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Akhlut
Challenge Rating: 6
Alignment: Unaligned
- Horse of a Different Color: The akhlut's natural power, intelligence and versatility make them desirable mounts.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The akhlut possesses the body, head and tail of a killer whale and the legs of a huge wolf.
Alpha Fish
Challenge Rating: 3
Alignment: Unaligned
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: The alpha fish attacks anything it thinks is threatening, even inanimate objects or illusions.
- Fiendish Fish: Alpha fish are solitary and extremely territorial creatures that defend their chosen homes by viciously attacking. They have been known to attack creatures much larger than themselves and, occasionally, objects they don't recognise.
Amphiptere
Challenge Rating: 3
Alignment: Unaligned
- Beware My Stinger Tail: An amphiptere has a venom stinger at the end of its tail.
Astralsupial
Challenge Rating: 4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Improbable Weapon User: An astralsupial collects odds and ends (like cooking utensils and trash, among others) and defends itself by throwing these objects at attackers.
- Pocket Dimension: The astralsupial holds its collection in an extradimensional pouch on its body.
Bastet Temple Cat
Challenge Rating: 1
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Animal Jingoism: Bastet temple cats are fierce foes of temple dogs.
- Charm Person: A temple cat's purr can charm another creature, forcing it to move toward the cat and try to pet it or pick it up.
- Killer Rabbit: By night, these cats guard their temples, inciting would-be thieves to come close before viciously mauling them. More than one would-be rogue has met their fate at the claws and teeth of these cats.
Beetle
Clacker Beetle
Challenge Rating: 1 (soldier), 3 (swarm)
Alignment: Unaligned
- Loud of War: Clacker beetles can use their mandibles to create a clacking noise with the force of a sledgehammer. They use this attack to stun or kill potential prey.
Blood Barnacle
Challenge Rating: 1/4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Hydra Problem: The remains of blood barnacles spawn more of their kind if not disposed of properly. Burning clusters of barnacles or blessing the area is the only way to ensure they don't regrow.
- Mutants: When coagulated blood drops off shambling undead zombies and into the sea, its necrotic blood may turn an ordinary barnacle into a blood barnacle.
Bone Crab
Challenge Rating: 1/2
Alignment: True Neutral
- Brain Food: Bone crabs use their chelae to crack open skulls and feast on the brains.
Carrier Mosquito
Challenge Rating: 3
Alignment: True Neutral
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Carrier mosquitoes are massive insects with nine-foot wingspans.
- Horse of a Different Color: Swamp-dwelling cueyatl train carrier mosquitoes and use them as mounts.
Carrion Beetle
Challenge Rating: 4
Alignment: True Neutral
- Acid Attack: Carrion beetles can scour out tunnels and attack foes with their acid.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Carrion beetles are large enough to serve as beasts of burden and mount ballistae and howdahs on.
Cikavak
Challenge Rating: 1/8
Alignment: True Neutral
- Beak Attack: Cikavaks use their elongated, dull-gray beaks to draw up nectar and other fluids—or to stab with the force of a dagger.
Death Butterfly
Challenge Rating: 4 (swarm), 8 (greater swarm)
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
- Food Chain of Evil: Given the choice between an undead and living creature, a death butterfly swarm always attacks the undead, and they find ghouls and vampires particularly appealing.
- Make Them Rot: The death butterfly swarm spreads a fast-acting, necrotic poison on its victims, creating carrion it can feed on immediately.
Dinosaur
Alignment: Unaligned
Compsognathus
Challenge Rating: `/8 (individual), 1 (swarm)
- Snake Pit: Kobolds are particularly fond of building traps that feed swarms of compsognathus by placing them at the bottom of a hidden pit.
Mbielu
Challenge Rating: 3
- Required Secondary Powers: Mbielus are immune to the toxin released by their symbiotic algae.
- The Symbiote: The mbielu's square dorsal plates support symbiotic colonies of toxic, green algae.
Ngobou
Challenge Rating: 5
- Animal Jingoism: Ngobous are often at war with elephants over territory. They become aggressive when they can see or smell elephants. Even old traces of elephants’ scent are sufficient to trigger an ngobou's rage.
- Horn Attack: Ngobous have six horns that can tear through a herd of goats or cattle in little time.
Spinosaurus
Challenge Rating: 13
- Domesticated Dinosaurs: The spinosaurus is bred for size and loyalty by lizardfolk. Lizardfolk prize them like prime warhorses, and lavish them with food and care.
- Giant Animal Worship: The spinosaurus is worshipped by bullywugs and other primitive humanoids.
Dogmole
Challenge Rating: 1
Alignment: True Neutral
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Dogmoles are welcomed in the depths for their ability to detect imminent cave-ins and burrowing monsters.
