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_For most of the year the subek are a kindly race, advising others and lending their physical and intellectual prowess to local projects. During the flood season, however, subek become violent and territorial, ruthlessly killing and consuming all ...
_While they mimic the bleached bones of a desert creature, the bony adornments atop along their backs are part of their peculiar melding of bone and scale._ **Hidden by Sand.** These lethargic, horned, yellow-scaled lizards spend most of their l...
_This suit of armor stands motionless, its visor raised to reveal a black skull with eyes cold as a winter moon. A cloak of owl feathers hangs from its shoulders, and a greatsword is slung across its back._ **Beautiful Constructs.** Monolithic s...
_A vicious snake with a squat, diamond-shaped head, a puffed neck, and a peculiar yellow band around its body, the swamp adder is a stout, somewhat lethargic hunter._ _**Marsh Hunter.**_ This venomous snake—sometimes known as the “speckled band”...
_Mordant snares were created by war mages of ancient times. Each resembles an immense, dark gray, 11-armed starfish weighing eight tons, and yet a mordant snare is never obvious. Instead, it controls a few humanoids shuffling about aimlessly, thei...
Small Construct, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
_This twisted tree’s face is made of cracked, black bark knotted into vaguely humanoid features, and thick tears of sap run down its face._ Weeping treants clearly are related to other treants, but they are smaller than the normal variety, littl...
_Hairless, ugly, and usually dripping water, the wharfling is a nocturnal raider and fond of stealing from fishmongers and jewelers alike._ **Waterborne Packs.** Wharflings have large, webbed hands and feet and oversized mouths. An adept fish ca...
_An undulating mass of flesh and teeth, a wharfling swarm is a horrific sight by moonlight._ **Bloodthisty Mobs.** These masses of hairless bodies writhe along the coast in the moonlight, and often are mistaken for shoggoths or other much larger...
_These bloated purple spiders have small claws on their front legs that serve them as handlike manipulators. Their abdomens are a sickly purple-white._ **Hate Humanoids.** The nefarious spiders of Leng are highly intelligent. They are a very anc...
_The frame of this withered demon’s corpse barely fills the ash-colored plate armor that encases it. It carries a serrated khopesh sword in spiked gauntlets that hiss with violet smoke, and a horned ivory mask devoid of features is nailed to its f...
_These twisted dryads have been turned into vampiric monstrosities by undead warlocks and vampiric experiments._ **Charred Dryads.** With burnt and blackened skin, burnt twigs for hair, and clawed hands and feet that resemble burnt and twisted r...
_This miniscule creature kicks up a ghostly, sparkling fire when it jostles and jigs. Lightning sparks fly between it and its perch._ **Storm Dancers.** When storm clouds gather over cities, harbors, and twisted badlands, electrical energy fills...
_A barefoot woman with long hair and almost transparent skin sits upon a willow branch. Her hair and clothing are wet, as if she has just returned from a swim. Her smile seems friendly enough._ When a woman drowns, her dripping body may rise aga...
_Mi-go have been described as “vaguely insectlike,” but the emphasis belongs on “vaguely.” They have stubby wings, multiple limbs, and nightmarish heads, but the resemblance ends there._ The mi-go are a space-faring race of great skill and vast ...
Medium Dragon, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts.
The star-dwelling, octopoid servants and children of Cthulhu are enormous and strange, with clawed hands, powerful but distended brains, and winglike spines on their backs, with which they propel themselves through the frozen emptiness between sta...
_“They led that caravan without mercy or kindness. If you fell or stumbled, they struck you, making your tongue feel as sand or your body ache with pain, then laughed, telling you to get up. And once we arrived, gods, they had us take the tools fr...
_With wicked axe blades fastened along its arms and bronze runes inlaid on its armored torso, a steam golem is a smooth-running machine of death._ **Magic Weapons.** The golem’s weapon attacks are magical. **Boilers and Hydraulics.** A steam g...
_A heavily cloaked figure reeks of decay and spreads a floating cloud of spores with every step._ **Fungal Rot.** Mindrot fungus is an intelligent hive-mind parasite that consumes creatures from the inside out. When inhaled, mindrot spores enter...
_Stryx are the result of mad experiments deep within the plane of Shadows. They resemble owls and can pass as normal birds as long as they don’t speak or open their mouths. The stryx have a larger mouth hidden behind their beaks, filled with gleam...
_This lovely lass is clad in diaphanous veils and a revealing skirt, and she shows graceful skill while dancing through the dust._ **Humanoid Sand.** In its natural form, a mirager resembles a shifting mass of sand and dust with a vaguely humano...
_The creature emerging from the shadows of the swamp is short and lean. Its pale-skinned body is covered in fungus and moss that seems to grow directly in its flesh, and its green eyes weep bloody tears._ Miremals are savage, degenerate fey who ...
_A mirror hag forces an unsuspecting creature to reflect on its own superficiality by gazing into the hag’s horrible face._ **Hideous Hex.** Until a creature can see past the hag’s deformities, it suffers the pain of a disfigured life. Some mirr...