Humanoid Monsters

in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy

• Bugbear - Huge, hairy goblins standing about 6 feet tall with darkish brown eyes
• Centaur - Half man, half horse creatures that are haughty, aloof, but very honorable
• Cloud Giant - Aggressive, 20' tall humanoids with skin and hair ranging from grey to white
• Cyclops - 20' tall humanoids with a single, central eye
• Doppelganger - Intelligent, human-sized shape-shifters of wicked character and highly magical nature
• Elf - Slender, fey demihumans with pointed ears. Live in harmony with nature, in beautiful natural settings.
• 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
• Ghoul - Undead monsters which eat the flesh of dead humanoids to survive
• Gnoll - Hyena-headed, evil humanoids that wander in loose tribes
• Gnome - Small humanoids standing 3 to 3½ feet tall with tan to woody brown skin
• Goblin - Small, wicked humanoids that favor ambushes, overwhelming odds, and dirty tricks
• Halfling - Diminutive, furry-footed demihumans who dwell in small villages (30–300 inhabitants)
• 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
• Lizardman - Semi-intelligent, tribal, aquatic humanoids with reptilian heads and tails
• Merfolk - Aquatic humanoids with fish tails in place of legs. Live in coastal waters, farming seaweed and hunting fish
• Minotaur - Huge bull-headed humanoid monsters
• Ogre - Large, brutish, ugly humanoids standing 9-10 feet tall
• Orc - Grotesque humanoids bent on war and domination
• Skeleton - Mindless undead created to guard tombs or serve their creator
• Stone Giant - 14' tall humanoids with stone-like, grey skin
• Storm Giant - 22' tall humanoids with bronze-hued skin and garish hair (red or yellow)
• Treant - Large, roughly humanoid tree-people that resemble oak trees when still
• 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