Challenge Rating 2 to 4 (medium encounters)
_The water leaper is a frogheaded, legless creature with wide batlike wings and a gaping maw. Its shrieks resemble those of a hawk. Its long, sinuous tail tapers and ends in a venomous barb._ **Gliding Wings.** The creature has no legs or arms, ...
_These clicking, turquoise-colored beetles have faintly luminescent golden glyphs on their backs, which grow brighter as they draw near._ Manabane scarabs are vermin infused with the ancient magic of fallen desert empires. _**Devour Magic.**_ ...
_Some say the sluagh are fey turned by vampires, while others say they are the evil souls of violent men, who cannot rest and return to kill. Still others claim they are the souls of devilbound gnomes who committed suicide. All agree that they are...
Medium Plant, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts.
_This large vermin moves erratically, leaking noxious fluid from its cracked exoskeleton._ **Ooze Vermin.** This parasitic ooze lives in the shells of monstrous vermin, such as scorpions and spiders, that it has infested and killed. A skitterhau...
_“I saw no more terrible beast on all my journeys north than the mahoru. The white bears had their aloof majesty, the lindwurm serpentine grace, but the monster that gnawed away the pack ice beneath our feet and savaged any who fell into the water...
_While a huginn’s face resembles that of a great raven or crow, it lacks wings and has a much more solid frame. Most are pitch black, although a smattering have white feathers and red flecks._ The ravenfolk are an avian race of scoundrels, schem...
_A pale, scrawny fellow clad in a black leather apron and slender ebon gloves grins from the shadows. A maw of needle-sharp teeth and the wicked straight razor at his side are a clear warning that his enemies should hasten their footsteps._ Vile...
_This shambling corpse warrior is draped in stained linen wrappings. Green liquid drips from rents in the fabric._ **Servant of the Scorpion Goddess.** These mummies are crafted by Selket’s faithful to guard holy sites and tombs and to serve as ...
_Despite being short and squat, this creature’s relationship with a troll is undeniable. The kinship is most notable in the long arms and thick, pebbly hide._ **Long Handed and Toad-like.** The shellycoat is a warped and spiteful creature also c...
Large Humanoid, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts.
_Chattering creatures with a superficial similarity to squirrels, the ratatosk have tiny tusks and fur that shimmers in a way that defies the surrounding light._ **Sleek-furred Celestials.** The ratatosk is a celestial being that is very much co...
_Their howls echoing from another plane, lich hounds always arrive wreathed in mist. Half bone, half purple fire, they are creatures of hunger and the hunt. Nothing makes them happier than taking down creatures larger than themselves—or racing thr...
Vættir are ancestral spirits, sometimes protective and helpful but demanding reverence and wrathful when offended. **Servants of the Land.** Land vættir dwell in barrows while sea vættir live beneath lakes, rivers, or the sea—both wear ancient m...
_This furred humanoid glides silently through the canopy of trees, gripping a blowgun. It observes visitors cautiously with two intelligent, bulbous eyes._ **Jungle Rulers.** These small, intelligent, squirrel-like humanoids live in reclusive, p...
_These shambling corpses have twigs, branches, and other debris intertwined with their bodies, and their gaping maws often crawl with scrabbling vermin._ **Swamp Undead.** Putrid haunts are walking corpses infused with moss, mud, and the detritu...
_Often a shadhavar is first noticed for the haunting melody it makes, and some mistake them for unicorns or fey steeds. On closer inspection, they look like desiccated unicorns, their skeletons clearly visible beneath their taut flesh._ **Shadow...
_A dazzling explosion of multicolored lights erupts from this cloud of flying beetles, flashing every color of the rainbow._ _**Flesh-Eating Beauties.**_ The depths of the jungle are filled with lethal wildlife, and prismatic beetles are superla...
_This squat little man has long limbs and skin the color of coal, and the backs of its hands and tops of its feet are covered in thick hair. Its face seems a bit too wide for its head, and its eyes gleam a little too brightly in the pale light._ ...
_With its sharp angles and translucent skin, this draconic creature looks as if it were carefully folded from a massive sheet of paper, including its razor-sharp claws and teeth._ **Book and Map Erasers.** These drakes originated in exotic lands...
_A bit of catchy, repetitive music emanates from nowhere, drifting and moving as if dancing in the empty air._ **Born from Drama.** Incredibly moving arias, passionate performances, and ditties that drive you mad are often the product of ostinat...
_This oddly colored cat appears at first to be a powerful panther. Its wide mouth pulls into something like a human grin, and its knowing eyes hint at intelligence beyond that of a typical predator._ Enemies of elves and blink dogs, kot bayuns a...
_A primitive and relatively diminutive form of giant, forest marauders claim the wilderness areas farthest from civilization when they can._ **Painted Skin.** Roughly the size and shape of an ogre, this brutish thing is covered in paint or color...
_The people of Leng are hideous and malevolent, with goatlike legs and small horns they keep concealed beneath turbans, and mouths full of rows of serrated teeth, somewhat akin to sharks. They have a fondness for combining heavy leathers and brigh...