Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
Human hands sit at the ends of the raccoon-headed creature’s four short legs. It flicks its banded tail as it turns toward cries for help, setting its vivid blue eyes on those in need._ **Good Samaritans.** Astri range the badlands and deserts o...
Large Construct, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
A swarm of strange, faceless gray snakes flies through the air—wingless, as if through water. Their mouths are rasping irises of gnashing fangs, and the sides of each snake are lined with milky, unblinking eyes._ When enough serpents on the Astr...
Large Celestial, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
A fire-haired woman with ashen skin gently touches a dying tree, igniting it and the surrounding undergrowth._ **Wardens of Wildfire.** This beautiful fey with fiery hair and ashen skin wears a cloak of soot as she treads the forests of the worl...
Large Construct, CR 10. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Construct, CR 10. From Creature Codex.
A massive raptor made of ash and shadow screeches as it dives, its eyes like glowing coals. Impossibly, it stops its dive mere feet from the ground, and its powerful wings whip up ash that carries the chill of the grave._ Ash phoenixes are the a...
Huge Ooze, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Medium Fiend, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
A portly gentleman with slender arms and legs keeps his face and hands carefully concealed._ Arachnocrats are spider-like fiends who enjoy masquerading as members of high society. They eat haute cuisine and drink fine wine in the company of huma...
Medium Construct, CR 10. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
A giant raptor roars out its fury in spouts of fire and scalding water while lightning crackles through its feathers._ **Territorial.** Anzu are fierce and territorial predators, claiming ranges along the edges of deserts, wide grasslands, or hi...
Large Fiend, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
The ogre shifts and contorts, dropping to all fours as it takes the form of a vicious bear-sized skunk with razor-sharp claws and teeth._ **Noxious Terrors.** The aniwye is a magical monstrosity that resembles a cross between an enormous skunk a...
Medium Fey, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Large Elemental, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Humanoid, CR 10. From Creature Codex.
Large Construct, CR 9. From Creature Codex.
Huge Celestial, CR 7. From Creature Codex.
Large Monstrosity, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Possessing the body, head, and tail of a killer whale and the powerful legs of a huge wolf, the akhlut is the alpha predator of the polar landscape. Truly personifying the term “seawolf,” these intelligent and resilient creatures travel freely bet...
A cloud of unconnected, flat gray triangles in the vague shape of a mantis flickers unpredictably from one position to another, clicking softly as its arm blades swing outward. Akaasits are constructed beings from a plane destroyed by a catastroph...
At the core of its clockwork armor, the creature is a shapeless horror from beyond the stars._ **Clockwork Armor.** Weak and easy prey in their natural state, the ahu-nixta long ago mastered the art of clockwork design, building armor that could...