Monsters

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>>52596072
Whatever the fuck these guys are called. Anything this guy draws, actually. There's this sort of innocent creepy whimsy he brings to all his monster stuff.

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>>52596072
Laplace's demon.

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>>52596072
Griffin, griffon, and gryphon because fuck yeah.

>>52596196
I heard them called wendigo once upon a time.

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>>52596072
Call me old fashioned.

They can be social or physical challenges, they can be found in any biome, Theyre extremely physically powerful magical and intelligent which is fairly unique.

It helps that aesthetically they tighten my trousers.

I feel bad saying that because i know people unironically fap to dragons

>>52596397
Maximized Shivering Touch Greatreach Blast, dragon is no more.

I'm actually a fan of constructs. Not just normal golems, but necron-style cryptek wraiths and shit. Magic runes behind heavy plating, creaking orichalium cables and tubes pumping power, a steaming engine in the heart of a titanic machine, twin Gates to opposed Planes fueling the thing eternally.

>>52596397
How the fuck do you fap ironically? That's some sick shit.

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>>52596432
I agree on the constructs, but I'm not opposed to unintelligent ones like golems. They're very simple yet versatile, and it's fun to see what kind of exotic materials they can be made from (Lead? Uranium? Cake?)

Also mimics.

I love big, stupid and calm giants. Like whales but with legs. Especially when someone sees this and just says "Why dont we strap guns and turrets and shit to this?"

>>52596072

Owlbear, muhfuggin' owlbear. Big, burly, psychopaths that can smell your fear.

And they like it. It smells like lady-owlbear sex-jelly and licorice whips.

They are the thing in the woods that will hunt your party. Play dead to enact revenge later.

A feathery, furry bundle of spite and no fucks to give.

They will hide in trees and shit on your party in the middle of the night. They will freight train right through your marching order in the day and rape your hireling in the nostril. They will taunt your character when he goes off to piss, hooting low and soft, a promise that they're there, that they're watching.

And when your party gets cocky, thinks "Man, we're tough. Screw owlbears."? Then they call the pack. And ain't no breaks on that rape train.

Owlbears.

>>52596072
Random item mimic. Door mimic, chest mimic, cellar mimic, sword mimic, ladder mimic, and my favorite even though I only used it once; toilet mimic.

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>>52597428
And for some reason my players don't trust me~

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>>52596072
Snakes are always interesting because you can combine so many things with them and because they are relatively weak, slithering creatures yet they are made powerful by their venomous bite.

>>52596196
a couple years ago I was contemplating using John Kenn's monster art as the basis for a setting for a Monsters & Other Childish Things game, so I decided to sorta catalog the various beasts in his art into loose categories based on their appearance, for example the ones in the picture you posted I cataloged as being "Trolls", I'll need to do some double checking as to the rest of the types I had though

>>52597485
>relatively weak
>most common garden snakes kill animals their own size by constriction alone
>nearly any constricting snake bigger than two feet could kill you by wrapping around your neck

>>52597523
How the fuck are you going to let a two foot snake slither up you and around your neck

>>52597534
i mean, try a five-foot+ boa, or a python, in some knee-high mud... my point is snakes aren't weak

Harpies like the one from The Last Unicorn

I met the author a couple years ago and actually cried in front of him because the description of Celano is one of my favorite passages in literature

>>52597534
Heavy sleepers. Won't know until it's too late.

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Dare you enter my magical realm?

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>>52596072
I love to use kobolds.

Miners and engineers like dwarfs, they serve dragons and are dragon-looking, and their lawful evil nature lets them be both an ally or an enemy in whatever situation need be.

Plus traps, always traps, Tucker's Kobolds style traps

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>>52597428
The bad transparency job was bothering me so I fixed it.

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>>52596072
I had my players scared shitless of these guys. Rats are a invisible, ever present part of life. Whether you are in the city, country, or wilderness, there are always rats. Watching and waiting.

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>>52596072
kek this comic

>>52596432
That sounds awesome.

>>52597065
We are clearly just not ironic enough to understand the ways of the ironic fap.

>>52597676
Yes please.

