Fictional creatures
Creatures theme
Any creatures invented for known works of fiction that can't be categorized as legendary creatures.
These may be based on actual legendary creatures but no longer have enough significant relation with the originals.
This is a container group; its children are:
| Beholders | Includes beholders, floating eyes with fanged mouth and possibly several eye stalks surrounding a large central eye. Usually they can unleash bolts of energy or magic spells from the central and/or the surrounding eyes. | 1975 / 2022 | 64 games |
| Driders | A humanoid torso joined on top of a spider body or legs. (too short) | 1978 / 2022 | 16 games |
| Elves | Features Elves or Elf-like creatures. (too short) | 1975 / 2022 | 579 games |
| Floating eyes | Includes creatures that resemble floating disembodied eyeballs, possibly with tendrils or similar additives. | 1982 / 2018 | 79 games |
| Gelatinous cubes | Large (enough to block a hallway completely) animated cubes of gelatin like substance with animal-like intelligence, commonly found in "dungeons" where they primarily serve as automated janitors, collecting and melting any trash and vermin. | 1974 / 2021 | 31 games |
| Gnolls | Humanoid hyena-like caninoids. (too short) | 1974 / 2017 | 36 games |
| Disembodied hands | Includes creatures that resemble severed hands. (too short) | 1984 / 2015 | 19 games |
| Mimics | Includes creatures that disguise themselves as harmless objects hapless adventurers are likely to approach, such as elaborate chests. | 1985 / 2020 | 86 games |
| Mind flayers | Includes mindflayers or creatures that resemble them: tall and slender alien humanoids with 4 or so tentacles surrounding a beak-like mouth used to devour the brains of their victims (food). | 1974 / 2015 | 24 games |
| Oliphaunts | Fictional Mammoth/Elephant-like creatures of middle earth. Used as beasts of burden & for fighting wars | 2004 / 2009 | 6 games |
| Orcs | Features Orcs or Orc-like creatures. (too short) | 1975 / 2021 | 314 games |
| Owlbears | (too short) | 1975 / 2013 | 35 games |
| Tauntauns | A bipedal bovine-like species with 4 way cloven hooves downward facing horns along the sides of their heads. Easily tamed for carrying people & cargo | 1992 / 1993 | 2 games |
| Tentacle creatures | Includes creatures whose dominant trait is tentacles. (too short) | 1983 / 2020 | 121 games |
| Treants | Features treants, sentient or animalistic tree-like beings, or similar entities. (too short) | 1985 / 2018 | 104 games |
| Wampa | Ursidae-like upright bipedal carnivore. They subsist on Tauntauns. They prefer to be solitary and are territorial but will form packs when advantageous | 1992 / 1997 | 3 games |