Monsters: V
75 monsters whose names start with V.
- Vaath A scaled, insect-headed hunter of the prison plane's jungles whose burrowing mouth-tentacle severs a victim's spine so it can torment him at leisure.
- Vacuous A crack-skinned undead spirit lost in the endless void, whose gaping mouth sucks victims into its hollow body to suffocate in darkness.
- Vagabond An alien intelligence of unknown origin that slips into the shape of a local creature, a curious psionic hitchhiker that may be riding inside the party's own warhorse.
- Valley Elf Tall, gold-haired elven fighter-mages who guard a reclusive archmage's monster-haunted valley, strike first, and answer to a drow commander.
- Valpurgeist The hanged man: a broken-necked corpse that rises after a wrongful execution and strangles its accusers one by one, returning again and again until its innocence is proven.
- Vampire The undead noble of the night: a charming, shapeshifting predator that drains life with every blow, commands beasts and thralls, and patiently plots across centuries.
- Vampire Cactus [Carnivorous Plant] A deep-desert succulent that fires barbed needles on rubbery threads into anything warm-blooded, then sucks its victims dry to quench its endless thirst.
- Vampire Lord's Skeletal Steed Bare-boned undead warhorses that lie as dusty heaps until called, then rise on hooves wreathed in phantom flame and breathe a paralyzing gas.
- Vampire Lord's Skeleton Swift, jerking skeletons raised by a vampire lord as guards, shrugging off arrows and cold while they flail with whatever weapon they find.
- Vampire Lord's Zombie Frail-looking, talon-fingered corpses raised by a vampire lord whose hacked-off arms and heads keep crawling after the living, all sharing one pool of unholy life.
- Vampire Moss [Plant] A pale green curtain of moss that drinks life from anyone walking within 10 yards, no touch required, glowing brighter emerald with every hit point it steals.
- Vampire Overview How the dread realm's most feared undead are born, how they bind their spawn with absolute command, and the rare, terrible bond a vampire forms with its chosen companion.
- Vampiric Mist A blood-scented, man-wide cloud that flows through cracks and over water to wrap sleeping victims and drain them, turning from pink to crimson as it gorges.
- Vampiric Wolf Black, orange-eyed undead raised from stolen pups by evil clerics, vampiric wolves hobble prey, pin its limbs, and drink it dry while healing with every bite.
- Vampyre Beautiful, cat-eyed, fanged blood-drinkers that are not undead at all: living predators who hunt in packs, lure lovers home, and keep their victims alive for days.
- Vampyre [Casimir Vohl] A vampyre warlord from a world where his kind enslaved humanity, stranded in a walled city of the dread realm and quietly breeding an army to make humans cattle again.
- Vanguard Celestial The shapeshifting shock troops of the upper planes, vanguard celestials fight in borrowed forms, from dragons to enchanted swords, and never show their true luminous shape in battle.
- Vapor Imp Cackling red imps that rise from tropical seabeds on stormy nights, vapor imps seep into ships as crimson mist, then cripple the vessel and hurl its crew overboard.
- Vaporighu A bloated, slime-slick horror of the volcanic lower plane whose very sight paralyzes the weak and whose green breath kills outright, harmed only by cold-wrought iron.
- Varanid Ambidextrous, merciless monitor-lizard warriors of tropical islands who raid villages by night with bizarre double-bladed weapons and lashing razor tails.
- Vargouille A shrieking, bat-winged human head from the lower planes whose bite wounds will not heal and whose kiss slowly turns a victim's own head into another vargouille.
- Variant Behir Two regional behirs that trade the classic lightning for a gout of fire or a jet of acid, growing over decades from 6-foot hatchlings into 40-foot adults.
- Variant Skeleton Three nasty skeletal breeds for undead armies: dust skeletons that burst into paralyzing clouds, spike skeletons that set blood ablaze, and obsidian skeletons that rise again and again.
- Variant Zombie Three specialized zombies a necromancer can craft with the right rare ingredients: acid-sweating grapplers, twitching sprinters, and spell-eating wizard hunters.
- Varkha Short, frog-eyed lizard folk of the deep underworld's flooded caverns who herd prey into dark water and drown it under sheer numbers.
