Desert Creatures

[DrOctagonapus12]

Anybody know of any good ones?

[BRC]

Anybody know of any good ones?

check the book Sandstorm.



Otherwise, Scorpions and their folk are good. Purple worms as Sandworms work too.

[sonofzeal]

Have you... uh, tried Sandstorm?

You can also filter by environmentover here.

[DragonBaneDM]

If you're playing 4e, use kruthiks. They're freaking awesome.

If you're playing 3.5, homebrew stats for kruthiks. They're THAT freaking awesome.

[Mongoose87]

I find a pudding to be most appropriate.

[FoE]

Thri-kreens. Elementals. Ghosts. Bulettes. Demons. Djinni and efreets. Sphinxes (duh). And most humanoid creatures are appropriate as raiders.

[jokey665]

Scorpion/Scarab swarms are always fun, I've found.

[Grimlock]

I find a pudding to be most appropriate.

I laughed out loud at this, spraying coffee all over my lap!

And I have to teach in 5 mins!

[Amiel]

To add: jann, blue dragons, brass dragons, camels, donkeys, zombies, mummies, wights, wraiths, lammasu, lamia, dragonne, gargoyles; stir liberally and serve to taste.

[Grumman]

I laughed out loud at this, spraying coffee all over my lap!

And I have to teach in 5 mins!

"Today's lesson: Why you shouldn't drink at the computer."

[Serpentine]

There's a Dragon Magazine with an "Arabian Nights" theme. Worth tracking it down, if you can. Includes a relief golem and a great big thing with lots of eyes, legs and arms.

edit: #334, "Dreams of Arabia". Big thing's an Asag. Also has a clockwork eunuch, flying monkeys, undead made of dozens of corpses, and the Simurgh (King of Birds).

[Amiel]

Relief golem? Please tell me it's not as bad as its name sounds!

[Serpentine]

Relief as in wall carvings. It's flat and hides in walls. CR 9. I've fought against 'em before, and I'm about to use them in my game (but don't tell my players that). It's like if you were wandering around the Great Pyramid, and a life-size painting of Set peeled off and attacked you. I think they're snazzy

[hewhosaysfish]

If you're playing 3.5, homebrew stats for kruthiks. They're THAT freaking awesome.

Are there not 3.5 stats for them in BoVD?

[BooNL]

Relief as in wall carvings. It's flat and hides in walls. CR 9. I've fought against 'em before, and I'm about to use them in my game (but don't tell my players that). It's like if you were wandering around the Great Pyramid, and a life-size painting of Set peeled off and attacked you. I think they're snazzy

Whew, I was thinking of another kind of 'relief'.

[Mushroom Ninja]

Blue Dragonwrought Desert Kobolds?

[Claudius Maximus]

Are there not 3.5 stats for them in BoVD?

You're thinking of Kythons. Kruthiks can be found in Miniatures Handbook.

[AirGuitarGod32]

I would say go to anything semi-related to Egypt, but thats superflous to say the least.

I was in development of a monster called the Salt Lich, which is a Lich/Mummy Hybrid, like the Arcane Mummy type. They can drain water from living targets. It has the Paralysis Stare effect and a dehydrating touch attack. It still has skin, but no muscle or fat. Just wrapped leather streached over a skeleton.

I also thought of a worthwhile Desert "boss": a Mummified Blue Dragon that acts as a guardian to the Salt Lich pharoah.

[Giggling Ghast]

edit: #334, "Dreams of Arabia". Big thing's an Asag. Also has a clockwork eunuch, flying monkeys, undead made of dozens of corpses, and the Simurgh (King of Birds).

A clockwork eunuch? What is this i don't even

[Milskidasith]

I don't know, Candle Jack, I don'

[Giggling Ghast]

I don't know, Candle Jack, I don'

Heh. I need to participate in these Internet forums more often.

[FMArthur]

The 'Desert Races' section of Unearthed Arcana contains desert dwarves, desert elves, desert gnomes, desert goblins, desert half-orcs, desert halflings, desert kobolds, and desert orcs. You could build any number of encounters out of PC races.

[Deth Muncher]

And because it hasn't been mentioned enough, Sandstorm. Seriously, if you're doing a desert campaign, that's where you go.

[jiriku]

A sand kraken. Because, really, who sees that coming?

[Coidzor]

... <_< Animated Obelisks, golems, animated sphinx sculpture... Maybe an animated object pyramid....

An evil wizard type with a pet basilisk who animates the free sculpture into a sort of moving garden/maze thing made out of and populated by permanent animated statuary?

[vicente408]

Don't forget the Sand Whale.

Cookie for reference.

[Gamerlord]

Skeletons can hide under the sand, then burst out and hack your PCs limbs off!

Yeah, I really love undead. Undead can be in any area, even the ocean.

[Coidzor]

An enclave/hidden kingdom of undead where pretty much the only living people are there as a combination blood pool/breeding stock for more manual labor skeletons and zomblebees can also be fun. And it's got that whole mummy pharoh/lord vibe that can be easily tapped into with a necropolis built out in the desert that's mostly buried except when they feel like coming out and stretching their legs by raiding caravans for fresh slaves or news of the outside world or what have you. Or just a necropolis that's been carved out of the arid mountains

And don't forget the whole idea of oases either. And there's usually a mountain range causing a rain shadow for most deserts so there's going to be some elements of that which might be encountered if one gets too close to those, or maybe a red dragon is living in them but mostly stays on the good side of the rain shadow unless he hears about some kind of ruckus.

[Serpentine]

A clockwork eunuch? What is this i don't even

I explained this in a PM, but for anyone else who's interested, it's a golem constructed to guard harems and similar - filling the role of one type of historical eunuch.

[AslanCross]

Sandstorm has a bunch of them. Off the top of my head, the Marrusaults are awesome (Think The Mummy's Army of Anubis). There's also the Crawling Apocalypse, which is actually a kraken-shaped construct swimming through the sand.

If you're looking for more humanoid ones, there's the Harrsaf (MM3), and the Zezir (kind of like a fire-elemental deinonychus, also from MM3).