Here Be Monsters....


Savage Tide Adventure Path

Liberty's Edge

If you had the chance to imbibe a potion of Dungeon Writers' control and make them include 1 monster, just 1, what would it be and why?
Looking back at the old X-1, I have to say I'd like some Rakasta. Why? They're old standbys that haven't been heard from in a good long while.


I'd like to see a covey of hags! Sea hags dam it, with merrow (aquatic ogres) and scrags (aquatic trolls), and while your at it get me some muntant seabass with frickin lazers!


one thing i'd kind of like to see is a black dragon encounter done with the dragons being a 'sub surface' encounter, or at least coming up from below. It always seems to catch folks off guard to see dragons coming up like that, and it does fit the black dragon profile


ABOLETHS - ever since reading the Lords of Madness sourcebook, I've been wanting to see the domineering puppetmaster aboleth necromancer throwing his skum and assorted undead minions at the PCS. I've always thought that incorporeal undead could be especially terrifying when encountered in the water. Funny how the ashadow's strength drain makes swimming so much more difficult.


shadows in water thats bloody brilliant!


The Rakasta are a really good idea and I'll go along with that. If this AP has flavor similar to Tammeraut's Fate and the Styes, I will be very, very, very happy. I've run both those adventures for my current campaign with excellent results and praise from my players.


Yet another vote for Rakastas here. No more abberations please. You just had an entire book on them.


How about a water dragon. I have never, ever encountered one personally. Wouldn't it be fun to be in an underwater encounter fighting a water dragon? I have never, ever encountered a water dragon in an adventure personally.


A sea serpent. A really, really big one.

A caller from the deeps. Just because they are so creepy.


Dragon Turtle.

There absolutely, positively, must be a Dragon Turtle in the Savage Tide.


Festivus wrote:
How about a water dragon. I have never, ever encountered one personally. Wouldn't it be fun to be in an underwater encounter fighting a water dragon? I have never, ever encountered a water dragon in an adventure personally.

Actually there is an entire island of mist dragons between Sasserine and where the Isle of Dread lies, so that would be pretty cool. Not that they are evil but in the Scarlet Brotherhood GH accesory they are written up as extremely xenophobic.

Sovereign Court

Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Adventure, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Ooooh, myconids with templates and class levels and world-domination plans that make aboleth shiver in their dark, cold void-cities beneath the deepest underseas...


Harpies! I almost forgot, but I don't see how you can have a Savage Tide without Harpies roosting in the twisted trees of a remote, rocky shore.


I don't know why, so don't ask.

Rust Monster :)


Celric wrote:

I don't know why, so don't ask.

Rust Monster :)

Mmmm....chimeric rust monster/kraken....yep yep yep...

Liberty's Edge

Lilith wrote:
Celric wrote:

I don't know why, so don't ask.

Rust Monster :)

Mmmm....chimeric rust monster/kraken....yep yep yep...

That was on the menu at Red Lobster last week.


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Rulebook Subscriber

I'm looking forward to Kopru. When we played X1:Isle of Dread in high school, we couldn't keep from giggling when hearing about their "sphincterlike mouths." Adolescents are easily amused.

Liberty's Edge

waltero wrote:
I'm looking forward to Kopru. When we played X1:Isle of Dread in high school, we couldn't keep from giggling when hearing about their "sphincterlike mouths." Adolescents are easily amused.

asphinctersezwut?


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Rulebook Subscriber
Heathansson wrote:
waltero wrote:
I'm looking forward to Kopru. When we played X1:Isle of Dread in high school, we couldn't keep from giggling when hearing about their "sphincterlike mouths." Adolescents are easily amused.
asphinctersezwut?

Rolls d20. Fails will save.

"Wut?"


my vote would go to some slaad


Apes. And not just any apes, but fiendish blood apes, cloaked ape assassins, hadozee ape pirates with bluderbusses, and flying monkeys carrying exploding retch plant bombs.

Lizards. Not dragons, but an awakened elder fire lizard with a bad temper, dire komodo dragons, velociraptors being ridden by pygmy lizardmen, and a mob of juvenile aptosaurs (see DMG II).

An aspect of demogorgon before you fight the big, bad momma himself. A sahuagin death knight blackguard/ranger. A thesselkraken (combining AP II and AP III). An aboleth vassal of demogorgon.

Monsters from Monster Manual IV.

Grand Lodge

Phil. L wrote:
An aspect of demogorgon before you fight the big, bad momma himself. A sahuagin death knight blackguard/ranger. A thesselkraken (combining AP II and AP III). An aboleth vassal of demogorgon.

Ummm..... A chimeric thessalkraken - rust monster, perhaps? Being ridden by an undead sauhaguin blackguard thrall of Demogorgon?


Vattnisse wrote:
Phil. L wrote:
An aspect of demogorgon before you fight the big, bad momma himself. A sahuagin death knight blackguard/ranger. A thesselkraken (combining AP II and AP III). An aboleth vassal of demogorgon.

