Challenge Rating 2 to 4 (medium encounters)
Medium Undead, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Monstrosity, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Huge Plant, CR 3. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Small Plant, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Plant, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 3.
This giant has a bulky, muscular body and small eyes in its broad, flat face. The giant’s thumbs end in large, black claws._ **Ancient Giants of the Deep.** Abbanith giants are among the oldest races of giants known to exist and are said to have...
Small Fiend, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Fey, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Construct, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 3.
_These small, winged faeries appear to be made out of gray mist, and can conceal themselves completely in the fogbanks and clouds enshrouding their mountainous lairs._ **Mist Dancers.** These evil and cunning faeries (whose name means “mist danc...
_These small, winter faeries are vicious and deadly. With their pale skin and translucent wings, they blend perfectly into their snowy environment; only their beady black eyes stand out against the snow and ice._ These malevolent ice-sprites are...
_With the face of a mandrill and the tusks of a great boar, these ferocious half-ape, half-human pygmies have demon blood flowing in their veins. Only the desperate or the suicidal travel to their volcanic temple-islands._ A demon lord bred the ...
_Although it has the head of a shaggy bear, this humanoid creature wears armor and carries a battleaxe in one massive, clawed hand and a warhammer in the other. It’s a solid slab of muscle that towers imposingly over most humans._ The hulking be...
Medium Humanoid, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts.
_With webbed claws, bulbous eyes, and two nostril-slits that ooze an oily black substance, the creature is not quite hideous—but it might be, if most of it wasn’t concealed by a thick coating of muck and mud._ **Bathing Uglies.** When a bagienni...
_A lean and dull-scaled ash drake often perches on a chimney as if it just crawled out, its tail still hanging into the chimney as smoke billows out._ **Chimney Nesting.** Ash drakes clog chimney flues and delight in dusting crowds with thick, c...
_Long, simian arms snake through the trees like furred serpents, dangling from a shaggy, striped ape in the leafy canopy above and trying to snare those below._ An arboreal grappler is a malformed creation of the gods, a primate whose legs warpe...
_An anubian’s swirling sand comes together to form a snarling, canine-faced humanoid whose eyes shine with an eerie, blue glow. Anubians are elementals summoned to guard tombs or protect treasures._ **Piles of Dust.** An anubian at rest resemble...
_As patient as a fisherman, the angler worm lights a beacon in the darkness and waits for its next meal._ **Silk Snares.** The angler worm burrows into the ceilings of caves and tunnels, where it creates snares from strong silk threads coated wi...
_The amphiptere is most commonly found as a flight of gold-crested, bat-winged serpents bursting from the foliage._ **Tiny Wyverns.** An amphiptere has batlike wings and a stinger similar to a wyvern’s at the end of its tail. Their reptilian bod...
Medium Monstrosity, CR 3. From Tome of Beasts.
_This collection of hundreds of eyes floats along, trailing ganglia and dripping caustic fluid that sizzles when it hits the ground._ **Failed Experiment.** An oculo swarm results from an experiment to create a live scrying sensor that went poor...
_A grinning man brandishes a staff surmounted by a rune-covered skull. Blasphemous sigils adorn his clothes, and ashes stain his skin a sickly gray._ Noctiny are wretched humanoids corrupted by fell power. Their skin is sallow and gaunt even bef...
_A sleek serpent wends through the air, held aloft on bronze-feathered wings. The flying cobra flares its hood and hisses, hurling a spray of orange sparks from its fanged mouth._ A uraeus resembles a vibrantly colored cobra. The serpent’s scale...