Challenge Rating 5 to 10 (hard encounters)
Large Celestial, CR 5. From Creature Codex.
Large Monstrosity, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts 3.
Large Elemental, CR 10. From Tome of Beasts 3.
A chimeric beast with the body of a massive trout and the front claws and head of a fierce wolverine bursts up from the icy water. Its eyes glow with a lambent green light, and the air around it bends and distorts as if viewed through a thick lens...
Crimson slime covers this ungainly creature. Its tiny black eyes sit in an abnormally large head, and dozens of sharp teeth fill its small mouth. Its limbs end in large, grasping claws that look strong enough to crush the life out of a bear._ **...
Huge Giant, CR 8. From Tome of Beasts 3.
_This headless giant has a large mouth in its chest, with eyes bulging out on either side of it._ **Always Hungry.** Blemmyes are brutes that savor humanoid flesh, and they see all humanoids as potential meals. Some even have the patience to ten...
Medium Humanoid, CR 5. From Tome of Beasts.
_A nightmare wrapped in chains and built of cutting cogs and whirring gears, an automata devil howls like a hurricane in battle. Once chain devils, automata devils have been promoted to greater power._ **Guards and Overseers.** Sometimes called ...
_An asasonbosam is a hirsute hulk with bulging, bloodshot eyes, often perched high in a tree and ready to seize unwary passersby with talons like rusty hooks._ **Iron Hooks and Fangs.** They resemble hairy ogres from the waist up, but with muscu...
_Both more rugged and more ruthless than normal pixies, the aridni are an especially greedy breed of fey bandits and kidnappers._ **Pale Archers.** These ashen-faced fey with gray moth wings fire green-glowing arrows with a sneer and a curse. Ar...
_Apau Perape Sharp teeth fill this large, demonic ape’s mouth. Its long, muscular arms stretch to the ground, ending in wickedly curved claws._ _**Servants of Fire.**_ These black-furred gorilla demons serve only their demon lord. Their final lo...
_Their wings are still feathered, but their soulless eyes betray a great rage and thirst for blood. They invariably wear chains, shackles, barbed flesh hooks, or manacles to show their captive state. Some have heavy chain leashes held by arch-devi...
_This withered creature wrapped in gore-stained rags. They can pull back a tattered hood to reveal glowing eyes hungry with bloodlust._ In certain tribes, the breaking of local taboos invites terrible retribution from ancestral spirits, especial...
_Sometimes called folding angels, algoriths are lawful beings made from sheer force, pure math, and universal physical laws._ **Creatures of Pure Reason.**They are the border guards of the Conceptual Realms, warding subjective beings from the Re...
_Alas are born from galls that grow on treant trunks. Within this parasitic pocket, an ala sickens the treant and consumes its life force. When the treant dies, the ala is born in a black whirlwind._ **Daughters of the Whirlwind.** Alas have win...
_A savage parody of a djinni, an al-Aeshma’s lower half is composed of scorching winds and desert sand._ **Sand Djinnis.** The al-Aeshma are former djinn and share the same powers, albeit in a darker style. Their skin is black as pitch, and thei...
_These long, crusty slugs sparkle like ice. A gaping hole at one end serves as a mouth, from which long tendrils emanate._ Rime worms are sometimes kept as guards by frost giants. _**Ice Burrowers.**_ The rime worm’s tendrils help it to burrow...
Large Giant, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts.
A zmey’s head doesn’t die when severed from the body. Instead, the head rapidly (within 2d6 rounds) sprouts a stunted body and two vestigial claws with which it can fight and drag itself across the ground. Within days it develops into a complete, ...
Medium Fiend, CR 7. From Tome of Beasts.
_Wearing silver and red enamel pectoral jewelry and stylized armlets, as well as carrying a thin, carved stick, this angular, dark‑eyed human appears almost normal. When it moves, gears clash and whir faintly within it._ **Lifelike Servants.** S...
_These humanoid creatures work with their lupine mother and their worg and winter wolf brothers and sisters to destroy human and dwarvish settlements. Their howls are songs of vengeance, and their fangs and jaws seem ready to swallow the world._ ...
_Howling wind encircles the white- and gray-scaled dragon, filling and pushing its wings without the need for them to beat._ Wind dragons view anywhere touched by air as their property, and mortals point to them as the epitome of arrogance. Thei...