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>>52597065
The upper echelons of irony should always include measures of sincerity. And if the satirical practice is executed faithfully it will achieve something bona fide in its own right regardless. Through an intense commitment bordering on religious devotion to the absolutely inane, absurd, or plain fucking stupid, a very different kind of sincerity begins to materialize. One of reverence to the ridiculous. You begin to "mean it," but what exactly it is you mean is never quite what appears on the surface, and is utterly inaccessible to obtuse and literal minds. That you "mean it" then becomes inseparable from the joke, and additional rich strata of humor may be stripped aggressively from this irreconcilable truth.

>>52596308
>Clinging on.
>It takes off
>Oh Fuck
>Chug stamina replenishment
>It's not landing
>I'm 200 feet in the air, holding on tight. Start stabbing to try and make it land
>It suddenly dies
>Fall out of the sky so hard the screen goes red and I've got 12 out of 880 HP
>There's like a thousand enemies around me
>"WOLVES HUNT IN PACKS!"

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I FUCKING LOVE GOLEMS

>>52596072
I like hydras. They're a big carnivorous lizard plus a bonus scary thing (extra heads!), but unlike dragons they haven't accumulated a bunch of other baggage.

I also like shadowy monsters with horse's skulls. I think I stole that from an image that used to get reposted on /tg/. But horse skulls are awesomely freaky.

>>52598873
This can't be real

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>>52598962
As an American//Canadian halfbreed, I believe it.

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>>52596072
Needlemen or Dopplegangers are bae

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Monsters that fuck with time are cool especially if the way they do is unique.

Especially if you can fuck the time right back at them

>>52599435
Was this a recent thing? Suddenly, I've been seeing references to the Fault of whatever everywhere.

>>52599710
Recent-ish.

That's one of those ones that rebounds back into consciousness every so often.

/x/, when not raided, is highly cyclical.

>>52596072
Dragons meet all of those criteria save for the "moistness." Do you really expect people on /tg/ to get moist instead of hard?

>>52598844
>killing a griffon as, presumably, a fighter
>at a low enough level to have only 880 HP
I'm impressed.

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The most dreadful monster of all. And, not coincidentally, the best antagonist.

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I like demons and I cannot lie.

The red, horned kind, that come with fire and brimstone and want nothing but to fuck everything up.

>>52599964
I prefer devils, the tempters and the deal makers. Nowadays players bitch and moan but if you have the right group then the look of fear/wonder they get when they realize that the innocuous task they performed in exchange for all that sweet gear accidentally set off a huge cluster fuck is great. Then they get to set off and try to fix it. Fun stuff, easy to write.

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bulettes are the ultimate killers. i've always found that things with a burrow speed are difficult to deal with and dragging an uppity player eighty feet underground to suffocate is especially satisfying.

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Honestly, dragons. But since someone already pointed that out: Shoutout to skellies for always being there when the DM needs them in so many varieties and CRs.

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>>52596072
Giant sea monster.
You can be really creative with their design (Kraken, Leviathan, sea serpent, crab-like, giant fish,tortoise, a mix off some or all of that), and also for the dramatic entrance effect you can make with them.

>>52596244
I, too, remember when Dresden Codak was somewhat entertaining.

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>>52596072
Overall? Hags.

>spells
>similar to, but usually tougher than, ogres
>intelligent
>as tricky as you want them to be
>as "rip you up with their bare hands" as you want them to be
>no real limits on their population if near a population center
>can be reasoned with
>can be unreasonable
>can be fought by low level PCs
>can challenge high level PCs (in 5e they can have 12th level casting and lair actions, in AD&D and 3e they can use shit like Forcecage)
>control all sorts of other kinds of monsters
>night hags are the helpful merchants of the lower planes, making deals with liches and fiends alike
>perfect thing to bridge the high level and low level plot with

Drawbacks:
>night hags aren't a kind of hag pre-5e
>their fluff is kind of edgy in 5e

>>52598819
that would be fapping post-ironically

Skellies with experienced and talented commander.

>>52602572
>experienced
Ara ara~

>>52599435
what's the sauce of these comics?

>>52596072
is this webcomic still ongoing? It was pretty cute but it just meandered on for so long I lost interest

>>52596244
>how's the family?
>my wife died of hysteria

I can't tell if Codak is a comedy genius or obscene hack having the punchline to his comic be a complete non sequitur.

