Challenge Rating 2 to 4 (medium encounters)
More than anything, kobolds are survivors. Their scaly skin and keen night vision as well as their dextrous claws and sensitive snouts make them quick to sense danger, and their clawed feet move them out of danger with cowardly speed. They are sma...
_The dragon bears black scales, more charred than naturally colored. Cracks between the scales glow a dull red, until the dragon rears its head and roars. Red embers become bright orange flames as the creature lights up from tail to maw._ The fl...
_This obese, bell-shaped giant is blemished by ulcers, enlarged veins, and fungal rashes. Though it stumbles about on a pair of short, calloused legs, it moves its weight with dangerous potential, catching many foes off-guard._ **Great Girth.** ...
_Made of fiery smoke coalescing into a vaguely humanoid shape, a firegeist is little more than wisps of black smoke and spots of brighter flame._ **Elemental Echoes.** When a fire elemental meets its destruction in a particularly humiliating fas...
_This proud bird struts like a peacock, made all the more majestic by its flaming fan of feathers, which shift through the color spectrum._ **Guides and Helpers.** Firebirds are welcome sights to those in need of warmth and safety. They primaril...
_A large, brown spider that resembles a tarantula with exaggeratedly long legs gracefully emerges from the bushes, followed by similar arachnids that are smaller and yellow in color._ The j’ba fofi resembles an oversized tarantula with very long...
_This small dragon has feathered wings on its forearms and powerful legs it uses to cling to trees._ The jaculus (plural jaculi), is a draconic predator that roams the forest and jungle looking for valuable objects it can add to its hoard. Also ...
_This creature resembles a blue-skinned dwarven infant, no older than a year. Its limbs flail and its head lolls with an obvious lack of coordination, and it screams incessantly._ Of the madness and insanity that resonates so strongly in derro s...
_This small devil wears a small red hat. A wicked grin flashes black teeth, and the creature nervously wrings its hands, baring long, needle-like claws._ Ink devils have small, pursed mouths and long, thin, bony fingers. Their nails resemble qui...
_These tomb guardians walk their rounds silently, an ornate sword in its hand. Glittering scarabs scurry from under their deformed and yellowed linen wrappings._ **Willing Sacrifices.** The undying servants of the god‑kings and queens of ancient...
Deep Ones With enormous eyes, a wide mouth, and almost no chin, the deep ones are hideous, fishlike folk, often hunched and scaled when encountered in coastal villages. _**Elder Gods.**_ In their fully grown form, the deep ones are an ocean-dwel...
_These shy fairies dress as small fey herdsmen wearing tan hide armor, hide boots, cloaks, and cowls, all trimmed in fox fur and often with a red sash or tunic. They often ride woodland creatures, such as dire weasels or snowy owls._ Hunters & H...
_Deathcap flesh ranges from white to pale gray to a warm yelloworange. Their heads resemble fungal caps, often either red with white spots, red at the center with a brown edge, or a bluish-purple tone. Although deathcaps have vicious-looking fange...
_These enormous clouds of orange and green butterflies add a reek of putrefaction to the air, stirred by the flapping of their delicate wings._ **Demon-Haunted.** A death butterfly swarm results when a rare breed of carrion-eating butterflies, d...
_A constant shimmer surrounds this short, winged creature, and staring at it is eyewatering and confusing, like a distant desert mirage though it’s only scant yards away._ **Desert Mirage Fey.** Daus are creatures of haze and illusion. They stan...
Medium Humanoid, CR 3. From Tome of Beasts.
_The paving stones underfoot suddenly lurch and tumble over one another. Thousands of tiny limbs, pincers, and stingers break from the stony surface and frantically scuttle forward._ A cobbleswarm is made up of tiny, crablike creatures with smoo...
_A grotesque beast with the muscular tail, bulbous head, and the rubbery, slime-covered flesh of a hideous eel, the torso and webbed paws of this amphibious predator resemble those of a misshapen canine. Needle-sharp teeth fill the creature’s mena...
_An evil wind swirls out of the desert, parching those it touches, whispering evil plans. These winds are the edimmus._ **Bitter Exiles.** Desert and plains tribes often exile their criminals to wander as outcasts. A banished criminal who dies o...
_This dried-out body of a long dead traveler is still clad in the tattered remains of his clothes. Skin as dry as parchment clings to the bones that are clearly distinguishable underneath. A hoarse moaning emanates from the dry, cracked lips._ *...
_This swanlike creature’s feathers are made of shining metal. When it inhales, the feathers on its chest glow red hot._ Eala are beautiful but deadly creatures native to the plane of Shadow. They grow feathers like their Material Plane counterpa...
_This hunched, man-like figure lurches with a strange, half-hopping gait. Tattered clothing hangs from its muscled shoulders, and its legs are those of a ram, ending in cloven hooves._ **Trespassers on the Rites.** The first of the goat-men was ...