Plains Monsters

in Basic Fantasy Field Guide Omnibus

• Armorollo - Pack creature with rock-colored plates that rolls across grasslands at high speed
• Baboon - An aggressive primate adapted to life on the ground
• Badger - Squat and broad, muscular, burrowing mammals with iron hard digging claws
• Baluchitherium - Giant prehistoric animal, the largest land mammal to ever exist
• Beetle, Giant Stag - Giant beetles with males possessing huge stag-like mandibles
• Bisren - A bison-headed humanoid nomad, related to minotaurs but uniformly hybridized
• Bubák - Horrific creatures haunting remote fields and forgotten corners of the wilds
• Chupacabra - A nocturnal reptile with a row of spines running down its back that moves by hopping like a kangaroo
• Cow Dragon - A very rare species of mammalian oddity resembling enormous cattle with giant bat-like wings
• Cynodictis - Small "bear dog" about 12 inches tall, hunts rabbits and small rodents
• Dinosaur, Allosaurus - A swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, slightly more than 30 feet long
• Dinosaur, Ankylosaurus - Large armored dinosaur with turtle-like body and spiked edges
• Dinosaur, Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) - Most recognizable member of the sauropod family with heavy body, elephantine legs and feet, and long neck and tail
• Dinosaur, Brachiosaurus - Largest members of the sauropod family with heavy bodies, elephantine legs and feet, and long necks and tails
• Dinosaur, Centrosaurus (Monoclonius) - A ceratopsian dinosaur with a single large horn on its nose, two smaller horns on its frill, and short horns over the eyes
• Dinosaur, Ceratosaurus - A smaller bipedal carnivorous theropod dinosaur known for the short horn on its nose
• Dinosaur, Cetiosaurus - Large sauropod dinosaur with heavy body, elephantine legs, and long neck and tail
• Dinosaur, Deinonychus - Medium-sized feathered dinosaur and skilled pack-hunter
• Dinosaur, Diplodocus - Longest member of the sauropod family with heavy body, elephantine legs, and long neck and tail
• Dinosaur, Euoplocephalus - Large armored dinosaur with a turtle-like body and heavy knobby tail
• Dinosaur, Gorgosaurus - A bipedal carnivorous theropod dinosaur, close relative to tyrannosaurus rex
• Dinosaur, Iguanadon - A quadruped herbivorous dinosaur that can switch to bipedal movement
• Dinosaur, Pentaceratops - A ceratopsian dinosaur with five horns and a large bony frill with a distinctive U-shaped notch
• Dinosaur, Plateosaurus - Bipedal plant-eating dinosaurs with small heads on long, flexible necks
• Dinosaur, Styracosaurus - A ceratopsian dinosaur with a single large nose horn and defensive frill horns
• Dinosaur, Teratosaurus - Gargantuan lizards 20 feet in length resembling long-legged crocodiles with short, heavy snouts
• Diprotodon - Very large early relatives of modern wombats, marsupial herbivores heavily-built and about man-height at the shoulders
• Dragophant - Strange chimeric creatures with the form of an elephant but with deep-green scaly dragon hide, large draconic wings, and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth
• Dread Scarecrow - Evil spirit-possessed scarecrow that stalks and terrorizes the living
• Elephant, Shovel Tusk - A prehistoric relative of the modern elephant with extended lower jaws tipped with a shovel-like plate or tusk
• Entelodont - An omnivorous creature and distant relative of a modern hippo and boar
• Glyptodon - Prehistoric herbivorous mammal similar to an armadillo, only much larger with a club-like tail
• Golem, Hay - A massive golem standing 20 feet tall that disguises itself as piles of hay in open fields
• Golem, Straw - Agricultural construct made by druids, often used as a scarecrow
• Griffon, Hawksian - Aggressive, dangerous creatures combining lion front and eagle rear, product of cruel magical experimentation
• Jack O'Lantern - A strange sentient pumpkin with a lit candle inside it
• Jackal - Small wild canines that prefer to attack prey en-masse
• Leoporid, Great - A massive jackrabbit species with elk-like antlers found in plains regions
• Living Scarecrow - Mindless constructs made from a wooden frame, old clothing, hay, and a carved pumpkin head
• Paraceratherium - An ancestor of the modern rhinoceros, the largest land mammal known to have existed
• Terror Bird - A flightless prehistoric bird weighing around 800 pounds with a massive beak
• Tyrannobeak - A massive member of the terror-bird family (Phorusrhacidae) of bipedal flightless birds