Drakon
Challenge Rating: 5
Alignment: Unaligned
- Acid Attack: Volatile acid constantly burbles up from a drakon's stomach and enhances its attacks, and drakons can also belch clouds of searing acid.
- The Paralyzer: The gaze of a drakon can paralyse and dissolve creatures.
Flame Eater
Challenge Rating: 2 (swarm)
Alignment: Unaligned
- Bat Out of Hell: A flame eater resembles an ash-coloured bat with an oversized head, distended jaws, and glowing red eyes. They are also highly dangerous creatures that swarm into flying clouds, consume fire and attack any creatures they encounter.
- Bioweapon Beast: These creatures were bred as part of the schemes of cultists of Camazotz, in the hope of creating a massive swarm of beasts that could fly to the sun and consume it.
Fleshpod Hornet
Challenge Rating: 6
Alignment: Unaligned
- Beware My Stinger Tail: The fleshpod hornet has a black, venomous stinger.
- Chest Burster: Fleshpod hornets reproduce through their venomous stings. Eggs are delivered with the poison, infecting a living creature. Within minutes, the implanted eggs form a lotus-pod tumour in the prey's flesh. Immediately the eggs begin to hatch, feeding on the victim's body. Within 24 hours, the dominant larva matures and flies off.
- Wicked Wasps: Three or four fleshpod hornets can bring down even the largest jungle beasts. Very few people live long enough to describe a fleshpod hornet hive, as the beasts attack on sight.
Garroter Crab
Challenge Rating: 1/4
Alignment: Unaligned
- The Right Hand of Doom: Garroter crabs are named for their abnormally long right claws, which have evolved over time to strangle prey like a barbed whip.
Gbahali
Challenge Rating: 6
Alignment: Unaligned
- Chameleon Camouflage: Gbahali hide can change colour to match its surroundings so perfectly that it becomes nearly invisible. Any lonely rock on the grassland might be a gbahali waiting along a trail, caravan route, or watering hole.
Giant Moth
Challenge Rating: 1/8 (giant moth), 1/4 (rimewing, sootwing), 1 (shockwing)
Alignment: Unaligned
- Charm Person: Rimewings are prized for their wings, whose colouration pattern can magically charm other creatures.
- Shock and Awe: The shockwing is visibly charged with electricity.
- Temporary Blindness: A giant moth can disperse a cloud of fine powder to blind foes.
Glacier Behemoth
Challenge Rating: 12
Alignment: Unaligned
- The Juggernaut: Weighing at least 15 tons, a glacier behemoth can crush everything in its wake. Short of chasms blocking its way or the intervention of other glacier behemoths, nothing can stop a glacier behemoth when it moves.
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Glacier behemoths are arctic relatives to bulettes, and possess six legs instead of four.
Glass Gator
Challenge Rating: 1
Alignment: Unaligned
- Invisible Stomach, Visible Food: The glass gator's transparency isn't total. Its digestive tract usually is visible, especially for a few hours after it eats. It sometimes uses this limited visibility as bait, making itself appear as a wriggling snake or eel.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The body of a glass gator is most similar to a centipede, but with four oversized forelimbs and an alligator's head.
- Poisonous Person: The glass gator's belly is lined with hundreds of stingers that deliver a virulent neurotoxin.
Hodag
Challenge Rating: 3
Alignment: Unaligned
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Spikes run along a hodag's back and tail.
Kongamato
Challenge Rating: 5
Alignment: Unaligned
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The kongamato is a pterosaur with avian features like feathers and a beak-like mouth.
- The Scottish Trope: For some tribes, kongamatos present a terrible threat, and they speak in whispers about them, fearing that mentioning them could attract their wrath.
- To Serve Man: Kongamatos that have eaten human flesh develop a preference for it.
Leonino
Challenge Rating: 1/8
Alignment: Unaligned
- Cats Are Superior: Leoninos have an innate hauteur and sense of superiority.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: These somewhat large house cats sport the wings of an owl.
Manabane Scarab
Challenge Rating: 4 (swarm)
Alignment: Unaligned
- Magic Eater: These beetles have developed a taste for the power of magic.
- No-Sell: The manabane scarab swarm is immune to spells and other magical effects.
- Supernatural Sensitivity: The manabane scarab swarm can detect the presence of magical creatures, active spells or spell effects, and magical items.
Mei Jiao Shou
Challenge Rating: 7
Alignment: Unaligned
- Shockwave Stomp: The mei jiao shou's stomp can kick up a shower of debris and rattle and crack the ground.
Necrotic Tick
Challenge Rating: 1/4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Necrotic ticks have gorged themselves on blood rich with necrotic energy and grow unnaturally large as they feed, weighing in excess of four pounds when fully engorged.
