Monsters: W
138 monsters whose names start with W.
- Waff A silent shadow-double showing someone at the moment of their death, the waff appears for a heartbeat, shocks its viewers senseless, and leaves them haunted by the omen.
- Wall Walker A scaled, eight-legged ambusher of the desert world's deep caverns that clings to walls, takes on the color of stone and shadow, and paralyzes prey with its stinger so it can torment it.
- Wallara Tall, spindly lizard folk with swirling rainbow skin, the wallaras are a dragon-descended race that can blink 120 feet in an instant and fade invisibly into any surroundings.
- Wallaran Spirit Totem animals of the dream realm, kangaroo, koala and kookaburra among them, who guide the peaceful wallaras with riddles and visions and bend dream reality around anyone foolish enough to fight them.
- Walrus Folk [Dragonlance] Tusked, blubbery walrus folk of the frozen coasts who kill for pleasure, ride ice bears to war, and answer intruders with strap-hurled harpoons and pots of burning oil.
- Wandering Seer [Human] Colorful caravan folk of fortune, music and swindle, the wandering seers wield a cursing evil eye and guard ancient secrets against an enemy that has hunted them for ages.
- Wanderkin Fearless, endlessly curious little folk whose pockets fill with other people's things, wanderkin can taunt foes into blind fury and talk their companions straight into trouble.
- Wanderkin Vampire A withered, clawed wanderkin bound in undeath to a death knight's ruined domain, whose spirit-rending claws and maddening cackle serve the master it cannot escape.
- Wang Chi A shadowy hound of eastern legend that eats its victims' heads to steal their faces and memories, the Wang Chi hides among the rich and powerful until its masquerade crumbles.
- Wang-Liang Long-lived, shapechanging cousins of the oni who blame humanity for their slow extinction, wang-liang live by honor and vengeance and trade cursed gifts crafted by their elder sorceresses.
- War Cats A council of thirteen immortal cats forms the warrior nobility of all felines, appearing as a pack to destroy whatever threatens cat-kind.
- War Wraith Blood-smeared spectral skeletons that stalk fresh battlefields, war wraiths hack at the wounded and whisper unspeakable secrets that steal the will to live.
- Warden Beast Flawless, larger-than-life champions of each animal kind on the plane of beasts, warden beasts shepherd their species, sense every stir of nature around them, and strike with primal power.
- Warden Demon [Guardian Tanar'ri] A two-headed red giant with a vorpal axe, the warden demon is the Abyss's political officer, hunting down true tanar'ri whose loyalty to the war begins to waver.
- Warmonger Genie [Tasked] Short, fat, and dripping blood from every hair, the warmonger genie is a brilliant general that never lets a war end and will start one where none exists.
- Warrior Skeleton Once-mighty fighters cursed into undeath, their souls locked in golden circlets, who will stalk and slay anyone who holds their circlet and loses control.
- Wastrel Mangy, crow-like birds of the bleakest planar wilds that peck travelers just once to taste their blood, then trail them for days, draining their strength until they collapse.
- Watcher Serpent Dragon-headed space serpents that fly between worlds unaided, watcher serpents drift in to observe battles and disasters, and will tow your ship or rescue you for a price.
- Watchghost Graceful undead sentries, half beautiful and half bare bone, that drift through stone walls, fire draining rays of cold light, and guard tombs and vaults with tireless intelligence.
- Watchspider Purpose-bred hunting spiders that lurk beside vault doors, leap 30 feet onto intruders and paralyze them one by one, sold as living alarms to the merchants of a great coastal city.
- Water Cat Sewer-dwelling descendants of murdered wizards' familiars, water cats carry a venomous bite that weakens foes, slays rats outright, and can slowly twist people into mongrelmen.
- Water Drake [Dark Sun] The most elusive drake of the desert world, a slim, blowhole-crowned hunter that guards hidden water, banishes the strongest intruder and shows humanoids no mercy at all.
- Water Elemental Beast [Dark Sun] A school of winged, needle-toothed piranhas formed of pure water that hunts as a single mind, water elemental beasts strike unseen beneath the surface and lodge in the throats of air-breathers.