>>52602893
That's not a non-sequitur, it's an answer to the question.

Gelatinus Cube. Nothing is more amusing to me than a monster that's nothing more than a predator specialized to hide in dungeons and create a food source out of the constant flow of stupid assed adventurers seeking gold and glory. The fact that they are so base and mindless only makes it better. Mimics are awesome for the same reason but not as good as gelatinus cubes.

>>52599651
Oh fuck, the Centipede!
One of the best characters in Mieville's Dial H.

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>>52596072
Flumph.
It represents the weirdness and absurdity that I like in my games.

>>52596072
Yuan-ti. All the fukken Yuan-ti!

stiched together zombie golems or zombie variations of monsters.

it makes for a large intimidating fight that is more drawn out than other fights due to higher hp but less damage, it is a good excuse to add special attacks that you might find fun or interesting, like the stiched in beholder eye opens hazily and fires a lazer or maybe even got a zombiefied dragons head, allowing for a necrotic dragonbreath.
then again, i love using undead, they come in massive variety, does not create any moral dilemmas and makes the group feel like heroes. and you know that past the shambling horde is a powerful necromancer or a lich. it's clichy, but the best kind of clichy

>>52596432
>Touch
This is why d&d, especially that edition, is such shit. Let's be veritable walking gods that is never challenged anytime, anywhere! Why? We spent so much TIME and EFFORT to get here, struggling every step of the way!

Pathetic.

>>52598976
*gentle gasp*

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>>52596072
This was always my favorite monster growing up because of those dumb goofy eyes
Also humans, because they are the real monsters

>>52597676
Why magical realm?

I want to say but it's also my fetish.

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Fucking Aboleths. They're the perfect Greater Scope Villain with their patient scheming spanning millenia, they're brilliant when it comes to creating intrigue by manipulating NPCs, they can have a wide variety of enslaved minions and forcing the party to gear up and march into a fucking ocean to face this monstrous threat makes for a truly epic climactic confrontation.

One of my favourite things to do as a DM is to have an Aboleth's plans interfere with the plans of another antagonist group, like an enemy kingdom or a cult of Dracolich-worshipers. It makes for very interesting drama while the players decide how best to take advantage of the situation.

Plus the 5e Aboleth's design makes my willy bigger.

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>>52602561
This is a perfect description of how I feel about Tails Got Trolled. Thank you for putting it into words.

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In my opinion, you can't have a sword and sorcery story with dinosaurs. They combine the mythical and the historical, allowing the players to imagine not just fantasies but epic counterfactual adventures. They open the campaign to kaiju battles, weird dinosaur cults, and time wizard shenanigans. Dinosaurs come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes to pose various challenges: from outwitting a Utah-raptor to surviving a stampede of triceratops. Let's not forget the epic victory won by defeating a tyrannosaurus. Especially in a low-magic campaign, a gritty hand to tooth battle with a dinosaur cannot be beat!

>>52604882
*without dinosaurs. Left an important word absent

>>52599435
DRR DRR DRR

>>52599945
I hate nudists too but I wouldn't call them monsters, just deviants.

>>52597909
>Rats are a invisible, ever present part of life. Whether you are in the city, country, or wilderness, there are always rats. Watching and waiting.
Well if that's what you're going for then dire rats lack a little subtlety. They're basically the bridge between normal hit'em till they're dead monsters and something different.

For something REALLY creepy, insidious, and potentially scary I'd suggest looking at cranium rats and moon rats.
Cranium rats are far more intelligent than normal rats and act as spies for illithids and even as the eyes and ears of their god directly.
Moon rats appear to be normal rats but as the moon becomes more full they become smarter and stronger till at the full moon they rival people. Furthermore, they remember previous moons and can act on long-term plans a month at a time, so subtle that the connection likely won't be realised before it's too late.

>>52599796
Also, The Enigma of Amigara Fault got an official English publishing by Viz last year. They've actually been publishing a lot of Junji Ito's stuff lately.

>>52597656
What are they like?

>>52597226
>>52598976
>tfw there's never any love for the noble sea-owl

Liches are my favorite. They're like a better vampire. They (most of the time) dont require fuel, they're immortal, they dont have any stupid weaknesses and they are freaking magic. "Oh, but what if you want to have 'the sex'?" Just magic up a solution of use a glamore. Boom! Sex having lich!

