D&D 5E Best monster for "cleaning up" dead bodies..

[That_DM_Lady]

Animate Dead spell. Have the zombies clean up their own blood etc. then move themselves.

Lol, that's pretty clever!

 

[Charlaquin]

So ... is that an example of economics (supply and demand), or is that an example of evolution?

And if the latter, HOW LONG HAVE THERE BEEN ADVENTURERS AND DUNGEONS IN THE D&D WORLD?

Probably bio-engineering by evil wizards looking to protect their sanctums.

 

[jasper]

You fools don't remember mystery meat from school?

 

[Nebulous]

Funny how many of the iconic original monsters were all designed for dungeon clean up duty. Slimes, jellies, gelatinous cube, rust monster, carrion crawler, etc...

I guess with all these wannabe adventurer heroes around, there was a demand from the dungeon inhabitants

Yeah, just put one of everything in your dungeon garbage disposal

 

[Sacrosanct]

You fools don't remember mystery meat from school?

Soylent Green is people!

 

[Oofta]

You fools don't remember mystery meat from school?

So you're saying there should be a school cafeteria and a bunch of half-starved teenagers to get rid of the corpses? Eww.

Although now that I think of it, processing the bodies into soylent green and feeding the poor so the group could be seen as a benevolent charity does have a certain twisted appeal. Maybe a group of hags as the "chefs"?

 

[jasper]

Soylent Green is people!

Wrong Green is human. Red is dragonborn, Yellow is gnomes (finally a good issue for the race). More colours coming soon. See our spokesperson Thorn Hudson. Soylent Corp growning for a new tomorrow.

 

[Lalato]

You could go with something entirely mundane... like the cultists keep a good sized pig pen and just feed the corpses to the pigs. It would mean that there would be a room somewhere where they butcher the bodies... might make for a gruesome scene where the players have to fight the butcher and his/her assistants.

Obviously, one of the classic dungeon cleaning monsters is cleaner... but if you want to make the cultists really evil... this might do the trick.

 

[jayoungr]

Welcome to the board, [MENTION=6994076]That_DM_Lady[/MENTION]! Have some XP.

The Starter Set adventure, Lost Mine of Phandelver, has a bandit headquarters where they are feeding the bodies of their victims to a Nothic. It's intelligent (if insane), so the PCs can converse with it and maybe even strike a bargain with it. Seems like a good choice if you want to have a social interaction aspect to this part of the story.

On the other hand, if you mostly just want an explanation of what happens to the bodies, I agree that a gelatinous cube is hard to beat.

 

[Mercurius]

Giant carnivorous goats.