The Dragon's Bestiary was a long-running column in Dragon magazine which introduced new monsters within specific themes. The series debuted in June 1979 (Dragon #26) and ended in September 2013 (Dragon #427).
Articles[]
Note that only articles relating to Realms canon (relating to the Forgotten Realms or Core D&D) appear here.
| Issue | Title | Author | Description | Citation template |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon #26 | Barghest | Uncredited | Stats for one of the most common denizens of Gehenna, the Barghest. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #30 | Dragon's Bestiary | Ed Greenwood | All about the Curst for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Ed Greenwood's first Dragon article. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #32 | Crawling Claw | Ed Greenwood | All about the Crawling Claw for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #33 | Dragon's Bestiary | Roger E. Moore | All about the Frosts or "Snow Fairies" for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #40 | Wingless Wonder | Ed Greenwood | A comical beast that resembles a walking egg. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #41 | The Silkie and Tomb Tapper | Ed Greenwood and Tom Moldvay | A race of wereseals. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #43 | Lythlyx | Ed Greenwood | A creature that resembles a spinning, rotating springs or corkscrews. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #44 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Rich Baldwin and Roger E. Moore | All about the Ice Golem. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #46 | Gaund | Ed Greenwood | A magical reptile. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #48 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Roger E. Moore and Ernest N. Rowland | A selection of underwater creatures, including the water-horse. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #52 | Rhaumbusun | Ed Greenwood and Victor Selby | A small, reptilian creature that can paralyze with it's gaze. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #53 | Argas | James Hopkins II | Reptilian creatures that devour metals to make themselves tougher. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #53 | Oculon | Roger E. Moore | An enchanted monster created by a high-level magic-user to act as an assistant or guardian. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #53 | Narra | Jeff Goelz | Creatures of extreme Lawful Good nature that work to further the cause of their alignment. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #54 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Craig Stenseth, Ed Greenwood and Roger E. Moore | All about the Boggart, the Stroan, and the Incubus for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #55 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Craig Stenseth, Ed Greenwood, Erol Otus and Jeff Brandt | All about the Devil Spider, Surchur, Dyll, and Poltergeist for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #58 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Ed Greenwood and Roger E. Moore | All about the Sull, Beguiler, and Magenta's Cat for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #59 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Ed Greenwood, Michael Parkinson and Roger E. Moore | Stats for three monsters: The Bleeder (a beholderkin) and the more legendary Stymphalian birds and spriggans. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #61 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Ed Greenwood, Jeff Brandt, Theresa Berger and Willie Carlson | The firetail, light worm, umbrae and tybor. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #116 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Alex Gray, Gregg Chamberlain, Nick Kopsinis, Robert Maurus, and Spike Y. Jones | New aquatic monsters. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #118 | The Dragon's Bestiary | Ed Greenwood, Jeff MacArthur. K.L. Campbell | Spiders for AD&D. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #119 | A Walk through the Woods | Allan Hopkins, Arthur Collins, Douglas Lent, Ed Greenwood, Lance Hankins, Loran Wlodarski, Mark DeForest, Robert Benedetti, Samuel J. Offutt, and William L. Bowman Jr. | A huge collection of woodland monsters. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #127 | Slimy, Gross, and Yucky | Scott Bennie and Thomas M. Kane | Stats for two slimes. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #129 | Colder than ice | Dean Shomshak | A collection of creatures related to cold. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #133 | All Giant Worms are Not Alike | Kent Colbath | Statistics for giant versions of various real-world worms. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #134 | Dragons of Earth, Sea, and Space | Ed Greenwood, Gregory Detwiler, Jeffrey S. Johnson and Mike Persinger | Seven dragons, from the deepest seas to astral space. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #135 | Trouble comes on little cat feet | Scott Bennie | The tibbit (cat-were). | [citation template] |
| Dragon #139 | Rare beasts of the Forgotten Realms setting | Ed Greenwood | Rare Forgotten Realms fauna. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #140 | Creatures of light and darkness | Ed Greenwood | New monsters from the Forgotten Realms setting. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #141 | Nonhuman creatures - with human form | Gregg Sharp, Linda Hankins, Michael J. Szarmach, Ronald C. Morgan II, Scott Bennie, and Steve Sloane | New humanoids. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #146 | All dragons, great and small | David E. Cates, Gregory Detwiler, Malcolm Bowers, Mark Mathis and Randy Johns | Not all new types of dragons are bad - only most of them! | [citation template] |
