Have You Ever Used Monsters from Dragon Magazine?

[DM_Jeff]

Quite often. If a Dragon comes with a creature that fits the current game's theme and CR, then I'll adjust that week's story just to throw it in. They have worked well for me in the past and ALWAYS surprise the players, who have no idea at it's capabilities.

-DM Jeff

 

[sckeener]

I think I am going to have to just answer, yes.

Many of the monsters from the MM II 1st edition came from Dragon Magazine.

 

[Alzrius]

I always thought that it was a given that using monsters from Dragon and Dungeon meant that they'd be on par, in terms of how well they're written, with anything from mainstream D&D. It was only recently that the magazines started to be published by another company, after all, and Paizo still checks everything with WotC before they see print.

 

[Raven Crowking]

I have used monsters from Dragon and Dungeon going back to 1st Edition D&D, around Issue #35 for Dragon and Issue #1 for Dungeon. I still use creatures from these magazines to this day.

RC

 

[Wik]

Absolutely. In fact, I love using Dragon monsters, because It's pretty much guaranteed none of the other players will have seen it. A few of my players collect wotc books; i'm the only one who has a collection of DRAGONS.

A while ago, I used one of those imps of ill humour (I can't remember which type) as the primary villain a sewer-based dungeon adventure for low-level PCs. while the encounter didn't go as well as I thought it would (it wound up being blasted by the war mage in a round or two), I did think it was an interesting enough monster to use. I'm also really hoping to get a chance to use those flying monkeys.

 

[Voadam]

No. But I currently run 3.5 and only have two issues from 3e times, and neither have monsters in them. I would have no problem using a monster from Dragon though.

 

[Mechnomancer]

Shadow Vampires from the most current issue of Dragon. They usually have stuff i can use and the crs are usually spot on.

 

[Ycore Rixle]

Absolutely. They're great. Some major NPCs have been Dragon monsters, including an avolakian lawyer (before avolakians made it to MMII... or whichever MM they're in).

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

Yep. A Brainstealer Dragon was the final boss of my Ivalice campaign (sort of), and I've used other Dragon monsters here and there.

Between Dragon, custom monsters and monsters from 3rd party books, I don't think I've used an actual WotC-published creature without class levels since the first session of said Ivalice game, which featured a wyvern.

 

[Hussar]

I've used several. The most recent ones (IIRC) were amoebic crawlers and cranial encysters.

Heh, I LOVE those critters. They've seen lots of use in my games.