Browse 2,200+ monsters from the SRD, Tome of Beasts, Creature Codex, and more. Find the perfect creature for your next encounter.
Giant armadillos look like a hybrid of aardvark, rhinoceros, and turtle with vicious-looking claws used primarily for burrowing. These creatures are generally placid and seek to avoid conflict whenever possible.
The squat newt’s body is dappled gray and chocolate-brown and covered in colorful, wart-like gems, most prominently over its back and along its thick tail. It has long claws, a mouth full of needle-like fangs, and a gleam of intelligence in its mu...
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 massive mammalian herbivore with a long neck and a thick, pebbled hide._ **Towering Megafauna.** Also called paraceratherium, mei jiao shou are the second largest land mammal after the only slightly larger oliphaunts. They stand around 20 feet...
A pile of red, gooey flesh slurps along the ground. The meat climbs upon itself, squishing as it creates a formidable, hungry wall._ Malleables are malevolent, formless piles of flesh that absorb psychic energy and grow smarter and stronger when...
Large Monstrosity, CR 3. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Giant, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Beast, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Beast, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Aberration, CR 21. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Construct, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 3.
_Unfolding impossibly from beneath voluminous robes, this creature’s pockmarked, spindly arms end in clusters of narrow spikes. Its long, hollow, needle-like fingers and its many-jointed arms move with surprising speed and strength for such an ema...
The ticking of metal gears is all that hints at the presence of a pair of feline-shaped metal creatures. They are bronze and steel, with sharp metal teeth and razor claws._ **Magical Origin.** Clockwork tigers were invented as guardians in times...
A human voice emanates from a lion-like hyena. As it speaks, its black tongue runs over the many teeth in its unnaturally wide mouth._ **Disturbing Grin.** The crocotta’s mouth stretches back to its ears, allowing its powerful jaw to open unnatu...
The cavern glitters with refracted light bouncing off thousands of crystals. A towering menhir of shimmering crystal dominates the center of the cavern._ Whether a rare evolution of silicate life or a wandering nomadic race from some alternate r...
Giant honey bees congregate in great swarms and fill hollows in rocky hillsides with their massive wax and honey hives. Far more intelligent than their diminutive cousins, giant honey bees sometimes enter into relationships with bearfolk or other ...
A humanoid-shaped block of ice lumbers forward on angular legs._ **Visitors from Polar Portals.** Remote polar regions possess their own entrances to the demiplane of ice. Ice elementals emerge from the core of ancient glaciers or rise from foot...
Large Aberration, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
An immense, pale-blue, eel-like creature dripping a thick, gelatinous oil rises above the waves. Dozens of tiny eyes blink along its serpentine flanks._ **Giant Elementals.** One of the more unusual denizens of the Elemental Plane of Water, the ...
An enormous woman covered in rocky formations accented with crystals emerges from the mountainside._ Often mistaken for giants, mountain dryads are huge fey who are tied to primal mountains. **Like the Mountain.** Mountain dryads are sturdier ...
A roughly humanoid figure composed of thick, greenish-gray fog steps out of the darkness. Its eyes are smoldering orange orbs, and yellow embers trail behind it as it moves forward, burning the very air with its passage._ **Spirits of Vengeance ...
Large Beast, CR 7. From Creature Codex.
Large Beast, CR 2. From Creature Codex.
Small Humanoid, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.