Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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That’s a tough one. Elf is popular so far because of their longevity, but personally, I don’t really like elves. I think I would like to go down the path of Eberron and be a Kalashtar.
Either...
Hedge. I'd change my name to Hans and run out into the woods riding a giant rooster. Then I'd take up pig farming and play the bag pipes all day long in the trees as I wait for a princess to come along and marry me.
Aarokocra. The ability to fly would be amazing and wind powers are cool.
Firbolg. I find their elusive nature and connection to wildlife appealing. I basically get to be a sasquatch.
Fairy, because then I could not only Change my size and make things glow, I could fly.
I think being one of the animals from Humblewood would be very cool but I don't how my family would react and I'd probably end up in a lab for the rest of my life.
At least with Elf you can just say you wanted to look like a Vulcan and had your ears done. Long life and Prestidigitation would be pretty cool.
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Warforged. I have chronic pain due to a genetic condition, so being a robot would probably fix that. Additionally, they don't age and don't have to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep. Ever since I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me and all that.
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Changeling. I'd love to be able to shape-shift into anyone I like, and confuse my family a lot.
Heya everyone! I'm EJO, DDB's resident immortal Welsh medieval rat who appears randomly roughly once every week.
I'm not active much, but always up to talk when I am.
I'm known as CptKurn nearly everywhere but here.
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QotD(ish): Which D&D monster is the awesome-est in your opinion, and why?
Heya everyone! I'm EJO, DDB's resident immortal Welsh medieval rat who appears randomly roughly once every week.
I'm not active much, but always up to talk when I am.
I'm known as CptKurn nearly everywhere but here.
Do not ask me about anything I like because I WILL waffle on for half an hour.
It depends on what we consider awesome. For sheer power and ideas, I have always enjoyed the Beholder.
But in terms of an awesome monster I've come to enjoy using is the Sahuagin. Because that whole blood frenzy is pretty amazing. A memoriable encounter with my players has dubbed them "the most evil race in the world." lol
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"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
So many candidates! Maybe the atropal.
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The awesomnest is...Well, I once made a homebrew undead dragon that combined the stats of the following into one megabeast of destruction
Beledros Witherbloom from Strixhaven
The Unhatched from Creature Codex by kobold press
An ancient topaz dracolich
An ancient deep shadow dragon
& one more I forgot.
Needless to say, it was awesome. Not neccesarily the Awesome-est one though
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There's a few monsters that have stuck with me. The relentless slasher and relentless juggernaut VRGtR are really interesting.
Coolest is Hags. But awesomest, as in the sheer unrivaled majesty and brilliant wonder of a creature? Well that title would very obviously go to Arasta of the Endless web, followed by the Jabberwock.
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Illithids, aka Mind Flayers.
First, they mix cosmic horror and body horror perfectly. They're alien entities from the Far Realm that reproduce by corrupting people with their tadpoles. Oh, and they eat brains. That's just scary, which makes them great villains. Additionally, the "reproduction through tadpole" allows for a variety of types of Illithid hybrids, like the Mindwitness and Urophion. Their design is iconic, their powers are frightening, and their callous view of humans as mere food/slaves is great for instantly motivating the party to hate them.
Something I've noticed about some of the greatest antagonist species from Fantasy and Sci Fi is that a huge part of what makes them effective and scary villains is their ability to corrupt people to join their ranks. Vampires, Zombies, Eldrazi, Phyrexians, the Borg, Cybermen, and so on. I believe that it's the fear that you could become one of them that makes villains of this type so effective. Mind Flayers are one of the only iconic D&D monsters that have this ability.
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I'll be honest, mind flayers are starting to really bore me. Cosmic horror needs to move on from tentacles. When I saw that the new Phandelver book was cosmic horror theme, I was excited until I learned that by cosmic horror, WotC just meant mind flayers and tentacles.
I've always thought it's weird that you can consistently expect there to be a tentacle or two in cosmic horror. Yeah, we get it, they feel kinda slimy and weird, no need to make them foundational to a whole genre.
That said, I still like illithids, it's just more in spite of the tentacles instead of because of them.
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What about a Death Kiss? Tentacles without the cosmic horror.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
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"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Blame it on H.P. Lovecraft and his fear of the ocean (and everything else that he didn't understand). The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Call of Cthulhu helped invent the cosmic horror subgenre.
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Yeah, H.P. Lovecraft incorporated his many fears into his books, the ocean, the dark, and speaking of dark, african-americans. That's why his books are so racist. Moving on from that, yeah, HP Lovecraft is to be blamed for many cosmic horror tropes, but also without him, cosmic horror would likely not exist.
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