Flying Monsters

in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy

• Bat - Small, nocturnal flying mammal with natural sonar
• 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
• Cockatrice - A strange creature appearing to be a chicken with a long serpentine neck and tail
• Gargoyle* - Demonic-looking winged humanoid monsters with gray stone-like skin
• Griffon - Large carnivorous creatures resembling lions with the head, foreclaws and wings of eagles
• Harpy - A giant vulture bearing the torso and face of a human female
• Hippogriff - Large flying horses with the forefront of a bird of prey
• Killer Bee - Giant (1' long) bees of aggressive temperament. Build hives underground.
• Manticore - An overgrown lion with thick leathery wings and an ugly humanoid face
• Pegasus - Winged horse prized as aerial steed, shy creatures living in highest mountains
• Pteranodon - Giant-sized pterodactyls with wingspans of 25 feet or more
• Pterodactyl - Prehistoric winged reptilian creatures with a wingspan of around 25 to 30 inches
• Robber Fly - 3' long, carnivorous flies with yellow and black stripes that hunt killer bees
• Roc - Giant eagle-like birds with dark brown or golden plumage
• Sprite - Reclusive fey creatures, looking like tiny elves just a foot tall with dragonfly-like wings
• Stirge - Weird winged creatures resembling hairless bats with tubular proboscis
• Wyvern - A huge flying lizard with a poisonous stinger in its tail, distant cousin to true dragons