Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
Huge Elemental, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
A massive, green-scaled boar snorts angrily as tiny bolts of blue lightning ripple over its body._ **Accidental Arcane Creations.** An evoker who raised hogs to fund their wild experiments, accidentally blew up their tower years ago. The explosi...
Rising up from the seafloor is a nightmarish creature resembling an obese mermaid with a wide, fluked tail, claws, and a humanoid head with a fish-like mouth and large, saucer-like, yellow eyes. An organ like the anchor of a boat emerges from its ...
A living pine tree festooned with pinecones featuring razor-sharp edges looks balefully at the intrusion upon its solitude._ **Gruff Forest Protector.** Pine dooms are typically the largest plants in their groves, towering over ordinary pine tre...
Huge Celestial, CR 8. From Creature Codex.
Medium Humanoid, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Small Humanoid, CR 5. From Creature Codex.
This large, bestial-looking creature is dark gray, with powerful muscles, long arms, sharp claws at the end of five-digit fingers, fine, short fur, and enormous, bat-like wings. Its face is an odd combination of orc and bat. Its brows are heavy, i...
This immense humanoid is covered in dark, spiny, chitinous skin, and its sizeable fists are rough and decorated with sharp spikes._ **Natural Carapace.** The phase giant has naturally hard skin, similar to that of a giant insect. Its face, hands...
Large Plant, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Undead, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Fey, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Monstrosity, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Humanoid, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Fey, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
This pile of rotting plant matter is shaped similarly to a woolly mammoth, without the tusks. The plants forming its hide droop to the ground._ **Elephantine Plant Mound.** The peat mammoth is a mobile peat bog on four, stumpy legs. The plants d...
Huge Undead, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Fiend, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
The black, spectral form of an enormous bear with burning red eyes lets loose a bone-chilling roar._ **Corrupted Spirits.** Bear spirits are believed to be the spirits of ancestral warriors and guardians that take on the form of a bear to aid th...
Six legs, ending in massive, three-fingered humanoid hands, support a headless horse-like torso. The front of this creature’s mass opens into a huge tripartite maw filled with jagged, web-shrouded ridges dripping a caustic substance._ **Bottomle...
Small Humanoid, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Huge Undead, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.