollow porcelain-faced hunters from the plane of perfect order, parai stalk travelers of rare beauty, strength or wit and seal them inside a black dress until they become parai too.
- Parasite Five strange hitchhikers, from a ring-shaped worm that sips blood to a louse that eats memorized spells, each feeding quietly on a host who may never know it is there.
- Parasite [Savage Coast] The frontier coast breeds parasites tied to its crimson curse: ticks that smother curse-born gifts, moths that turn blasting powder into bombs, and wine maggots favored by poisoners.
- Pardal The laziest of the great cats, this spotted black hunter strolls up to its meal, mesmerizes the herd with swirling spots, and freezes its chosen victim in place with spinning golden eyes.
- Pasari-Niml Giant black ants with leering human faces, pasari-nimal paralyze foes with terror, dig pits under armored knights, and pry open their plate so a single mant can feed at each hole.
- Pavilion Dragon [Dragonet] A jewel-scaled, beak-snouted dragonet of the rainforest canopy that stuns intruders with a thunderclap of sound and wields the psionic powers of a trained psionicist.
- Pearl Dragon [Neutral] A lustrous seaside dragon that spends its days diving for pearls, breathes clouds of scalding steam, and charms visitors with riddles while it decides what to do with them.
- Pedipalp Whip scorpions in three sizes, from foot-long rat catchers to crushing giants that gas their foes, these poison-proof hunters serve the drow as guards and hunting hounds.
- Pegasus Shy, proud winged horses that read the hearts of would-be riders, pegasi serve only the good, but once tamed they stay loyal until their master dies.
- Pegataur Elf-torsoed winged centaurs who dive on foes with lances from the clouds, pegataurs hire out as aloof but honorable mercenaries from carved mountain halls.
- Peltast A blob that disguises itself as a lost glove or coin purse, the peltast quietly sips its owner's blood, and its gem-shaped greater cousin summons monsters to make more corpses.
- Peluda A wingless, fire-breathing 'shaggy beast' bristling with venomous ten-foot quills, the peluda rules swamp and forest from ambush and happily eats any young dragon it catches.
- Penanggalan By day a charming traveling companion, by night a flying severed head trailing its own guts, the penanggalan hypnotizes sleeping women and drinks them dry over many nights.
- Pennig [Halfling Pony] Shaggy, stubborn and nearly fearless, the halfling pony carries more than its size suggests, climbs mountain trails with ease, and in its war-trained form kicks like a mule.
- Per Plumed, frost-sworded spirits of devoted heroes, pers stand eternal guard over the portals of the upper planes and will fight to the death rather than leave their post.
- Pernicon A gaudy desert grasshopper whose antennae hum near water, the pernicon is a prized living dowsing rod, but disturbed swarms latch on and suck their victims dry.
- Peryton A stag-headed green eagle that casts a human shadow, the peryton duels a single chosen victim to the death and tears out its heart to breed.
- Petty Faerie Two nuisance fey: squeakers, gangs of rock-throwing pests guarding tiny territories, and stwingers, adorable charm-sprites that swing from beards until their playmates pass out.
- Phaethon Honest mountain farmers who sprout wings of living fire at will, phaethons quietly watch every stranger and strike with ruthless hit-and-run raids against any who threaten their valleys.
- Phanaton Gliding, raccoon-masked forest folk who guard their woods with ambushes and pranks, phanatons are gentle until loggers or their hated spider foes appear.
- Phantom Not a ghost but an echo, a phantom is the endlessly replayed image of a traumatic death, harmless in itself yet able to frighten onlookers literally to death.
- Phantom Flyer [Golem] A golem woven from shadow and reflection, the phantom flyer hides inside any patch of darkness by day and serves as spy, courier and silent steed for whoever holds its silver whistle.
- Phantom Hound A great dog so loyal it returns after death as a coal-black, green-eyed specter, guarding its master's land or grave with a terror-inducing howl and a strength-sapping bite.
- Phantom Stalker A fire spirit pressed into service as a mage's bodyguard, the phantom stalker twists every order to the letter and, if its master is murdered, hunts the killer across the Ethereal Plane.
- Phase Panther A six-legged, tentacled panther that seems to stand a few feet from where it really is, hunting in packs with a hatred for every living thing.
- Phaze Troll Short, muscular, unusually bright trolls born of magical radiation, phaze trolls blink through space and spin off mirror images while hacking at foes with polearms.
- Phirblas Gaunt, hovering beings who talk by writing glowing script in midair, the phirblas are a gentle, nearly deathless race with fists far harder than anyone expects.
- Phiuhl A man-shaped storm of scalding steam and toxic vapor born in the volcanic lower planes, the phiuhl poisons the air, cooks anyone nearby and drinks the life from those it holds.
- Phlog-Crawler A spider-shaped wisp of the rainbow flame-sea that drifts through the void, sucking the strength from lone travelers and exploding into fire if anyone tries to burn it.
- Phoenix A blazing, rainbow-feathered bird of freedom and rebirth whose healing touch, battle magic and final fiery sacrifice make it one of the most revered and hunted beasts of the planes.
