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D&D 5E Need Monster hybrid ideas, please help

Shadowcortax

Dragon fanatic
So I'm running a 5e campaign and my BBEG is making hybrid monsters. There are 25 of them but I only have 1 done but still need ideas for the other 24. I have a few but nothing concrete. The first one is a kraken/elder brain hybrid with a little blue and black dragon thrown in. Looking for inspiration, any help is appreciated.
 

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Darkmantle Drow
Roper Carrion Crawler
Gelatinous Balrog
Invisible Intellect Devourer
Vampiric Stirge
Illithid Dragon
Gas Spore Flumph
Displacer Blink Dog
Empyrean Slaadi
Beholder Titan
 



Bitbrain

Lost in Dark Sun
Allow me to introduce you to the Grootslang, whose legend (South African, I believe) can be summed up as “when the gods first created animals, they made a mistake.”

It’s like a cross between an elephant and a serpent. Pathfinder had a version of it in their first edition:

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Pathfinder gave it the ability to stomp the ground so hard it dealt damage and could knock its enemies prone if they failed the save.

I remember reading that it was supposed to have power over elephants and serpents (being the folklore ancestor of both), but I don’t know if this is accurate to the original legend or apocryphal...
 


MonkeezOnFire

Adventurer
A Werewolf in Sheep's Clothing: A werewolf and a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Roc Gnome: A roc and a rock gnome.
The Ultimate Box: A gelatinous cube and a duodrone.
 

Doug McCrae

Legend
Here are some from the Imaginary Bestiary Vol I-III

Phantom Baboon
Orc Bat
Catobleghast
Cowlossus
Gorgohydra
Skulk Hound
Wereowlbear
Necropegasus
Triplicorn
Zombird
Half-Stag
Octodactyl
Owlosopher
Sharkatrice
Zombosaurus
Behydusa - beholder/hydra/medusa
Cerberuskin Cynocephalus
Yellow Musk Creeper Dryad
Skelerat
Displacer Tabaxi
Blink Tarrasque
 


Doug McCrae

Legend
Roc n’ Roller = Roc/Juggernaut
Yuan-ti Tree = Yuan-ti/Treant
Centimental = Giant Centipede/Elemental
Death Salad = Death Slaad/Dryad
Moonicorn = Werewolf/Unicorn
Slumber Hulk = Pixie/Umber Hulk
No Escape = Trapper/Lurker Above/Living Wall
Galeb Duh = Galeb Duhr/Living Spell – Feeblemind
Beehemoth = Froghemoth/Giant Bee
Violent Fungus = Violet Fungus/Owlbear
Womanticore = Manticore/Human (female)
Flaming Lips = Gibbering Mouther/Fire Elemental
Ear Flayer = Mind Flayer/Earseeker
Bag Lady = Hag/Bag of Holding
 

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