Any Monsters
in OSRIC
111 monsters
- Annis - Magical, evil giantesses that are gaunt and ragged, wearing stained and filthy garments
- Archaeopteryx - Jurassic carnivore; no bigger than an ordinary bird
- Bandit - NPC thieves who live by robbery
- Banshee - Fey undead resembling a colorless, ash-white elf in ragged clothing and chains
- Barghest - An evil shape-changing fiend that hungers for the souls of mortals
- Behir - A serpentine monster with a dozen legs that can slither like a snake or move with considerable speed
- Berserker - Fighters who enter a rage in battle. They never take prisoners.
- Blink Dog - Strange wolf-like creatures that can teleport at will
- 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
- Carbuncle - Minor agents of chaos that appear as curious armadillo-like animals
- Cat, Domestic - Small domestic feline
- Cat, Wild - Small wild feline
- Caveman - A species closely related to humans; shorter, stockier, and much more heavily muscled
- Centipede, Huge - Most common of the monstrous 'pedes with lethal weak venom
- Centipede, Large - Smallest of the monstrous 'pedes with weak venom
- Clay Golem - Man-shaped figure created from clay by a lawful good cleric
- Cockatrice - A strange creature appearing to be a chicken with a long serpentine neck and tail
- Coeurl - Vaguely feline predators with twin tentacles that feed on the life force of living creatures
- Coffer Corpse - Resembles a zombie, a rotting, fetid corpse of the dead left unburied
- Compsognathus - Jurassic carnivore
- Couatl - A powerful and legendary large serpent with feathered wings and shape-changing abilities
- Dakon - Intelligent apes resembling gorillas with light brown colouration, green eyes, and black hands
- Demonette - Offspring of a succubus and human male, with vestigial horns and bat-like wings
- Demoniac - Offspring of major demon and human female, strong and heavily-built with demonic features
- Dilophosaurus - Jurassic carnivore
- Dimetrodon - Permian carnivore
- Dire Wolf - Efficient pack hunters that will kill anything they can catch
- Disenchanter - A bizarre creature resembling a cross between a dromedary camel and a cow with a muscular prehensile snout, shimmery electric blue and translucent
- Doppelganger - Intelligent, human-sized shape-shifters of wicked character and highly magical nature
- Draft Horse - Bred for great strength and endurance. Used to pull vehicles and ploughs or as beasts of burden
- Dragon, Gold - Sinuous dragons of oriental myth that epitomize law and goodness
- Eagle - Large bird of prey, can exceed three feet in length with a wingspan of five to eight feet, weighing up to twelve pounds
- Euparkeria - Triassic carnivore
- Falcon - Small bird of prey, typically around a foot in length with a wingspan of two to three feet
- Flesh Golem - Construct made from flesh that follows simple commands
- Flind - Close relatives of gnolls standing 6½-ft tall with powerful limbs and leonine heads
- Gargoyle* - Demonic-looking winged humanoid monsters with gray stone-like skin
- Ghast - Undead monsters similar to ghouls but smarter and more powerful, surrounded by an overwhelming stench
- Ghost* - Spectral remnants of intelligent beings who cannot rest easily in their graves
- Ghoul - Undead monsters which eat the flesh of dead humanoids to survive
- Giant Ant - Giant (6' long), omnivorous, black ants
- Giant Bee - Giant bees that live in hives or nests and produce valuable honey
- Giant Blow Fly - Massive fly with shiny metallic green or blue body covered with coarse black hair
- Giant Fire Beetle - Nocturnal beetle with glowing red glands sought after for illumination
- Giant Horsefly - Massive flat tan and brown fly with shiny brown eyes
- Giant Rat - Large scavenging rodents that grow up to 4 feet long and weigh over 50 pounds
- Giant Snake, Adder - Common name for giant poisonous snakes
- Giant Snake, Amphisbaena - Two-headed snake that rolls like a hoop, immune to cold
- Giant Snake, Boa - Large carnivorous snake that drops on prey from above and constricts
- Giant Snake, Cobra - Hooded giant snake that can spit poison
- Giant Wasp - Giant wasps with paralysing poison stingers that carry victims to their nests
- 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
- Guardian Naga - Long, snake-like creature with a human head, golden eyes, and green-gold scales with triangular silvery scales along its spine
- Hawk - Medium bird of prey, typically around two feet long with a wingspan of four to five feet
