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Ruins of Zhentil Keep (2e) 2e Banedead, Shriveled Dead of Bane: Created from fanatical human worshipers, they appear as withered human males and females who have had the life sucked out of them. The malevolent force chat now animates them manifests in their glowing red eyes. One of a Banedead's...

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RS1 [RR6] Van Richten's Guide to the Lich (2e) 2e Psionic Lich, Mentalist Lich: There are few who dare to argue that the power of a master psionicist is any less than that of an archmage. Proof of this can be found in the fact that the most powerful psionicists are actually able to extend their...

RR9 Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead (2e) 2e Undead, Dead, Living Dead, Undead Creature, Unquiet Dead, The Dead: There is no question that some spirits endure beyond death, and that an incomplete or tragic life can bind a spirit to the mortal realm after its body has perished. Unending it...

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FA1 Halls of the High King from 1990 Later reprinted in Monstrous Compendium Annual III in 1996

Yeah, attacking Cthulhu physically by ramming a boat into him was what I was referring to. I don't remember anything similar with Azathoth, he is there with the piping gods outside of rational space but essentially it is just a distant god/being that cultists connect to and that Nyarlathotep...

A big nuance difference is that in the classic Cthulhu story the protagonist fights Cthulhu directly.

Masque of the Red Death a 2e Ravenloft expansion world where one of the Dark Powers gets into 1890s earth so we have things like Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster and the Ghost of Sitting Bull. Original 2e Ravenloft had a couple of Darklords taken straight out of other fiction, Bluebeard was...

Ahh, not in any of the images here but separately over at Wizards' preview. Yeah him being bound in Ravenloft seems tonally weird. He's a core warlock GoO patron. Him as a darklord seems as awkward as 2e Domains of Dread actual demigod Vecna was.

It’s not Cthulhu as a dark lord here it’s a Yithian in a Ravenloft adventure. An alien that body swaps with people for months or years. I see it as having adventure story potential in Ravenloft. It worked for me in Death in Freeport to add mythos horror to D&D.