For some stuff that - to my knowledge - isn't in the books, you could cook up sand elementals, with whatever stats appeal to you. I'd go with upgraded Dust Devil, obscure vision, push characters around, do automatic damage.
There's an old movie with Vin Diesel called Pitch Black, in which some nameless creature only comes out of the ground to hunt during the eclipse. Either have an eclipse, or substitute that for anything else you fancy, like seasonal rains or full moon or a religious ritual. Have swarms of clawed leathery and hungry horrors emerge from the sand.
You could propably do something with locust swarms. Thri-kreen have already been mentioned, but outside of Dark Sun I consider kreen to be kind of a mistake. But some other variety of man-sized mantis creatures - sentient or otherwise - might be a lot of fun.
Encounters don't need to be monsters either. Oases could mean different things: Maybe a tribe of desert dwellers fiercely defend their and drive all others out. Maybe a tribe of druid share theirs with everyone, and tend to it. Maybe it doubles as a tradespot and meeting point for nomads.
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For some stuff that - to my knowledge - isn't in the books, you could cook up sand elementals, with whatever stats appeal to you. I'd go with upgraded Dust Devil, obscure vision, push characters around, do automatic damage.
There's an old movie with Vin Diesel called Pitch Black, in which some nameless creature only comes out of the ground to hunt during the eclipse. Either have an eclipse, or substitute that for anything else you fancy, like seasonal rains or full moon or a religious ritual. Have swarms of clawed leathery and hungry horrors emerge from the sand.
You could propably do something with locust swarms. Thri-kreen have already been mentioned, but outside of Dark Sun I consider kreen to be kind of a mistake. But some other variety of man-sized mantis creatures - sentient or otherwise - might be a lot of fun.
Encounters don't need to be monsters either. Oases could mean different things: Maybe a tribe of desert dwellers fiercely defend their and drive all others out. Maybe a tribe of druid share theirs with everyone, and tend to it. Maybe it doubles as a tradespot and meeting point for nomads.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.