I'd probably have to go with the Kobold personally. So much potential!
We love you!
+1 for Kobold
I hope for your players' sakes that you havent read about Tucker's Kobolds, Morgen.
Mwa ha ha! Tucker's Kobolds are truly the most wonderful thing to happen to my favorite hobby. Ever.
My Beloved Spouse (Kobold chorus: "We love you!") has used Tucker's Kobolds for inspiration on multiple occasions, and in so doing has put this utter, terrifying, unconquerable fear into me anytime I see a Kobold. And even more fear when I know they're around, but CAN'T see them.
An ambush of Kobolds nearly killed her archmage not long ago.
Things that make you go humm... ;)
Tried disbelieving, didn't work
You took Prof(cook), now you feel like a jerk
Sayin' he didn't have time to eat
Is that a Ring of Sustenance? You can't compete!
Layin' on hands, he says his head hurts
You're only rompin' dungeons in radical spurts
Mysterious scry and the sensor goes click
You say to yourself "I'm gonna hit him with +6!"
Ain't no way he could be cheatin' on me
I wonder who killed all those BBEG's
Dressed in full plate to hang with the fellas
Out kickin' doors and I'm getting jealous
Comin' home late smellin' like a gnome?
Things that make you go hmmm...
What's your favorite monster?
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may be a homebrew humanoid pc race but here it is.
from gleemax i give you yami shinobi's only worthwhile creation
Nekogami. they just need to be refluffed is all. the original concept was "non furry" catgirls. they looked perfectly human but had feline tendencies. such as the hunter mentality, a sneaky shifty personality, playing with thier victims, or curiosity.
may be a homebrew humanoid pc race but here it is.
from gleemax i give you yami shinobi's only worthwhile creation
Nekogami. they just need to be refluffed is all. the original concept was "non furry" catgirls. they looked perfectly human but had feline tendencies. such as the hunter mentality, a sneaky shifty personality, playing with thier victims, or curiosity.
And this makes them different from Real Life Women in what way? ;P
"non furry" catgirls
SWEET JESUS WHY?!?!
Rust Monster!
Beyond that, I would agree with you.
Y'know, I've never watched Dominion Tank Police.
And the fact that I've never watched Dominion Tank Police, yet instantly recognize (and can name) Unipuma and Annapuma, should tell you which corner of the internet I was hanging around during the late 90s. If you somehow hadn't already guessed. :P
(Also, the link's technically broken. Gotta copy-paste or Tripod gets grumpy.)
Beyond that, I would agree with you.
Y'know, I've never watched Dominion Tank Police.
And the fact that I've never watched Dominion Tank Police, yet instantly recognize (and can name) Unipuma and Annapuma, should tell you which corner of the internet I was hanging around during the late 90s. If you somehow hadn't already guessed. :P
(Also, the link's technically broken. Gotta copy-paste or Tripod gets grumpy.)
How do you get around the problem wiht Tripod?
(And, if you have never watched Dominion Tank Police, I would have to say "Shame On You" It is awesome! ;D)
Displacer Beasts: ever since playing eye of the beholder on the computer as a kid.
Goblins/hobgoblins: great for adding class levels.
Shadows: they just feel creepy.
Atropal(ELH): seems like an odd choice (perhaps not iconic enough), but undead baby gods is just disturbing.
How do you get around the problem wiht Tripod?
Right click the link, copy address, open new tab, paste and go.
Pit fiend baby, now that's iconic evil
I've heard several people mention the Mimic.
Oddly enough, after all my time playing D&D, I've never encountered one or used one in a session. I'll have to rectify that.
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The Tarrasque. This living embodiment of mindless destruction has been an evocative part of my D&D experience since I first came across him back in 2nd edition. To this day I still rank monsters according in terms of how they match up to him.
The long thread on the city built around the Tarrasque (I think it hit about 250 pages when i stopped reading it) made this one of my favorite creatures
Gelantinous Cube!G. Cubes hold a very dear place in my heart.
Some of our best "WTF?" moments involve G. Cubes.
We once pushed a Cube off a ledge and it landed on our nemesis below, engulfing and eventually killing him.
I cannot take credit for the following idea and I cannot remember where I got it from, but it worked beautifully when I used it as DM.
I had a gelatinous cube that had a skeleton suspended within it approach the party. To the party, it looked like a skeletal undead was floating towards them. The party's main fighter engulfed himself when he charged the floating skeleton.
Does the Bag of Devouring count?
Hmmmm...
Archons, for their harsh judgement and love of battle.
Bulette, for their endless hunger and stamping feet.
