Chaotic Monsters
in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy
46 monsters
- Black Dragon - Dwell in swamps and marshes
- 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
- Chimera - Strange creatures having a lion's body with the heads of a lion, a goat, and a dragon, and the wings of a dragon
- Cyclops - 20' tall humanoids with a single, central eye
- Devil Swine - Corpulent humans who can change into huge swine
- Doppelganger - Intelligent, human-sized shape-shifters of wicked character and highly magical nature
- Dragon Turtle - Massive aquatic creatures up to 200 feet long, occasionally mistaken for rocky outcroppings or small islands
- Efreeti - Humanoid creatures from the Elemental Plane of Fire, about 12 feet tall and 2,000 pounds
- Fire Giant - 16' tall humanoids with black hair and red skin
- Frost Giant - 18' tall humanoids with pale skin and pale, yellow or blue hair
- Gargoyle* - Demonic-looking winged humanoid monsters with gray stone-like skin
- Ghoul - Undead monsters which eat the flesh of dead humanoids to survive
- Giant Scorpion - Huge arachnids, as big as a small horse, with pincers and deadly stingers
- Gnoll - Hyena-headed, evil humanoids that wander in loose tribes
- Goblin - Small, wicked humanoids that favor ambushes, overwhelming odds, and dirty tricks
- Gorgon - Magical monsters resembling cattle made of iron
- Green Dragon - Lair in jungles and forests
- Harpy - A giant vulture bearing the torso and face of a human female
- Hell Hound - Monstrous, cunning, and very intelligent hounds, the size of a small pony. Breathe fire and love heat.
- Hill Giant - Hairy, brutish, 12' tall humanoids of low intelligence
- Hobgoblin - Larger cousins of goblins, about the same size as humans with dark orange or red-orange skin
- Kobold - Small, dog-faced reptilian humanoids
- 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
- Minotaur - Huge bull-headed humanoid monsters
- Mummy - Undead monsters, linen-wrapped preserved corpses animated through dark desert gods
- Ogre - Large, brutish, ugly humanoids standing 9-10 feet tall
- Orc - Grotesque humanoids bent on war and domination
- Pirate - Sailors who make a living by raiding coastal settlements, robbing other ships, and illegal slaving
- Red Dragon - Dwell in hills and mountains
- Salamander, Frost - Giant six-legged lizard from the Elemental Plane of Water with ice-colored scales
- Shadow* - An incorporeal creature that drains Strength with its touch
- Skeleton - Mindless undead created to guard tombs or serve their creator
- Spectre - Incorporeal undead monsters that drain life energy
- Thoul - Magical monstrosities that look like hobgoblins (except on close inspection), but combine the powers of ghouls and trolls
- Troglodyte - Intelligent, reptilian humanoids with agile hands, long legs, short tails, and spiky combs on their heads and arms
- Troll - Huge, rangy humanoids with lumpy grayish-green skin and regenerative powers
- Vampire* - Undead monsters that appear pale but lifelike, possessing all memories and abilities from life
- Wererat - Intelligent, humanoid rats who can change into normal humans
- Werewolf - Semi-intelligent pack hunters
- White Dragon - Found in cold regions
- Wight - A weird and twisted reflection of the form it had in life
- Wraith - Incorporeal creatures born of evil and darkness
- Wyvern - A huge flying lizard with a poisonous stinger in its tail, distant cousin to true dragons
- Zombie - Undead corpses of humanoid creatures that are deathly slow but move silently and are very strong