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NecroDancer
2017-07-24, 08:10 AM
I'm looking for cool monsters to convert to d&d 5th edition. I don't care if this monster is from a previous edition, a different RPG, inspired by real world mythology, or just made up.

Thanks!

Wraith
2017-07-24, 09:06 AM
You walk into a room, which then tries to eat you because it contains a Lurker Above (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20ceiling%20monster.jpg), a Trapper (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20trapper%20floor.jpg), three Stunjellies (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&D%20beasts%20stun%20jelly.jpg), and the door is a Mimic.

Roll for initiative, jerks. :smalltongue:

NeXeH
2017-07-24, 01:29 PM
Spiked Thorn Skeletons

During my college years a DM made skeletons with a twist. They had spikes protruding all over and as we attached them the spikes would fly off randomly hitting party members. If hit the thorn would then flare up causing burn damage. They were just nasty :(

To make matters worse we had a evil player trying to kill my character so he kept throwing stuff at them in hopes I would fall to the spike thorns. I had to use a huge table as a make shift shield to survive that encounter :) Good times :)

2D8HP
2017-07-24, 02:27 PM
I'm partial to the "Evil Elves" Fair Folk (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/TheFairFolk) trope.

Elves/Fey

An Elf is just a Drow bleached by the sun..
Drow the original Elves (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?475794-Drow-the-original-Elves)

:smallfrown:

I combine the worst sterotypes of the French and Russian Nobility of the "Ancien Regime" with the savage kidnapping "Indians" of old western. They have vampire-like hypnotic powers and vulnerability to iron


Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.

Yet most of my current PC''s in other DM's "world's" are Elves or Half-Elves...

Some ideas were discussed in the Rules for Non Tolkienish Elves? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?502936-Rules-for-Non-Tolkienish-Elves) thread.

I also like The Wild Hunt (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWildHunt) that I first read about in the 1980 Deities & Demi-Gods.

Bulhakov
2017-07-26, 01:58 PM
I'm partial to the "Evil Elves" Fair Folk (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/TheFairFolk) trope.


I definitely second this :) (the big bads of my two campaigns were secret elven aristocratic cabals).

As for my favorite homebrew monster - I think the fast-slow zombie. The infection starts as a "rage virus" fast and violent (and at this stage is still curable), once the infected is killed, he comes back as an average-speed zombie, and then slows down with time (but gains superhuman strength).

FreddyNoNose
2017-07-29, 04:47 PM
I'm looking for cool monsters to convert to d&d 5th edition. I don't care if this monster is from a previous edition, a different RPG, inspired by real world mythology, or just made up.

Thanks!

I have to tell you, what is not my favorite monster. Who is your favorite NPC?

Thrudd
2017-07-29, 07:40 PM
You walk into a room, which then tries to eat you because it contains a Lurker Above (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20ceiling%20monster.jpg), a Trapper (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20trapper%20floor.jpg), three Stunjellies (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&D%20beasts%20stun%20jelly.jpg), and the door is a Mimic.

Roll for initiative, jerks. :smalltongue:

dammit, I was gonna say that. :smalltongue:

Anxe
2017-07-29, 08:11 PM
Made my own nasty combo of vampires and dragons as they're my two favorites. Immortality, strength, and a nasty streak. But what if they offer to share that power to the deserving few? Would you turn down immortality only because it was offered by those that profit off the suffering of others? Don't all gifts come in that form in one way or another?

Also, shocker lizards. They're hilarious.

Tetsubo 57
2017-07-29, 09:10 PM
Flumph. My favorite monster is the flumph. My favorite *adversary* is the Aboleth. Master manipulators that have lived for millennia. What's not to love?

Telwar
2017-07-29, 11:17 PM
One of the few awesome things from Sandstorm (the 3.5 desert book) was the dire hippopotamus.

Which was specified as eating creatures, so it counted for lycanthropy.

So, it turns out a hill giant were dire hippo has like twice the Str and HP of a regular dire hippo, with the same CR.

Great fun, great fun.

Samzat
2017-07-30, 12:50 AM
Nilbogs are pretty funny, Tarrasques make me wish I had a mech, and for homebrew my favorite thought experiment is Plutonium Elemental

Bohandas
2017-07-30, 07:49 PM
Heliopters, living helicopters made of flesh who peddle illegal drugs. They're from the mythology of the Church of the SubGenius

2D8HP
2017-07-30, 10:46 PM
Flumph. My favorite monster is the flumph...


*ahem*

♫ ♫ ♫ ♫
I like soft Flumphs I cannot lie
other adventurers may deny
when they're on their back they cannot fly
if the Fiend Folio ain't no lie
The Monster Manual may say scat
well I ain't down wit that
Got to roll wit flying jellyfish yo!
Flying Jellyfish go!
Eyestalk ladies hey!...
♫ ♫ ♫ ♫

PrismCat21
2017-07-31, 12:11 AM
Also, shocker lizards. They're hilarious.

Woot, woot!
Shocker Lizards are one of my all time favorites. :D

I once had a Gnome Wizard with a Shocker Lizard familiar that, through various shenanigans, was used as his mount.
I was also able to convince the DM to let me use the Summon Monster spell line to summon more. My familiar guided the others in battle and used their lethal shocks to devastating effects. Good times were had :elan:

Anxe
2017-07-31, 09:33 AM
Woot, woot!
Shocker Lizards are one of my all time favorites. :D

I once had a Gnome Wizard with a Shocker Lizard familiar that, through various shenanigans, was used as his mount.
I was also able to convince the DM to let me use the Summon Monster spell line to summon more. My familiar guided the others in battle and used their lethal shocks to devastating effects. Good times were had :elan:

That sounds amazing!

Max Caysey
2017-08-01, 05:02 AM
Dragons! I think its the most iconic fantasy creature. If you call a lich a creature, then that ranks pretty high up as well.

Celestia
2017-08-01, 05:09 AM
Well, since you said that other RPGs are on the table, my favorite monster is Gardevoir. :3

ExLibrisMortis
2017-08-01, 07:53 AM
I second aboleth. Primordial deep-sea manipulators. I still want to run a deep-sea exploration campaign with some Lovecraftian aboleth story.

Wartex1
2017-08-02, 06:35 AM
I find the Moilian Heart pretty cool, though I've never ran into one during a campaign.