- Water Fiend [Lesser Mercenary] Warty, yellow, frog-faced amphibious commandos of the mercenary fiends that glide on skin flaps, spit sleep poison, and swim the river of the underworld without losing their minds.
- Water Kin [Elemental] The kindred of elemental water: capricious, golden-haired nereids whose kiss can drown a man and whose soul lives in a white shawl, and serpentine water weirds that drag the living under.
- Water Leaper A toothy, toad-like lake creature with gliding fin-wings that shrieks to freeze its prey, knocks fishermen out of their boats, and hunts in packs that strip lakes bare.
- Water Weird [Water Kin Elemental] A hostile spirit from the elemental plane of Water that lurks in wells and fountains, rearing up as a liquid serpent to drag the living under and feed on their drowning.
- Water-Horse A flawless-looking steed that grazes the shore on livestock, glues any rider to its back, and gallops straight into the sea to drown them.
- Water-World Fish Ravenous, glowing ridgebacked fish of an ocean-covered world whose bites tear away flesh, and whose blood frenzies draw ever-growing swarms to the wounded.
- Watroach A thirty-foot desert beetle that is literally a walking hive, carrying millions of drones and its own successor, and that sorcerer tyrants hollow out and raise as undead war platforms.
- Wavefire A boiling, living wave that hurls scalding water at anything carrying dry air, the wavefire may be the last survivor of a forgotten arrangement of the elemental planes.
- Wax Golem [Ravenloft] A perfect wax double of a living person, this golem hunts down its original, drains away memory and skill blow by blow, then quietly takes over its victim's life.
- Weasel Quick, needle-toothed hunters of forest and cavern, ranging from shy rodent-killing weasels to pack-hunting giants that lock their jaws on a victim and drain its blood.
- Web-Eel Slaver Spider-bodied, eel-necked slavers who see every being as owner or owned, web-eel slavers ride behind tunnel brute bodyguards and end their lives as monstrous brood-mothers.
- Web-Spectre A dead wizard reborn as a shambling figure of dusty cobwebs crawling with spiders, the web-spectre is a lesser lich that rebuilds itself from any webbing nearby.
- Webbird Feathered, bird-shaped arachnids that mob travelers in flocks, bind them with sticky tail-silk, and inject eggs that hatch into flesh-eating grubs inside the helpless host.
- Weeping Willow The sobbing ghost of a pregnant woman bound to a bayou willow, she lures travelers close with her grief, steals their memories in an embrace, and turns murderous if her tree is harmed.
- Weisshund A plump, sleepy white temple dog that seems like a pampered lapdog until hostility appears, when it swells to twice its size and pins intruders by the throat.
- Wemic Lion-bodied hunters with humanoid torsos, wemics stalk the plains in prides, ambush with spear and claw, and charge travelers a toll to cross their land.
- Werealligator [Lycanthrope] A drowsy swamp predator most of the year, the weregator periodically creeps into a nearby village to kidnap, torture and devour its gentlest folk, then slides back into the marsh unsuspected.
- Werebaboon [Lycanthrope] Brilliant, brutal shapechangers who secretly run tropical cities as merchants, warlords and kings, werebaboon troops scream their enemies apart and settle their own disputes in fights to the death.
- Werebadger [Lycanthrope] Short-lived, short-tempered dwarves who become clattering, claw-handed giant badgers, werebadgers can tip into a berserk frenzy at any moment and fight until nothing stands before them.
- Werebat [Lycanthrope] Blood-drinking shapechangers that roost in woodland caves amid hundreds of bats, werebats see people simply as prey and strip nearby villages bare whenever their young come of age.
- Werebear [Lycanthrope] The best-known good lycanthropes, werebears are burly forest hermits who guard their woods like game wardens, cure disease, and crush evil shapechangers in a bone-cracking hug.
- Wereboar [Lycanthrope] Foul-tempered, tusked brawlers who charge into the thick of any fight, wereboars are miserable neighbors and impossible to read, yet make fiercely loyal friends once won over.
