Monsters: T
122 monsters whose names start with T.
- T'Chowb A tiny, big-headed psionic parasite that creeps into sleeping camps and drinks its victims' intelligence until they are left drooling, growing briefly brilliant on the stolen wits.
- T'liz An undying life-draining wizard who outlived its own body, walking among the living as a pale scholar while its touch tears away life levels and its minions fill its laboratories.
- T'uen-rin A golden-scaled celestial unicorn of the upper planes, a 20th-level wizard and peerless foe of fiends whose awe can freeze an entire army in its tracks.
- Tabaxi Reclusive, spotted cat-folk of the jungle who hunt in organized packs, and the giant jaguar lords, cursed spellcasting kin, who sometimes rule them.
- Tabi A cat-sized, golden-furred flying ape that reeks of carrion, hoards rumors like treasure, and rakes victims with a blue venom that turns them on their own companions.
- Taer Shaggy, ape-like mountain nomads whose rank fur oil sickens anyone close by, taer defend their snowy peaks with avalanches, hidden pits and a stubborn reluctance to actually kill.
- Tako Clever octopus-folk who crawl out of the sea to raid with a weapon in every tentacle, tako make peaceful neighbors, honorable allies and relentless enemies of anyone who trespasses.
- Talisman Servant Overview Cheap, adaptable automatons from a vanished magical empire, talisman servants obey whoever holds their linked charm, but each carries a spark of its own will and a copy of its maker's quirks.
- Talking Bird A centuries-old, toucan-like bird of great learning that waits in lonely places to advise the honorable, and sings so sweetly that wild birds join its chorus.
- Tanar'ri Living Fortress A demon that is also a building, the living fortress feels every footstep inside its halls and seizes intruders with clawed arms that sprout from its own walls, floors and ceilings.
- Tanar'ri Overview The chaotic fiends of the Abyss, the tanar'ri are a numberless horde ruled by appetite and rage, locked in eternal war with the baatezu and fond of terrifying their prey before the kill.
- Tarek Hulking, hairless mountain raiders who fight as one deadly unit, keep swinging long after a killing blow, and hate wizards with religious fervor.
- Tari Small rat-faced scavengers that loot cities by night and stalk the desert in packs, carrying a fever-bite that can permanently wither a victim's health.
- Tarrasque The one and only tarrasque, a horned, armored engine of destruction that devours entire regions, reflects spells back at casters, and cannot truly die without a wish.
- Tarsardar Ghostly magic-bound spirits that slip into enchanted swords, staves and rings, wield them as expertly as any master, and make magic seem to move by itself.
- Tasked Genie Overview Genies sculpted over ages by a single profession, tasked genies build palaces overnight, guard treasures for a thousand years or kill on command, and they judge mortals by skill rather than birth.
- Tasloi Green-skinned, cat-eyed jungle raiders that drop from the treetops with nets, prize human and elf flesh, and set ambushes along the escape paths of fleeing prey.
- Tatalla A scrawny one-eyed guild assassin, barely two feet tall, that creeps into its target's bedroom night after night until its venomous bites finish the job.
- Tayling Telepathically bonded twins, one a delicate elflike spellcaster and the other a hulking beast, who fight as a single mind and avenge each other to the death.
- Teg [Shadow Fey] Fox-faced, feral shadow fey who hunt for the joy of it, teg burrow up beneath their prey and drag it underground for the whole pack to savage.
- Telvar Towering winged nomads of the high mountains, deadly archers who rain arrows from the sky, target spellcasters first, and guard their hunting grounds fiercely.
- Tembo A hairless, scaly desert predator that drains life with its bite and its mind, fights to the death, and is hated everywhere for stealing children.
- Temple Critter Foot-tall stone or clay constructs that skitter through temple shadows as spies and watchdogs, shrieking alarms and attacking with startling fury on command.
- Temporal Dog Distant cousins of blink dogs that roam the Demiplane of Time, hasting themselves into a blur and slipping out of reality whenever a fight turns against them.
- Temporal Glider A tailless black manta that soars through the Demiplane of Time, skimming temporal tides for food and hurling unwanted riders into strange timestreams.