Cockatrices, for their toothsome bite and bright bright feathers.
Dragons, for their lovely hoards and fearsome presence.
Ettercaps, for their binding webs and snicker-snack claws.
Frost Worms, for their lovely trills and deadly passing.
Gelugons, for their tricksy spells and aura of fear.
Hobgoblins, for their lawful bent and militaristic ways.
Inevitables, for their tireless pursuit and fearless minds.
Janni, for their nomad camps and eldritch blood.
Kobolds, for their wily traps and frightening yips.
Lycanthropes, for their silver fears and shifting forms.
Manticores, for their barbed tails and gnashing teeth.
Nightmares, for their fiery hooves and smokey gaze.
Ogre Mages, for their cerulean hides and singular horns.
Pit Fiends, for their terrible blasphemies and annual wishes.
Quasits, for their tiny tiny forms and perpetual invisibility.
Remhoraz, for their burning hides and furnace hunger.
Stirge, for their reaving flocks and tiny bites.
Tarrasque, for her singular nature and unchallenged might.
Unicorns, for their healing magics and scything horns.
Vampires, for their underling hordes and dominating gaze.
Winter Wolves, for their plaintive howls and arctic breath.
Xorn, for their love of gems and hunger for metals.
Yellow Mold, for their glorious color and infectious presence.
Zombies, for their slow brutality and unfeeling toughness.
To be honest, now that I think about it, I hate them all. LOL, which is why I try to kill every "monster" that I find
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My top favorite? The Silver Dragon. Then it's red dragon, half-dragons, kobolds, drow(non-Golorian), halflings, house cats, dire bats, lycanthropes, vampires, illithids, lantern archons, and 3.5 forest gnomes.
To be honest, now that I think about it, I hate them all. LOL, which is why I try to kill every "monster" that I find
In our campaign, monsters are everywhere, but they usually avoid or ignore the PCs unless they're provoked.
At first the players tried to fight every monster that they came upon, but now they ignore most monsters and only fight the battles that really matter.
Killing every single monster that we come across would take forever!
I had a gelatinous cube that had a skeleton suspended within it approach the party. To the party, it looked like a skeletal undead was floating towards them. The party's main fighter engulfed himself when he charged the floating skeleton.
That fighter must have rolled a terrible perception check.
Rune Giants, because before them I wasn't interested in giants at all, but Rune Giants were so interesting and they fit perfectly into the Runelords / Thassilon background story. And because of Wayne Reynold's fantastic cover for "Spires of Xin-Shalast".
Imps/Quasits.
I was on the unfortunate receiving end of a relationship with an Imp in a certain well-known Adventure Path book. PCs march to its lair, get smoked to within a molecule of their death-beds and retreat since both sides were completely spent. Next day, heal up, rest up, go hunt it down and again both sides reduced to tatters but my PCs had to retreat. Third attempt didn't go any better. By then we were just amusing it.
End result... unknowingly the PCs literally hand-carried the thing up out of its lair and set it "free" in town, not realizing it had shape-shifted into a bird.
Sigh. Good times.
Never did encounter that Imp again, but I'm still playing that same AP so who knows. Sadly, those PCs are long dead.
I'll say Orcs and Giants.
I always had a thing for the beholder since I was really young. Than behind them the red dragon for being such an icon for the game.
Chokers.
Probably definetly Chokers.
Except that I'm not allowed to use them anymore. Two (apparently embarrassingly effective) encounters with chokers, once with Rrelga of Chimes at Midnight by Nick Logue, and second in an encounter of my design, and my primary Pathfinder gaming group has vetoed my ability to use them. Meh.
Other favorites include Babau, Black Dragons, Chain Devils, and leveled Ghouls/Ghasts.
Outside of D&D, I have an immense predeliction for Goblins, Kobolds, Bogeymen, and the like, but I don't like how D&D and most 'heroic' fantasy takes the supernatural out of them and reduces them to just being lumpy sub-humans (Or weird mini-dragons for some reason.) Double meh.
1) Succubi. I mean, c'mon now!
2) Whatever monster I just killed, 'cause now I got its stuff and XP.
A door, altar or treasure chest are all "classic" ways to use mimics. :)I've heard several people mention the Mimic.
Oddly enough, after all my time playing D&D, I've never encountered one or used one in a session. I'll have to rectify that.
Tee hee hee! I can think of TONS of great ways to put that to use!
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Tee hee hee! I can think of TONS of great ways to put that to use!A door, altar or treasure chest are all "classic" ways to use mimics. :)I've heard several people mention the Mimic.