- Vampiric Draining: Necrotic ticks feed on blood rich with necrotic energy. Most begin their voracious lives attached to the backs of animal zombies; when their initial host runs out of blood, they'll have to suck the blood of a new host, usually an unfortunate living creature.
Oliphaunt
Challenge Rating: 8
Alignment: Unaligned
- Horse of a Different Color: A single giant may ride an oliphaunt bareback or with some form of saddle.
- War Elephants: Tribes of humanoids have been known to breed and raise tame oliphaunts to act as beasts of burden, and build structures of wood and canvas to sit upon them.
Pestilence Swarm
Challenge Rating: 1
Alignment: Unaligned
- The Swarm: When a pestilence swarm descends on a field, it takes mere hours for them to completely devour everything that might have been worth harvesting. They eat fruits, grains and even livestock, leaving a decimated field in their wake.
Prismatic Beetle
Challenge Rating: 3 (swarm)
Alignment: Unaligned
- Bioluminescence Is Cool: Prismatic beetles sparkle like precious gems in the light; their carapaces are often incorporated into decorative jewellery or used as special components in enchantment and illusion (pattern) spells and items.
- Poisonous Person: The prismatic beetle's venom distracts the mind with feelings of euphoria and delight.
Quickserpent
Challenge Rating: 4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Quicksand Sucks: A quickserpent waits below the surface where it picks up the vibrations of creatures travelling above it. If the terrain is suitable, the serpent churns the ground into quicksand to pull unsuspecting prey into the earth, then constricts it.
Rageipede
Challenge Rating: 2
Alignment: Unaligned
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: The rageipede is a three-foot-long centipede.
- Hate Plague: The bite of the rageipede holds powerful mind-altering venom that causes even the most conditioned individuals to fall into a mindless rage, attacking anyone or anything in sight. The rageipede's primary food source is carrion left in the wake of its enraged victims.
Rock Roach
Challenge Rating: 2
Alignment: Unaligned
- Acid Attack: The rock roach uses its proboscis to deposit acidic saliva to break down rocks or attack enemies.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: The rock roach is a giant cousin to the roach.
- Eat Dirt, Cheap: The rock roach feeds on rocks deep beneath the ground.
- Losing Your Head: The rock roach has two brains, one in its head and one in its abdomen, and can continue functioning normally even if its head is removed or destroyed.
Sasquatch
Challenge Rating: 5
Alignment: Unaligned
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Sasquatches are bipedal primates that stand about nine feet tall and are covered in black, brown or red fur. Since they are solitary nocturnal creatures that live deep in forests and generally avoid confrontation, very few have proof of their interaction with them, creating questions about the sasquatch's existence.
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast: Some claim sasquatches are drawn and calmed by music, particularly songs with a lullaby-like quality. These tales come with a warning: stopping the song before the sasquatch is lulled to sleep causes it to go into a violent rage.
Savager
Challenge Rating: 8
Alignment: Neutral Evil
- Ax-Crazy: While druids claim savagers are not cursed or enchanted, their habit of killing any living creature on sight is not natural. Hunger doesn't explain their attacks, since savagers eat only part of their kills before starting to look for other animals to attack.
- Bears Are Bad News: These bear-like animals attack anything they see that is not another savager.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: Within 24 hours after giving birth, a savager mother no longer recognises her own offspring, and will eat any that don't escape on their own.
Serpopard
Challenge Rating: 4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Food Chain of Evil: Serpopards also attack other predators to steal their kills, or to kill and eat the predators, then take their kills.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Serpopards have feline bodies and long, serpentine necks topped by vaguely draconic heads.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: Serpopards are known to occasionally resort to eating their weakest pack mate.
- To Serve Man: Serpopards actively hunt humanoids when possible.
Shimmer Seal
Challenge Rating: 5
Alignment: Unaligned
- Invisible Monsters: The shimmer seal is nearly transparent, including its internal organs, except for a few spots dotting its hide, allowing it to blend in with water and against icy backgrounds.
- Invisible Stomach, Visible Food: The shimmer seal fully loses its translucency only when it eats, during which observers receive a breathtaking (or nauseating) view of its digestive process.
- Reincarnation: Shimmer seals are created when the spirits of creatures passionate about protecting overhunted animals merge with those of ordinary seals. When a shimmer seal dies protecting a pod of seals from hunters, one of the seals transforms into a new shimmer seal within a minute of the other shimmer seal's death.
Shoreline Scrapper
Challenge Rating: 4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Beast of Battle: Some aquatic and coastal races train shoreline scrappers for combat. On command, shoreline scrappers charge toward enemies and disarm them of metal equipment.
- Bizarre Alien Senses: The shoreline scrapper can pinpoint, by scent, the location of metals within 60 feet of it.