Also becoming a lich is totally on the individual, theres no back ally attack that turns you into one like a vamp, ghost or werewolf. You can't blame anyone but yourself.

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The deepspawn, killing mid level pcs since the 80s.

>>52602744

http://gastrophobia.com/

>>52596308
Those look very little like wendigos. More like leshies.

>>52597676
I'm going to throw up

>>52598819
Damn anon, I don't know if this is pasta but you nailed 4chan right there.

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THESE MOTHERFUCKERS

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>>52607296
>THIBPTHIBPTHIBPTHIBPTHIBPTHIBP!!!

>>52599964
What page is this? I stopped reading when she drank the vial.

>>52596072
I don't know, most monsters are pretty cool. I guess whichever one I'm fighting at the moment.

Trivia's pretty fuckin cute.

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>>52597676
I remember threads where faggots were making a brawler/vote class based on the sole inspiration brought about by this image.

Fucking vore fags.

>>52596072
Just binged this whole comic, pretty neat stuff.

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>>52605979

Left picture is art from the novel, top right is from the comic that was recently published, bottom right was from the movie made in the 80s.

While the pictures are okay representation of her because they capture the her hideousness, but it can't quite capture the wonder and awful beauty found in something so terrible.

But I'm probably just weird for thinking that.

>>52608421
No wonder the cave men are stealing that girl, she is DUMB THICC

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>>52608876
First time I realized that bird has tits and shit in that move, which I watched quite a bit as a kid. Then again there was that scene with the tree so I'm honestly not so surprised but still.

>>52609051

Triple boobs on birds. Though that's also why I kind of like the novel art instead. The head is way more interesting in the movie version.

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>>52598819
Shut dude I think we have an elder clown here.

>>52606858
Hmm, could it be because there's no comprehensive description of the Wendigo?

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>>52598976
I like owlbears as well.

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>>52609152
He's just quoting a shitty webcomic.

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>>52596072
Lamias because
a) sexy snek
b)can fit in ANY role for ANY game, they are truly the most versatile monster:
Magically inclined with arabian magic and rituals, I personally favor them using a lot of status-inducing magic such as confuse, sleep or charm
Fighting inclined, with dangerous claws or with several arms wielding multiple weapons
With guns in sci-fy settings
Poisonous types
Underwater types
Civilized ones who can be reasoned with
Burrowing underground types
Winged ones
Types that are half dragon instead of half snake for higher levels
Even ones whose lower part is that of a centipede instead of a snake
I even have a lamia techpriest in one of my settings and its oddly fitting

Seriously, you can't go wrong with lamias, other monsters that I love include harpies(but admittedly more of a magical realm than anything), skeletons, ghosts and robots (humanoid kind with guns and weapons), but none of them come close to the versatility that lamias can bring

>>52602325
Skellies are love

One may prefer one kind of creature or other but skellies are always a safe bet

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>>52599964
I LIKE

BIG

DEMONS AND I CANNOT LIE

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how did we hit 100 replies without everyone's favorite cute low level monster slimes!

>>52596072
I'm trying to remember the name of this one type of monster I've once seen described on here. It hides in a pit or a sewer in a small town, mind controlling them into killing each other or feeding him their loved ones or something. I think it had the ability to use some sort of sound or music to cloud your mind so that you wouldn't know it was there even if you were looking right at it? As I said I forgot what it was called but I would love to have a campaign involving that thing.

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Tigers. Super cool, high speed, and they pack a hell of a punch. Plus they make pretty good breeding stock as they tend to pass on their speed and attack stats.

>>52610666
False Hydra.

>>52610391
I mean someone did say oozes

>>52610666
>>52610758

I'd love to do a campaign, or just a section of one centered around one of these, the problem is that roleplaying memory affecting magic is just miserable for everybody involved.

>>52610703
>>52610703
You.

I like you.

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Pulling out a mushroom figurine always makes you seem like a FUN GUY

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>>52610758
Oh bless you anon, those things are top-tier creepiness, and an interesting challenge for the Inquisition.

The Thing (basically any life form assimilating extra terrestrial).

>>52611123

I lichen your taste, friend.

