Chaotic Monsters

in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy

• 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