- Varrdig [Elemental Grue] A translucent green jelly bristling with hoses and clawed legs, the varrdig blinds and drowns victims with jets of water, and three of them can fuse into a single hulking horror.
- Vartha A guardian spirit in the shape of a neatly embalmed corpse, the vartha is a fighter-priest undead that may protect a treasure, aid a hero or relentlessly hunt a criminal.
- Vashadar [Unique Morg] High priest of an undead dragon king, Vashadar is a mummified dragon-man who preaches his master's godhood by day and quietly works to save the outcasts his master would sacrifice.
- Vasshari Brilliant, scheming serpent-folk descended from a cursed human cult, ranging from near-human infiltrators to towering snake-bodied abominations that rule hidden jungle temples.
- Vasshari Thrall Humans poisoned and remade into hairless, scaly, near-mindless servants of the serpent-folk, who guard their masters' broods and fight to the death in berserk fury.
- Vault Guardian [Golem] A tireless stone-and-steel sentinel with ruby eyes and true sight, the vault guardian strikes intruders even across the Ethereal and Astral planes, but anyone who learns its key word can command it.
- Vault-Crawler Spider-ant horrors that stalk cavern ceilings, vault-crawlers pin prey in crushing jaws and carve it with bladed forelimbs, and the undead dragon king rides them to war.
- Veiled Dwarf Small, whispering, hooded mountain dwarves ravaged by an ancient mold plague, who shun every other race and kill intruders without a word of parley.
- Velai Frail, big-eyed telepaths stranded far from home, the velai wander in quiet bands, studying everything around them with strange nonmagical devices and fleeing violence they find oddly fascinating.
- Velya Vampire A blue-skinned, gilled sea vampire that sings swimmers into its arms, takes the shape of a great white shark, and crumbles to nothing if it ever leaves the water.
- Venger A wronged soul's corpse driven by pure rage, the venger tramples past the innocent on its way to the one who wronged it, and nothing short of that confrontation can lay it to rest.
- Venom Dog Wizard-bred guard hounds crossed with pit vipers or giant scorpions, venom dogs are loyal, easily trained and carry poison that can kill an intruder in a single round.
- Venus Weed A blood-drinking rose bush whose single giant bloom opens to reveal a lovely, charming woman, a living lure that draws victims onto thorny tendrils that drain them dry.
- Verbeeg [Giant] Gangly, cunning human giants who herd hill giants and ogres into battle like cattle, cursing all the way, then pick off stragglers once the brutes have done the hard work.
- Vermilion Pudding A glowing red mass of flesh-eating redrot bacteria, bound into one hungry body by a curse, whose touch doubles in damage every round until it is destroyed.
- Vermin Juggernaut A giant, hairless, bipedal bilge vermin bred by ancient wizards as a pest hunter, the vermin juggernaut now roams the steppes eating everything, screeching foes senseless and never retreating.
- Vesskarra [Unique Night Hag] A night hag dragged into the misty dread realm by a lich-king, Vesskarra poses as a lonely old widow while feeding victims to a machine she believes can tear her way out.
- Vestige A drifting bank of glowing, moaning fog born from the dying nightmares of a cursed city's sleepers, the Vestige devours minds and dissolves whatever bodies it leaves empty.
- Vilay Pale shadow-fey dryads who can become nightingales and love their chosen paramours to death, binding the willing dead into crystal skulls as ghostly companions.
- Villichi Tall, sun-shy psionic women born at random to ordinary human parents, the villichi live in a hidden mountain convent and repay any harm to their own with organized vengeance.
- Viper Tree Pale, scaly Abyssal trees whose branches are living serpents, viper trees paralyze prey with crippling venom, swallow it whole, and hold an ancient grudge against every devil.
- Virus I Two cursed plagues of the misty dread realm: one burns its host up from within until they burst into flame, the other slowly turns flesh and blood to crystal.
- Virus II Two cursed plagues of the misty dread realm: one slowly turns its living, conscious victim to marble, the other plants an unshakable terror in the mind.
- Virus III Two cursed plagues of the misty dread realm: one floods the mind with psionic power until the brain explodes, the other eats the victim's shadow and then the victim.
- Virus Overview Six invisible, magically engineered plagues unleashed by a spiteful dying wizard, these viruses spread by touch from corpses and carriers and kill in grotesque, unique ways.
