Undead creatures and encounters
A vaguely humanoid form appears, dim and hazy amid the constant swirl of wind-wracked grit and tainted dust of the magical wasteland._ Contorted and broken, the boneshard wraith is a ghostly horror, haphazardly assembled from mismatched bones an...
Necromancers, both living and dead, sometimes come together to make massive undead creatures known collectively as “necrotech”. In nations ruled by undead, these massive creations often act as siege weapons or powerful modes of transportation._ ...
Medium Undead, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Bloated ghouls are Open Game License
A humanoid in blurred gray tones settles in the shadowed corner of a dimly-lit room and disappears from view._ **Poor Players.** Some people are driven to perform. They crave the adulation of their peers, the attention of strangers, the promise ...
This skeletal figure is dressed in the style of a town crier. It carries an elaborate silver bell in its bony hands, and its skull gleams white in the moonlight._ **Heralds of Calamity.** The black crier is an undead that appears hours, days, or...
Medium Undead, CR 6. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
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...
Medium Undead, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
Medium Undead, CR 1/2. From Tome of Beasts.
_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...
Medium Undead, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts.
_Mylings are the souls of the unburied, those who died in the forest from abandonment or exposure and can find no peace until their bodies are properly interred. Given the circumstances around their deaths, mylings tend to be solitary. They haunt ...
_The sarcophagus opens to reveal an eerie, scintillating light. Wisps of gelid amber ectoplasm undulate outward from a quivering mass with a blackened skull at its center._ **Vigilant Slime.** Sarcophagus slimes are amorphous undead guardians pl...
_Sand silhouettes are spirits of those who died in desperation in sandy ground, buried during sandstorms, thrown into dry wells, or the victims of a dune collapse. Looking like a shadow stretched out along the ground, a sand silhouette’s erratic m...
_This humanoid wears robes to hide its corpselike pallor and lifeless gray hair. Fine, arm-length worms wriggle through abscesses in its flesh and its empty eye-sockets. It moves stooped over, with a shuffling gait, belying its speed and agility._...
_A pack of ghostly wolves appears in a swirl of greenish fog, seeming to coalesce from the fog itself._ When a pack of wolves dies of hunger or chill in the deep winter, sometimes the pack leader’s rage at a cruel death—or the summoning call of ...
_A barefoot woman with long hair and almost transparent skin sits upon a willow branch. Her hair and clothing are wet, as if she has just returned from a swim. Her smile seems friendly enough._ When a woman drowns, her dripping body may rise aga...
_A rotting wind brings a chilling gust to the air, turning nearby foliage to rot and raising a sense of dread in all creatures in its path._ **Air of Tombs.** A rotting wind is an undead creature made up of the foul air and grave dust sloughed o...
_These twisted dryads have been turned into vampiric monstrosities by undead warlocks and vampiric experiments._ **Charred Dryads.** With burnt and blackened skin, burnt twigs for hair, and clawed hands and feet that resemble burnt and twisted r...
_The frame of this withered demon’s corpse barely fills the ash-colored plate armor that encases it. It carries a serrated khopesh sword in spiked gauntlets that hiss with violet smoke, and a horned ivory mask devoid of features is nailed to its f...
_A luminous green mist swirls into the form of an ancient warrior. Dented armor and a ragged cloak enshroud the warrior’s skeletal body, and its grinning skull leers out from an open helm._ **Worn Finery.** Composed of faintly glowing green vapo...
_A body that might once have been human now has four legs and nightmarishly long, thick arms. What’s worse, its skin has been flayed off, revealing the dead muscle and sinew beneath._ **Spirt of War.** The risen reaver is an undead born from a w...
_With skin stretched like vellum over wizened limbs, a desiccated humanoid form clad in splendid regalia emerges from a funerary tower. Suddenly, the air becomes so dry as to make the eyes sting and lips crack. The imposing figure has yellow point...