Help me, I need a word

[Eldan]

I'm looking for a noun to describe creatures from outside reality that isn't taken in D&D yet. "Outsider" is out, those are from the outer planes. Farspawn is already a template, too, though it's closest. Any other ideas?

[BWR]

Alien
Stranger
Beyonder
Oddities
OMFGthat'sjustwrong'ers

[Waar]

I'm looking for a noun to describe creatures from outside reality that isn't taken in D&D yet. "Outsider" is out, those are from the outer planes. Farspawn is already a template, too, though it's closest. Any other ideas?

What about alien or maybe unreal?

[Khedrac]

Actually "outside reality" is what the so-called "Far Realm" is, but it's not an alternative reality, it's something else, so Farspawn could fit.

Anyway, you want alternatives:

Externals - suitable for creatures from a different reality that isn't too different (the way the Far Realm is).

Alternates - for creatures from a parallel reality that is very similar.

Others - suitable for, well anything.

Good luck.

[Eldan]

I know what the Far Realm is, yeah. Maybe I could just have said that I need a new word for creatures from there, but since I posted this in the Roleplaying forum, I didn't want to use a D&D-specific term.

I like "External". Has a nice ring to it.

[lytokk]

Slider? Just thinking of that good old TV show.

[Hyena]

Deviants. In World of Darkness, that's the word Technocracy uses for any super in the setting.

[nedz]

Ingressive/Egressive
Interjector
Immergent
Excursive
Divergent
Disjecta

[oball]

Farsiders.


They appear to us normal mortals as huge, bipedal cows :P

[Ace Mace]

"Kaiju" which literally means "strange creature." Does that help?

[Cikomyr]

Farrealm Denizen

[Red Fel]

Things-Which-Must-Not-Be. TWMNBs (pronounced "twimbs"), if you're hip.

Only if you're hip.

[The Oni]

Things-Which-Must-Not-Be. TWMNBs (pronounced "twimbs"), if you're hip.

Only if you're hip.

And if you're not hip, they'll find you.

But, there's always "xenos," (zee-KNOWS) which has the benefit of Xtreme Cool Letters and really rolls off the tongue.

Externals is cool if for whatever reason your extraplanars are being referred to by military/science fiction/intelligence terminology. It doesn't sound like a term civvies would use in casual conversation.

[Segev]

"The Others" has a good ring to it in fantasy, I've found.

[Blightedmarsh]

The impossibles
The Foe
The Nothing
The Unthings
The out of context problem
The error
The crawling apocalypse
The organism
The transcendent madness
The utter sanity
The bleed
The void
The Entropy
The Snarl
The Corruption

[kieza]

Anathema
Antitheses
Obscenities
OOCMes (Out Of Context Monsters)

[Brookshw]

Do you want a term or something that could be used as slang in a game? Slang wise: "mind frs" (or minders), "trippies" or "bad trips", "squids", "no ones" (or bones), I could go on. If your looking for a term I quite like "others" and you could go to some lengths if you're looking for something a bit more scientific sounding. "non-dimensional(s)", "theoretical dimensional beings (tdb's for short) and the list goes on and on.

[Anxe]

Dimensioners
Dimensionals

[Socratov]

Otherworldly
External
Constants (outside of reality, which is ever changing, and thus be constants)
Seraphim/watchers (which, translated, refers to watchers. Considering they are from outside reality means they would be watching reality)
Others (shamelessly stolen form the web serial Pact)
Endless (just to pay homage to Neil Gaiman, and it's a great term for the more abstract powers that be.

[dps]

The Inexplicibles

The Unknowns

The Trancendents

[Leviting]

The Parrellels. (for entities such as Pandorym)
The Dreamers
The Ideals.

[D-naras]

The Beyonders
The Mobius
The Makrinoi, singular Makrinos (from the greek distant)
The Malproksima (from the esperanto distant)

[Madeiner]

IMC, centered around devils and demons, i use "Horde" to say that i'm speaking interchangeably of one group or the other, without specificying which one.

[Geostationary]

Interlopers
Denizens of the [whatever you call the exterior of reality] (or Denizens for short)
The Is-Not (not to be confused with the things of the world, the Is)
Echthroi

[Malimar]

Take your pick from the list of Lovecraft's favorite words? I'm fond of "eldritch", myself.

[smasher0404]

How about The Liminals?

[da_chicken]

Xeno or xenos.

[Gildedragon]

For what context:
Colloquially "Outsiders" works just fine. It even allows for confusion and ambiguity.
"Them" is also good
Technically:
Ineffables
Pseudonaturals (if going far realms-y; there is even a template)
Neverweres
Shouldntbe-s
Anathemas
Exolites
Wanderers

[veti]

Take your pick from the list of Lovecraft's favorite words? I'm fond of "eldritch", myself.

Hands up: who knew there were so many references to "cat" in Lovecraft?

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Take your pick from the list of Lovecraft's favorite words? I'm fond of "eldritch", myself.

Heh, "eldritch" is a tad overused, though...

What if you played off of "Xenos"? The original Greek term! Oh, whoops. I didn't notice it up there.