Challenge Rating 0 to 1 (easy encounters)
Tiny Plant, CR 1. From Creature Codex.
Small Monstrosity, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts 3.
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 ...
Small Undead, CR 1/4. From Creature Codex.
Almost blending in with the sky, this creature looks like a large shark with cerulean-hued skin and incredibly long pectoral fins that it uses to sail through the air like a bird. Its mouth is filled with several rows of vicious teeth, and an ivor...
The giant bombardier beetle is among the most surprising creatures lurking on the forest floor. A placid herbivore content to go about its business, the beetle has a powerful defense mechanism in the form of a boiling liquid it can spray to scald ...
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.
This tall, lanky humanoid is sightless, its eyes nothing more than useless spots in its otherwise human face. The creature is encased in a sheath of thick orange jelly, almost as if it had been dipped in a giant pot of honey. The jelly wobbles and...
The bloody corpse stands up, dripping a red slime. As each drop hits the ground, it splatters into little red spores._ The crimson shambler is an intermediary form of a hazardous slime mold found in deep caverns. It wanders the dark passageways,...
A wrinkly, purple-skinned pixie with small black horns and bat wings flits about, chanting a violent song about harvesting organs._ Corrupted pixies are fey turned fiends who savor violence. **Corrupted by Hags.** Hags sometimes capture pixies...
This bat has an emaciated, three-foot-long torso and a head that looks like skin stretched over bone. Its jaws are unnaturally distended, and its mouth is full of needle-like teeth. Ghoul bats are popular messengers and pets amongst darakhul and c...
These large creatures stand upright, with exceptionally powerful legs that end in cloven hooves. Their upper bodies are muscular beneath their snowy-white fur, and their heads resemble those of goats._ **Dwellers of Mountains.** Mountain strider...
A gaggle of mischievous, rime-covered humanoids, one of which is standing on the shoulders of another, paint hoarfrost patterns on a window._ Wherever the temperature drops below freezing, mobs of ice bogies may appear to unleash their wintry mi...
This bipedal creature seems to be a humanoid-shaped mound of leaves and moss given life. Dark pits in its head resemble empty eye sockets._ **Protectors of the Lost.** Ghillie dubhs hail from good-aligned arboreal planes. There, they guide visit...
The curious bipedal lizard lets out a musical chirp. More chirps respond from within the nearby grass, becoming a sinister chorus._ Open Game License
The leafy creature chants as it interprets a portent in a column of roiling, acrid smoke. The little creature shouts “Woe!” while pointing a gnarled finger, signaling the other leafy creatures to rise with readied weapons._ **Trusted Seers.** In...
Small Beast, CR 1/8. From Creature Codex.
Howler baboons are territorial primates that claim stretches of forest and hills in large troops. Their presence is usually heard before it’s seen, thanks to the whooping calls they use to communicate danger and call for their troop mates. When an...
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...
From a distance this creature appears to be an enormous leech. Closer observation reveals it to be a clockwork device. Blood stains its maw, which leaks a green fluid with a vaguely astringent odor._ **Collectors of Blood.** Hags and other magic...
A forest falcon is a large, swift raptor adapted to agile flight through dense canopy rather than bursts of speed in open air. It prefers a high perch, watching for movement from prey on the forest floor. The falcon strikes in a diving ambush and ...
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, holler spiders are easy to domesticate, as they have a ...
Small Humanoid, CR 1. From Creature Codex.
Medium Beast, CR 1/2. From Tome of Beasts 3.