- Werecheetah [Lycanthrope] Gorgeous, gold-draped megalomaniacs who rule private cults as living cat gods, werecheetahs flee real danger but can explode into a three-round blur of claws when cornered.
- Werecrocodile [Lycanthrope] Gaunt, long-faced riverfolk who play the weeping stranger until you step close, werecrocodiles then become huge crocodiles that drag their victims under to drown.
- Weredragon Not cursed lycanthropes but a true dragon race that can wear the shape of a lovely human woman, weredragons court wicked men, then devour them in their real form.
- Werefox [Lycanthrope] Breathtaking, silver-haired elven women who become foxes, foxwomen charm a household of male servants, kill the ones they cannot use, and live only to indulge their own vanity.
- Weregiant Overview [Lycanthrope] When a werewolf's bite lands on a hill giant or an ettin, the result is a towering werebeast that hits twice as hard and can snatch a halfling up for an easy bite.
- Werehyena [Lycanthrope] Laughing, magnetic strangers who hide a second mouth beneath their hair, werehyenas befriend whole villages with magic, then lead the trusting out into the desert where the pack waits.
- Werejackal [Lycanthrope] Cowardly, grinning priests of a jackal-headed death god, werejackals infect and enslave entire villages, make them build a temple, and torment their enemies to death at leisure.
- Werejaguar [Lycanthrope] Graceful, solitary hunters who slip into small villages as neighbors, werejaguars shrug off steel, fall to obsidian, and die instantly from a single taste of mercury.
- Werejaguar [Mystara] Red-eyed loners of the tropical rain forest, these werejaguars stalk prey patiently, drop from the branches without warning, and disembowel victims with raking hind claws.
- Werejaguar [Ravenloft] Silent, spotted jungle guardians who stalk intruders for days as cruel sport, these werejaguars fear fire, laugh at silver, and fall only to enchanted weapons or ebony wood.
- Werelagomorph [Were-hare] A spiteful little were-hare that dreams up endless cruelties and rarely has the nerve to carry them out, though only silver or magic can hurt it.
- Wereleopard [Lycanthrope] Spotted pack hunters who hamstring fleeing prey and herd the survivors into a killing ground, wereleopards serve the cat-folk paka and devour their own cursed thralls each full moon.
- Werelion [Lycanthrope] Lean desert shapechangers who hunt as a coordinated pride, herding travelers into ambushes and pouncing from hiding as oversized, bright-eyed lions.
- Weremustela [Ravenloft] Ermine, mink, polecat and weasel shapechangers whose comical looks hide a culture of treachery, lightning-fast bites, and jaws that clamp on and shake victims senseless.
- Werepanther [Lycanthrope] Black-furred cat folk born of ancient jungle rituals, werepanthers raid mountain tribes for slaves and serve a shaman lord who made their kind.
- Werepossum [Ravenloft] Cowardly, spiteful drifters who play dead to escape, then stalk anyone who drove them off with cruel pranks that easily turn deadly.
- Wereraccoon [Ravenloft] Filthy backwoods clans of raccoon-folk who prize their muskets, torture lost travelers for sport, and sometimes carry a maddening magical rabies.
- Wererat [Lycanthrope] Sly, cowardly ratmen who rule the sewers beneath cities, luring drunks and fools into traps and summoning swarms of giant rats to finish them.
- Wererat Lord [Lycanthrope] Long-lived wererat aristocrats who rise in level without limit, rule packs of lesser ratmen like cult figures, and sacrifice them without a second thought.
- Wereraven [Ravenloft] Rare good-hearted shapechangers who nest in living hollow trees, command flocks of ravens, and quietly aid the righteous while hiding from the realm's dark masters.
- Wereray [Ravenloft] Sand-buried ray-folk that sting waders into paralysis, savor watching them drown, and gleefully spread their curse to fishermen and sailors.
- Wereshark [Lycanthrope] Brutish, scarred loners who tear limbs off in human form and swallow swimmers whole as great white sharks, leaving the leftovers to their shark entourage.
