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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...
Medium Fiend, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts.
Tiny Construct, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
The can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another cr
_The creature is humanoid but disturbingly roachlike. Its legs are too short, its arms too long, its skin is oily, and its back is covered by a carapace. Atop those features sits an incongruously humanlike face._ Combining the worst of human and...
_This clockwork spider creature is the size of a dog. Each of its eight sharp, sickle-like feet stabs or sinks slightly into the ground. Razor wire enwraps its body, while gyros whirl visibly in its faceless, clockwork head._ **Wire Fighters.** ...
Tiny Fey, CR 1/2. From Tome of Beasts.
_A pack of ghostly wolves appears in a swirl of greenish fog, seeming to coalesce from the fog itself._ When a pack of wolves dies of hunger or chill in the deep winter, sometimes the pack leader’s rage at a cruel death—or the summoning call of ...
_This humanoid wears robes to hide its corpselike pallor and lifeless gray hair. Fine, arm-length worms wriggle through abscesses in its flesh and its empty eye-sockets. It moves stooped over, with a shuffling gait, belying its speed and agility._...
_This withered crone glares malevolently, her face framed by lank gray hair. Her malicious grin is filled with shark teeth, and drool trickles from her lips._ **Hatred of Beauty.** Sand hags are terrifying crones that haunt desert ruins and forg...
_This pale-skinned, white-bearded hermit wears a winter cloak and travels the mountain paths, cliff sides, and trade routes alone._ **Feigns Weakness.** Living in isolated mountain passes and foraging along little-traveled slopes, the stuhac is ...
_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...
_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.
_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...
_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 ...
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...
Medium Dragon, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts.
_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...
_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...
_Stick-thin and moon-faced with a raptor’s eyes and a mane of hawk feathers, this grinning humanoid pirouettes as nimbly as a dancer. Between its long, taloned fingers trickles sand that gleams with the cold light of stars._ **Bringers of Nightm...
_These darting creatures resemble dragonflies, but with three pairs of gossamer wings and a body made from splintered wood. Flashes of bright colors run along their bodies._ **Sew Mouths Shut.** Forest folk rarely speak when sutureflies dart thr...