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Anonymous No.96280068 >>96280278 >>96280296 >>96281087 >>96281268 >>96281298 >>96281315 >>96282754 >>96286292 >>96289450 >>96297767 >>96297878 >>96297928 >>96303417 >>96318982 >>96319469 >>96319537 >>96323152 >>96324250 >>96333154 >>96333684 >>96335779 >>96357597 >>96360859 >>96364068
monster manual thread
what is your all time favorite monster?
what is your favorite dragon?
and what beastie do you hate the most?
Anonymous No.96280278 >>96280395 >>96327582
>>96280068 (OP)
>Gave monster
Flail Snail
>Fave dragon
Copper dragons. They love telling jokes and pulling pranks.
>What beastie do you hate the most?
Old school vampires. Level drain really needs to return because new players not experiencing that shit is a big reason they don't fear undead in campaigns as much as they should. Turn undead is seen as useless, but having a vampire just slap your ass so hard you, the player, have months of work deleted, will make you realize just how incredibly handy that shit is.
Anonymous No.96280296
>>96280068 (OP)
>Fave Monster
Catoblepas
>Fave Dragon
White or Black depending on day
>what beastie do I hate the most
Stirges those fuckers are irritating as a player and useless dungeon filler as a dm
Anonymous No.96280395
>>96280278
>Level drain really needs to return
I actually agree with this
Anonymous No.96281087 >>96281248
>>96280068 (OP)
I'm just assuming we're talking D&D so
>what is your all time favorite monster?
Yuan-ti
>what is your favorite dragon?
White. It's the only one with low enough intelligence that's it's still an actual monster, instead of total bullshit
>and what beastie do you hate the most?
Spiders or Wemics. I have terrible arachnophobia (and yes: I'm now turning on a plugin on this thread that stops pics from loading because I understand that anons are going to immediately post spider pics). And wemics because they're just too fucking goofy to be monstrous.
Anonymous No.96281227 >>96281248 >>96286256
>fave monster
Maralith. Love me a monsterous lady.
>fave dragon.
If it ain't white it ain't right. I like em because they are stupid enough that your players have a reasonable chance of killing it without having to dumb the beast down but they are strong enough to still be a credible threat.
>most hated
Bugbears. Wtf is it? Is it a bug? Is it a bear? Is it a big goblin? An orc? It's just a monster that could be completely removed.
Anonymous No.96281248
>>96281227
>Snake lady
>White dragon
>Too goofy
Well then let's just make out I (>>96281087)
guess.
Anonymous No.96281268
>>96280068 (OP)
>what is your all time favorite monster?
Probably Crysmal from various D&D rulebooks for a really autistic homebrew concept for applying Elemental binding and a web article for corpse-as-loot to themselves.

>what is your favorite dragon?
Hex Dragons from Dragon Magazine #343 are neat. Much less sweating about the Spells Known because they have the whole of two schools automatically and a decent reactive defense concluding in an on-death effect. Very good synergy with Dracolich as said on-death effect remains and one of those two schools is Necromancy.

>and what beastie do you hate the most?
...Have not developed a strong antipathy to any particular beastie.
Anonymous No.96281298
>>96280068 (OP)
Steel Predator (destroyed a character's dear artifact with one)
Probably Gold dragon as they can he corrupted
Most hated? Spectres. Spectres, man spectres
Anonymous No.96281315
>>96280068 (OP)
>Favorite Monster
Town guard. My group always ends up as criminals.
>Favorite Dragon
Blue. Something about a monster hiding in ancient ruins beneath desert sands is just perfect for adventure.
>Most Hated
Spiders. I still remember my first two games where I got one-shot by poison in the first five minutes.
Anonymous No.96282754
>>96280068 (OP)
Fav monster, that's a hard one, I think giatn tree people are my prefered, along dragons and griffins.
Fav dragon, Smaug, can't beat the classics.
I dislike the undead a lot, the idea of ruiningthe afterlife, using the corspse of someone to do petty stuff just make me hate it.
Also I would recomend the Iron Kingom Monsternomicon as a good Monster manual.
Anonymous No.96282774 >>96282777 >>96297892
I like Pixies
Anonymous No.96282777 >>96282778 >>96286097 >>96297892
>>96282774
Also Dryads (fey in general)
Anonymous No.96282778 >>96282781 >>96297892
>>96282777
Also Giant Rats (cause they are a fantasy staple)
ROUS
Anonymous No.96282781 >>96297892
>>96282778
My fav is liches though
Anonymous No.96286097 >>96286104
>>96282777
Nymphs>dryads
Anonymous No.96286104 >>96333675
>>96286097
Anonymous No.96286256
>>96281227
>White dragons

