Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
Large Elemental, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
This tall, emaciated giant has unnaturally long arms ending in razor-sharp talons. It has a strangely conical head with glowing red eyes and fearsome fangs. Its skin is a dark gray-green, and its body is completely devoid of hair._ **Giant Bogey...
A mechanical whir issues from this pyramid-shaped mechanism as it begins to unfold hundreds of jointed limbs. When the noise grows shrillest, alien runes alight across its golden surfaces._ **Secret Keepers.** The people of Leng are renowned tra...
Medium Fiend, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Tiny Elemental, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Large Fiend, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Construct, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 2.
Medium Fiend, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Humanoid, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Gargantuan Ooze, CR 10. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Standing on its back legs and holding a decapitated human head in its hands, this nightmarish creature resembles a gigantic squirrel with saber-like teeth, soulless black eyes, and hard, scaly skin. It chitters softly and eerily._ **Forest Terro...
Vaguely humanoid in appearance, this creature has long, raking claws, a jerking gait, and no facial features. Its mushroom-gray skin is covered in strange bumps and eddies as if something were seething just below the surface._ **Faceless Nightma...
Medium Fey, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
This elephant-sized feline has sleek fur, four upward-turned fangs in its mouth, and a long tail ending in multiple strands like a pheasant._ **Familial Bonds.** Zouyu live as mated pairs with large territories. The great felines are gentle and ...
Large Celestial, CR 6. From Creature Codex.
Large Undead, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
A pool of black pitch bubbles on the ground. Skulls and bones rise to the surface with each burst of putrid air. The tar lets out a burbling hiss, as if releasing the last gasp of a creature trapped within it._ **Necrotic Sludge.** When a group ...
Large Elemental, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 3.
The mumbling humanoid alternates between bursts of speed and inactivity as it struggles to focus on the reality around it._ Caught in a chronological maelstrom, zeitgeists struggle to interact with whatever reality presents itself in that moment...
Medium Monstrosity, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Waves of heat shimmer around a gigantic vulturelike creature made of sand. The sand crackles with dark energy, and the creature’s eyes burn with malign intelligence._ An enormous vulture forged from sand and malignant power, a zalikum is created...
Medium Construct, CR 10. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Elemental, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Small Ooze, CR 5. From Creature Codex.