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On this topic, I always want to use the scarecrow in a Halloween themed adventure, but the MM version is just so wimpy. I need to get...
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The comments to the post you linked have suggestions on how to make a young spiderdragon. And I found an ancient spiderdragon here:
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I came to say Meenlocks but Snarf beat me to them. The attic whisperer from Pathfinder is another good one. Beware the haunting sobs...
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My current DM loves monsters who seem to be one thing and then suddenly are something else, especially when the transformation is due to...
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I just used this lovely guy. Nothing like the screaming udead remnants of an aborted titan to make you question your life choices!
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...and then ploink chess pieces down with a "Sorry, I don't have minatures for these yet, so this will have to do for today." Also an...
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I think rot grubs are probably the worst, because most of the others have workarounds, like fire or listening to doors using a metal...
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Semi-comedic, but creepy - perytons. A flying deer that feeds off of hearts is brutal, weird and vile. For a full session Hags. Weird...
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It's hard to pick one. Rot Grubs? Green Slimes (terrifying in 1e)? Level draining undead? Gas Spore? Molds? Violet fungi? So much to...
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Of all the jerk things in AD&D, rot grubs might be the jerkiest.
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One of the monsters that strikes fear into low level parties more than any other I also enjoy the use of carrion crawlers.
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A bunch of skeletons, strewn randomly throughout a dungeon. That only wake up when the party gets all the way inside the dungeon. Never...
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The party moves through the skeletal remains of an abandoned village, fog curling around the shattered huts. A faint scuttling sound...
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I think the Rust Monster is also pretty high on the list. I just sent one at my party last week. :p
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It's lore and stat block doesn't really have much to support this so far as I know, but I always felt a Nightwalker that freely slipped...
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