People assume they have dog level intelligence, I play them like pic related instead.
Anonymous No.96286292
>>96280068 (OP)
>what is your all time favorite monster?
Behirs, especially 2e and 4e pics of them
>what is your favorite dragon?
Fizbin.
>and what beastie do you hate the most?
5e Gnolls
Anonymous No.96286326 >>96297917
>what is your all time favorite monster?
False hydra, people on here call it reddit but I love the concept

>what is your favorite dragon?
Time dragon. In a previous campaign the players hatched a time dragon egg after an epic quest. They were level 15 but the time dragon wyrmling was CR 26. They insisted on him helping them defeat the BBEG and rode into battle on a time dragon hatchling.

>and what beastie do you hate the most?
Rust monsters, they nerfed the shit out of them but the original ones were put in when the DM had given out too many magic items.
Anonymous No.96289450 >>96315514
>>96280068 (OP)
>fave monster
Wolf-in-sheep's-clothing. It absolutely does not look like the image in your head when you hear its name.
>fave dragon
Amethyst dragons. The ability to control gravity and unleash beams of pure magical force make them tons of fun to throw at my players.
>what monster do you hate
Centaurs. Their design is really, really dumb. If they weren't so heavily featured in greek myth, they would have been forgotten like the blemmeyes and the sheep that grow out of bushes.
Anonymous No.96293092 >>96301143 >>96324447
I love gnolls
Anonymous No.96297767
>>96280068 (OP)
Green dragons are my favorite. But that’s just because I love green in general, lol.
Anonymous No.96297878
>>96280068 (OP)
Luv me Ogres
I am rather fond of blacks
Rather unfond of unicorns
Anonymous No.96297892
>>96282774
>>96282777
>>96282778
>>96282781
>puckee takes 4 posts to spam his commissions
Anonymous No.96297917 >>96308832
>>96286326
>false hydra
It is not a monster, it is a situation.
Anonymous No.96297928
>>96280068 (OP)
>what is your all time favorite monster?
Zombies. Universal, scaleable, and you can get creative as hell with them. Skellies are second.
>what is your favorite dragon?
Red. Classic, imposing, radiates 'don't fuck with me' whenever they appear.
>and what beastie do you hate the most?
Any kind of 'trick' monster that relies on prescribed approaches to combat, unless the game is built on such things.
Anonymous No.96301143 >>96306807
>>96293092
>I love gnolls
Okay, why gnolls in particular?
Anonymous No.96303417 >>96306260
>>96280068 (OP)
>what is your all time favorite monster?
Golem. I fucking love golems, and creating them.
>what is your favorite dragon?
Any that shoots lightings from it's maw.
>and what beastie do you hate the most?
Any parasites.
Anonymous No.96306260 >>96308206
>>96303417
Golems are based, yeah. Warforged are my favorite race in Eberron for a reason. I’d love to talk more with you about what you’ve done with golems, if that’s fine by you.
Anonymous No.96306807 >>96308528 >>96330363
>>96301143
I just think they're neat
Anonymous No.96308206
>>96306154
>>96306222
>>96306260
>>96306321
>>96307997
kill yourself bumpfag
Anonymous No.96308528 >>96308817
>>96306807
Nice, did you paint this yourself?
Anonymous No.96308817 >>96308819
>>96308528
no, unfortunately it's stl only so I'm asking around to see if friend of a friend will print it for me. the warp gnoll minis are so cool.
I painted this one
Anonymous No.96308819 >>96310275
>>96308817
I think he came out pretty good
Anonymous No.96308832
>>96297917
>stats as hydra + song ability
if it has stats it’s a monster and if it’s a monster you can kill it.
Anonymous No.96310275
>>96308819
Not familiar with minis much, but I agree.
Anonymous No.96315514 >>96324447
>>96289450
>It absolutely does not look like the image in your head when you hear its name.
No kidding. Why did they even call it that?
Anonymous No.96318982
>>96280068 (OP)
I like elemental monsters a lot, there’s something to be said for the raw fury of one of nature’s elements in tangible form, attacking you, how have you used elementals and other monsters aligned with the elements?

