The popularity of monsters - part III

[megamania]

Been most of the dragons, all the elements and used a pyrohydra and a normal hydra before.


A lot of what have you used before polls going lately.....

 

[Gulla]

Strange.

I have forgotten to use the poor copper dragon. I'll have to fix that

Håkon

 

[the Jester]

I think copper and brass dragons, as well as cryohydras, are the only "missing monsters" from my palette, and a loooong time ago (1e!) we fought one of those two, but I can't remember which.

 

[Hussar]

In 3e, I've never used a red dragon. Fortunately that will likely change very shortly. Just finished an encounter with a green and a bronze dragon, but, before using the WLD, I used I think one or two dragons max.

Hrm, I wanna use more dragons.

 

[Robert Ranting]

Dragons:
Red- encountered twice as a player.
Blue-as a DM, BBEG in a short campaign.
Green- encountered three times, (4 if you count the templated monstrosity in Shackled City) as a player.
Black- encountered as a player. As a DM, had them in the background, and many Half-Dragon minions/children.
Gold- as a DM. Used to represent a "fire dragon" in a non-D&D game.
Silver- encountered as a player. My best friend (who DMs relatively often) favors them.

Elementals:
Fire- Run as a DM, in the same room as the above Gold Dragon.
Earth- Run as a DM. An Elder Earth Elemental + Greater Abyssal Basilisk = one of my favorite encounters I've ever run.

Golems:
Clay- Run as a DM.
Flesh- Run as a DM.

Hydras:
Hydra (normal), Pyro, Cryo- encountered in the same cave system together in one game. We were not a happy group afterwards.

Robert "Just my Experience" Ranting

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I have used a young half-fiendish silver dragon.

The PCs were pretty freaked out by that one. And they had a lively debate: "Should we kill it even if it doesn't attack us outright?"

 

[Gold Roger]

The only two dragons I've used so far where a noncombat encounter with a blue and a rust dragon (don't know age, was medium size though).

I've used all kinds of elementals except fire.

So far haven't used Hydra or Golems.

 

[Sammael]

I've used or seen used pretty much everything from that list except the two energy-based hydrae. I've used metallic dragons as NPCs, and I'm soon going to use one as an antagonist.

 

[DragonLancer]

This was easy, I've used them all. And I'm pretty sure each one more then a few times.

Same here.

 

[Nalfeshnee]

ah, the popular creatures strange, i found ive used more creatures from the other two lists than these ones the probloem for my group is we tend to play low-mid-level adventures and i dont like using dragions before theyre huge size

i have used.encountered: red, black, silver dragons (red and black as a player and silver as player and DM). I have used as a DM: styx, rust and tarterian dragons also

iver encountered most golems, elementals and hydras (very often too )