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A bipedal dinosaur with massive horns on its face, back, and tail roars, revealing an enormous mouth filled with rows of razor teeth._ Tricenatoruses are the rage-filled result of a transmutation experiment gone wrong. **Unnatural Mistakes.** ...
A hulking figure clad in a black armor adorned with thorny ornaments slowly walks forward, seemingly unhindered by the thick vegetation of the surrounding woods._ Thornheart guardians are unyielding and merciless defenders of the forest domains ...
This massive shark-eel surges out of the water, opening titanic jaws large enough to bite a ship in half._ **Bribable.** Wise captains traveling through timingila hunting grounds often carry tithes and offerings in hopes of placating the creatur...
_Twinkling motes of light move around this draconic creature’s body like stars, their reflections twinkling across its metallic scales._ **Returned Travelers.** A drake’s curiosity sometimes drives it to seek experiences beyond its plane, and it...
This tusked seal is nearly transparent, including its internal organs, except for a few spots dotting its hide._ **Unseen Pinnipeds.** Shimmer seals traverse their typical habitats hidden from prey and predators alike. Their translucent skin and...
A mechanical whir issues from this pyramid-shaped mechanism as it begins to unfold hundreds of jointed limbs. When the noise grows shrillest, alien runes alight across its golden surfaces._ **Secret Keepers.** The people of Leng are renowned tra...
_This large vermin moves erratically, leaking noxious fluid from its cracked exoskeleton._ **Ooze Vermin.** This parasitic ooze lives in the shells of monstrous vermin, such as scorpions and spiders, that it has infested and killed. A skitterhau...
This bipedal reptilian creature has scales of gold that turn to red in the shadow. It has clawed hands but wields a sword. Its breath smells of brimstone, and a hint of smoke can be seen escaping through its nostrils._ **Jungle Dwellers.** The s...
Appearing as a well-muscled humanoid with the lower body of a serpent, this hideous yet strangely majestic creature is covered in thick, golden scales. A flaming emerald crest frames its bestial face, and it holds a red-hot trident in its hands._ ...
The immense reptile soars through the water, long and sleek. Its powerful tail undulates rhythmically, threatening all in its terrifying wake._ **Terrors of the Deep.** Vent linnorms live near hydrothermal fissures located in the deepest parts o...
This huge, six-horned, bull-like creature possesses a mane of writhing flames and shimmering metal skin._ **Creation of the Gods.** All sarsaok descend from a mighty celestial ox said to have been present at the creation of humanity. Scholars sp...
Flurries drift from the body of this gigantic humanoid seemingly crafted from snow. Its simple clothes are almost pointless, and it carries a massive icicle as a club._ **Subservient to Frost Giants.** Snow giants inhabit the same territory as O...
_A repulsive, batlike creature darts from the Stygian darkness. Its body consists entirely of rotting sheets of stolen skin. Though its large eyes are glassy and lifeless, an unmistakably evil intent glimmers within them as a toothless mouth sprea...
This upright, muscular boar has short, brown fur. Though it stands on cloven hooves, its arms end in oversized fists._ **Seeker of Champions.** The scrofin is a powerfully built creature that seeks to find a worthy challenger for a wrestling cha...
The plain, white mushroom suddenly shifts and twists into a poisonous deathcap._ In their natural form, shiftshrooms are white mushrooms with bifurcated stalks. Their natural ability to disguise themselves as other mushrooms evolved as a defense...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
_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...
Greenish liquid drips from the dagger-length fangs of this 20-foot-long monstrosity. They show little fear. _**Human Hunters.**_ This giant venomous snake is known as one of the most lethal serpents, and one of the few that will attack an adult ...
_A raven-haired young woman rises to the surface of the water as she swims, singing softly to herself—and her lower body is that of a mountain lion. Her sweet song turns to a yowl of rage when she spots prey._ Wampus cats are all born from an an...
Medium Monstrosity, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
The tarrasque can take 2 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end...