Similarly, I like my dragons elemental in nature as well, the remainders of a primordial time when the forces of the elements where more wild and untamed, creatures that are just as much the essence of their element as they are flesh and blood, unlike most other creatures that lean much more towards one or the other. When a flame dragon is using its breath weapon on a target, it’s not merely doing something as mundane as igniting a flammable gas, they’re harnessing the elemental fury in their heart and directing it out of their mouth, like a flame spell that they know from birth, and they don’t typically live in volcanic or desert regions merely because they can withstand the conditions while most other creatures can’t, but because they can actually feed on the heat to help sustain themselves, even allowing themselves to hibernate for years or even centuries at a time. Each element has its own breed(s) of dragon, with a few rare hybrids, water dragons being more serpent-like, with wings that are more like flying fish fins, or more whale-like ones that love deep in the sea, flame dragons being mainly divided into volcano-dwellers like this one and desert-dwellers whose bodies are duller to blend in better with the sand and whose fire breath is more focused and mainly used to heat sand into glass and cut off prey, ice dragons that live on mountains that cause avalanches to bury prey and ones that live in tundra and prefer to disguise themselves and freeze prey solid, and so on. Is there anything I need to improve on or ways I can make the dragons of different elements more distinct? And what settings/systems do elemental dragons well, assuming that you don’t have any in your own?
Anonymous No.96319469 >>96324227
>>96280068 (OP)
>what is your all time favorite monster?
Centaur
>what is your favorite dragon?
Bad Dragon :3
>and what beastie do you hate the most?
Undead
Anonymous No.96319537 >>96322812
>>96280068 (OP)
> Black Dragon
> Black Dragon
> Hydra
Anonymous No.96322812
>>96319537
>Hydra
Why Hyras? Or Black Dragons for that matter?
Anonymous No.96323103
I like Grimlocks.
Anonymous No.96323152 >>96323473
>>96280068 (OP)
jabberwocky kicked ass
my favorite monster: humans
my fav dragon: Smrgol from flight of dragons
and fuck everyone in that movie for giving everyone a rez but him
most hated beastie: wasps, fuckin hate wasps man... for fantasy, anything thats made just to be bigger and numberier than the biggest numberiest thing the author saw
Anonymous No.96323473 >>96324206
>>96323152
>jabberwocky kicked ass
Anonymous No.96324206
>>96323473
terry making all his monsters rottingpathetic messes that can and will still kill you because your there
its an absolute vibe
Anonymous No.96324227
>>96319469
>Bad Dragon
I suppose it's easy to guess why you like Centaurs so much.
Anonymous No.96324250 >>96324253
>>96280068 (OP)
>what is your all time favorite monster?
Kobold. They're so cute <3
>what is your favorite dragon?
Fang dragon. They're only strength, cruelty and feral rage.
and what beastie do you hate the most?
Don't really *hate* any monster, but I deeply dislike any and all psionic shit.
Anonymous No.96324253 >>96327353 >>96327522
>>96324250
Fang Dragon, for reference
Anonymous No.96324447
>>96293092
Gnoll Lore was ssome of the best stuff to come from 4E. A shame it got ditched for 5.
>>96315514
Because the tree stump parasitizes a harmless critter or some poor shmuck to make it look comparatively harmless. Then, once the lure attracts anything close to the vines, it ditches the lure and attacks.

