Bestiary · Creature type

Monstrosities monsters

Monstrosities are unnatural creatures that are not quite beasts: owlbears, basilisks, hydras and anything born of a curse or a wizard’s experiment. It is the broadest monster type in 5e and the usual home of the classic dungeon predator.

27 monsters
Vorunth
HugeMonstrosityCR 10

Vorunth

Vorunth is a gargantuan, devout horror: a krakenoid priest that literally swallowed its temple, its ribs fused to carved stone and stained altar-blood. It drifts through ocean trenches like a living…

lawful evilForged 3 Nov 2026
Khaelthos Urnith
GargantuanMonstrosityCR 20

Khaelthos Urnith

Khaelthos Urnith moves like a mountain made animate: eight jointed legs the thickness of cathedral towers stride with the patience of tectonic plates. When it pauses, the air bends, small seas glass…

Neutral EvilForged 2 Nov 2026
Ghurzoth
HugeMonstrosityCR 5

Ghurzoth

A rolling mountain of muscle and mottled hide, the Ghurzoth lurches through marsh and plain like a walking hill. Its ponderous bulk flattens reeds and cracks timber, and each step sends a shudder…

unalignedForged 2 Nov 2026
Mallethric
MediumMonstrosityCR 3

Mallethric

A Mallethric looks like a squat, armored centipede of pitted iron plates and ragged, coppery filaments that hiss like boiling water as it moves. It exudes a fine, metallic dust that flakes from its…

UnalignedForged 1 Nov 2026
Ghurzlek
SmallMonstrosityCR 3

Ghurzlek

A squat, scaly creature with bulging, wet eyes and stubby, knuckled limbs, the Ghurzlek moves with a jerky, desperate intelligence. Twin backward-curving horns crown its skull like the curled roots…

Neutral EvilForged 31 Oct 2026
Korvethine
MediumMonstrosityCR 2

Korvethine

A low, heavy-set mammal with eight unsettling eyes scattered across its skull, the Korvethine moves with the deliberate cunning of a crow and the brute appetite of a predator. Its pigment-cup magic…

unalignedForged 30 Oct 2026
Irixen
MediumMonstrosityCR 2

Irixen

A low, rolling growl and a ring of eyes that blink in an artful, maddening sequence: the Irixen is a squat, heavy‑set mammal with eight independent eyes spread around its skull. One pair…

NeutralForged 30 Oct 2026
Korveth Tuch
MediumMonstrosityCR 2

Korveth Tuch

A compact, heavy-bodied predator wrapped in oily black fur and ringed with clusters of eyes, the Korveth Tuch looks like a twisted cross between a marten and a small wolf. What makes it uncanny is…

neutralForged 30 Oct 2026
Vorengrim Colossus
HugeMonstrosityCR 8

Vorengrim Colossus

A rolling mountain of muscle and iron-grey hide, the Vorengrim Colossus pushes forward as if the world itself must step aside — it ignores obstacles, shrugs off wounds that slow lesser things, and…

NeutralForged 30 Oct 2026
Viskeri Coil
SmallMonstrosityCR 1/2

Viskeri Coil

A writhing cluster of four double-headed snakes, the Viskeri Coil moves as a single, disturbing organism: heads lunge independently while the braided bodies twist in perfect, predatory choreography…

unalignedForged 29 Oct 2026
Qil'ith Quartet
SmallMonstrosityCR 1/2

Qil'ith Quartet

A writhing bundle of four serpentine bodies, each pair sharing a single, split skull that bears two cold, unblinking eyes and separate snapping jaws. The Qil'ith Quartet moves like a single animal…

neutral evilForged 29 Oct 2026
Hrimwight
SmallMonstrosityCR 3

Hrimwight

A Hrimwight appears as a hunched, pale creature carved from compacted snow and old frost, with a face like wet parchment and eyes like black river stones. It moves with desperate, crabbed grace…

Neutral EvilForged 28 Oct 2026
Pyric Mote-swarm
MediumMonstrosityCR 4

Pyric Mote-swarm

A drifting cloud of incandescent insects that breathes light like a living lantern. The swarm's glow pulses in a hypnotic rhythm; when the light flares, shadows snap away and faces are revealed in…

neutralForged 28 Oct 2026
Ghesterm
MediumMonstrosityCR 3

Ghesterm

Once a human survivor of an irradiated blast, the Ghesterm is a twitching, hunched thing that moves with animal ferocity and twisted intelligence. Its claws smear with a phosphorescent residue and…

