Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
A sizeable snowperson with sticks for arms, a carrot nose, and a smile etched across its face slowly turns its head. Closer inspection reveals the smile is disturbingly jagged._ **Demonic Snow People.** Snow terrors hail from an icy layer of the...
Row after row of bruise-purple fungus grows from the rocks like living shelves. The air becomes hazy as the fungus lets out a sudden puff of spores._ **Ambitious Parasite.** The ophio fungus is native to the subterranean caverns that wind throug...
Resembling a giant scaled stoat with savage tusks jutting from the corners of its mouth, this monster bears a set of diaphanous, mothlike wings that radiate all the colors of the spectrum._ **Eaters of Magical Energy.** The werynax is a fearsome...
Huge Elemental, CR 10. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Large Elemental, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Flurries drift from the body of this gigantic humanoid seemingly crafted from snow. Its simple clothes are almost pointless, and it carries a massive icicle as a club._ **Subservient to Frost Giants.** Snow giants inhabit the same territory as O...
The twisted form of a humanoid shark hunches over, its grin showing rows of jagged teeth. Fresh blood drips from its mouth as it clutches a trident in powerful hands._ In humanoid form, weresharks tend to be powerfully-muscled and broad, with li...
Medium Undead, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Humanoid, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Fiend, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Humanoid, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
This creature could be mistaken for a large centaur if not for the black and green scales covering its body and its cobra-like head. Its hiss sounds like a hundred angry vipers, and the venom dripping from creature’s long fangs sizzles as it lands...
This feathered humanoid has piercing eyes, larger than normal for a humanoid’s head, set around a sharp beak. Wings spread from its arms, and its feet end in wicked talons._ A wereowl is a hybrid creature usually in service to a powerful creatur...
Large Construct, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Undead, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
This large onyx statue looks down critically from an ornate chair. It wears long ceremonial robes and carries a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other. With a slow grinding sound, the statue animates and rises in the air, still seated in its ...
Large Dragon, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Dragon, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 3.
The halfling takes a long drink from a mug, its wild, graying hair falling back to reveal the creature’s pointed nose and sharp chin. Its bloodshot eyes hold a glimmer of mischief as it sets down the mug._ **Tavern Spirits.** Sileni adopt a spec...
This towering ogre is covered in rippling muscles. It wears a suit of burnished scale mail and hefts a gleaming greatsword in its hands. A large white horn emerges from the ogre’s forehead, glowing with a strange blue radiance._ **Ogre Royalty.*...
Large Monstrosity, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Beast, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
A diminutive blue humanoid with sharp black claws and exaggeratedly pointed ears floats in the air, emanating a palpable sensation of cold._ **Cursed Fairy.** Warmth thieves were fey in the court of the Queen who had the peculiar ability to rob ...
Large Plant, CR 7. From Creature Codex.