Challenge Rating 2 to 4 (medium encounters)
_This black, mechanical hunting dog keeps its nose to the ground sniffing and whuffling. Gleaming teeth fill its metal mouth._ **Ticking Bloodhounds.** Partners to the clockwork huntsmen, these black hounds follow the trails of criminals, escape...
_The runner is a mottled blur, a sprinting gnoll laughing as it runs, ax held high. It sprints past, its weapon flashing in the sun._ With the bristly mane and spotted fur characteristic of all gnolls, havoc runners blend into their tribe. Only ...
_Light glints off the moving parts of almost a thousand clockwork beetles in a biting cloud._ **Freed But Foolish.** Clockwork beetle swarms form when several of the creatures break free of their creators and bond together in a noisy mass of cla...
_A duskthorn dryad is a striking woman with obvious fey features and skin the color of slate, often found in the shade of an ancient tree. Clothed in vines and leaves, it can be difficult to tell where one leaves off and the other begins._ **Cre...
Medium Humanoid, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts.
_Several pony-sized ants swarm around an ant the size of a draft horse, clacking their serrated mandibles and threatening with their stingers._ Giant ants look much like a normal ant with six legs, a waspish segmented body, and large antenna. Th...
Medium Undead, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts.
Medium Undead, CR 3. From Tome of Beasts.
_These twitching balls of tentacles surround an inhuman face dominated by a squid-like beak._ **Servants of the Void.** The dorreqi are servants to ancient horrors of the void and realms beyond human understanding. They are guardians and sentrie...
_This rat startled the moment it knew it was seen. Within seconds, the one rat became four, and then the four quickly multiplied into sixteen rats._ The result of a Open Game License
_These patches of tangled, lacy moss cling to the ceiling, slowly pulsing with an eerie glow. Their stems gently writhe among the soft, feathery mass, dusting the ground below with a twinkling of phosphorescent spores._ **Plant Carnivore.** Cave...
_The domovoi enjoy violence and bonebreaking; this makes them useful to more delicate creatures that need enforers._ **Long Armed Bruisers.** Domovoi resemble nothing so much as large, stony goblins, with oversized heads and leering grins, and w...
Covered in black spikes, the dragon’s eyeless head swings from side to side. Darkness creeps from its strange, eel-like hide, spreading like ink in water. Apex predators of the underworld, cave dragons are the stuff of nightmare for creatures wi...
_The beetles wore golden bridles and carried huge leather sacks of stone and guano. They marched without stopping; dozens, even hundreds, bringing fresh earth to the white-fungus trees of the great forests. Their claws skittered with a sound like ...
_Rootlike tendrils explode from the sand at the base of this tall cactus bristling with needles. It uses its tendrils to reach for prey._ **Needled Sentients.** Cactids are semi-sentient cacti that grow in a myriad of shapes and sizes, from grou...
_“They took the sled dogs first, and later the seal-skinner set to guard them. We’d hear a confused, muffled cry in the wind and then we’d find them—a raven harvest, cold and stiff on the ice. Next time, we hid ourselves and watched, and saw them ...
_A gaunt figure in a tattered black mantle shrouded in a cloud of whirling sand. Thin cracks run across its papyrus-dry skin and around its hollow, black eyes._ **Cursed to Wander and Thirst.** Accursed defilers are the remnants of an ancient tr...
_A dragon seemingly formed of the night sky has bright white stars for eyes. Lesser stars twinkle in the firmament of the dragon’s body._ **Children of the Stars.** Void dragons drift through the empty spaces beyond the boundaries of the mortal ...
_A clockwork huntsman is mechanical soldier clad in flat-black armor, and beneath its breastplate, gears tick and whir._ **Slave Hunters.** These metal huntsmen were once the province of corrupt aristocrats, running down escaped slaves and track...