- Wereshark [Ravenloft] The terror of every fishing village, this great white shapechanger may be human or sahuagin, and swallows its victims whole from below.
- Werespider [Lycanthrope] Rare shapechangers that become hulking, eight-legged hunters, cocoon victims in webbed lairs, and plant eggs in survivors that hatch into new werespiders.
- Wereswine [Lycanthrope] Gluttonous, comfort-loving shapechangers who pose as harmless fat merchants, charm their neighbors into servants, and turn into fanged hogs when hungry for human flesh.
- Weretiger [Lycanthrope] Confident, cat-loving shapechangers, mostly female, who keep tidy cabins near villages, hoard gems, and fight with crushing punches and windpipe-tearing bites.
- Werewolf [Lycanthrope] The most dreaded of lycanthropes, werewolves roam in family packs, fight savagely to protect their mates and cubs, and shrug off any wound not dealt by silver or magic.
- Western High Elf [Dragonlance] Warm, outgoing high elves who broke from their rigid elder kin to build freer forest realms, only to see them battered by the chaos after the great cataclysm.
- Wezer Giant desert wasps that hive beneath the sand, wezers paralyze living prey so their brood queen can plant eggs that hatch and devour the host from inside.
- Whale Wise, song-speaking giants of the deep, whales range from gentle plankton grazers to ship-sinking leviathans who answer only to the gods and avenge their own.
- Whipsting A wrinkled, many-eyed ball on two whip tentacles, the whipsting springs like a coiled spring, cracks like a lash, and leaves its victims shaking helplessly with venom.
- White Dragon [Chromatic] The smallest, dimmest evil dragon, an impulsive arctic hunter that blasts prey with frost and will eat nothing that is not frozen solid.
- White Fang A legless, furred snow serpent with an ivory-plated head, the white fang hides from sight and heat vision alike, and its bite freezes a victim's blood.
- Wichtlin Cursed elven undead seen only as two floating green eyes and a pair of skeletal hands, wichtlin hunt the living so their god of death can harvest the souls.
- Wicked Leprechaun Twisted by dark magic, these black-clad leprechauns trade pranks for poisoned blades, murderous traps and hornet swarms, and they drink their victims' blood.
- Wiggle Frog-legged, gnome-faced reptilian spacefarers whose lost empire left them as hard-bargaining mercenary crews, while their stranded kin sank into swamp brigands and savage sea brutes.
- Wight Barrow-dwelling undead with burning eyes and mummified claws, wights drain the life levels of the living and raise their victims as obedient slaves.
- Wild Dwarf Tattooed, grease-slick jungle dwarves who hunt in shifting bands, lace their blowgun darts with sleep venom, and turn their home caves into a maze of deadly traps.
- Wild Dwarf-Human Crossbreed Escaped arena slaves living in small, paranoid clans on the desert's rocky margins, these psionic dwarf-human crossbreeds trust no one and are feared as hunters of people.
- Wild Elf [Dragonlance] Painted, muscular wilderness elves who scorn city life, ride stags and sprint like deer, and still nurse bitter memories of enslavement by their high elf cousins.
- Wild Grell A floating, brain-like horror that drifts silently along cave ceilings, the grell drops on passersby, snares them in ten paralyzing tentacles and hauls them up into darkness.
- Wild Hunt A thundering cavalcade of dark fey, undead and spectral hounds that tears through forests in an endless pursuit of elves, trampling anything that cannot get clear.
- Wild Pack Insect Untamed herds of the desert's great pack insects roam free in hives of soldiers, honey makers and queens, and a soldier's pincers can paralyze and crush a careless traveler.
- Will O'Dawn A kindly cousin of the will o'wisp that glimmers only at sunrise, guiding lost and frightened travelers to safety and feeding on their relief and joy.
- Will O'Deep A torch-flame sprite of the deepest caves, the will o'deep lures explorers into mazes and cave-ins, then feeds on their fear while they starve in the dark.
- Will O'Mist A ribbon of icy light that slips freely through the deadly border mists, the will o'mist lures travelers into the fog and drinks their terror and confusion.
