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A recent addition to the drow pantheon, Zinzerena the Hunted is an outsider even among that chaotic and fractured group of powers. Once a figure in heroic legends, she managed to ascend through trickery, and has been avoiding other members of the pantheon and causing chaos among drow cities ever...

The third of the good archomentals is Ben-hadar, an arrogant and provincial ruler who many believe pushes the boundaries of what is considered good. While he does care for the well-being of his followers, he has little interest in what happens beyond the borders of the Plane of Water. Jeff

The cold of winter brings the enigmatic and imprisoned god of eternal darkness and decay, known simply as the Dark God. Said to have been imprisoned long ago in order to preserve all of creation, mythology also presents it as a being that will preside over the destruction of all things when he...

One of the more interesting elven powers, and one who has estranged himself from his kin, is Darahl Firecloak. Once known as Tilvenar, a debacle with an evil artifact caused a great loss of status and led to him reinventing himself and looking outside the normal elven groups to rebuild his...

Yeah, they never got that much material written for them. I'm a big fan of them though. :D Well, not Ben-Hadar, he's kind of a jerk. :)

The weakest of the archomentals is Zaaman Rul, the prince of good fire creatures and rumored offspring of Imix. Representing the positive and beneficial aspects of fire, he perhaps naively attacked his father’s forces, but suffered a complete rout, forcing him into hiding until he can rebuild...

I was never particularly interested in Ravenloft as a setting, mostly because I'm not big on the type of horror it engenders and I am pretty sure I'd be awful at trying to run it. But, the first and third Monstrous Compendiums for the setting were so full of great monsters of all kinds that...

Just in time for the spooky season of October is Cegilune, goddess of hags. She rules the night hags of the Gray Waste and conducts trade in larva with diverse dark powers, while also haunting the Prime Material Plane in search of magic and souls to turn into more larva. With her, I chose to...

SJ Appendix II wasn't written in tandem with SJ Appendix I. It's not a question of removing (subjective) chaff from the two and combining them into one product, since that wasn't how they were designed. Both of them have a ton of great monsters for a Spelljammer campaign. Can they all be used...

The creator of the aboleths, known as Piscaethces the Blood Queen, lives deep in a hidden bog-cavern in Minauros. She is a lethargic power despite her desire to guide her followers to domination of all other creatures. She is, however, known to send her occasional offspring to Prime Material...

Oh, I just meant in 2e Planescape products. I don't know anything about 3e/later editions updates. :) I was aware of the change even though I got into D&D in the early 90s, because my first D&D purchases were an "old" collection from someone else which included some 1e and 2e material, so I...

There are actually three monsters that never got fully updated from MC08: The Adamantite Dragon (it got referenced in Planescape, but became a single individual and never had an updated MC sheet), the Air Sentinel (of Shurrock), and the Celestial Lammasu. Besides the adamantite dragon, they...

One thing I like to point out is that despite the expected analogue for the reptilian gargantua (which of course can cover lots of different ones, including Varan or Barugon) is Godzilla, but a close reading of the description (hooked claws, triangular ears like little wings) is the British...

The first of the archomentals of good is Chan, the Princess of Good Air Creatures. She wages an endless information cold war with her rival Yan-C-Bin while wondering the Elemental Plane of Air and the Prime Material Plane engaging in subtle acts of goodness that lead to much larger long-term...