Typically I give the groups- schoolkids -I run the surprise attack if one of them is smart enough to realise the normally skittish woodlands creature is sitting entirely too still on the stump.
Anonymous No.96327353 >>96333609
>>96324253
You’d think that it would have bigger teeth with that name.
Anonymous No.96327522 >>96333609 >>96333712
>>96324253
I fucking love fang/gray dragons.
In 3.5e at least, they don't have a breath weapon, but their bites are gnarly.
I love the 3.5e Draconomicon so god damn much man.
Anonymous No.96327582 >>96330363 >>96335759
>>96280278
Level drain no longer works now that there's umpteen billion figured characteristics and fiddly character options every level. Back in the day every 4th level Fighter was the same as every other 4th level Fighter so it was easy to raise you up or down.
Anonymous No.96330363 >>96330381
>>96327582
How would you fix it in 6e then?

>>96306807
Okay, seeing that mini, I can't blame you.
Anonymous No.96330381
>>96330363
>How would you fix it in 6e then?
I wouldn't, 5e is just such a different game and it's never going back to what it used to be. If you made a 6e that actually was designed as a simple dungeon crawler where you can see some guys in the hobby shop playing and ask to join, and they can just say "yeah, sure, roll three six sided dice, add up the numbers, then do that again five more times," everybody who plays 5e today would begin screaming and crying blood.
Anonymous No.96333154 >>96333647 >>96333690
>>96280068 (OP)
Beholders are pretty based. Shame there's no beholder/dragon hybrids.
Anonymous No.96333609 >>96333655
>>96327353
I guess they're called that because basically everything they have is a fang.

>>96327522
I love that book to death. I spent way too much money on getting a physical copy.
And yes, their bites are SCARY, man
Anonymous No.96333647
>>96333154
>Shame there's no beholder/dragon hybrids.
At least 3e gave us Brainstealer dragon.
Anonymous No.96333655 >>96334055
>>96333609
>I love that book to death. I spent way too much money on getting a physical copy.
Same.
Bought a PoD and had it delivered to Brasil.
At first I was just going to get the Rules Compendium, the Magic Item Compendium, and the Spell Compendium, but then I saw the draconomicon in there.
I could not not get the color hardcover version.
I love that book.
Anonymous No.96333675
>>96286104
literally my same tabs barring one
Anonymous No.96333684
>>96280068 (OP)
>Akutenshi
>Shadow Dragon
>Well-built beholder mage
Anonymous No.96333690 >>96333843
>>96333154
>"Half-dragon" is an inherited template that can be added to any living, corporeal creature (referred to hereafter as the base creature).
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/halfDragon.htm

Go to town anon
Anonymous No.96333712 >>96333843
>>96327522
This guy with Haste is going to be a problem
Anonymous No.96333843 >>96334067
>>96333690
Templates are great.
And half-dragon anything is awesome too.