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>>52611458
We have MUSH to talk about my friend.

Do Asura count as monsters?

I love them, just angry demons and demigods who live for violence

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>>52598819

The power of irony is that once we acknowledge that it's even theoretically possible to practice something without actually meaning it, it immediately becomes impossible to distinguish irony from sincerity, since you'd have to read the subject's mind.

And I can change at any time since the truth is hidden, and if I can change the truth at will, is there still a truth at all?

If I do something sincerely and people call me a faggot, well it was actually ironic. If I do something ironic and people seem to like it, well, it was really sincere the whole time.

Irony, just by existing as a possibility, immediately and irrevocably merges with truth, the two mutually annihilating each other like matter and antimatter.

The truth is dead and so is irony. Nothing means anything anymore.

Maybe I'm a faget with reddit-tier tastes in TV shows, but the memory parasites in Rick and Morty could easily jump from comedy to horror in a different context.

They insinuate themselves into a group by taking the shape of some goofy character, and retroactively seed the hosts' minds with memories of them. So even though this dude just showed up five minutes ago you have years of memories of him, and it's almost impossible to distinguish him from the other people you know.

And when you recall the memories of the parasite there are other new characters, who then become real and add their own memories, which is how the parasites reproduce.

Within a few hours you've got hundreds of people running around and you remember all of them like you've known them your whole life, and even if you know there are parasites about you have no way of figuring out who's a parasite and who's an actual friend.

Even if you figure out, can you handle the emotional trauma of murdering a dozen of your best friends? The memories don't go away when they die.

The end-game is the parasites' reproduction exponentially accelerates until the planet becomes uninhabitable for the billions of people appearing every day.

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The friendly kind.

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>>52613016
>The friendly kind.

They are the best.

>>52613032
I would love to play a campaign in which am the pcs were monsters posing as human adventurers and all the players think that they're the only one playing a monster and need to conceal the fact from everyone else [\spoiler]

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Behold, the humble cockatrice.

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>>52597173
Here you go.
A Kickstarter for minis of everything as a Mimic.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613044699/foundations-4-rise-of-the-mimics

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Goblins.

It is both a monster and a descriptor. Goblins use Goblin Metal, and ride Goblin Rats, or Goblin Spiders, from Goblin Castles lorded by Goblin Kings and Queens, who hoard Goblin treasure which can be spent in Goblin Markets. Goblin is as much a curse as a creature.

Best part, a goblin can be a Hobbit goblin, a Labyrinth goblin, a Gremlin Goblin, a Warcraft Goblin, and a Warhammer Goblin. They're greatly varied and all can work in the same world.

They can be silly, they can be sinister, they can be stupid. They will always be effective.

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Sahuagin>Locathah erry day

I tend to go through "favourite" monsters as I browse them, but sphinges and otyugh are probably my most consistent adorations.

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Also these handy fuckers for the Blood War but with more of a cockroach/silverfish look.

The xp on these was ridiculous.

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>>52614351
Forgot my image.

Vampires

they can be anything you would like. Mindless monsters that could probably take on an entire town's guards if needed
Ones whose very breath could freeze their victims' blood in their veins
Maybe they quietly sneak into a family's home, kill their baby and take it's place - growing up human and one night killing and feeding on the entire family
They could be completely indistinguishable from a normal human, they spend several lifetimes in human cities feeding on the slumbering citizens at the night, not enough to kill but maybe they'd need to spend a day or two in bed with some unknown illness
Elder vampires so ancient and powerful that they act as a sort of "leader" for all vampires of a particular area, that get irritated by even the slightest noise and even the most powerful of other vampires fear even discussing him

there's so much stuff you can do with them, they'll always be my favorite

>>52597898
The fact that the image is just slightly bigger than the thumbnail bothers me, but it doesn't bother me enough to fix it.

Good job nonetheless Anon.

Big ass spiders, wasps and bees.
Group knows I have a drider fetish but they don't suspect me to actually prefer full on giant bugs.
Also kinda good to inspire fear even when they don't really fear small bugs. There's something upsetting about vivid descriptions of giant armored chitinous beasts with deadly chelicerae, scythe legs and venoms.
I need to watch starship troopers one more time now.

