Party of monsters

[RangerWickett]

If you were making a group of monster PCs, what do you think would be a good mix, or at least an interesting one? Add classes if necessary, but try to stick to the schtick of the monster.

Say for a group with four players, you could have:

A troll as the fighter.
A young dragon as the wizard.
A small horde of goblins as the rogue.
. . . there aren't many 'healer' monsters, so instead of cleric, let's have a ranger archer, portrayed by a medusa.


What would be some other fun monster PCs? Please, throw balance out the window.

 

[fba827]

a hobgoblin or devil warlord

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

A few oddball parties immediately hop mind, along different themes, with no thought to plausibilty, party balance or survivability....

PLANTS: "TEAM PHOTOSYTHESIS"
treant druid
shambling mound ftr
awakened phantom fungus rogue (sneak)
myconid sorc

AWAKENED ANIMALS:
Wolf ftr
baboon (or monkey) rogue
(dire?) raven cleric
dire weasel rog/sorc
in addition, if needed: Bear bbn (or the Bard, Baloo)

FROM THE ISLE OF DREAD
aranea sorc (humanoid form is goblin witchdoctor)
bugbear rog/ftr
goblin thief (sniper)
rakasta rgr (twf) with sabre-tooth cat animal companion
in addition, if needed (old school always needs more PCs!): rakasta bbn and/or goblin adept/druid

 

[jonesy]

Ochre Jelly Cleric
Yellow Mold Wizard
Gelatinous Cube Fighter
Black Pudding Rogue
Gray Ooze Barbarian

or

Medusa Sorcerer
Rust Monster Monk
Purple Worm Bard =)
Doppleganger Rogue
Shadow Cleric

 

[Severion]

Right now i'm running a savage species game with:

a troll - ftr
a ghoul - assassin
imp - rogue
Arania(sp?) - sorc
incubus - whatever is needed

 

[Jimlock]

4 Greater Shadows.

Not only are they efficient...

...but they can altogether perform an orgy in a 5X5 square.. (!)

 

[R-Hero]

I have actually played a game where we used 3 halfbreed templates.

Half Troll/orc Fighter

Half Vampire/human Blackguard

Half Minotaur/halfling Barbarian

It was a silly/fun romp. I just wish I knew about the StoryHour then...

 

[steeldragons]

This reminds me of a drawing I did a while ago of race/class combos of what NOT to play in my campaign setting...Went a lil' something like this:

Satyr paladin
Lizardman bard
Sprite monk
Minotaur druid
Goblin wizard
and Halfling barbarian (hey! Halflings're monsters too! They're in the MM

For a bit more "monstrous"...hmmm...
Gnoll thief
Hobgoblin cleric
Umber Hulk illusionist
Otyugh ranger (dual-wielding scimitars, of course

 

[Wednesday Boy]

PLANTS: "TEAM PHOTOSYTHESIS"
treant druid
shambling mound ftr
awakened phantom fungus rogue (sneak)
myconid sorc

Don't forget the vegepygmy ranger!

 

[Umbran]

Half Minotaur/halfling Barbarian

I am reminded of the concept of Chihuahua/St.Bernard dog crossbreeds on this one.