What's your monster palette? With a nearly endless supply of monsters (and races) to choose from, which ones do you use in your world? Have you chosen a specific theme for your campaign (or some part of it)?
In an older version of the Little Changes with Big Flavor thread, I recommended restricting your palette, and people came up with some great ideas:
In an older version of the Little Changes with Big Flavor thread, I recommended restricting your palette, and people came up with some great ideas:
- Mythic Greece -- Centaurs, Minotaurs, Pegasi, Nymphs, Satyrs, Medusas, Cyclops, Titans
- Fairy Tale -- talking animals (Awakened Dire Animals), Pixies, Gnomes, Unicorns
- Middle Earth -- Goblins (Orcs), Hobgoblins (Uruk-Hai), Ogres (Trolls)
- Lost World -- Dinosaurs, Dire Animals, Mammoths
- Starship Troopers -- Xill invading from another dimension
- Center of the Earth -- Efreet, Salamanders, Fire Elementals
- Shadow World -- Shadows, Shadow Fiends, Shadow Mastiffs, Shades
- Demons -- no nonhumans and no monsters except for Outsiders summoned by evil sorcerers
- Night of the Living Dead -- Zombies rising from every grave
- Planet of the Orc -- after a spell gone awry, the PCs find themselves in a world ruled by Orcs (and where Elves are extinct)
But that is really Indonesia.
