I do a lot of homebrew stuff as well. I'm actually working on integrating more basic monsters from the MM in one of the campaigns I run. Overall though, I love dragons and giants and some of the lore behind them.
Nothing established for me yet, but I'm a big fan of Nothics and Blink Dogs.
Nothic's Wierd Insight makes them a great way to poke and prod the PCs in compelling ways, and their background as Cursed Arcanists is drenched in mystical drama. I'm toying with creating one that has regained it's self awareness. I'm excited to explore the psyche of something that has lost itself on the other side of overwhelming madness and returned.
Blink Dogs are just great, because who wouldn't love a teleporting pupper that is smarter than the average humanoid?
I really like Nothics too. I tend to homebrew variants (for increased challenge and to fit different roles in the story), but I use them a lot.
I guess my homebrew ones don't count, since they're in my campaign because my campaign is in a homebrew setting. If I had to pick, I guess I would say dragons. I mean the game is called Dungeons and Dragons, after all. Other than that, I think that every player should face an aboleth at least once, and I love roleplaying them.
Aboleth is my planned big bad for tier 1 of my campaign. It has currently enslaved a knoll pack, and is working with a wizard who wants to pick it of all its knowledge. Wizard is immune to its enslave ability. I slowly intend for the key NPCs in the town I am basing it all around to slowly become taken over leading to them acting strangely with the players in an invasion of the body snatchers kind of way.
In addition I plan on throwing a curve ball so my players have no idea what’s coming by having it seem that a demon incursion is coming, Aboleth has enslaved a gnoll pack, the Wizard has set some GC’s, slimes and jellies around, there will be a spore situation as well and then a summoned lower level demon :) when they finally realize an Aboleth was behind it all along it should be a nice surprise :).
In terms of the original question though Rakshasha. Somewhere somehow I will give my party an encounter with one, be it over 2-3 sessions or a longer story. I just love roleplaying them.
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I do a lot of homebrew stuff as well. I'm actually working on integrating more basic monsters from the MM in one of the campaigns I run. Overall though, I love dragons and giants and some of the lore behind them.
I really like Nothics too. I tend to homebrew variants (for increased challenge and to fit different roles in the story), but I use them a lot.
The answer was yes, they float. Some website I found did a bunch of math to figure that they were less dense than water.
Aboleth is my planned big bad for tier 1 of my campaign. It has currently enslaved a knoll pack, and is working with a wizard who wants to pick it of all its knowledge. Wizard is immune to its enslave ability. I slowly intend for the key NPCs in the town I am basing it all around to slowly become taken over leading to them acting strangely with the players in an invasion of the body snatchers kind of way.
In addition I plan on throwing a curve ball so my players have no idea what’s coming by having it seem that a demon incursion is coming, Aboleth has enslaved a gnoll pack, the Wizard has set some GC’s, slimes and jellies around, there will be a spore situation as well and then a summoned lower level demon :) when they finally realize an Aboleth was behind it all along it should be a nice surprise :).
In terms of the original question though Rakshasha. Somewhere somehow I will give my party an encounter with one, be it over 2-3 sessions or a longer story. I just love roleplaying them.