Thread Game: Change/Add/Subtract a Letter, Ruin a D&D Creature

Like the title says. Change one letter, add one letter, or subtract one letter to ruin a D&D monster!

Some examples:

Orcus => Porcus
Demogorgon => Depogorgon
Asmodeus => Asmopeus​

Post yours in the comments!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I like mint flayer- peppermint, wintergreen or spearmint?

 

[Gammadoodler]

Roper = Roger - they're serious about their neighborhood

Zombie = zombrie - they can be a little cheesy

Flesh Golem = Flush Golem - they don't take no crap

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Mind Flayer => Mine Flayer (dwarves hate these strip-miners!)

Mind Flayer => Mind Player ( the ultimate gaslighters)

Xeg-Ya => Xeg-Ha (creature from the Demi plane of humor)

Xag-Yi => Xag-Yo (creature of urban positivity)

 

[Gammadoodler]

Fire Giant = Fife Giant - you can always hear them coming

Hill Giant = Dill Giant - you smell them before you see them

Cloud Giant = Cloun Giant - very funny

Storm or Stone Giants = Store Giants kind of a buy one get one free deal here

Frost Giant = Flost Giant - what big teeth they have

 

[Dave Goff]

Beholder -> Bee Holder (It just likes to hold and cuddle bees)

 

[Sunsword]

Flumph = Fluph

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Cloud Giant => Loud Giant (you thought the Fife Giants were noisy? HA!)

Sprite => Spite (do NOT get on their bad side)

Rust Monster => Bust monster (they eat statuary. Yes they do.)

Modron => Moodron (maintainers of the bovine hierarchy)

Minotaur => Winotaur (creatures who lurk in the maze like warehouses of wine merchants)

Minotaur => Minotour (cattle-headed humanoids who feel compelled to wander the world; often claustrophobic)

Gynosphynx => Gyrosphinx (guardian creatures who challenge those before them to eat a tasty sandwich before passing...or DIE!)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Ogre Mage => Ogre Made (created by piratkng tinker gnome designs, these are comically crude but dangerous constructs)

Phase Spider => Phaser Spider (PEW! PEW!)

Phase Spider => Phrase Spider (Giant arachnids with disarmingly pithy battle slogans)

Mobat => Mocat (giant black cats of the Underdark)

Stone Giant => Stoner Giant (Duuuuuuuuuuuude...)

Roper => Groper (don’t hold near them, just report them to HR)

Beholder => Bebolder (beholderkin whose magic eye beams make their prey dangerously reckless)

 

[Joshua Randall]

Azer = Gazer (they like to watch) //
or... Blazer (it’s legal in some States) (and yes that’s 2 letters)

Banshee = Bansheet (when you don’t do your laundry for too long, this is what happens)

Bullywug = Bullypug (a cute dog that picks on people)

Carrion Crawler = Carrion Trawler (a dingy ship trying to find decaying flesh - what’s the big deal?)

Catoblepas = Fatobelpas (they prefer to be called Oblepas Of Size)

Centaur = Mentaur (look up, look down, I’m on a horse)

Cockatrice= Rockatrice (because weird hybrid creatures ROCK)

Demilich = Hemilich (makes the truck run better, bruh)

Dinosaurs = Finosaurs (roving giant lizards that impose monetary penalties on everyone they meet)

Displacer Beast = Displacer Feast (just when you think you’re about to dig into a delicious meal, psyche! It’s on another table)

Fire Elemental = Fyre Elemental (he’d rather not talk about the entire fiasco)

Gargoyle = Margoyle (like a regular gargoyle, but made of MAGMA! Wait that’s a real monster I think)

Hags = Bags (that’s a pretty insulting term for old ladies!)

Lizardfolk = Wizardfolk (you know, Gandalf, Harry Potter, Doctor Strange...)

Mind Flayer = Hind Flayer (if you’ve ever had deer eat your garden plants you’ll know how these guys feel)

Mummies = Gummies (available in bear, worm, and other animal shapes)

Night Hag = Night Nag (they REALLY don’t like when you make noise after curfew)

Purple Worm = Purple Word (one of Prince’s lesser known songs taken monstrous form)

Roper = Groper (a monster who won’t keep his hands to himself)

Treant = Truant (they’re supposed to be in school but instead they’re roaming the forests getting into trouble)

Unicorn = Uniporn (oh dear... at least they are consistent in their tastes)

 

[Mad_Jack]

Drag-on: It's breath weapon is a constant neverending stream of boring, inane conversation...
Dragone: it's obviously what used to live in the abandoned lair you just found.