Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
When the oaken box is found on your stoop, run—for the box devil is soon to come._ Chatterlomes have featureless grey heads with large, round eyes, and their circular mouths are filled with needlelike teeth. They have misshapen torsos and short,...
A pillar of water rises up into a humanoid shape, steam trailing from its boiling form._ **Boiling Water.** Fire-infused water elementals are created when water elementals spend great lengths of time in superheated water, such as the borderlands...
A multi-headed horror tears out of the body of this tusked, ogre-like brute._ Manggus are ogre-like shapeshifters that join with tribes of Open Game License
Huge Giant, CR 5. From Creature Codex.
Large Construct, CR 8. From Creature Codex.
Large Elemental, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
An amalgam of shadow fey and spider, the thorn-covered fey appears out of the shadows and envelops its victim in icy tendrils of darkness._ **Will of the Fey Queen.** Shadow fey who have proven themselves most loyal to the commands and desires o...
A pile of red, gooey flesh slurps along the ground. The meat climbs upon itself, squishing as it creates a formidable, hungry wall._ Malleables are malevolent, formless piles of flesh that absorb psychic energy and grow smarter and stronger when...
A large chameleon pokes its head below the canopy. Soon, four other identical heads peek below the treetops. A massive body accompanies the heads, revealing they all belong to one creature. The creature’s odd feet and long, curled tail transport i...
The large, smooth rock stands, the air around it humming with energy. As it walks, nearby daggers, lanterns, and buckled boots move to follow it._ Magnetic elementals spontaneously appear where the Plane of Earth meets the Plane of Air. They are...
A serpent rises in tight coils, until its head is level with that of a tall man. Its body is thick and covered in glossy black scales broken by wide bands of bright orange. The two smaller serpents growing from its torso wind together and hiss men...
Large Ooze, CR 10. From Creature Codex.
Eight tentacles reach out from the scorched body of this unusual octopus-like creature. Glowing yellow, orange, and red patches smolder on its skin, like embers flaring to life._ **Elemental Bodies.** Magma octopuses are creatures that physicall...
Medium Undead, CR 5. From Creature Codex.
Large Dragon, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 3.
The fey lady’s attendant stands by, waiting on her from the shadows. The lady voices her desire, and the attendant leaps into action, calling a phantasmal charger made of midnight and shadow._ **Fey Stewards.** The far dorocha manage the servant...
A tiny bird swoops through the air and alights on a nearby branch. It has the body of a tiny hawk, the colorful wings of a butterfly, and the head of an elf with large, luminous eyes._ **Miniscule Fey.** Dwelling in pastoral woods and rich farml...
The head of a beautiful woman flies through the air, trailing tentacle-like entrails while her headless body follows, bearing demonic claws._ **Cursed Nature.** Hantu penanggal arise when creatures pledged to fiendish powers break their agreemen...
Large Beast, CR 6. From Creature Codex.
Large Dragon, CR 6. From Creature Codex.
Huge Aberration, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts 3.
A tall, gangly humanoid creature with pale-green skin and the head of a mackerel strides out of the water. It wears a loose-fitting tunic and carries a clamshell in its long, spindly hands._ **Diplomatic Fey.** Haleshi are fey that act as interm...
Large Construct, CR 10. From Creature Codex.
A grey humanoid wearing a dark tattered cloak and worn armor descends on glimmering, mothlike wings. In its hands it wields a halberd tipped with a cold light. Its black lidless eyes are filled with envy and sorrow._ **Condemned to the Dark.** L...