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2013-12-30, 02:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Creatures that are so metal
Popped into my head when I remembered the Cadaver Collector, one of my favorite monsters ever.
For those that don't know, this is a D&D monster that's basically a big golem covered in spikes, and it puts dead people on the spikes to bring back to its necromancer masters. If there aren't any dead people, it puts live people on the spikes (they'll be dead when they get there). It's pretty good for crowd control because while its enemies are impaled, it can fight hands-free.
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That's pretty @%*#!ing metal. It might be the most metal monster in D&D, but I can't be sure. So I challenge you, to present me with a monster more metal than this.Last edited by The Oni; 2013-12-30 at 02:23 AM.
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2013-12-30, 02:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
Shadesteel Golem.
Or Iron Collosus.
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2013-12-30, 02:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Soulspike Impaler
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2013-12-30, 03:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
Based on the number of times they've been on different album covers I'd say dragons. Or demiliches.
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2013-12-30, 03:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
Ghouls are actually pretty dang metal.
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2013-12-30, 03:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
What about Quth-Maren? Skinned elves who spit and bleed acid.
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2013-12-30, 03:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-12-30, 03:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
A Shadesteel Golem is too subtle, that makes it less metal. Iron Colossus is powerful, but not that metal (unless you mean *literally* metal, in which case most golems win forever).
I couldn't find a Soulspike Impaler, but the Soulspike Devourer is really quite metal. Could be a contender.
Ghouls don't seem to be any more metal than your average undead. I mean, they do eat people, which is a plus. Quth-maren, though? Killing someone with your own blood is very metal. Also they have the horror factor in general.
Liches tend to rely too much on minions and armies, and authority isn't metal. Dragons are a given.
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2013-12-30, 03:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Nemesis Devils, from Pathfinder.
They are former false deities who fed on the faith on early humanoids for a time, and feed on blasphemy and have armor made out of defiled holy relics. Did I mention that there default forms are giant red reptilian centaur creatures with bat wings?
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2013-12-30, 03:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
I can say with confidence that Nemesis Devils are definitely more metal than the Cadaver Collector. Thank you, Pokonic.
But can we acquire even MOAR METAL?!
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2013-12-30, 04:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Orc Bard.
Doesn't sound like much, but my friend built an Orc Bard from level one, and by level six, took Leadership so he could build a band of orcs that pretty much travelled the world, rockin' out.
Their hit song was Orc Bard, which was sung to the tune of Dethklok's Deththeme:
"Doo anything for Orc Bard! Dooo anything for Orc Bard! Orc bard, ORC BARD!"
We did. We did anything for Orc Bard. He wasn't very hi-op, but damn it if he wasn't a golden god of metal.
Also… since the question was about monsters… not monster/class combos… how about the Shadar-Kai?
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2013-12-30, 04:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-12-30, 04:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
Whales.
Everyone knows whales = metal.D&D retroclones:
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2013-12-30, 04:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
Is it even possible that anything could be more metal than Pyramid Head?
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2013-12-30, 04:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-12-30, 04:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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*googl'd*
Wow. That is an entire race of beings that fights everything that moves just so they don't fade from existence. If that isn't metal I don't know what is.
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2013-12-30, 04:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-12-30, 04:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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...Oh. Holy Diver. *headsmack* Now I get it.
Born On The Sun is better, tho.
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2013-12-30, 05:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
I like Holy Diver better than Lock Up The Wolves but that could be personal opinion.
Also you could have a cleric with Wind Walk, and Spell Thematics lightning, that would count. Animated Object, a bell (that'd work for a lot actually). A Saint Cancer Mage...
Edit: OOOh a Rust Monster Apostle of Peace!Last edited by AMFV; 2013-12-30 at 05:03 AM.
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2013-12-30, 05:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
Eberron has Metal Country:
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2013-12-30, 05:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
1. Not a tabletop creature.
2. Extremely overrated, with a loud and annoying fanbase that is also full of Unfortunate Implications if you remember what Pyramid Head is supposed to represent.
3. Shoehorned into Silent Hill games other than 2. Doesn't fit but Must Be There because Fandom.
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2013-12-30, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Not D&D, but an Infernal Monster of the Slayer Caste in Exalted would be a pretty good choice. A human empowered by the hatred of the Demon City, he channels that rage and fury into himself with verdegrised brass skin and blazing emerald radiation.
His fists discorporate gods and his wrathful strikes poison mortal souls. The poor fool who lays hands on him is made to kiss the sun, but only after being torn limb from limb. A sword-strike rebounds off his armored skin, breaking the arm that wields it.
He feels no pain, no fatigue; indeed, should he sleep, he experiences only nightmares. Should an attack break through his tarnished metal hide, beneath lies no flesh or blood, but blackened bones caging the light of a raging green sun.
Legions of demons are his to call to battle, and the secrets of the world obey his whims. Commands issue from beneath his crown of nuclear fire, and all who swear fealty to said crown are forever branded.
I think it's reasonable to say that's pretty damn metal.It is inevitable, of course, that persons of epicurean refinement will in the course of eternity engage in dealings with those of... unsavory character. Record well any transactions made, and repay all favors promptly.. (Thanks to Gnomish Wanderer for the Toreador avatar! )
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2013-12-30, 07:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-12-30, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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The most metal creature ever? That's easy...
The Barbarian!Last edited by Raimun; 2013-12-30 at 11:43 AM.
Signatures are so 90's.
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2013-12-30, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
A barbarian with a woolly rhinoceros mount.
And skeletons.Demiliches. Why'd it have to be demiliches?
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2013-12-30, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Creatures that are so @%*#!ing metal
Unicorns.
Because you can't be metal without a proper power ballad, and unicorns make for the perfect power ballad material.
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2013-12-30, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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I was going to mock this thread but it is too full of win.
Ghouls on Nightgaunts
Wizards on Eagles
Wizards on Sharks... in space
Dagon
oh who am i kidding, nothing beats orc bard.May I borrow some bat guano? It's for a spell...
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