- Magnetism Manipulation: A shoreline scrapper instinctively seeks metal and gathers it using a magnetic pulse.
Giant Sloth
Challenge Rating: 7
Alignment: Unaligned
- The Pig-Pen: The fur of the giant sloth is a matted nightmare of mud, blood, viscera and mould.
Snow Cat
Challenge Rating: 1/4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Beast of Battle: Gnomes and halflings have an affinity with snow cats, and it is common for them to serve as guards and scouts for a halfling village or a gnomish settlement.
Spider
Balloon Spider
Challenge Rating: 1
Alignment: Unaligned
- Shock and Awe: The balloon spider can float through the air held aloft by strands of webbing suspended by electromagnetic fields. Electrified mandibles grant them precise control over nearby electromagnetic fields and a weapon for shocking prey.
Crypt Spider
Challenge Rating: 2
Alignment: Lawful Evil
- Black Widow: In desperate times, males become food for crypt spider young.
- Chest Burster: A female crypt spider lays her eggs in the bodies of prey, where the brood mature by feeding on the creatures' fluids and each other. Those that survive into adulthood hatch from the corpse in a horrifying display.
- To Serve Man: While they can eat any creature, crypt spiders find humans, dwarves, and elves the most delicious.
J'ba Fofi
Challenge Rating: 3
Alignment: Unaligned
- It Can Think: A flicker of intelligence indicates this species evolved above mere vermin.
- Pest Controller: Every j'ba fofi is accompanied by a swarm of spiders, which moves and attacks according to the j'ba fofi's mental command.
Holler Spider
Challenge Rating: 1/4
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Holler spiders have a friendly disposition toward humanoids and are easy to domesticate. They can be trained to carry a simple tune, or act as sentries that respond to certain colours, livery, or a certain person. They are used by nobles as fanfares at royal functions, or by entertainers to enhance their performances.
Red-Banded Spider
Challenge Rating: 1/4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Deadly Lunge: When prey wanders near, the spider launches a line of webbing to snare it, then pounces unerringly along that line to deliver a deep bite.
- Pet Monstrosity: Red-banded spiders are favoured among exotic pet dealers, usually (but not always) with their venom sacs removed. Goblins, kobolds and some humans use them rather than cats to control a mouse or rat infestation, and they make reasonably good pets if well-fed. If they get hungry, line spiders may devour other small pets or even their owners.
Spurred Water Skate
Challenge Rating: 1
Alignment: Unaligned
- Horse of a Different Color: Since spurred water skates can move effortlessly across wet surfaces, they are desirable mounts in swamps and marshes. Cueyatl and smaller lizardfolk train and ride them.
- Walk on Water: The distribution of the spurred water skate's weight, along with leg bristles that create and hold air bubbles at the surface, allow it to stand on top of moderately choppy water and move without sinking.
Suturefly
Challenge Rating: 1/4
Alignment: Unaligned
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Most sutureflies are six inches long, but rangers who've ventured deep into the Margreve claim to have discovered detached suturefly wings over 5 feet long.
- Living Lie Detector: Sutureflies listen for lies and sew any offender's mouth, nose and eyes shut. Folk of the outer Margreve release sutureflies from wooden coffers at forest trials to encourage witnesses to tell the truth.
- Mage Killer: In the Mistwallows of the deep Margreve, green and gold sutureflies attack any who allow magic to escape their lips.
- Mouth Stitched Shut: When attacking, a suturefly sews the victim's mouth shut, then the nose, then the eyes.
Terror Bird
Challenge Rating: 2 (terror bird), 4 (red queen)
Alignment: Unaligned
- Beak Attack: Terror birds attack with blazing speed and ferocity, removing limbs in a flurry of lacerating bites.
- Horse of a Different Color: Tribes of dust goblins, hobgoblins, humans and gnolls have been known to capture terror birds for use as mounts in battle.
- Not Quite Flight: Red queens gain a limited form of levitation, which allows them to run uphill on empty air or to cross chasms.
War Ostrich
Challenge Rating: 1/2
Alignment: Unaligned
- Beast of Battle: The n'kosi use war ostriches to create chaos among their foes, by driving a flock into a caravan or into enemy troop formations.
- Horse of a Different Color: War ostriches are heavily employed in regions where horses are rare or impractical or where their leaping ability enables cavalry to charge over broken ground.
Wharfling
Challenge Rating: 1/8 (individual), 4 (swarm)
Alignment: Unaligned
- Sticky Fingers: Most coastal communities hate wharflings for their propensity for theft. Their lairs are invariably filled with stolen metal trinkets.
Ychen Bannog
Challenge Rating: 11
Alignment: Unaligned
- Gentle Giant: Despite their awe-inspiring size, ychen bannogs are peaceful wanderers in the wilderness. If possible, they try to flee from combat.