- Temporal Stalker Mist-bodied undead of the Demiplane of Time, often fallen chronomancers, that stalk lone travelers for months and drain them into new stalkers.
- Tengu Reclusive bird-folk of the mountain wilds, crow-headed swordsmen led by long-nosed tricksters with magic fans, perfect mimicry and a cruel streak toward humans.
- Tentamort An eyeless, shell-capped dungeon ambusher that clings above doorways, one tentacle crushing prey while the other injects a fluid that liquefies its insides.
- Terithran A spindly, big-eared sleeper of the Ethereal that wakes when powerful wizardry ripples through its plane, then hunts down the caster to punish him.
- Terlen A silent, gliding shark of the lower planes that stalks prey for miles, bleeds it with hit-and-run bites, and gathers in frenzied flights of up to forty.
- Tether Beast A many-legged, rainbow-scaled predator that crawls along the silver lifelines of the demiplane of time, attacks anything for any reason, and breathes a mist that ages victims to dust.
- Thagar Gazer Eater [Grimgobbler] A rubbery, many-necked sphere of the void that hunts gazer tyrants as its favorite meal, biting off eyestalks while shrugging off nearly every spell aimed at its mind or body.
- Thassaloss A four-armed automaton of blackened bone raised by a cruel demigod's priests, its emerald-lit gaze able to shatter a spellcaster's mind or freeze a warrior where he stands.
- The Abomination of Zhirrak A stone-fleshed horror from another dimension that erupts up through the earth, clamps drooling mouths onto its prey to drain their life, and wears the screaming faces of dwarves it has devoured.
- The Bulette-Mutation A wizard-bred bulette fitted with venom glands that let it breathe cones of fire, this burrowing horror burns forests and villages as readily as it devours them.
- The Court of Nightmares A circle of at least six dream-devouring lords who spin a web through the world of sleep, snaring the darkest dreams of mortals everywhere and hauling the most promising dreamers into their mad realm.
- The Dispossessed Ghostly souls cast out of their stolen bodies, wandering a twilight realm and radiating a sorrow so heavy it can leave whole parties unable to lift a finger.
- The Dream Tormentor The hooded, imagination-starved lord of the nightmare realm feeds on every frightened dreamer, hurls cold green dream fire, and forges living nightmares that slip out into the waking world.
- The Everchanger A red-skinned, half-vapor imp of the court of nightmares who reshapes himself, his servants and helpless dreamers into whatever will cause the most bewildering chaos.
- The Eye A tall, robed servant with a giant eyeball for a head that devours souls with its gaze and tracks spellcasters across miles for the cult of a maimed lich-god.
- The Ghost Dancer A mute, bloodstained ballerina spirit of the court of nightmares, the Ghost Dancer drifts through guilty dreams and dances her audiences into paralysis and a slow death.
- The Gorgon A thousand-year-old blood-corrupted warlord, once a prince who sold out his brothers to a dark god, now a horned, goat-legged giant of living stone whose stare petrifies or kills.
- The Great Dragon [Dark Sun] The only true dragon known in the region, a gaunt, half-humanoid horror that fights with claws, psionics and defiler magic all at once and breathes a cone of superheated sand.
- The Hand A headless brute with a giant hand sprouting from its neck, the Hand is the cult enforcer of the maimed lich-god, crushing foes and drinking the strength from flesh and steel.
- The Monkey King An exiled trickster lord of monkeys who reads every mind around him, picks pockets with his tail, and vaults across the world on a shape-shifting magic staff.
- The Painted Serpent A small, smiling winged snake of the court of nightmares that whispers suspicion into dreamers' minds, turning companions against each other while it feeds on their paranoia.
- The Primordial Chaos Queen A colossal, squid-bodied tyrant of the plane of raw chaos who rules every spider-fiend, wields a +5 trident on a silken tether, and schemes endlessly to free her imprisoned general.
- The Seadrake A merchant who slew a monstrous passenger and inherited its curse, now a 50-foot sea serpent who taxes every ship crossing his strait and swallows those who refuse.
- The Sluagh The vengeful ghosts of the wicked dead, refused by their gods, who ride storm clouds hurling invisible poisoned darts and drift down to enslave the living for their old vendettas.