Oddly enough, after all my time playing D&D, I've never encountered one or used one in a session. I'll have to rectify that.
2 words:
OuthouseMimic
Tiamat!
So evil, yet so.. colorful! Like an evil, world destroying rainbow!!!
Spell Weavers.
There's just something incredibly funny about a party being torn apart by 30 Magic Missiles each round. Even better when the Advanced Spell Weaver can create a Simulacrum and get it to do this for him so the original can focus on more powerful spells.
So much destructive arcane potential, yummy.
Imps/Quasits.
I was on the unfortunate receiving end of a relationship with an Imp in a certain well-known Adventure Path book. PCs march to its lair, get smoked to within a molecule of their death-beds and retreat since both sides were completely spent. Next day, heal up, rest up, go hunt it down and again both sides reduced to tatters but my PCs had to retreat. Third attempt didn't go any better. By then we were just amusing it.
End result... unknowingly the PCs literally hand-carried the thing up out of its lair and set it "free" in town, not realizing it had shape-shifted into a bird.
Sigh. Good times.
Never did encounter that Imp again, but I'm still playing that same AP so who knows. Sadly, those PCs are long dead.
Technically, that was a Quasit, not an Imp. At least, if it's the AP I'm thinking of.
Rune Giants, because before them I wasn't interested in giants at all, but Rune Giants were so interesting and they fit perfectly into the Runelords / Thassilon background story. And because of Wayne Reynold's fantastic cover for "Spires of Xin-Shalast".
+1 to most of that. I love me the Rune Giants.
3.5 grell. Particularly with character classes. It doesn't even matter what classes you give them, they kick some serious tail.
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Tee hee hee! I can think of TONS of great ways to put that to use!A door, altar or treasure chest are all "classic" ways to use mimics. :)I've heard several people mention the Mimic.
Oddly enough, after all my time playing D&D, I've never encountered one or used one in a session. I'll have to rectify that.2 words:
Outhouse
Mimic
Now, that's just *TOO* evil -- even for a Chelaxian dwarven GM! ;)
(although it would kind of cool to do that... with an otyugh lurking "under" the mimic)
Count Strahd von Zarovich.
Oh, are you talking about monster types?
Uh.. in that case, Dracula.
I mean... uh... vampires.
My favorite monsters are:
1.) Vampires
2.) Werewolves (including Werewolf Lords/dire werewolves)
3.) Zombies (the flesh-eating, plague-carrying kind, not just the Voodoo servant kind)
4.) Ghouls (They have the flesh-eating and plague-carrying built-in but I like the mindlessness of the zombies more.)
5.) Shadows, especially when they're played up as being the actual shadows of the deceased. (Or in the shadowdancer's case, I like to think of the SD's shadow companion as the SD's actual shadow given the power to move and think.)
6.) Variant vampires (Shadow Vampire from Dragon comes to mind. Also, Monstrous Vampire from Ghostwalk.)
7.) Lycanthropes other than werewolves, like scheming wererat thugs or even werebear paladins.
8.) Trolls (and other giants/fey/humanoids that want to feed on people)
9.) Ogre Magi (They can fly and turn invisible! And they're cunning.)
10.) Kobolds (I always think of the kobolds in the Nashkell Mines in Baldur's Gate with the fire arrows.)
In classical fairy tales, I also like ogres. In some fairy tales, ogres are just people who have grown monstrous from cannibalism.
I want to figure out how to express fairy-tale goblins as a D&D creature. I tend to think of them as a cross between monstrous revelers and evil tricksters. I'm thinking they would be fey.
I remember a story I read when I was in elementary school that was from the perspective of a child and there was a goblin outside of his window that wanted him to come play with it. "There's a goblin outside and he's staring at me." There was another story where a person had to attend a feast of goblins and knew not to eat a single bit of the food or drink any of the drink before dawn or s/he would be trapped into reveling with the goblins forever.
Technically, that was a Quasit, not an Imp. At least, if it's the AP I'm thinking of.
Probably. All I really know for sure is that was itty-bitty, fiendish, and terribly fun to get my butt handed to me repeatedly by. The AP I refer to also contained a creature (or creatures, I think) later on that were equally frustrating, which I not-so-affectionately dubbed "snake-b#+@%es". That probably makes clear which I'm talking about. Isn't avoiding spoilers fun?
What's your favorite monster? My vote is owlbear.Then you should find this diverting.
And this.I've heard several people mention the Mimic.
Oddly enough, after all my time playing D&D, I've never encountered one or used one in a session. I'll have to rectify that.
Love it!
Poor Christolump Rabbismall...