Challenge Rating 0 to 1 (easy encounters)
_These scaly creatures resemble nothing so much as tiny, batwinged dragonkin._ **Dragon Sprites.** Chernomoi (which means “lair sprite” in Draconic) often reside discreetly in a dragon lair or dragonborn household, cleaning and tidying up at nig...
_These large water-striding insects resemble a strange cross between camels and wingless, long-legged locusts. A rider can comfortably sit in the large hollow in the small of their backs, even at high speeds or on choppy water. Riders use the gerr...
_This mole-like creature is the size of a large dog, with a thick, barrel-shaped body as heavy as a full-grown dwarf. A ring of tentacles sprouts above a mouth dominated by spade-like incisors. It has no visible ears and only tiny, cataract-filled...
_These aggressive, blue-black freshwater crabs inhabit rivers and streams, scuttling along the muddy terrain in search of prey._ **Strangling Claws.** Garroter crabs are named for their abnormal right claws, which have evolved over time to stran...
_Except for a pair of tiny fangs, the entire body of this yellowishgreen worm looks like a ropy tangle of slime-covered tubes and puddles of mucus._ **Anesthetic Ooze.** Many jungle clans believe the dipsa is an eyeless snake, but it is a tubula...
_These light brown, furred creatures inquisitively survey their surroundings, each comforted by the presence of the others._ **Friendly Farmers.** Burrowlings work together at every task: digging tunnels, foraging, and rearing their young. They ...
_These tiny, obsidian-skinned, bat-winged fey always have a hungry look, leering with razor-sharp fangs showing and licking their leathery faces with their forked, purple tongues._ **Hidden in Crevices.** Buccas are tiny, underground faeries who...
_Tiny and built like a caricature of a person, this creature’s enlarged head is filled with pointed teeth._ **Bodily Children.** Broodikens are crude servants created by humanoid spellcasters willing to grow them within their own bodies. They re...
_A bone crab’s cracked skull scurries forward on bone-white legs. These tainted crustaceans make discarded craniums their home._ **Skull Shells.** Much like an enormous hermit crab, bone crabs inhabit the remains of large fish, humanoids, and ot...
_This small, leering water spirit resembles a cross between a gray frog and a damp scarecrow, with small tendrils sprouting from all its extremities. It has water wings seemingly made out of jellyfish flesh, allowing it to jet through the water at...