| Dragon #149 | Not quite horses--but perhaps better | Kurt Martin | 5 equine creatures. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #150 | All life crawls where mind flayers rule | Stephen Inniss | Dangerous fauna from the homeworld of the illithids. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #151 | Never forget, never forgive | Sylvia Li | The Wang-Liang, a long-lived race of mischievious giants with a curious grudge against humanity. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #158 | Two almost-but-not-quite dragons | Spike Y. Jones and Steve Fetsch | The Gorynych and the common Dragonet. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #159 | The call of the wildspace | Harold Johnson, Timothy B. Brown, and Troy Denning | 3 new monsters from space, formatted Monstrous Compendium style. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #162 | Two hauntingly good (but definitely bad) undead. | Spike Y. Jones | Two new undead. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #163 | A weaver of spells and disaster | Ed O'Connell | The spell weavers, alien mages from an alternate dimension. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #165 | Send your PCs on a fishing trip they'll always remember | Tim Malto | Two new aquatic monsters. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #167 | The Thorns that Bite, the Vines that Catch | Gregg Chamberlain | Vegetative monsters. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #170 | Give your campaign some heavy metal—dragons that is | Jason M. Walker | The ferrous metal dragons. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #172 | Attention: Underground adversaries seeking heroes to bash | Anthony Gerard, Costa Valhouli and Spike Y. Jones | New monsters for Undermountain. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #174 | Who guards the ioun stones? Here are some candidates | Matthew P. Hargenrader | New monsters connected to the Ioun stones. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #180 | Three peculiar beasts for all AD&D campaigns | Spike Y. Jones | A goat that knocks down walls, and a lizard that knocks down everything. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #182 | Some of the uglier branches of the dragons' family tree | Gregory W. Detwiler | Two of the uglier dragonkin. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #186 | Unique undead additions to your AD&D game campaign | Spike Y. Jones | Three unique undead horrors. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #187 | The wilderness isn't as nice as it used to be | Malcolm Bowers and Spike Y. Jones | Two new monsters of the wilderness. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #191 | Politeness counts when dealing with these denizens of Faerie-land | Richard A. Hunt | Two denizens of Faerie-land. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #193 | They came from the Outer Planes! | Randy Maxwell | Three creatures from the worlds beyond. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #197 | It's not a petting zoo | Ed Greenwood | Four new monsters from the Forgotten Realms setting | [citation template] |
| Dragon #199 | Those terrible trolls | Alec Baclawski | Discussion of trolls in D&D with some new species. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #206 | The Good, The Bad, and the Clumsy | Spike Y. Jones | Faerie creatures. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #209 | Brass Minotaur | Don Webb | A unique golem created to avenge the death of a man's wife. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #209 | Phantom Flyer | Don Webb | A creature created as a fast and silent flyer. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #209 | Burning Man | Don Webb | A fire machine created to lay waste to a troll army. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #214 | Kercpa | Norman Abrahamsen | Bipedal red squirrels that live in dense forests far away from civilization. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #221 | Lords of Chaos | Edward Bonny | The Slaad Lords. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #223 | Four Guardian Gargoyles | John Baichtal | Special gargoyles for your use. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #227 | Monsters of the Underdark | Wolfgang Baur | Underearth dwellers. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #234 | The Necromancer's Armory | Rudy Thauberger | The necromancer's weapons are walking nightmares. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #235 | Monsters of the Lower Deep | Gregory D. Detwiler | Venture too deep into the ocean's depths, and these are the fishes you'll end up feeding. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #237 | Venomous! | Kevin Melka | This article details a number of venomous creatures: snakes. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #238 | Spawn of the Sewers | John Baichtal | Right under your feet. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #238 | The Other Mummies | Brian Walton and Richard Pengelly | Hard-hearted killers from bogs and glaciers. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #239 | The Little People | Brian Corvello | Four tricky little fellows. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #242 | Talisman Servants | Bruce Schmidt | This article presents three talisman servants, special constructs created in ancient Netheril. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #243 | Magical Crossbreeds | Johnathan M. Richards | Armadillephant, dragonfly turtle, duckbunny, moat cat, spider-horse, and venom dog. Seriously. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #247 | The Anurans | Johnathan M. Richards | Frogs and toads. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #248 | Dragon-Kin | Gregory W. Detwiler | Dragon-like monsters. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #250 | Aquatic Creatures | Johnathan M. Richards | A small menagerie of new Aquatic Creatures. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #251 | Missing Links | Johnathan M. Richards | Monstrous evolutionary links. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #252 | Formidable Visitants | Michael D. Winkle | Four creatures adapted from the works of M.R. James. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #254 | Giants from the Grave | Gregory W. Detwiler | Undead giants. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #259 | Symbiotes and Parasites | Johnathan M. Richards | Hold still... you've got something on you. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #266 | Giant Lycanthropes | Brian P. Hudson | Really big werethings. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #267 | Designing Dungeon Monsters | Gregory W. Detwiler | Some underground monsters and advice on making more of the same. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #268 | The Lizard Folk | Michael Kuciak | This article discusses lizardfolk and suggests new varieties of subspecies. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #269 | Demihuman Pets | Jack Pisker | This article discusses the pets of different demihuman races. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #271 | 'Beastly Research' Winners | Leon Chang, Richard Sanders, and Talon Dunning | Creature hybrids. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #272 | Diminutive Dragons | James Wyatt | From the familiar to the fantastic, these tiny dragons make perfect companions or pests. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #281 | Subterranean Scares | Joseph R. Terrazzino | Creatures of the Underdark. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #284 | Return of the Greater Drakes | Johnathan M. Richards | Aerial riding mounts. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #292 | Bad Seeds | Ed Bonny, Skip Williams and Steve Winter | Bad plants in the forest. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #298 | The Punishments of Lolth | Eric Cagle | When drow are punished, they are sometimes turned into a drider. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #299 | The Horrors of Cormyr | Thomas Costa | Monstrous monsters in the Realms. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #300 | Hellish Fangs on Abyssal Wings | James Wyatt | Demon dragons from the lower planes. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #302 | Construct of Destruction | Eric Cagle | Five New Golems. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #367 | Mindless Monstrosities | Greg Bilsland | Information on golems and oozes. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #373 | The Brood of Alloces | Ari Marmell | Known variably as the Prince of Beasts and the Butcher of Nessus, the devil Alloces is Hell’s own mad surgeon. Though his influence in the infernal hierarchy comes from his services as stable-master to Asmodeus and other archdevils, keeping and breeding their herds, his obsession, his love, and his greatest claim to infamy comes in his efforts to create new monsters. | [citation template] |
| Dragon #420 | Fey of Wood and Wind | Steve Townshend | In old cupboards and walls, beneath the thick underbrush of Faerie forests, in enchanted crystal caves, wee fey make their homes in places that big folk do not tread. We put some wee, and some not-so-wee, fey under the magnifying glass. | [citation template] |
- Dragon Annual
| Issue | Title | Author | Description | Citation template |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon magazine annual #1 | Predators of the Underdark | Keith Strohm | The reason you should be afraid of the dark. | [citation template] |
| Dragon magazine annual #2 | Arctic Monsters | Belinda G. Ashley | Your heroes will find only cold comfort in the clutches of these monsters. | [citation template] |
| Dragon magazine annual #3 | Urban Pests | Johnathan M. Richards | What happens between adventures is often the talk of the town. | [citation template] |
| Dragon magazine annual #4 | The Ghazneths | Troy Denning | Only creatures as powerful as the ghazneths could threaten the kingdom of Cormyr. | [citation template] |
| Dragon magazine annual #5 | Children of Tharizdun | James Jacobs | Who knows what terrible fiends still lurk in undiscovered cult temples from the time of the Dark God? | [citation template] |
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Magazine Columns
Arcane Lore • Bazaar of the Bizarre • Campaign Classics • Demonomicon of Iggwilv • Dragon's Bestiary • Ecology • Elminster's Guide to the Realms • Elminster's Notebook • Eye on the Realms • Faiths of Faerûn • Featured Creatures • Forgotten Deities • Leomund's Tiny Hut • Pages from the Mages • Role-playing Reviews • Rogues Gallery • Spellcraft • Silicon Sorcery • The Everwinking Eye • The Living City • The New Adventures of Volo • The Role of Computers • The Wizards Three • TSR Profiles • Volo's Guide • Vs. • Wyrms of the North