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>>52596072
Probably Beholders. Being able to have only one monster on the field and have it's effects be mostly "whatever the fuck I want" makes me drool a bit.
I'm also a fan of anything undead.
Death tyrants give me a boner.

>>52613855
What you just said can be applied to any fantasy race.

>>52596072
I love monsters that are like mundane plants and animals but warped and corrupted into something horrifying and new. It makes it easier to describe them to the players, not by saying "It's a weird jackal-thing" but by watching how jackals move and describing this quadrupedal, shivering beast with elongated hind legs, limbs emaciated but a bloated torso fit to burst, snarling and encircling the character.

Mechanically I like any monster that escalates in threat the longer the fight goes on. My last two boss fights I've run were (1) a giant crocodile monster that got an additional turn in the Initiative order when it hit 80/60/40/20% maximum hit points, and (2) a huge earth elemental that split off an additional smaller one at 80/60% max HP, and THOSE split off two even smaller earth elementals at 50% HP, and when the main one was reduced to 50% HP every elemental got a large bonus to attack and damage and a small penalty to AC akin to Barbarian Rage in 3E (which I'm not playing).

I don't run random encounters, I don't waste players' time with four goblins in a 10x10 room. I run every fight like it's a mid-boss or boss, throwing badass creatures with nasty specials and hordes of minions at the party. Monsters should be terrifying and a threat to their lives every time they encounter them.

>>52615739
I disagree, and doing so makes it fucking bland.

Goblins motherfucker.

>>52598962
You sweet summer child.

>>52604149
Also: Gud boys

>>52609051

>>52611458
>>52611484
Kill YOUR selves

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>>52617507
>Hooks hidden in tits
I think I've had enough internet for today lads

>>52608421
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>>52596072
Man.

>>52596432
>Magic runes behind heavy plating, creaking orichalium cables and tubes pumping power, a steaming engine in the heart of a titanic machine, twin Gates to opposed Planes fueling the thing eternally.

fuckin Thaddeus

you know how long it took the jobbers in my guild to figure out the polarity switch on that fight? TOO long

still a damn great boss

>>52602893
>dude A asked dude B about his family
>dude B said something about his family

that seems like normal conversation with a very dark end

>>52618636

Also: 1e Kobolds, Gryphons, Hobgoblins, Beholder-Kin, and anything with too many tentacles, eyes, and gaping sharp-toothed mouths.

I have a deep and abiding fondness for Lovecraft.

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>ctrl+f
>"mimic"
>No results

Mimic. Favorite version of the mimic? Memic.

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Aberrations, especially aboleths, give me a raging hard on.

>>52597676
Y'know, I'm not seeing the vore, other than shoving its babies into people. Is there something I'm missing, or is it solely based on Impregnate Surrogate?

>>52618862
see
>>52597173
at the front of the goddamn thread

>>52618978
See
>>52604547

>>52619476
Is joke Ivan.
You know "joke", yes?

>>52602539
Tell ma about the 5e fluff anon.
Also, I always made the 3ed Night Hag a proper hag. I loved how splatbooks expanded them, you could find a couple more in Forgotten Realms and there was a Marzanna in frostburn. Probably more.

I thought I was the only one to love hags!

>>52619909
Nein, this is mongolian tapestry board, no place for jokes.

>>52596308
My catbird brother

>>52604547
>the 5e Aboleth's design makes my willy bigger.
That redesign is fucking shit and so is your taste.

>>52596072
I like low level monsters.
I love the challenge of trying to make them scary to older players.

>>52622789
So I guess my answer is skeletons, cause they are spoopy.

Imagine how pants shittingly terrifying that would be in real life

>>52622802
There's a quote I always remember, I think it's from DnD with Pornstars. It goes along the lines of "zombies are boring. zombies are a virus, a possession, a madness. There's muscle and brains and a heart for any number of reasons to make a dead person move about and try to eat people. Skeletons have none of that. Skeletons getting up and moving about are a sign god wants you to die"

I've always been a fan of shapeshifters, whether mimics or generalized ones. Aku is my favorite baddie ever

I also get a fear boner for nonhumans imitating humans in horror settings. When I learned that the Wendigo could imitate human voices, that chilled me pretty bad.