Chaotic EvilForged 27 Oct 2026
Gloomwrit Spinneret
LargeMonstrosityCR 5

Gloomwrit Spinneret

A hulking spider woven from living shadow, the Gloomwrit Spinneret skitters without sound and leaves a smear of void where its legs pass. It spins webs that drink light and bind flesh alike; victims…

neutral evilForged 26 Oct 2026
Skrittle
SmallMonstrosityCR 1

Skrittle

The Skrittle looks like a compact, angular spider woven from mud-dark chitin and pale silk; it moves with twitching, unpredictable jerks and can climb any surface like water running up a wall. What…

unalignedForged 26 Oct 2026
Vorngrim Fenclaw
HugeMonstrosityCR 20

Vorngrim Fenclaw

Vorngrim Fenclaw is a towering, lupine terror whose forepaws are barbed with fused adamantine talons that cleave through armor and stone. It moves with brutal, animal grace despite its bulk…

Chaotic EvilForged 24 Oct 2026
Grimbleth
MediumMonstrosityCR 7

Grimbleth

A Grimbleth is a cramped, sinister presence that turns the familiar underside of a house into a hunting ground: it waits in the chill dark beneath floorboards, learning the rhythms of a household…

Neutral EvilForged 24 Oct 2026
Oculith
TinyMonstrosityCR 1/4

Oculith

At a glance an ordinary prosthetic eye or a startlingly vivid replacement, the Oculith is a small, living ocular that prefers not to roam — it prefers to belong. When fused to a willing host it…

neutralForged 20 Oct 2026
Calcant Mireling
MediumMonstrosityCR 2

Calcant Mireling

A low, hunched form that looks at first like an errant cairn, the Calcant Mireling explodes into motion when a careless traveler crosses its field. It moves with a stuttering, insectile gait…

NeutralForged 18 Oct 2026
Ygralith
HugeMonstrosityCR 12

Ygralith

A hulking, spectral feline whose ribs ripple with a hunger for memory and sound, the Ygralith moves with impossible silence and an appetite that unmans sages as readily as it rends muscle. Wherever…

unalignedForged 18 Oct 2026
Marelung
SmallMonstrosityCR 1/8

Marelung

The Marelung is a lithe, amphibious predator of the tidal shallows: quick as a net's snap and eerily deliberate. It waits beneath waist-deep water, its milky, lidless eyes tracking the bob of a…

Neutral evilForged 16 Oct 2026
Marrusk
SmallMonstrosityCR 1/2

Marrusk

The Marrusk is a lean, eel-like ambusher that haunts tidal flats and kelp-choked coves. It waits just beneath ankle-deep surf, its mottled hide rippling with seaweed and sand, then lashes out with…

neutral evilForged 16 Oct 2026
Bellshade
SmallMonstrosityCR 1

Bellshade

Bellshades masquerade as weathered tavern signs: crooked boards hung by rusted chains, their painted logos faded to charm patrons. When someone reaches to read the hours, the plank flexes and yawns…

neutral evilForged 14 Oct 2026
Thoracifer Lupus
MediumMonstrosityCR 2

Thoracifer Lupus

A hulking, lupine hunter with a second, leering maw set in its chest, the Thoracifer Lupus moves with a terrible, loping purpose: the outer mouth tears and rends, while the chest-mouth bites and…

neutral evilForged 14 Oct 2026
Kerrunax
MediumMonstrosityCR 1/2

Kerrunax

A squat, shell-backed crab the size of a dire dog that perches astride a bridge like a living tollbooth, Kerrunax extorts travelers with a combination of brutish clamps and a peculiar, uncanny…

neutral evilForged 14 Oct 2026
Brindlequill
SmallMonstrosityCR 1/4

Brindlequill

A Brindlequill looks like a squat, quick lizard overlain with a halo of brittle quills; it scuttles along rafters and among straw as if the thatch were an extension of its own skin. At night dozens…

UnalignedForged 14 Oct 2026

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