Ummm..... A chimeric thessalkraken - rust monster, perhaps? Being ridden by an undead sauhaguin blackguard thrall of Demogorgon?

Now that's just being silly. An undead sahuagin blackguard would never be caught riding a chimeric thesselkraken - rust monster. Now a vampiric half-fiend aboleth grafted wereshark is a different story altogether!

Grand Lodge

Phil. L wrote:
Vattnisse wrote:
Phil. L wrote:
An aspect of demogorgon before you fight the big, bad momma himself. A sahuagin death knight blackguard/ranger. A thesselkraken (combining AP II and AP III). An aboleth vassal of demogorgon.

Ummm..... A chimeric thessalkraken - rust monster, perhaps? Being ridden by an undead sauhaguin blackguard thrall of Demogorgon?

Now that's just being silly. An undead sahuagin blackguard would never be caught riding a chimeric thesselkraken - rust monster. Now a vampiric half-fiend aboleth grafted wereshark is a different story altogether!

Absolutely - the chimeric tessalkraken - rust monster is a very unfashonable mount. Let's make it a fiendish chimeric tessalkraken - rust monster, so that it can be the undead sauhaguin blackguard's fiendish companion while he jaunts around on his vampiric half-fiend aboleth grafted wereshark!

Seriously, though, I love the idea of a tessalkraken. Props to you for that one, Phil.

Liberty's Edge

Now that I got the Fiendish Codex, I wanna see that big floating head guy with the chains coming offa him, like the fiendish Macy's Parade baloon. I almost wish I could make him my avatar, but I'm kinda partial to wolfy over there.


I'm hoping the Yuan-ti of Scuttlecove are still unusual and creepy!

Dark Archive

Werebaboon pirate scions of Saraslan, inheritors of a lost empire.

Demonwing, not a monster as such but an enitire layer of the Abyss that has been formed into a ship that can sail the Styx and anywhere really. Guess which Demon Prince made it :) Full of all sorts of demons and ixitxachitl's.

And a kraken, with whatever template you like :) Half-fiend would be nice. Anything hard enough to make Slarkreethal whimper.

Dark Archive

Forgot about Orlath demons from Dungeon #95.

Liberty's Edge

The multitemplate snail from Order of the Stick! You know, the one with the C. R. of 14?


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Rulebook Subscriber

Any chance of having a Morkoth lurking in the depths? I was always intrigued by its picture in the old Monster Manual with the psychedelic pattern behind it.

Oh, and of course we must have a Kraken!


Neandertals too, right there at the centre of the island, encounter 12. ;)
And the mean lizardmen that raid them.. from 50KM away lol

Several dragons, and ents aswell.
Nor to forget rocs.. i know everyone wants a 1/2dragon roc for steed ;)
And Kobolds need dragons, being without dragons around makes us so sad :(
Would have to import a few otherwise..


Another request--Sahuagin and Ixitxachitls. I've always wanted to use them, but never managed to actually get a seagoing campaign going.

Dark Archive

I know I know, Thessalar riding his thessalkraken with his fiendish sahuagin squad riding half fiend dire sharks :)


or megalodons.. those wonderful supersharks from Paladin in Hell, perhaps alongside an old friend, the wereshark?

Or Uzrivoy, in the hands of some Mudsorcerers who did survive their sleep?


Water Naga.

Liberty's Edge

A mad thrall/devotee of Obox Ob who has a submarine made out of a colossal zombie icthyosaur.


Heathansson wrote:
A mad thrall/devotee of Obox Ob who has a submarine made out of a colossal zombie icthyosaur.

Speaking of submarines, and at the risk of veering off-topic (such as it is): An Apparatus of Kwalish.


A magical Liopleurodon. Telling me how to get to candy mountain...

I hope one of you gets this.


A white rabbit. Yes that one.


Peruhain of Brithondy wrote:
Another request--Sahuagin and Ixitxachitls. I've always wanted to use them, but never managed to actually get a seagoing campaign going.

In savage tide they just HAVE to have ixitxachitals. Since first ed. I've always thought they were super cool (probably because of the name - with that many x's you know they're badass). Also, they are supposed to be Demogorgon's favored race of worshippers. Or they were the last time that I looked (I don't have BoVD or FC).


Sea snakes! In the original Isle, there was an opportunity for pearl diving but the area was infested with sea snakes. Their bite was poisonous but it didn't hurt much so there was a chance that characters wouldn't even know they'd been bit. Of course, one of my players played the original Isle and lost a character doing this so might not be up for more pearl diving...

Other than that, as long as there are plenty of dinosaurs, dragons, and lizard men I'll be a happy DM.


As far as for the Savage Tide, I'm hoping to see a nuckalavee from Dragon 343. That thing is scary as hell.

Grand Lodge

Festivus wrote:
How about a water dragon. I have never, ever encountered one personally. Wouldn't it be fun to be in an underwater encounter fighting a water dragon? I have never, ever encountered a water dragon in an adventure personally.

brine dragon is basically a water dragon

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