- The Spider A goblin warlord warped by a dead god's blood into a mad, bloated spider-thing, ruling a trap-choked forest of goblins, gnolls and countless venomous spiders.
- The Twelfth Bell Killer [Unique Madman] On foggy nights a cloaked figure stalks a pretty river city as the clock strikes twelve, and no one suspects the killer is the mute, despised street thief they curse by day.
- The Undead Dragon King Murdered by his fellow sorcerer tyrants and risen as a rotting half-dragon lich, the undead dragon king rules a buried city in disguise while hunting the planes for a path to true godhood.
- The White Boar A huge white boar shaped by the gods to carry a divine spirit, sent to hunt down one wizard's monstrous creation and gone the moment its task is done.
- The White Stag The red-eyed, snow-white servant of the elven god of long life, whose appearance heralds great events and whose trail leads followers to divine visions.
- Thessalmonster A family of unstable hydra hybrids, each with a ring of biting serpent heads around a great central maw, crossbred with chimeras, gorgons and cockatrices into fresh horrors.
- Thinking Zombie A dead giant or half-giant bound to its body by an unfinished geas, as smart as it was in life, giant-strong, and willing to kill anyone between it and its rest.
- Thomil [Rock Spirit] Guardian spirits sleeping inside the stones of a cold eastern land, which heave up as rocky torsos to crush miners, despoilers and foreign invaders.
- Thoqqua A short, searing worm that tunnels through solid rock by melting it, bursting from walls to scorch victims and their gear, and growing stronger from any fire thrown at it.
- Thought Eater A skeletal, platypus-headed drifter of the Border Ethereal that cannot fight at all, yet invisibly drains psionic energy, spells and finally Intelligence from anyone nearby.
- Thoul A magical blend of ghoul, hobgoblin and troll whose claws paralyze and whose wounds close as fast as they open, prized by hobgoblin kings as bodyguards.
- Thousandtooth A mutated medusa reduced to a giant fanged head on a lump of flesh, scuttling on snake-headed limbs whose bites kill and whose presence slowly turns intruders to stone.
- Thrax A gaunt, cursed hunter that slips up as a shadow, rots away its victim's armor, then latches on with sucker-tipped fingers to drink every drop of water from the body.
- Thunder Children Gaunt black storm imps that rattle shutters and bang doors on stormy nights, feeding on the terror they cause until their victims die of fright.
- Thunderhead A black, lightning-breathing sky reptile that lives its whole life on the wing and grows twice as dangerous whenever a thunderstorm rolls in.
- Thylacine A smoke-gray, tiger-sized hunting cat that pounces from 50 feet away, vanishes against rock and forest, and makes a special point of mauling wizards and smashing magic.
- Tickler A tiny winged puffball that darts under armor and clothing to tickle its victim helpless, feeding on the laughter while every monster nearby hears the noise.
- Tidewrought Golem A shapeless mass of living water easily mistaken for a water elemental, the tidewrought golem drowns intruders inside its own body and drops crushing slabs of ice on foes ashore.
- Tiefling Proud, quick-tempered, plane-touched folk with a fiendish streak, as likely to be a poison-bladed duelist or wily mage as a con artist, and never to be called a half-breed.
- Time Dimensional A drifting intelligence made of pure time, able to call its own past and future selves into a fight and to feast on any chronomancer's spells cast near it.
- Tin Golem A toylike soldier in red coat and tall hat, the tin golem waits motionless until summoned, then wades in with a huge sabre while blades bend and dull against its body.
- Tinker Gnome Tireless, chattering inventors who build steam-belching contraptions that almost never work, tinker gnomes pour their lives into gadgets that magic could outdo with a single word.
- Tinkerer [Giant Bubble] A floating, six-armed ball of curiosity that drifts between starships stealing, improving and rebuilding every gadget it can grab, and sometimes the crew too.
- Tirichik A silent, snow-white cross between dragon and centipede that lurks in glacier crevasses, probing for prey with metal-tough tentacles and devouring humans with bottomless appetite.
