Challenge Rating 2 to 4 (medium encounters)
_With a thick mane of beaded locks, these powerful-looking bestial humanoids grin with a huge mouthful of pointed teeth—as befits a shapeshifter that can turn into a noble lion._ **Beads and Braids.** The nkosi resemble bestial humans with cat’s...
_This horrid creature looks like an enormous flying jellyfish, with long, wicked tusks curving from its gaping mouth and tentacle-whiskers trailing behind it._ **Alchemical Flotation.** These aerial jellyfish waft through the air like balloons, ...
_This swift-moving, lanky humanoid has long arms ending in wicked claws and jaws that open impossibly wide._ **Swift as Horses.** Distantly related to the trolls, the swift and nimble zimwi are a plague upon southern lands. Constantly hungry and...
_In the north the masses huddle in fear at night, dreading the horns and howls of reavers come to slaughter and pillage. The trollkin reaver’s skin is thick and knobby, and it sports wicked talons and tusks._ **Fearsome Savages.** Trollkin have ...
_These spotted and scaly quadrupeds run on hairless leonine paws, while their cat heads perch atop sinuous, serpentine necks._ **Swaying, Snakelike Cats.** Serpopards are 13 feet long and weigh 600 lb, with little gender dimorphism. They have fe...
_This grinning humanoid looks like a handsome man, though his skin is black as obsidian, his eye glow red, and he has both insectoid legs and antennae._ **Dark Satyrs.** The selang or dark satyrs are twisted and vicious fauns who have abandoned ...
The tosculi are a race of wasp-folk that share the Golden Song of the hive, which unites them under the command and iron rule of their queen. Each hive has its own song, and most tosculi hives are predatory, dangerous places—quick to turn to bandi...
Large Beast, CR 3. From Tome of Beasts.
_This aquamarine dragon has a shark’s head that tapers off into a sleek eel-like body. Its large fins double as wings._ **Divine Dragons.** Sea dragons are the children of the ocean, and believe they are semi-divine beings, worthy of worship. Gi...
_Mylings are the souls of the unburied, those who died in the forest from abandonment or exposure and can find no peace until their bodies are properly interred. Given the circumstances around their deaths, mylings tend to be solitary. They haunt ...
_Heavily armored and carrying two rune-marked hammers, a thursir giant’s reddish hair and beard are often plaited in the style of an enormous dwarf._ **Forge Masters.** Greedy and aggressively competitive, thursir dwell in vast caverns under fro...
_When a sap demon leaves a tree, its milky amber fluid oozes from an axe wound on a stout maple’s trunk and shapes itself into a small, vaguely humanoid form on the forest floor beside the tree. This languid creature half walks and half flows forw...
_A suit of elven parade armor, beautifully ornate but perhaps not terribly functional, stands at attention._ **Beautiful Construct.** Like the Open Game License
_Tiny wisps of grayish smoke ooze from the slate-colored coat of this leonine beast._ **Ethereal Lions.** The elusive mngwa (MING-wah; “the strange ones”) are the offspring of a sentient feline beast from the Ethereal Plane that mated with a lio...
_The black carapace gleams in the desert sun, and its tail drips translucent venom. Even the largest lion avoids this scorpion._ **Highly Venomous.** Known for its small size and aggressive behavior, the Stygian fat-tailed scorpion brings a swif...
_This lovely lass is clad in diaphanous veils and a revealing skirt, and she shows graceful skill while dancing through the dust._ **Humanoid Sand.** In its natural form, a mirager resembles a shifting mass of sand and dust with a vaguely humano...
Medium Humanoid, CR 3. 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...
_The millitaur is a purplish-black segmented worm the size of a horse, with hundreds of legs, black multifaceted eyes and thick powerful mandibles. They wield crude stone axes._ **Mulch Eaters.** Millitaurs roam jungles and woodlands, where dens...
_This miniscule creature kicks up a ghostly, sparkling fire when it jostles and jigs. Lightning sparks fly between it and its perch._ **Storm Dancers.** When storm clouds gather over cities, harbors, and twisted badlands, electrical energy fills...
_An undulating mass of flesh and teeth, a wharfling swarm is a horrific sight by moonlight._ **Bloodthisty Mobs.** These masses of hairless bodies writhe along the coast in the moonlight, and often are mistaken for shoggoths or other much larger...
_This lumbering saurian quadruped has large, oblong plates of bone covered in greenish slime protruding from its back and its thick, club-like tail._ _**Large Plates.**_ People describe this reptilian herbivore as “the animal with planks growing...
_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.** ...
_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...