- Phouka A shapeless trickster of the wild roads that poses as a lost gold ring or a handsome horse, all to give some unlucky traveler the most humiliating ride of their life.
- Phthisic A buried neurosis torn out of a living mind and given monstrous flesh by mind reavers, the phthisic hunts thinkers and slowly devours their intellect in its hidden lair.
- Piasa Bird A scaly, bat-winged horror with a bearded man's face, elk horns and a 50-foot tail, the Piasa screams victims into terror and swallows them whole to eat at home.
- Piercer Hanging among the cave's stalactites, a piercer looks like just another limestone spike until it drops point-first onto whoever is walking underneath.
- Pigeontoad Winged, taloned swamp toads that hunt in hungry flocks, pigeontoads will pin a victim in their claws and peck, and some flocks carry a slow, wasting poison.
- Pink Dragon A giggling, rose-colored dragon that adores telling jokes, blinds its foes in a cloud of stinging soap bubbles, and eats any listener who fails to laugh.
- Pinto Unicorn A patchwork-coated plains unicorn that blasts foes with rainbow light and conjures false images of itself to lure hunters into wasting their shots.
- Piranha Small, saw-bellied fish that swarm in the hundreds through warm rivers, piranhas can strip a wading ox to bones within minutes once blood hits the water.
- Piranha Ant Inch-long city ants with a single hive mind, piranha ants scout lonely victims, move into the walls, and strip the sleeper to bone before dawn.
- Pisacha Vampire A motionless corpse in its coffin that drinks the breath of sleepers up to five miles away, killing them slowly with what looks like a wasting sickness.
- Pit Fiend [Greater Baatezu] Winged, flame-wreathed lords of the Nine Hells, pit fiends strike six times a round, hurl fire at will, and lead armies whose mere sight sends mortals fleeing for days.
- Pit Snatcher A tortured earth spirit made of boiling tar, the pit snatcher rises from its smoking pool to drag passersby down into the scalding black muck with it.
- Pixie Invisible, moth-winged pranksters of the deep woods, pixies lead travelers astray with illusions and carry arrows that bring sleep or wipe away every memory.
- Plague Moth Huge, green-eyed sewer moths bred by a wizard to brew potions inside their bodies; they drink blood, and their bite injects a random and often deadly magical draught.
- Plains Cat A black, bob-tailed grassland hunter whose roar sounds exactly like a human scream, the plains cat stalks horse herds and careless night travelers alike.
- Plainsjan Imp-like desert pests that swarm their prey from every side, plainsjan carry a dizzying, stacking venom and claws that leave wounds bleeding long after the fight.
- Planar Gazer [Gazer Kin] A coolly neutral, three-eyed cousin of the gazer tyrants that rules hidden planar fiefdoms of mind-wiped slaves with telekinetic gazes, blood-draining mouths and formidable psionics.
- Planetar [Celestial] Emerald-skinned, white-winged generals of heaven, planetars wield vorpal greatswords and a vast arsenal of holy magic in service to the greatest mortal champions of good.
- Plant [Savage Coast] Along the frontier coast grow sleep-pollen lotuses, mouthed seaweeds, red-dust fungi, gift-boosting orchids and a holy rose that holds back the region's crimson curse.
- Plasm A skeleton of fused ether and raw elemental stuff that grows stronger when foolish casters hurl its own element at it, then vents that power as a scalding cloud.
- Plasman A towering figure of white-hot stones held together by an inner furnace, conjured by mad wizards and so tormented by its warring elements that it smashes everything, including its maker.
- Plasmoid Overview Shapeless, endlessly curious ooze-folk who can grow limbs at will, eat nearly anything, talk for hours about nothing, and prove the most loyal friends a void traveler could ask for.
- Pleistocene Animal Ice-age giants that still roam remote wilds: axe-beaked killer birds, towering hornless rhinos, wagon-wrecking woolly rhinos, tree-ripping ground sloths and enormous-antlered deer.
- Plumach [Rilmani] Stocky, lead-gray commoners of the rilmani who just want to be left alone, but who fight with stubborn, coordinated fury once someone finally makes it their business.
- Plumazotl A living creature woven entirely of brilliant feathers, born of forbidden magic, that hides in remote havens of color and song and trades gossip for a taste of feather magic.
- Plush Golem Disguised as a cuddly stuffed toy, the plush golem quietly comes alive for the child who owns it, maddening parents and fighting fiercely whenever that child is in danger.
- Poisonous Amphibian Jewel-bright jungle frogs and squat neotropical toads whose skin oozes nerve and heart toxins, these small amphibians can kill a careless adventurer who simply picks one up.
- Poltergeist An unseen, spiteful spirit chained to the scene of its death, hurling crockery and furniture to drive the living mad with terror and sometimes replaying the crime that made it.
- Poludnica A silent, smiling maiden in white who walks the grain fields at noon with a bloodstained sickle, beheading anyone foolish enough to work alone in the midday heat.