- Will O'Sea The largest and most aggressive will o'wisp variant, the will o'sea mimics lighthouses and burning ships to wreck vessels, then hovers above the drowning to savor their panic.
- Will O'Shadow A bobbing orb of light that slips through from the shadowy faerie realm just before a portal opens, the will o'shadow drinks the life of the mortal world.
- Will O'Wisp A drifting ball of marsh light that leads travelers into quicksand and bogs, the will o'wisp feeds on the panic of the dying and laughs off nearly all magic.
- Wind Lord Ebony-skinned, androgynous immortals of Law who once ruled an empire spanning several worlds and now watch over the Sevenfold Rod from a perfectly ordered hidden vale.
- Wind Walker [Elemental] Howling, half-ethereal knots of living wind that serve the djinn as cloud sculptors and batter anyone nearby with 3d6 points of buffeting force every round.
- Windghost A smoky, fanged flying cone that swallows prey whole, sings spellcasting into silence, and seizes incoming spells to hurl them back at the casters.
- Winemaker Genie [Tasked] A cat-headed, trunk-nosed genie devoted to grapes and vintages, the winemaker is a jolly traveling vintner whose angry trunk can still blind and crush.
- Winged Cat Furred wings carry these prized cats aloft, from the great winged cat that hunts from the sky and nurses grudges for years to the playful little fluttercat.
- Winged Elf Rare, feather-winged elves of the high peaks who fight in three dimensions, hunt down every survivor of an ambush, and fear fire and enclosed spaces above all else.
- Winged Fiend [Greater Mercenary] Hulking, green-skinned, gargoyle-winged scouts of the mercenary fiends, swinging huge magical axes, leaving bleeding wounds, and seething at the low rank their spying earns them.
- Winged Gnasher A larger, bat-winged cousin of the gnasher that launches from rocky ledges and glides onto its prey, winged gnashers bring pack savagery down from above.
- Winged Serpent A jewel-bright, hummingbird-winged snake whose acid bite liquefies fruit and flesh alike and whose buzzing wings build a static charge it spits out as a shower of sparks.
- Winged Snake A hummingbird-winged jungle serpent, also called a spark snake, that bites with acid and breathes a crackling cloud of static sparks that can set hair and clothes alight.
- Wingless Wonder A clumsy, egg-shaped waddler with sticky tentacles and a ridiculous flapping gait, the wingless wonder hides an anti-magic aura, a wild magic burst, and sometimes a trapped archmage.
- Winter-Wight A skeleton armored in clear ice with a skull wreathed in black flame, the winter-wight sets victims alight with blackfire that devours life itself and leaves nothing to resurrect.
- Wisdom Spirit One of eight shards of a legendary ogre sage's soul, appearing at night to counsel and shield his descendants and filling every other creature with awe and terror.
- Wishing Imp A sweet-faced black statuette that grants a wish every day, the wishing imp twists each one into a fresh disaster, and the curse passes only to someone who takes it knowingly.
- Witchlight Marauder Living doomsday weapons bred by orc shamans to strip elven worlds bare, witchlight marauders devour everything from forests to moons and breed new killers as they feed.
- Wiwaxia A yard-long, armor-plated seabed crawler bristling with fourteen bladed spines, wiwaxia is a scavenger that happily snaps at living prey and punishes anyone who fights it hand to hand.
- Wizard-Bonding Beast Overview Legendary creatures said to walk beside devoted wizards in exchange for potions and treasure, these magical beasts may be myth, or may still grant boons to the worthy.
- Wizshade A robed spirit of pure magic rising from a rainbow vortex, the wizshade flings random spells with whimsical abandon and can only be hurt by magic, which steals its spell levels away.
- Wolf Feared far beyond its actual threat, the wolf is a clever, pack-bound hunter; its kin range from the hulking dire wolf and evil worg to the frost-breathing winter wolf.
- Wolf [Greyhawk] Shy, brilliant and slandered by the humans who fear it, this wolf lives by a strict pack hierarchy and flees people far more often than it ever fights them.
