Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
This gigantic marsh bird has blood-red feathers and a scythe-like beak. Its eyes shine with intelligence as it scans its surroundings._ **Accursed Bird.** Scarlet ibises are not inherently malevolent, and many visitors to the swamp assume they a...
Huge Giant, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
A tall, ape-like creature walks upright, its arms ending in heavy fists. The creature’s lips curl back, revealing long, pointed teeth set in a powerful jaw._ Sasquatches are large beasts that stalk deep forests and other densely wooded areas. Th...
A golden pair of glowing, avian irises reveal a large creature on a nearby tree. Horn-like feathered ears sit atop its muscular, winged form. As it shifts on its branch, its wings divulge a hint of insectoid claws beneath them. A soft, echoing voi...
Large Giant, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Eight long, writhing tentacles support and propel this snarling horror’s oblong body while its jagged maw reveals rows of razor teeth._ **Invisible Hunter.** The ulnorya lives to hunt, using its natural invisibility to surprise prey or swiftly c...
This huge, six-horned, bull-like creature possesses a mane of writhing flames and shimmering metal skin._ **Creation of the Gods.** All sarsaok descend from a mighty celestial ox said to have been present at the creation of humanity. Scholars sp...
Huge Monstrosity, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Giant, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Small Undead, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Strutting forward on four legs tipped with sharp talons, this raptor-like fiend has dark crimson feathers covering its scaled hide and an extended, eyeless, saw-toothed maw. A baleful orange eye glares from the monster’s chest._ **Primeval Devil...
Wisps of frosty air rise from the amorphous, quivering blue puddle. Bits of ice cling to the edges, and the surface has an almost crystalline appearance._ **Mountainous Regions.** Sapphire jellies are at home in glacial and mountainous regions a...
Large Aberration, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Giant, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 3.
The serpentine body of the sanddrift drake blends in with the desert sands, its six legs giving it purchase on the canyon walls as it bursts from the ground to snatch its prey._ Found in the hottest deserts, the sanddrift drake is a cunning hunt...
Medium Fey, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Fey, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
A cloud of inky runes churns as some of the markings illuminate briefly._ **Untended Runes.** Runes that have gone unused for years or those created on ley lines sometimes gain a modicum of sentience and coalesce into a gestalt known as a runesw...
Huge Elemental, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Fiend, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Construct, CR 10. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
A four-armed, four-legged creature in the vague shape of a human—but seemingly made of fine spider silk—moves down a tree, slowly chanting the incantation of a spell in the pale light of the full moon._ **Made in Corrupt Forests.** Lunarchidnas ...
Medium Plant, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Small Fiend, CR 5. From Creature Codex.