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A human head tops this green-and-brown constrictor. Vines protrude from its scalp and writhe in unison to the serpent’s swaying motion. Mosquitos, gnats, and other flying insects form a cloud around it._ **Self-Proclaimed Ruler and Protector.** ...
Esteron are small, winged salamanders that live in large groups. They cluster around subterranean bodies of water and aggressively protect such places. Some underground creatures see the esteron as a delicacy, but those who hunt esteron know the b...
A feminine creature made of decaying, thorny plant life gives a wicked laugh as she touches a tree and disappears. Moments later, the tree emits the same laugh as it swings its branches._ **Formed by Hags.** Open Game License
Screams echo in the night as spears meet wood and flesh. One trollkin pulls its spear from its latest victim while its companion raids the victim’s larder._ Trollkin raiders are greedy and efficient, moving together under the command of a trollk...
Strutting forward on four legs tipped with sharp talons, this raptor-like fiend has dark crimson feathers covering its scaled hide and an extended, eyeless, saw-toothed maw. A baleful orange eye glares from the monster’s chest._ **Primeval Devil...
**Veterans** are professional fighters that take up arms for pay or to protect something they believe in or value. Their ranks include soldiers retired from long service and warriors who never served anyone but themselves.
Grasping vines form this draconic creature’s wings. Nettlelike teeth fill its maw, and its tail branches like a thriving plant._ **Living Vines.** Vines coil around and branch out from the body of the vine drake, and lengthy thorns protrude from...
This clockwork creature looks like a mechanical spider with long, spindly legs, including one equipped with a particularly sharp blade that’s disproportionately large for the creature’s body. _**Cloth Makers.**_ These tiny but useful devices are...
A ghostly, moon-shaped comet flies above the water, a cloud of vapor and spectral lights trailing behind it._ **Spirits of Violence.** When sailors meet a violent end at sea within sight of the shore and leave no bodies behind to be buried, they...
This large, bestial-looking creature is dark gray, with powerful muscles, long arms, sharp claws at the end of five-digit fingers, fine, short fur, and enormous, bat-like wings. Its face is an odd combination of orc and bat. Its brows are heavy, i...
_A pale, scrawny fellow clad in a black leather apron and slender ebon gloves grins from the shadows. A maw of needle-sharp teeth and the wicked straight razor at his side are a clear warning that his enemies should hasten their footsteps._ Vile...
An unnatural, cloying chill fills the air, and multiple ghostly hands burst from a wall to pummel and grab all within reach._ **Unassuming Horror.** The walled horror is an undead that appears to be a normal stretch of wall until it lashes out a...
The ghostly image of a healthy willow overlays a smaller tree composed of bones. Piles of bones litter the ground at its base._ **Death Tree.** When victims of murder or other violent deaths die in view of an otherwise healthy willow tree, their...
This flabby creature squints with beady eyes, licks its lips, and places a bone-white hand to the gaping hole punched through its chest._ **Miserable Visage.** Woe siphons are a sad sight when compared to their beautiful and terrible fey brethre...
_With skin stretched like vellum over wizened limbs, a desiccated humanoid form clad in splendid regalia emerges from a funerary tower. Suddenly, the air becomes so dry as to make the eyes sting and lips crack. The imposing figure has yellow point...
_These long, crusty slugs sparkle like ice. A gaping hole at one end serves as a mouth, from which long tendrils emanate._ Rime worms are sometimes kept as guards by frost giants. _**Ice Burrowers.**_ The rime worm’s tendrils help it to burrow...
_A body that might once have been human now has four legs and nightmarishly long, thick arms. What’s worse, its skin has been flayed off, revealing the dead muscle and sinew beneath._ **Spirt of War.** The risen reaver is an undead born from a w...
_This mote of electrical energy floats menacingly, erupting in a shower of sparks and tendrils of lightning. When it disappears, it leaves only the whiff of ozone._ **Born in Storms.** When a great storm rips across a world in the Material Plane...
The arctic-dwelling **winter wolf** is as large as a dire wolf but has snow-white fur and pale blue eyes. Frost giants use these evil creatures as guards and hunting companions, putting the wolves'deadly breath weapon to use against their foes. Wi...
This headless brute has two eyes in its chest and a mouth in its belly._ **Descendants of a Fallen God.** All xing tian descend from a god of the same name who challenged the eldest deities and lost. As punishment, his head was removed, but he s...
Tiny Aberration, CR 1/4. From Tome of Beasts.
_A curious bunny, an abandoned infant, or a delicate songbird can spell slow and agonizing death for the unprepared. Beneath any of these facades may lurk a treacle waiting to feed on a gullible victim, mewling and cooing all the while. Whether by...
The long, serpentine dragon is wingless and possesses shimmering, opalescent scales. Its appearance is at once both serene and majestic._ **Dragons of the Spirit World.** Imperial dragons are tied to the world of celestials, fiends, and spirits....
A small house cat gently purrs and twitches its tail. Suddenly it lets loose a blood-curdling yowl as it arches its back. An illusion gives way to the true creature: a rotting undead cat with glowing green eyes, long teeth, and claws like knives._...