>>96333712
My DM and I already arranged that, save some major deviation on my character's path, he'll most likely get a dragon cohort eventually.
I'm this close to making it a Juvenile Fang Dragon with the Sanctified Creature Template.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
Anonymous No.96334055
>>96333655
I was at a big convention in my country, and as soon as I saw a pristine hardback copy, furthermore in my language, I just couldn't resist. Usually that convention is where me and my friends buy a ton of things we can't find elsewhere, but that year I didn't buy anything else
Anonymous No.96334067 >>96334177
>>96333843
The facta that Kobolds and Dryads can interbrees in that chart created a pretty weird injoke centered around my kobold Necromancer.
Anonymous No.96334177 >>96335081
>>96334067
Do tell.
Anonymous No.96335081
>>96334177
It was a first edition Pathfinder game that didn't take itself seriously at all, where we all played kobolds. My character was an Oracle of Urgathoa, the godess of undeath and hedonism (especially gluttony). My character was extremely racist against any non-kobold (or Warmbloods, as he called them) and was wierdly self-obsessed and arrogant for a member of his race. He was also very hedonistic in his desires: his ultimate goal (which obviously never happened) was becoming the nest's rouler and subjugating everything he could with his "Undead army", all the while keeping the best food, the shiniest jewels and the most beautiful female kobolds for himself. He also had a penchant for eating his enemies.
He tried every time he could to sleep with any kobold he fancied, and since Oracles are Charisma-based and have Diplomacy as a class skill, he had a decent chance at doing so, although he usually failed due to his extremely antisocial behaviour. Essentially, the joke boiled down to "your character would absolutely fuck a dryad, but then he'd feel incredibly ashamed due to not only having had sex with a WARMBLOOD, but potentially having created a halfbreed".
It's not even funny, it's just uncomfortable.

The campaign ended relatively quickly due to one player's scheduling issues, which is sad, as I had lots of fun roleplaying as deranged kobold that cackled like a maniac.
Anonymous No.96335503 >>96335746
Dear op

This is a great thread. Thank you

Love,
Me
Anonymous No.96335618
>Fave Monster
I think Put Fiends look cool.
>Fave Dragon
Elysian Dragon.
>Fave to Hate
Cultists
Anonymous No.96335746 >>96337234 >>96337329 >>96340570
>>96335503
Holy shit anon you are in space
cool
Anonymous No.96335759
>>96327582
3e and PF1e had a nice compromise with Negative Levels.
Arguably PF1e already fucked it up because it didn't make casters lose spell slot. In 3e/3.5, even a temporary negative level risk will make casters think twice.
Anonymous No.96335779
>>96280068 (OP)
>Death Knight
>Red Dragon
>BECMI Nightshades
Anonymous No.96337234
>>96335746
Yeah, I'm from Arcturus
Anonymous No.96337329
>>96335746
Aren't we all?
Anonymous No.96340570 >>96340637
>>96335746
What are some good space-related monsters then?
Anonymous No.96340637 >>96343793
>>96340570
The entire witchlight marauder reproductive cycle
Anonymous No.96343793
>>96340637
Never heard of it, but I'll take a look, thanks.
Anonymous No.96344010
>what is your all time favorite monster?
It's impossible to choose one but this guy would be up there. Just something nightmarish about him. It attracted me to D&D early on, the grotesqueness made it seem more mature. Not in an edgy way, it just was so different to what I had seen as a sheltered 14 year old. Same with the complete arcane art.
Anonymous No.96345328 >>96349257 >>96360913
Will I get shat on if I say that I really really like Veins of the Earth? I love the antiphoenix
Anonymous No.96349257 >>96353269
>>96345328
A little bit but I admit I liked Veins a lot too
Anonymous No.96353269
>>96349257
NTA, but what did you like about it?
Anonymous No.96357597
>>96280068 (OP)
Hellhounds and demon dragons.
Anonymous No.96360859
>>96280068 (OP)
Mind Flayers, I think dragons are overdone, and that answers the third question.
Anonymous No.96360913
>>96345328
The antiphoenix is honestly one of the most cringe monsters in there, even though the "so black your eyes glow and pop" is a cool vibe. The olm are GOAT tho.
Anonymous No.96364068 >>96367212
>>96280068 (OP)
>what is your favorite dragon?
Crystal dragons, how do you feel about them?
Anonymous No.96367212
>>96364068
Awesome! Gem shard breath would be a great weapon for them!