This creature has a gaunt and misshapen form, with the scaled body, tail, and head of an alligator, bony spikes covering its body like a porcupine, batlike wings, and long, spindly limbs. The Allopine is a creature that defies logic, seemingly a shifting and confused array of various animalsβits disjointed and bizarre arrangements make them a puzzle to look at. Flying through the Space Betweenβ¦
Wrapped in ritual robes and carrying a skull-tipped staff, this wizened, albino ratling chants hymns in high-pitched squeaks in praise to the Rat God. Her beady red eyes flare with zealous passion. These devoted followers of the Rat God are amongst the most gifted and powerful ratling spellcasters. Among the most ancient ratlings, only a handful exist. Most were among the first to gnaw uponβ¦
Spined devils, also known as spinagons, lurk in the shadows of the Lower Planes, seeking secrets for their infernal lords. They prefer to attack from the air, flinging wicked barbs while staying out of reach of foes. Spined devils collect information to gain leverage over mortals or to entice powerful devils. Roll on or choose a result from the Spined Devil Intelligence table to inspire whatβ¦
Cloaked in a thick leather jacket and a crude, custom-made gas mask, this ratling scurries forth clutching a worn satchel brimming with poisons and potions. An acrid smell wafts off the ratling, combined with burnt hair and something putrid and rotten. Its fur is mottled, and burned away in patches across its neck, arms, and legs. Its flesh is covered in sores, blisters, and infected wounds. Itβ¦
Lone dretches serve other demons or evil magic-users. They are erratic, filthy, and violent, and they demonstrate little sense of self-preservation.
Small Fiend (Demon), Chaotic Evil AC 11 Initiative +0 (10) HP 18 (4d6 + 4) Speed 20 ft.
Accuser devils, or zebubs, serve as Hellβs messengers and spies. Their ability to share what theyβve seen with other creatures makes them especially usefulβnot only to other devils, but also to mortal conjurers. Some infernal lords unleash them in enormous, horrid swarms upon unsuspecting lands to debase flesh and land alike while collecting secrets the infernal host might later put to use.β¦
The undulating body of this monstrous caterpillar bristles with sharp, luminescent spines. The creatureβs skin is a disturbing tapestry of purples and greens, throbbing with an eerie, bioluminescent glow. The larval form of the Hazewing Moth is a disgusting, hairy, purring caterpillar. Using their strange mandibles, Hazewing Moth Caterpillars are able to slowly feed on and consume deleriumβ¦
A small ratling cloaked in old rags carries a bone wand in one claw and a skull set with delerium shards in the other. An eldritch glow crackles in the ratlingβs eyes beneath its drawn hood as it incants a spell. Pulsing energy thrums in its small, clawed, hands. A rare few ratlings possess magical powers, which they claim are gifts from the Rat God. Whether their magic truly comes from anβ¦
Faceless, Unnatural Canine Demodogs are sinister, quadrupedal predators that spawn from limacine larvae. From a distance, they loosely resemble hairless dogs with tough, wrinkled hides and faceless, flower-like heads. When a demodog attacks, its head parts to reveal powerful jaws framed by toothed, fleshy petals. Like wolves, demodogs typically hunt in packs, overwhelming their prey in gloomyβ¦
Unnatural subterranean hunters, darkmantles veil themselves in magical shadows and use their bizarre anatomies to disguise themselves as stalactites. When prey passes below, lurking darkmantles drop and unfurl their webbed tentacles, attempting to blind, suffocate, or crush their victims. Darkmantles share similarities with piercers and ropers and often hunt near those monsters. Scholars haveβ¦
A full-grown gibtas uses its powerful legs and rubbery body to bound great distances. Most gibtases remain solitary, unless bonded with a creature.
Tiny Aberration, Chaotic Neutral AC 12 Initiative +2 (12) HP 7 (3d4) Speed 30 ft., Burrow 10 ft.
Slaad tadpoles are ravenous, newborn slaadi. They hatch from eggs implanted into living hosts by red slaadi, but they also appear in great numbers in Limbo and other chaotic realms. Under most conditions, a slaad tadpole transforms into a blue slaadβor a green slaad if its host was able to cast spells of level 3 or higherβwithin 2d12 hours of hatching.
The strange creature appears to be a glistening growth of mucus-filled flesh upon a mass of boneless skin that slowly wriggles about. It shifts within its own reality, like a faded illusion, slipping between multiple locations. The growth jiggles and wobbles as it moves. Acidic mucus and saliva leaks from small, sharp mandibles. It hisses as it drips to the ground around it. Somehow, as theβ¦
A creature of nearly impossible proportions and colors steps through a tear in the fabric of reality. It has spindly limbs that end in three sharp digits, attaching to a tubular stalk of a body. Opening within its form is a long, toothy maw lined with tiny undulating tentacles. A faint gurgling sound emanates from the creature. You feel hunger, but strangely, you realize it is not your ownβ¦
Indistinguishable from jackals in their natural form, jackalweres shape-shift to deceive others. These shape-shifters can take three forms: a jackal, a human, or a monstrous hybrid of the two. Jackalweres are easily mistaken for werewolves, but jackalweres arenβt supernaturally afflictedβtheir jackal forms are their natural state. Jackalweres also possess magical gazes capable of putting foes toβ¦
Bizarre creatures with aberrant agendas inhabit the Underdark. Flumphs number among the few that are helpful to strangers. These tentacled, telepathic creatures jet through the air in short bursts, venting gases with a sound that gives them their name. Rather than speaking, flumphs communicate telepathically and by changing color to reflect their moods. Flumphs dwell in psychically chargedβ¦
Some nefarious magic-users carry out forbidden necromantic rituals that sever their souls from their bodies to turn themselves into liches, masters of magic and undeath. With their souls preserved in hidden relics, liches puppet their own corpses as they pursue ambitions free from mortal bonds. Liches possess exceptional cunning and magical prowess, and they use their unnatural immortality toβ¦
Chuuls that hail from Nhimbalothβs poisoned, swampy world of Voidbracken can feed on psychic energy as easily as flesh. Fortunately, voidbracken chuuls are exceptionally rare and lair only where Nhimbalothβs influence is strongest.
Swarms of dretches sometimes escape the Abyss onto other planes of existence, or they might be part of a demonic invasion. Without direction, these crude demons rampage and despoil with cruel enthusiasm.
Tiny Monstrosity, Unaligned AC 14 Initiative +2 (12) HP 5 (2d4) Speed 30 ft., Fly 60 ft., Swim 30 ft.
The lowest form of demons, manes appear when truly loathsome souls are condemned to the Abyss. These misshapen demons have distorted features and bodies that crawl with Abyssal parasites. Overwhelmed by demonic urges and constant terror, manes know only shock and frenzied outbursts.
The hairless, reeking goatstealers are vicious predators and scavengers that earn their name from their habit of preying upon livestock. They latch onto prey with wicked, needle-like teeth, delivering lethal venom and devouring creatures far larger than their wiry frames would suggest is possible. Especially dangerous in packs, the carrion-yet-peaty stench of goatstealers is the stuff of legend.
The hairless, reeking goatstealers are vicious predators and scavengers that earn their name from their habit of preying upon livestock. They latch onto prey with wicked, needle-like teeth, delivering lethal venom and devouring creatures far larger than their wiry frames would suggest is possible. Especially dangerous in packs, the carrion-yet-peaty stench of goatstealers is the stuff of legend.
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