>>52623091
Wendigos are fucking cool, I need to use them some time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeDIKVgwlDk

>>52623372
>Attempt to skip to the beginning of death
>Right at the fucking scream
Fuckin darn near flipped outa my chair.

>>52602561
>>52598819
What we're referring to here is post-postmodern fapping

>>52623091
One of my favorite character was a shifter alchemist. Feral mutagen made his hyde hulk out werewolf-y and every time id use my shifter racial id mime drinking a potion so people had no reason to suspect me.

>>52623372
why, why would anyone ever open that fucking trap door? Knowing what I know about how Until Dawn works I can see it but in literally any other piece of media that's just ridiculous.

>>52609250
What webcomic?

>>52623511
because she thought it was one of their friends and none of them knew wendigos could imitate voices iirc. They had no reason to think it was one

>>52615861
> not by saying "It's a weird jackal-thing" but by watching how jackals move and describing this quadrupedal, shivering beast with elongated hind legs, limbs emaciated but a bloated torso fit to burst, snarling and encircling the character.

I like the way you think, anon

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I've always thought the Remorhaz was terrifying.

>>52623783
The sound alone of a hundred limbs working in unison to carry that giant bulk is horrifying let alone everything else about it

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<<< these fuckers...

All the terror of a giant monster lurking in the deep, place s the fact that they're freaky smart and can work mind control.... What's not to love?

I also rather like Gelatinous Cubes when used properly...

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>>52597779
>dragon-looking

so the worst kind of kobold?

>>52624470
Dogbolds are shit mate, get over it. You might as well replace all orcs with gnolls, because we all know how great gnolls are.

>>52597173

Let's not forget the classic Calzone golem.

>>52624470
If you don't go with the originals of either a shitty blue gnome or a ratdoglizard you are objectively wrong.

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>>52602222
>Demons and devils are different things

>>52623551
You could just google the quote. It's copied word for word. It's Homestuck. It didn't start out as complete shit, but that's definitely how it ended.

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These evil bitches are fun. Pretty sure they're type V devil's. Mmm! Type Vs are always fun!

>>52613406
I actually played a shapeshifting paladin who was effectively stealing the identity of a long dead princess to live out their fantasy of being a hero.

They eventually settled down to be a librarian in a small town, changing identities every few years and having huge dice to tell the town's children stories to their great grandkids.

Such is the life of an immortal shapeshifter.

>>52598976
If a group of owls is a parliament and a group of bears is a sloth, then is a group of owl bears a congress?

>>52596072
Manticores!

>>52608421
i like the laughing and unammused t-rex bystanders in the background just watching these shenanigans unfold

>>52611761
>The truth is dead
Ugh, why do people say this. Our *understanding of truth* is dead, truth itself is still out there. Not to mention the subjects that cannot contain irony.

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The weird part is that it's easy for me to identify my favorite monster sourcebook— the Mutants & Machines book for the d20 Gamma World— but I can't pick out a favorite creature from it. I just love the way so many of the entries in it are the bizarre products of good intentions gone awry: the ooze that was originally a nanotechnological liposuction device, the intelligent vending machines that have been forced to learn how to dispense medicines and other practical compounds instead of soda, the oil-spill-cleaning otters that get high off of gasoline, or the buildings which uprooted themselves in search of replacement parts.

I guess my actual favorite would be the Xaxavraznazak from "Fire on the Velvet Horizon," but I like it too much to use it as an actual antagonist.

I think the illithid are probably the best D&D monsters. They're exceptionally well-developed and have a lot of character; I think they're closest D&D gets to a genuinely new yet iconic monster archetype, even if the popular depiction of Cthulhu also has the squid head thing.

>>52597676
The drakainia is uncomfortably close to my own fetishes, and I could never put one in a campaign, but I do like them a lot. Like the Xaxavraznazak, I'd never have the heart to use one as an antagonist, but I think a drakainia might make a good, if silly and prohibitively fetishy, ally.

>the :3 of motherly pride

>>52602539
Night Hags are in 4E for sure and I'm fairly certain they were in 3.x as well.

>>52596072
Devils. Lawful Evil has great versatility.
Minions, minibossess, endbosses, temporary allies, they all work.
Plus making deals, and immunity to poison and fire is great.