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While the chitinous horn-like protrusion makes holler spiders appear comical, they can use it to release a loud sound, calling their masters when they detect trespassers. Unlike most spiders, Open Game License
_This bent-backed crone has long, leathery arms and cruel, flesh‑shearing talons. Her face is a misshapen mass of leathery flesh with a bulbous nose, like a gnarled knot on an old oak tree._ **Vampiric Origins.** Blood hags have long skulked on ...
This hairless, dog-like creature has pale skin, an enormous bladder underneath its throat, and a conical head with two deepset, black eyes. A long, thick red tongue, ending in a hollow spike, flicks from its shrew-like mouth._ **Ravenous Blood E...
_A bone collective is almost a fluid; its thousands of tiny bones coalesce into a humanoid form only to disperse in a clattering swarm the next moment. Their tiny bones rustle when they move, a quiet sound similar to sand sliding down a dune._ *...
An enormous deep purple flower pushes forward on its vines, which are covered in throbbing black protrusions. As it moves, a single protrusion bursts open, spraying a green, sizzling substance all over the forest floor._ **Meat Drinkers.** Bulbo...
Carrier mosquitos are massive insects that defy logic, as they not only stay aloft but also zip around with incredible speed and maneuverability. Their nine-foot wingspans keep them from falling out of the sky, but their wings beat frequently, pro...
Covered in black spikes, the dragon’s eyeless head swings from side to side. Darkness creeps from its strange, eel-like hide, spreading like ink in water. Apex predators of the underworld, cave dragons are the stuff of nightmare for creatures wi...
_A chelicerae resembles a massive spider perched on tall, stilted legs. Most often, the disheveled body of a robed arcanist swings from its clenched mandibles._ **Feed on Spellcasters.** These massive arachnids are largely confined to the great ...
_Its eyes gleam like polished walnuts, and its sly smile seems oddly placed on the tiny body, covered in spikes and thorns. The creature’s waist is no thicker than a clenched fist, and its sinuous arms are no wider than a finger but twice the leng...
Emerging from the water with barely a ripple is a slender, serpentine creature with human arms and a wicked grin on its wide, lizard-like mouth. The creature is no more than a foot long and has pale green skin and blood-red eyes._ **Ophidian Fey...
A horrid-looking bipedal creature with cracked, leathery skin and long arms and legs—ending in wicked, flensing talons—rears up. A trio of unblinking purple eyes is situated in the monster’s chest, and its neck ends in a nest of lamprey-like heads...
An **axe beak** is a tall flightless bird with strong legs and a heavy, wedge-shaped beak. It has a nasty disposition and tends to attack any unfamiliar creature that wanders too close.
**Bandits** rove in gangs and are sometimes led by thugs, veterans, or spellcasters. Not all bandits are evil. Oppression, drought, disease, or famine can often drive otherwise honest folk to a life of banditry. **Pirates** are bandits of the hig...
Water filled with algae, worms, and other detritus rises up in a serpentine form. It reeks of stagnation and rot._ **Corrupted Water Elementals.** When aquatic parasites invade a water elemental, they take control of it and seek to propagate. Th...
Necromancers, both living and dead, sometimes come together to make massive undead creatures known collectively as “necrotech”. In nations ruled by undead, these massive creations often act as siege weapons or powerful modes of transportation._ ...
_A hulking, hyena-faced humanoid with heavily scarred, oversized muzzle, a bouda looks as if its jaw had once been ripped apart and put back together. Clouds of gnats and fleas roil around its arms._ **Glowing Eyes and Teeth.** Bouda are child-e...
This creature is a disturbing combination of wolf and locust, and the smoke it exhales hovers thickly around it. Fur surrounds its locust head, and long, insectoid legs extend from its canine body._ **Unnatural Origin.** Brimstone locusthounds a...
_The beetles wore golden bridles and carried huge leather sacks of stone and guano. They marched without stopping; dozens, even hundreds, bringing fresh earth to the white-fungus trees of the great forests. Their claws skittered with a sound like ...
_These scaly creatures resemble nothing so much as tiny, batwinged dragonkin._ **Dragon Sprites.** Chernomoi (which means “lair sprite” in Draconic) often reside discreetly in a dragon lair or dragonborn household, cleaning and tidying up at nig...
_Light glints off the moving parts of almost a thousand clockwork beetles in a biting cloud._ **Freed But Foolish.** Clockwork beetle swarms form when several of the creatures break free of their creators and bond together in a noisy mass of cla...
_The humanoid form approaches through the murky water, but as it nears, it becomes clear that this is no living thing. It is made entirely of sharks’ jaws, joined together and brought to life with grim magic._ Made from numerous, interlocking sh...
Vættir are ancestral spirits, sometimes protective and helpful but demanding reverence and wrathful when offended. **Servants of the Land.** Land vættir dwell in barrows while sea vættir live beneath lakes, rivers, or the sea—both wear ancient m...
_Small horns crown this pig-faced devil’s head. It stands on shaggy goat legs and holds a flaming polearm in its clawed hands. It bears a wicked gleam in its black eyes._ **Bad Bargains.** Quick and canny, a chort devil uses varied, pleasing for...
Large Beast, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 2023.