- Wolfwere A murderous wolf that wears the face of a beautiful wandering minstrel, the wolfwere lulls travelers with an enchanted song before shifting into a half-wolf killer.
- Wolverine Squat, clawed and astonishingly fast, the wolverine is the bane of the frozen north, and its blinding, nauseating musk makes even a victory over one a miserable affair.
- Wolvern A clever, semi-telepathic canine that reads where prey will dodge next, the wolvern is peaceful toward thinking beings, and fiercely loyal to anyone who can talk with it.
- Wonderseeker [Human] Bored, foppish human adventurers who drift between the stars treating everyone else's lives as their game board, as likely to rescue you as to ruin you.
- Wood Giant Lanky, hairless giant cousins of the wood elves who melt into the forest, loose four-foot arrows from hiding, and can take the shape of almost any humanoid.
- Wood Man [Forest Spirit] A fifty-foot giant of living timber that strides out of the forests of a cold eastern land in its darkest hours, crushing invaders and punishing natives who neglect the land.
- Worm From the tunnel-boring purple worm that swallows adventurers whole to the flesh-burrowing rot grub, these legless burrowers turn the ground itself into a threat.
- Worm [Mystara] Rock-grinding titans, fire-breathing burrowers, treasure-crusted ambushers and sea-swallowing leviathans: these colossal worms make tunnels, deserts and oceans equally deadly.
- Wraith The hateful shadow of a powerful evil human, the wraith drains life with its icy touch and turns every person it kills into another wraith under its command.
- Wraith [Dark Sun] A faith-bound spirit of the desert world that slips between the realm of the dead and the living to possess corpses, armor or beasts, the wraith rots enchanted weapons at a touch.
- Wraith [Greyhawk] Two battlefield horrors: swordwraiths, dead soldiers too stubborn to stop fighting, and soul beckoners, whispering shadows that grow stronger with every life level they steal.
- Wraith-King A hollow suit of enchanted plate lit by two burning red eyes, the wraith-king drains life with a glance and turns everyone it kills into a wraith that serves it forever.
- Wraith-Spider Shadowy undead spiders that bite with freezing, level-draining fangs, weave glowing webs of numbing cold, and stand guard over hoards in the deep places of the dark elves.
- Wraithworm A black, spine-backed desert serpent whose bite drains life and freezes the blood, and which can melt into ghostly vapor to stalk prey through the narrowest crack.
- Wryback Boneless, rubbery little thieves with needle teeth and glowing eyes, wrybacks infest ship holds and warehouses, shrug off clubs, and spread from world to world as stowaways.
- Wurmling A colossal, cunning worm that never forgets anything, the wurmling sits at the center of crime syndicates and assassin networks, ruling through blackmail, bribery and an army of guards.
- Wyndlass A ten-armed, barbed horror that waits beneath a pit of frictionless quicksand on a busy trail, dragging travelers and whole horses down to drown before it feeds.
- Wynzet An adorable, fluffy forest critter that loves to be petted, until it decides you are harming its woods and leaps for your throat with a deadly bite.
- Wyrd Hooded, ghostly undead born when evil spirits claim the corpses of abandoned elves, wyrds hurl exploding spheres of glowing energy and save their deepest hatred for elvenkind.
- Wyrmhold Kobold Prosperous, trap-mad kobolds who rule a conquered dwarven mountain under a dragon's protection, burying intruders under nets, spells and swarming bodies.
- Wyrmkin [Dark Sun] Dragon-headed humanoids reshaped from humans by the undead dragon king, split between his rejected, half-made first generation and the proud, flawless second generation he means to lead against the surface.
- Wyste A 25-foot translucent worm from an alien dimension, the wyste lurks in pools of poisonous blue slime and lunges out to shred or drown anything that comes near.
- Wyvern A huge, two-legged cousin of the dragon with a scorpion-like stinger dripping lethal poison, the wyvern dives silently from the sky to carry off its prey.
- Wyvern Drake Half dragon and half wyvern, this clever winged hunter pairs a lethal stinger with its dragon parent's breath weapon and often serves dragon cultists as a mount and scout.