Magic Beast Monsters

in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy

• Basilisk - 10' long, serpentine lizards. Unintelligent, but highly magical
• Blink Dog - Strange wolf-like creatures that can teleport at will
• 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
• Displacer Beast - Large, black, six-legged, semi-intelligent monsters. Look similar to panthers with a tentacle growing from each front shoulder
• Gorgon - Magical monsters resembling cattle made of iron
• Griffon - Large carnivorous creatures resembling lions with the head, foreclaws and wings of eagles
• Hippogriff - Large flying horses with the forefront of a bird of prey
• Hydra - Reptile-like monsters with multiple heads, gray-brown to dark brown with light yellow or tan underbelly
• Manticore - An overgrown lion with thick leathery wings and an ugly humanoid face
• Narwhal - 15' long, intelligent, magical whales with grey to white skin and an 8' long, spiralling horn on their nose. Live independent and secretive lives in arctic waters
• Owl Bear - Huge (8' tall, 1,500 pounds), ill-tempered, carnivorous bear-like creature with the face of an owl
• Pegasus - Winged horse prized as aerial steed, shy creatures living in highest mountains
• Purple Worm - Gigantic subterranean monsters with poisonous stingers
• Rust Monster - Strange monster built like a huge turtle with insectoid head and feather-like antennae
• Sea Serpent - Serpentine monsters which live in the sea, ranging from 20' to 40' long
• Stirge - Weird winged creatures resembling hairless bats with tubular proboscis
• Tarantella - 7' long, hairy hunting spiders that resemble tarantulas. Magical in nature
• Unicorn - Horselike creatures with a single spirally-twisted horn in the middle of the forehead