- Titan Twenty-five-foot giants of godlike beauty and temper who swing enchanted mauls, wield twentieth-level magic, and are so often mistaken for gods that some have dared to play the part.
- Tlokasazotz [Bat-Vampire] A jungle king remade by his god into a towering bat-man who breathes fire, regenerates, and turns his blood-drained victims into loyal werebats.
- Tomb Tapper Faceless, rock-skinned humanoids with fanged mouths in their bellies who tunnel up from the deep earth to steal and worship every magic item they can find.
- Tomb Warden A wall of carved dwarven warriors that heaves to life when intruders pass, shrugging off most magic while a hidden crystal heart keeps the whole frieze alive.
- Tome Guardian [Fire Kin] A fire elemental bound into a spellbook or other small object that sears any thief, attacker or mind-prober with an unerring, blood-boiling lance of white-hot flame.
- Topaz Dragon [Gem] Surly, erratic gem dragons of rocky seacoasts whose breath sucks the water from living bodies, draining Strength until a victim withers to death.
- Topi Shrunken, grinning undead the size of toddlers that leap from rooftops and branches, clawing victims with a venom that slows them to a crawl.
- Topiary Golem Clipped from living hedges into the shape of hounds, lions or dragons, topiary golems prowl elegant gardens and fall on trespassers exactly like the beasts they were sculpted to resemble.
- Torturer Devil [Lesser Baatezu] Beetle-shelled scholars of agony, torturer devils study every body and mind they can catch, wield scalpels with surgical malice, and can spread fatal plague or healing through the same bite.
- Totem Spirit The living archetype of an animal species, a shapeshifting guardian that rewards respectful hunters and curses anyone who wastes or abuses its kin.
- Tradewaddler Fanged, telepathic penguin-folk merchants of the void who talk customers into submission in pairs and pay hired muscle to keep swinging, all while dreaming of beating their rivals.
- Translator A gleaming silver orb that races across the planes carrying the gods' own messages, stunning anyone who blocks its path and calling divine wrath down on attackers.
- Transport Life-Shaped Creation Grown rather than tamed, these living mounts of the cliff halflings range from darting insect flyers to hawk-beaked war birds and floating cargo whales.
- Treant Ancient tree-people who guard old forests in near-perfect disguise, waking whole groves to battle when evil or careless fire threatens their woods.
- Treant [Dark Sun] A water spirit of the land bound by druidic magic into a living tree, an undying guardian of the desert world's last wild places that conjures water and crushes intruders.
- Trelon Shadow-born, orange-and-black insectile killers that blink into existence beside spellcasters, scissor them apart with spiked arms, and can sniff out a wizard through any invisibility or disguise.
- Tren Brutal hybrids of troglodytes and the biggest, meanest lizard men, tren ambush travelers from chameleon cover, reek of stupefying musk, and covet forged steel above all else.
- Tressym Clever, mischievous winged cats that hunt birds on the wing, spot the invisible and taste out any poison, making them beloved pests and superb wizard familiars.
- Tribute Gatherer A clawed, octopus-like servant of a wrathful sea goddess that prowls the oceans collecting temple treasure, hurling foes with telekinesis and spewing acid ink at anyone who interferes.
- Trilling Crysmal A six-legged crystal predator of the mineral border planes that slices with razor limbs, fires shattering splinter darts, and bounces spells back out of its great prismatic heart.
- Trilloch An invisible, untouchable feeder from the Negative Energy Plane that drifts beside killers and quietly stokes every nearby fight toward bloodshed, so it can drink the life of the dying.
- Trin Primitive, sleepless cousins of the mantis warriors, trin hunt the desert in pheromone-linked packs, leaping 50 feet onto prey and crushing it in hinged claws.
- Triton Proud, reclusive sea-folk from the plane of Water who guard their warm waters from undersea castles, ride hippocampi, and summon the ocean itself with their conch horns.
- Troglodyte Stinking, color-shifting reptile raiders of caves and mountain cracks who ambush travelers with deadly javelins and hunger for two things above all: steel and human flesh.
- Troll Gangly, fearless, endlessly hungry predators whose wounds close as you watch and whose severed hands keep fighting, trolls die for good only to fire or acid.
