Vermin Monsters
in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy
16 monsters
- Arachnid, Giant Tarantella - Huge, hairy, nocturnal arachnid carnivores with large heads and mandibles and 10 legs
- Black Widow - 6' long, black spiders with a red hourglass pattern on their abdomens
- Carrion Crawler - 9' long, 3' high, many-legged, segmented worms with a ring of 2' long tentacles around their mouths
- Centipede, Giant - Larger versions of normal centipedes, 2 to 3 feet long, fast-moving predatory venomous arthropods
- Crab Spider - 5' long hunting spiders that can change their colour to match their surroundings
- Fire Beetle - 2½' long. Commonly found underground
- Giant Ant - Giant (6' long), omnivorous, black ants
- Giant Aquatic Termite - Giant (1'–5' long), wood-eating, aquatic insects with a sack to take in and jet out water
- Giant Scorpion - Huge arachnids, as big as a small horse, with pincers and deadly stingers
- Insect Swarm - A large group of ordinary flying or crawling insects moving as a unit
- Killer Bee - Giant (1' long) bees of aggressive temperament. Build hives underground.
- Leech, Giant - Slimy, segmented wormlike creatures which live in water
- Oil Beetle - 3' long, burrowing beetles sometimes encountered below ground
- Robber Fly - 3' long, carnivorous flies with yellow and black stripes that hunt killer bees
- Rock Cricket - 2–3' long, herbivorous, giant crickets that dwell in caverns
- Tiger Beetle - Carnivorous, 4' long, tiger-striped beetles with powerful, crushing mandibles