- Hobgoblin - Larger cousins of goblins, about the same size as humans with dark orange or red-orange skin
- Homunculus - A miniature servant created by a wizard that serves as an effective spy, messenger, or scout
- Horse, Heavy Warhorse - Heavy warhorse trained for combat
- Horse, Light Warhorse - Light warhorse trained for combat
- Horse, Medium Warhorse - Medium warhorse trained for combat
- Iron Golem - Powerful construct made of iron that can breathe poison gas
- Juju Zombie - Undead created by evil necromancy, improved zombies with strong connection to Negative Material Plane
- Lamia - Upper body of a beautiful woman, lower body of a venomous snake
- Lammasu - Winged lions with human-like heads, intelligent and law-abiding
- Lich - An undead former Magic-user or Cleric who used dark magic to prolong its life into undeath
- 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
- Merchant - Organized traders who travel between settlements in well-armed caravans, buying and selling trade goods
- Mule - Stubborn horse/donkey cross-breeds used as beasts of burden
- Necrophidius - A skeletal giant snake with a fanged skull of an adult human male for a head
- Ogre - Large, brutish, ugly humanoids standing 9-10 feet tall
- Ogre Magi - Fearsome evil creatures, well versed in magic and of unnatural size and strength
- Orc - Grotesque humanoids bent on war and domination
- Ornitholestes - Jurassic carnivore
- Phantom - A three-dimensional visual manifestation recorded at the time of a person's death
- Phase Spider - A spider able to shift in and out of reality during combat
- Phoenix - A huge, magnificent scarlet-plumed magical bird of surprising intelligence
- Pilgrims - Groups of religious followers making their way to some holy site
- Poltergeist - Non-corporeal invisible spirits of humans who died tragically or were murdered
- Prehistoric Lion - Larger versions of regular lions found in lost world settings
- Pseudo-dragon - Tiny dragons with deadly sting in their tails, lacking breath weapon
- Pterodactyl - Prehistoric winged reptilian creatures with a wingspan of around 25 to 30 inches
- Quetzalcoatlus - Cretaceous carnivore, huge for a flying creature
- Rakshasa - Tiger-headed humanoids with backward-curving claws who use illusions to disguise themselves
- Rhamphorhynchus - Jurassic carnivore flying dinosaur
- Rot Grub - 1-inch long vermin found in carrion, dung, and other organic material
- Scorpion, Huge - Vicious, fearless predator with huge claws and poisonous tail
- Scorpion, Large - Vicious, fearless predator with huge claws and poisonous tail
- Shadow* - An incorporeal creature that drains Strength with its touch
- Shedu - A winged bull with the head of a human, intelligent and benevolent
- Skeleton Warrior - Unfortunate victims of powerful magic; in life they were fighters of great prowess and likely lords in their own right
- Slithering Tracker - A transparent slime monster, similar in nature to the gelatinous cube but smaller and more amorphous
- Smilodon - Giant cats with long sabre-like fangs, dangerous and aggressive predators
- Spectral Troll - Invisible creatures created from merging troll and extra-planar essences
- Spectre - Incorporeal undead monsters that drain life energy
- Sphinx, Crio- - A winged lion with the head of a ram
- Stirge - Weird winged creatures resembling hairless bats with tubular proboscis
- Stone Golem - Construct made of stone that can cast slow spells
- Troll - Huge, rangy humanoids with lumpy grayish-green skin and regenerative powers
- Troll, Giant - Crossbreed of trolls and hill giants, combining troll regeneration with giant size and strength
- Vampire* - Undead monsters that appear pale but lifelike, possessing all memories and abilities from life
- Volt - Peculiar magical creature appearing as a ball of grey fur with protruding eyes and an electric whip-like tail
- War Dog - Large mastiffs or pit bulls trained to fight, typically armoured in leather
- Weasel, Giant (or Ferret, Giant) - Long-bodied predatory animals with short legs and pointed, toothy snouts
- Wight - A weird and twisted reflection of the form it had in life
- Wild Dog - Roaming packs that compete for food with wolves and refugees
- Worg - Thoroughly evil creature with gray or black fur, 5 feet long and stands 3 feet tall at the shoulder, weighs 300 pounds
- Wraith - Incorporeal creatures born of evil and darkness
- Zombie - Undead corpses of humanoid creatures that are deathly slow but move silently and are very strong