- Polyroach An ordinary-looking colony of kitchen cockroaches that can pile up and fuse into a single roach as long as a man is tall, then burst back into hundreds of fleeing bugs.
- Porcelain Figurine The rarest and deadliest of the small figurine golems, a painted porcelain tiger that sees the invisible, grows to full size, and fires level-draining bolts from its eyes.
- Porcupine A timid, salt-loving forest rodent bristling with barbed quills, plus a giant cousin that can fire them 30 feet and stud anyone who strays close.
- Portune [Shadow Fey] Tiny moth-winged fey healers who live as turtles and asps, portune leave bites that no clerical magic can close and cause anyone who strikes at them to fumble.
- Positive Quasielemental Children of the planes where elements meet positive energy: leaping lightning, merging gem-giants, beam-casting radiance and scheming, scalding steam.
- Power Symbiont A tiny, fungus-like hitchhiker that drifts aboard starships, latches onto the strongest magic item it can find, and drinks it dry one charge at a time.
- Powrie [Shadow Fey] Murderous wasp-winged fey assassins in blood-dyed caps, powrie serve as the Prince of Shadows' spies, blinding with their bites and backstabbing with poisoned blades.
- Primal Members of a sect so secretive that outsiders know only that it exists, adepts of the Inner Planes who claim to have mastered the elemental building blocks of reality and reshape matter at will.
- Primordial Undying Evils Three ancient horrors older than the gods' current order: a serpent that gorges on forgotten nightmares, a maggot-furred hound that devours souls, and a tentacled shell-beast that hungers only for elves.
- Prismatic Dragon A vain, mirror-scaled cousin of the gem dragons whose glittering breath hypnotizes onlookers, hardens water into pearly stone, and splits the skin of anyone made mostly of water.
- Pristatic A tiny gnomish being floating cross-legged inside a ball of swirling rainbow light on the flame-sea, harmless and chatty until pushed, when its sphere becomes a prismatic wall.
- Protein Polymorph A mass of gray, thinking protoplasm that can become a treasure pile, a room, or a whole party of armed adventurers, all of it hungry for the people who come close.
- Proto Drakeborn [Drakeborn] Gaunt, crocodile-snouted failures from the first attempts to make drakeborn, cowardly until a fight begins, then gripped by a frenzied blood-lust that ignores all losses.
- Pseudo-Familiar A too-perfect animal companion that answers a wizard's summons in the misty dread realm, quietly siphoning life from everyone nearby while it slowly takes over its supposed master.
- Pseudodragon [Dragonet] A cat-tempered miniature dragon of deep forests whose tail sting drops foes into a deathlike trance, and who chooses its own human partner after days of silent, telepathic judgment.
- Psionic Cat The desert world's great cats add mind powers to fang and claw, using psionic senses to track prey across vast territories before closing in for a silent kill.
- Psionic Leech Rubbery black leeches with a bluish sheen and a faint red glow, psionic leeches hide in clothing and armor to drain psionicists dry, then blast anyone who tries to pry them loose.
- Psionic Lich A master of the mind who willed itself past death, the psionic lich clouds foes with a draining aura, wields unknown mental powers and stores its very self in a psionically empowered phylactery.
- Psionic Spirit A ghost that wields the mind instead of magic, terrorizing victims with phantom fears and puppet bodies before shredding their sanity, and hunting psionicists above all.
- Psionocus A small, winged lizard grown from a gem and its maker's blood, a psionic spy whose sleep venom drains a victim's mental strength for its master.
- Psurlon Eyeless, worm-headed astral scholars whose race destroyed its own world with a failed psychic union, now plotting to try again and devouring summoners who cheat them.
- Pteraman Cruel, shape-shifting reptile folk of the jungle canopy who sprout leathery wings at will, dive-bomb their foes from on high and can turn into small pteranodons.
- Pterran Pteranodon-faced reptile folk of the jungle fringe who ride flying pterrax into battle, wield poison-toothed saw blades, and worship the world itself as their Earth Mother.
- Pterrax A swift, psionic flying reptile of the desert barrens, prized by pterran warriors as a mount and feared for its diving claw-and-fang strikes.
- Puddingfish A boat-sized, nearly invisible jellyfish of a hidden inland sea whose stinging tendrils numb swimmers so they drown before it hauls them up to digest.
- Puffer A balloon-like drifter of the void that can sleep for decades, then land on a ship or asteroid as a fanged, scorpion-tailed killer hunting a host for its eggs.
- Pulp Bee Two-foot, red-and-black flying wasps of the desert fringes whose paralytic sting can fell a traveler, and whose wood-like hive paste and sweet food are prized trade goods.
- Purple Dragon [Energy] A sadistic night raider of the open plains whose jagged claws leave slow-healing wounds and whose blinding breath can burn a path straight through solid rock.
- Pygmy [Human] Small, shy jungle hunters who vanish into the undergrowth, string nets across trails and drop trespassers with beetle-larva poison that slows, then paralyzes.
- Pyreen Ancient, shapechanging druid-psionicists who wander the ruined desert world in disguise, quietly healing the land and hunting the life-draining wizards who destroyed it.