Any Monsters

in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy

• Acolyte - 1st level NPC magic-users
• Bandit - NPC thieves who live by robbery
• Bat - Small, nocturnal flying mammal with natural sonar
• Berserker - Fighters who enter a rage in battle. They never take prisoners.
• Blink Dog - Strange wolf-like creatures that can teleport at will
• Brigand - Outlaws and mercenaries who make a living by raiding settlements and attacking travellers
• Bugbear - Huge, hairy goblins standing about 6 feet tall with darkish brown eyes
• Cockatrice - A strange creature appearing to be a chicken with a long serpentine neck and tail
• Crab Spider - 5' long hunting spiders that can change their colour to match their surroundings
• Dire Wolf - Efficient pack hunters that will kill anything they can catch
• Displacer Beast - Large, black, six-legged, semi-intelligent monsters. Look similar to panthers with a tentacle growing from each front shoulder
• Doppelganger - Intelligent, human-sized shape-shifters of wicked character and highly magical nature
• Draft Horse - Bred for great strength and endurance. Used to pull vehicles and ploughs or as beasts of burden
• Gargoyle* - Demonic-looking winged humanoid monsters with gray stone-like skin
• Gecko - 5' long, carnivorous, nocturnal lizards with light blue scales and orange spots
• Ghoul - Undead monsters which eat the flesh of dead humanoids to survive
• Giant Ant - Giant (6' long), omnivorous, black ants
• Gnoll - Hyena-headed, evil humanoids that wander in loose tribes
• Goblin - Small, wicked humanoids that favor ambushes, overwhelming odds, and dirty tricks
• Gold Dragon - May be encountered in any terrain, often in the guise of a person or animal
• 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, 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
• Horned Chameleon - 7' long lizards whose scales change colour as camouflage
• Insect Swarm - A large group of ordinary flying or crawling insects moving as a unit
• Living Statue - Animated statues of any size and material
• Lycanthrope - Shapechangers with a human and an animal form
• Manticore - An overgrown lion with thick leathery wings and an ugly humanoid face
• Medium Herd Animal - Wild animals that live in large, grazing herds
• Medusa - Human female with vipers for hair whose gaze turns victims to stone
• Merchant - Organized traders who travel between settlements in well-armed caravans, buying and selling trade goods
• Mule - Stubborn horse/donkey cross-breeds used as beasts of burden
• Normal Human - Non-adventuring humans without a character class
• Ogre - Large, brutish, ugly humanoids standing 9-10 feet tall
• Orc - Grotesque humanoids bent on war and domination
• Pit Viper - 5' long snakes with grey/green scales
• Pterodactyl - Prehistoric winged reptilian creatures with a wingspan of around 25 to 30 inches
• Rat - Multitudinous, disease-ridden rodents that will eat anything
• Robber Fly - 3' long, carnivorous flies with yellow and black stripes that hunt killer bees
• Rock Python - 20' long snakes with spiralling brown and yellow patterns on their scales
• Shadow* - An incorporeal creature that drains Strength with its touch
• Small Herd Animal - Wild animals that live in large, grazing herds
• Spectre - Incorporeal undead monsters that drain life energy
• Spitting Cobra - 3' long snakes with grey/white scales
• Stirge - Weird winged creatures resembling hairless bats with tubular proboscis
• Tarantella - 7' long, hairy hunting spiders that resemble tarantulas. Magical in nature
• Tiger Beetle - Carnivorous, 4' long, tiger-striped beetles with powerful, crushing mandibles
• Trader - 1st level fighters who live by trading in borderland areas
• Troll - Huge, rangy humanoids with lumpy grayish-green skin and regenerative powers
• Tuatara - 8' long, iguana-like, carnivorous lizards with olive scales and a ridge of white spikes along the back
• Vampire* - Undead monsters that appear pale but lifelike, possessing all memories and abilities from life
• Veteran - Low level fighters, often on their way to or from war
• War Horse - Bred for strength and courage in battle
• 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