Flying Monsters

in OSRIC

• Archaeopteryx - Jurassic carnivore; no bigger than an ordinary bird
• Bat, Ordinary - Common bats that swarm when startled
• Cockatrice - A strange creature appearing to be a chicken with a long serpentine neck and tail
• Dragon, Red - The archetypal red dragon is Smaug from "The Hobbit"
• Ekivu - Hideous crossbreed between a giant fly and a human
• Erinyes - Winged humanoid devils that retrieve evil souls from the Prime Material Plane
• Gargoyle* - Demonic-looking winged humanoid monsters with gray stone-like skin
• Giant Bat - Large carnivorous bat with 15-foot wingspan
• Giant Wasp - Giant wasps with paralysing poison stingers that carry victims to their nests
• 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
• Homunculus - Small construct with bat-like wings and venomous bite, magically linked to its creator
• Lammasu - Champions of all that is good and just, with leonine bodies, feathered wings, and the head of a bearded wise man
• Manticore - An overgrown lion with thick leathery wings and an ugly humanoid face
• Mobat - Very large bat found in warm regions with plentiful warm-blooded prey
• Nightmare - Otherworldly black warhorse with blood red eyes, fiery nostrils, and burning hooves that serves as a mount for powerful evil beings
• Pegasus - Winged horse prized as aerial steed, shy creatures living in highest mountains
• Pixie - Winged fairies often found in forested areas who love beauty and pranks
• 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
• Quetzalcoatlus - Cretaceous carnivore, huge for a flying creature
• Rhamphorhynchus - Jurassic carnivore flying dinosaur
• Roc - Giant eagle-like birds with dark brown or golden plumage
• Spiked Devil - Small devils with scaly reddish skin, bat-like wings, and dark spines running from forehead to tail
• 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
• Vrock - Hideous cross between a vulture and a humanoid, considered one of the weakest of demonkind
• Will-o-the-Wisp - Strange, fey creatures that resemble dancing lights or torches
• Wyvern - A huge flying lizard with a poisonous stinger in its tail, distant cousin to true dragons