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That is super cool! Picture looks like a homebrew version? Did a little digging and found that a Dragon Spider is found in the Wild...
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This thing is horrific. There's a Young and Ancient version of it floating around somewhere but I can't seem to find it
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False Hydra, anything Incorporeal so I can creep through walls and floors, or a level appropriate Sibriex!
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I recently ran some of the new mummy against the PCs and the auto mummy rot on a hit made them scared. Wraiths have the cannot heal...
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With Halloween right around the corner, I am looking for everyone's favorite scary monster! Whether in looks, mechanical play, or...
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I build the setting around "what are cool.adventure sites" and I build adventure sites around "what are cool.momsters" so very...
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As a general rule, I wouldn't call them an "afterthought", as that implies they're unimportant, but I do think that monsters generally...
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I did make a setting which has drqgons, giants, and elementals as a big part of the setting. Everything else was Schroedinger's monster...
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For me it is an ongoing consideration that I make choices about from the very inception (dragons or giants or flumphs or demons or...
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How different would Earth look without humans? Your answer is 2.
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