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Just for fun,

So you call a group of wolves a pack, and a group of crows a murder...

What would you call a group of air elementals? A dervish? A group of shadows? Other fantasy monster groups?

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Collective nouns!

An umbra of shadows.
A ring of faeries.
A clutch of dragons.
A clatter of skeletons.
A watch of beholders.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Bestiaries list collective nouns for every monster type (well, every that appears in groups) under Organization part of the statblock. Elementals, for example, form gangs (3-8).


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A gale of wind elementals
A wave of water elementals
A conflagration of fire elementals
An avalanche of earth elementals


A crew of goblins!
A rampage of goblins!
A... buffet line of goblins?


Captain Killjoy wrote:

A crew of goblins!

A rampage of goblins!
A... buffet line of goblins?

An Inflammation of Goblins!

A Deflagration of Goblins!

A Combustion of Goblins!


An exsanguination of Vampires.


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A bachelor of tarrasques. Alternatively, a spinster of tarrasques. Don't want to assume gender.


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A dance of dervishes
A blast of sorcerers
A bleed of vampires


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A Parity of Aeons.
A Safeguard of Agathions.
A Choir of Angels.
An Establishment of Archons.
A Denial of Asura.
A Liberation of Azata.
A Vacuity of Daemons.
A Massacre of Demons.
A Bureaucracy of Devils.
A Division of Demodands.
A Corruption of Divs.
A Brigade of Formians.
An Invocation of Genies.
An Obstinance of Inevitables.
An Essence of Kami.
A Bondage of Kytons.
A Befoulment of Oni.
A Disarray of Proteans.
An Escort of Psychopomps.
A Treachery of Qlippoth.
A Decadence of Rakshasa.


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Once I learned that you could have a murder of crows... I like to use murder for everything now.

A Murder of buffalo
A murder of kangaroo
A murder of sharks
A murder of butterflies

Anytime I'm corrected, I just say I like mine better ;)


An apocalypse of devils
A calamity of dragons
A charm of faerie dragons
A cloud of pegasi
A storm of griffons
An orchestra of lillendi


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

A gaggle of goblins
A gabble of goblins
A chapter of kytons
A fury of elementals
A frenzy of Adaros
A cacophany of Proteans


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A passion of succubi.


The Bestiary says "a harem of succubi". I like that.

And... a torture of incubi?


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An orgy of succubi?


Yeah, baybee.

Lantern Lodge

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DigMarx wrote:
A bachelor of tarrasques. Alternatively, a spinster of tarrasques. Don't want to assume gender.

According to Ultimate Campaign, it's a (Fine-Sized) "Army of Tarrasque."


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The Tarrasque: and Army of One.


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A grumble of dwarves?
A parade of elves?
A banquet of halflings?
A snowflake of drow?

Perhaps a small group of halflings could be called a buffet... Thats what the dragons call em anyway.


AM SMASH OF BARBARIANS.

The Exchange

A great deal of creatures in pathfinder bear similarities to existing animals, so you can use existing plurals for those, this yields us:

A cackle of gnolls,
A Glaring of catfolk
A swine of wearboars
A swarm of wererats
A colony of ratfolk
ETC.


A cycle of Samsarans
A cavil of Ganzi
A cropping of Ghorans
A circuit of Androids
A tide of Undines
An smoulder of Ifrits
A clean sweep of Oread
A zephyr of Sylphs
A bender of Sulis
A dimout of Wayang


A trump of Flumphs?


Gorbacz wrote:
Bestiaries list collective nouns for every monster type (well, every that appears in groups) under Organization part of the statblock. Elementals, for example, form gangs (3-8).

Would more of them be a ghetto?

Dark Archive

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An Annoyance of Gnomes (by other races)
A Blessing of Gnomes (by Gnomes)

Shadow Lodge

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A Parliament of Devils.

or

A Congress of Devils.

or

A Bureaucracy of Devils.

To be honest, the decision on which to use is still in committee.


Some ideas


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The Usual Suspect wrote:

A Parliament of Devils.

or

A Congress of Devils.

or

A Bureaucracy of Devils.

To be honest, the decision on which to use is still in committee.

Someone just added an amendment to consider 'A Contract of Devils.'

Shadow Lodge

I think a Contract of Devils should be any group of known devil worshipers, not an actual group of devils.


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A congestion of oozes.

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