- Troll Mutate Three-armed, many-eyed trolls warped by generations near a gate to the Farther Dark, whose every major regeneration risks sprouting a fresh, twitching deformity.
- Trollhound Massive, regenerating wolves with troll blood, trollhounds hunt by night in disciplined packs, lock their jaws on a limb and refuse to let go while spreading disease.
- Tropical Fish Four menaces of warm reefs and shallows: a man-swallowing giant grouper, the lightning-quick morena, a puffed-up porcupine fish with lethal spines, and the shocking electric ray.
- Trosip Harmless-looking dust bunnies that creep onto sleepers for warmth and smother them, trosips are why every frontier-coast home, however poor, is kept spotless.
- Tsnng Spindly living gemstones of the plane of Mineral whose warriors grow spear-hands and whose wizards hold twice the spells of any mortal mage, each cabal convinced it rules the plane.
- Tso Spider-bodied, eel-headed planar slavers who ply the lawful planes in flying spider-ships, charming bodyguards by touch and binding every deal in a contract full of traps.
- Tualleiaght A human-headed, many-legged serpent that swims through solid rock, casts earth-shaping spells, and sometimes befriends a wizard to learn the news of the surface world.
- Tul'k Gaunt, bone-crowned mountain primitives descended from a cursed elf tribe, tul'ks ambush from shadow form, club with huge bony hands, and head-butt foes senseless.
- Tulani [Greater Eladrin] The radiant faerie lords who rule the eladrin courts, wielding swords of light, deadly gazes, and power enough to stop time or grant wishes.
- Tundra Lizard A snow-camouflaged northern lizard that lulls prey to sleep with a lavender scent and then drinks their body heat, freezing to death itself if it goes three days unfed.
- Tungsten Dragon [Ferrous] Grim, uncompromising desert guardians who serve good by any means that works, tungsten dragons scour their arid domains for intruders and flay them with blasts of scouring sand.
- Tunnel Brute A hulking burrower that claws through solid rock to ambush prey, the tunnel brute scrambles the minds of anyone who meets its four-eyed stare.
- Tunnelmouth Dweller A corridor-filling cave predator that is mostly mouth, the tunnelmouth dweller lunges down dungeon passages and gulps whole parties into a gullet slick enough to drown torches.
- Turtle-Folk Calm, upright tortoise-people of the warm coasts who fight in disciplined rotations from inside their shells and trade lifelong vitality for a single mating.
- Tuyewera A legless, tongueless corpse animated by a sorcerer's ancestral spirit, the tuyewera creeps on its hands to rob sleeping victims of their last breath.
- Tween An invisible ethereal parasite that clings to a host and doubles their luck, the tween pays for that fortune by quietly siphoning it from everyone else nearby.
- Twill [Pocket Rat] A clever, thumbed marsupial bred by rock gnomes as a mining companion, the pocket rat sniffs out gems, hides from infravision and stuffs its pouch with treasure.
- Twisted Demon [Least Tanar'ri] Malformed outcasts even among demons, twisted demons wander the Abyss alone with bizarre weapons, raising the alarm against intruders by gating in reinforcements.
- Tyin A slime-slick, peeling humanoid that clings to cave ceilings, spits sticky acid and spreads a wasting sickness with its bite, the tyin rules whatever caverns it calls home.
- Tylor Wingless, color-shifting land dragons born of evil dragons and giant desert lizards, tylors make fierce mounts right up until their rider falls and becomes lunch.
- Tymher-haid Born from forgotten mass graves, the tymher-haid or ghost-swarm is a dazzling cloud of colored sparks that stings living things to death one tiny burn at a time.
- Tyminid A vicious winged wolverine of the high peaks, the tyminid plunges onto prey from above, blinds foes with a nauseating musk and holds grudges for years.
- Typhoon Dragon [Tun Mi Lung] The largest and most malicious of the eastern dragons, a heaven-appointed storm bringer that often ignores orders to ravage warm coasts with hurricane winds for fun.
- Tyrg Half watchdog, half stalking tiger, the tyrg opens every fight with a stunning howl before its fang-crowded jaws go to work.