- Visage Masked, wraithlike undead fiends that rewrite their victims' senses, dominate their minds, and steal both their faces and their very souls.
- Visceraith A glowing brain and dangling organs that build themselves a bone body, the visceraith hides among the living in robes and can snap a victim's bones from 60 feet away.
- Vishap A flightless, chameleon-scaled desert dragon with no breath weapon, the vishap stalks and studies its prey for days, bullying the weak and ambushing anyone brave enough to resist.
- Vizier's Turban A living turban with jewel eyes that bonds to a wizard, trading extra spells and magic resistance for a permanent share of its partner's hit points.
- Void Artisan Glittering, androgynous wanderers of the void who treat everything, war included, as an art form, and who once shattered their own homeworld chasing a masterpiece of destruction.
- Void Kraken A ship-sized squid of the void whose great central tentacle crushes hulls while a ring of venomous sentries paralyzes the crew for later.
- Void Rover Silk-clad, smooth-talking rovers of the void between worlds, the void rovers salvage wrecks, run cons and tell fortunes, and play dead rather than fight fair.
- Void Scavenger One-eyed fish of the void that ride in a ship's air envelope eating its garbage, void scavengers range from harmless air-thieves to sly man-eaters that stalk the crew.
- Void Spider Stilt-legged spider folk born in the open void, void spiders see every other race as groundbound trespassers and treat the known star systems as a pantry and a quarry.
- Void Sprite Curious, flickering orbs of living fire that drift near suns, zip through starships setting everything ablaze, and sometimes leave an ioun stone behind when they die.
- Void Whale Mouthless, sun-drinking whales of the void, so huge they carry their own air and gravity, gentle until threatened and able to blind whole ship crews with their eyes.
- Volt Hairy, floating spheres that ride thunderstorms, volts latch onto a victim's neck, drain blood or nerve energy and zap their prey with an electric tail stinger.
- Voor Larva Eight-foot skeletal insects hatched from ancient seed-dust drifting in the void, voor larvae hunt mind reavers above all else, regenerate from near death and shriek with a disabling trill.
- Vorlog A would-be vampire bride or groom left stranded halfway through the dark transformation when its maker was slain, the vorlog lives only to rebuild its lost bond with a stolen companion.
- Vorr Hyena-like pack hunters from the plane of howling winds, vorrs are cleverer than they look, drag prey to the ground, and can melt into living shadow to strike unseen or slip away.
- Vortex A tiny, mindless sphere wrapped in a whirling coat of wind, the vortex careens about at random and swallows whoever it bumps into, spinning them until they break free or die.
- Vortex Spider A color-shifting offshoot of the phase spider that strings invisible, time-slowing webs across the swirling vortices of the time demiplane and baits them with its victims' treasure.
- Vorthani Astral warrior-raiders born of slaves who overthrew the mind reavers, the vorthani ride red dragons to war, wield soul-cutting silver swords and answer to an undead queen.
- Vorthani Pirate Skeletal raiders of the void who hunt living elven ships, then slip whole vessels into the Astral Plane to vanish and ambush the shipping lanes at will.
- Vorzhak Lifesbane the Guardian A young but already terrifying gray-and-gold dragon who guards five mountain summits with a 20d6+20 fire breath, a paralyzing gaze, and spells learned from his legendary mother.
- Vrexhaal the Imprisoned An ancient abyssal lord bound for centuries beneath a slaver-wizard capital, a horned, red-plated fiend whose gaze kills and whose prison weakens with every stolen map.
- Vrock [True Tanar'ri] A vulture-headed shock trooper of the Abyss that rakes five foes at once, seeds flesh with burrowing spores, and joins its kin in a lethal dance of ruin.
- Vulture Patient carrion birds that circle every battlefield and drop in to feed on the fallen, joined by bigger giant and condor cousins that can be trained as scouts, spotters or even mounts.
- Vulturehound A shaggy cross between wild dog and vulture that flaps up onto its hind legs to rake with its talons, hunts in baying packs, and carries blood that can cure redrot.
- Vurgens [Fish] A giant, spine-ridged gulper eel of the deep sea that swallows prey as large as itself in one go and dissolves it in paralyzing, acidic saliva.