Any Monsters
in Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game
77 monsters
- Barkling - Diminutive furry humanoids with very dog-like faces
- Basilisk, Common - A giant six-legged lizard-like monster that petrifies living creatures with its gaze
- Basilisk, Greater - A larger variety of basilisk with toxic skin in addition to its petrifying gaze
- Bat - Small, nocturnal flying mammal with natural sonar
- Beetle, Giant Bombardier - Red and black beetle, 3 to 4 feet long, with toxic spray attack
- Beetle, Giant Tiger - Predatory monsters around 5 feet long with dark brown carapaces and lighter striped or spotted patterns
- Blink Dog - Strange wolf-like creatures that can teleport at will
- Blood Rose - Animated rose bushes with beautiful fragrant flowers that befuddle victims
- Bugbear - Huge, hairy goblins standing about 6 feet tall with darkish brown eyes
- Caveman - A species closely related to humans; shorter, stockier, and much more heavily muscled
- Cockatrice - A strange creature appearing to be a chicken with a long serpentine neck and tail
- Deceiver - Blue-black, catlike monsters with strange bladed winglike arms extending from their shoulders
- Dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex - Bipedal carnivorous dinosaur with massive skull and powerful bite
- Dire Wolf - Efficient pack hunters that will kill anything they can catch
- Dog - Medium and large breeds of domestic and wild canines
- Doppleganger - Weird humanoid creatures able to take on the appearance of nearly any other humanoid
- Falcon - Birds of prey with wingspans of 16 to 20 inches, popular hunting birds used by royalty
- Fly, Giant - Giant flies that look like 3' long houseflies, sometimes mistaken for giant bees
- Gargoyle* - Demonic-looking winged humanoid monsters with gray stone-like skin
- Ghast - Undead monsters similar to ghouls but smarter and more powerful, surrounded by an overwhelming stench
- Ghost* - Spectral remnants of intelligent beings who cannot rest easily in their graves
- Ghoul - Undead monsters which eat the flesh of dead humanoids to survive
- Giant Hawk - Large raptors capable of carrying off Halfling-sized creatures
- Giant Rat - Large scavenging rodents that grow up to 4 feet long and weigh over 50 pounds
- Giant, Storm - Adult storm giants are about 21 feet tall and weigh about 12,000 pounds
- Gnoll - Hyena-headed, evil humanoids that wander in loose tribes
- Goblin - Small, wicked humanoids that favor ambushes, overwhelming odds, and dirty tricks
- Golem, Amber - Amber golems are generally built to resemble lions or other great cats
- Golem, Bone* - Huge four-armed monsters created from the skeletons of at least two dead humanoids
- Golem, Bronze* - Ten-foot-tall bronze statue golem with molten metal interior
- Golem, Clay* - A construct made of clay, weighing about 600 pounds
- Golem, Flesh* - Horrible creations made of body parts from deceased humanoids, crudely stitched together and animated by magic
- Golem, Iron* - A 12-foot tall humanoid construct made from iron, weighing about 5,000 pounds
- Golem, Stone* - A 9-foot tall humanoid construct made from stone, weighing around 2,000 pounds
- Golem, Wood* - Small constructs not more than 4' in height, crudely made of wood
- Gorgon - Magical monsters resembling cattle made of iron
- Hawk - Raptors that prey on small creatures
- Hobgoblin - Larger cousins of goblins, about the same size as humans with dark orange or red-orange skin
- Insect Swarm - A large group of ordinary flying or crawling insects moving as a unit
- Ironbane* - Large armadillo-like creature with anteater snout that rusts metal on touch
- Jelly, Ochre - Yellowish-brown amorphous monster up to 10 feet in diameter
- Living Statue, Crystal
- Living Statue, Iron
- Living Statue, Stone
- Lizard, Giant Gecko - Giant gecko lizards range from 4' to 6' in length, generally green in color
- Lizard, Monitor - Dark-colored lizards with bright, lace-like patterns, capable of running on hind legs
- Lycanthrope, Wereboar* - Lycanthropes who gain full control of their transformations quickly, transforming between human and large wild boar forms
- Lycanthrope, Werewolf* - Ferocious predators equally willing to eat animal or human flesh
- Manticore - An overgrown lion with thick leathery wings and an ugly humanoid face
- Medusa - Human female with vipers for hair whose gaze turns victims to stone
- Normal Rat - Omnivorous rodents that attack as a swarm
- Ogre - Large, brutish, ugly humanoids standing 9-10 feet tall
- Orc - Grotesque humanoids bent on war and domination
- Owl - Birds of prey with large eyes and the ability to fly without making a sound
- Pterodactyl - Prehistoric winged reptilian creatures with a wingspan of around 25 to 30 inches
- Rot Grub - 1-inch long vermin found in carrion, dung, and other organic material
- Shadow* - An incorporeal creature that drains Strength with its touch
- Shrew, Common Giant - Giant shrews resemble giant rats, but are larger, being up to 6' long, and darker in color
- Shrew, Venomous Giant - A venomous variant of giant shrew, generally no more than 5% of those encountered
- Skeletaire - The final form of a zombraire which has rotted away completely
- Snake, Giant Rattlesnake - Much enlarged versions of the normal rattlesnake, averaging 14' to 20' in length at adulthood
- Snake, Pit Viper - Highly venomous snakes ranging from 2' to 12' in length
- Snake, Spitting Cobra
- Spectre - Incorporeal undead monsters that drain life energy
- Spider, Giant Crab - Ambush predators that use camouflage, around 3' in length
- Spider, Giant Tarantula - Huge, hairy spiders about the size of a pony that run down their prey
- Stirge - Weird winged creatures resembling hairless bats with tubular proboscis
- Tentacle Worm - Giant worms with splayed tentacles that paralyze their prey
- Troll - Huge, rangy humanoids with lumpy grayish-green skin and regenerative powers
- Trollkin - Young trolls with all the powers and weaknesses of adult trolls
- Urgoblin - Mutant hobgoblin subspecies with regenerative abilities
- Vampire* - Undead monsters that appear pale but lifelike, possessing all memories and abilities from life
- Weasel, Giant (or Ferret, Giant) - Long-bodied predatory animals with short legs and pointed, toothy snouts
- Wight - A weird and twisted reflection of the form it had in life
- Wraith - Incorporeal creatures born of evil and darkness
- Zombie - Undead corpses of humanoid creatures that are deathly slow but move silently and are very strong
- Zombraire - A free-willed undead Magic-User that slowly rots away and loses its sanity