Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
Medium Humanoid, CR 7. From Creature Codex.
Medium Undead, CR 6. From Creature Codex.
Large Aberration, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
This large clockwork mantis is surprisingly nimble and fast, capable of taking down foes with a lethal flurry of serrated claws and bites._ **Wanted by Gnomes.** The existence of these wandering clockwork monsters creates a bad reputation for pe...
Large Beast, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
A faint disturbance signifies the presence of something terrible and evil—an unnatural miasma. Suddenly, the hazy air coalesces into a mass of greenish fog with multiple red eyes and a dozen vaporous tentacles._ **Harbingers of Pestilence.** The...
Huge Dragon, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Huge Ooze, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 3.
A massive mammalian herbivore with a long neck and a thick, pebbled hide._ **Towering Megafauna.** Also called paraceratherium, mei jiao shou are the second largest land mammal after the only slightly larger oliphaunts. They stand around 20 feet...
Large Dragon, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Monstrosity, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Monstrosity, CR 5. From Creature Codex.
Huge Monstrosity, CR 6. From Creature Codex.
Medium Undead, CR 8. From Creature Codex.
A plump, wingless drake with golden scales and glowing amber eyes lounges on a pile of treasure. When it opens its crooked mouth, molten gold drips from its jaws._ **Avarice Personified.** Hoard drakes are perhaps the most avaricious and lazy of...
This waterlogged humanoid is partially rotting and has plant matter, including a trio of whipping vines, infused in its body._ **Drowned Dead.** Marsh dires are the animated remains of humanoids who drowned in marshlands, weighted down by muck a...
Large Elemental, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
A mass of disgorged plant material lies at the base of this fleshy tree. Hollowed out areas give the impression of a mouth and a pair of eyes._ **Disgusting Display.** At a distance, the fleshdreg’s appearance is not quite so disturbing, but a c...
Huge Fiend, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
Large Construct, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
This flying creature looks like the disembodied skin of a once-living person. Its mouth is twisted into a tortured scream, and its eyes gleam a baleful blue._ **Tortured to Death.** Flayed wraiths come into being when certain dark energies are p...
Gnarled roots reaching deep into the muck act as legs for this group of trees conjoined into a sentient being._ **Ancient Grove Guardians.** Mangrove treants provide shelter and a resource-rich environment for many creatures. They extend their r...
Medium Fiend, CR 6. From Creature Codex.
Medium Elemental, CR 6. From Creature Codex.