Magical Beasts in The Monster Manual
- Ankheg
- The aranea is a spider-like magical beast that lives in temperate forests. Its natural form is a spider of monstrous size, with two small humanlike arms below its mandibles. An aranea is usually neutral in alignment. It has the ability to change its shape into that of a humanoid, or a spider-humanoid hybrid. It has the poison and webspinning ability of a spider, as well as the ability to cast spells like a sorcerer.
- Basilisk
- Behir
- Bulette
- Blink dog
- Chimera
- Cockatrice
- Darkmantle
- The digester is a velociraptor-like magical beast (though it only has two limbs), with a bony head sporting short tendrils. It has a serrated spine and skinny lower legs. As can be guessed from its name, the Digester is an eating machine that attacks with acid. When it is hungry, it looks for a likely target in its forest or scrubland home, and then rushes forward, squirting a gout of acid from a tube in the top of its skull. The prey is effectively reduced to soup, and the Digester drinks. If the victim is not dead but the digester has used all its acid, it attacks with its legs until it can squirt acid again. When it does not wish to eat, which is rarely, it lays down in the grass and avoids other creatures. Though sometimes solitary, they also sometimes group in packs of three to six.
- Displacer beast
- Dragonne
- Ethereal marauder
- Frost Worm
- Giant eagle
- Giant owl
- Girallon
- Gorgon
- Gray Render
- Griffon
- Hellwasp swarm
- Hippogriff
- Hydras
- Kraken
- Krenshar
- Lamia
- Lammasu
- Manticore
- Owlbear
- Pegasus
- Phase Spider
- Purple Worm
- Remorhaz
- Roper
- Shocker Lizard
- Sea Cat
- Sphinxes
- Spider Eater
- Stirge
- Tarrasque
- Unicorn
- Winter wolf
- Worg
- Yrthak
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