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Physically as far as stats? I don't remember a lot of stealth and surprise from Ookla, but yes, most hulking brute reskins could work for most of the stats. If you rewrote bugbears to narratively be a version of a Thundar Mook or a Star Wars Wookie (which Ookla is based off of) that would be...

I found them interesting when I read the first Dragonlance book when it came out, but I thought they would grow old quick. When the 1e Dragonlance Adventures came out with PC stats for them I thought they would make terrible PCs for more than a joke one shot. I had zero interest in ever playing...

It might not matter to their fellow party members, but it is likely to matter as to how most everyone the new incarnation interacts with is likely to treat them. Hiding from most every otherwise friendly NPC as a seven foot tall brute is an option but whether hiding or not it tends to direct a...

Their characterization is usually one of the more monstrous of the humanoids building off their classic CE alignment and ambush surprise powers. Volo's Guide to Monsters goes into it in some depth for 5e. In pathfinder they are particularly big on relishing the fear of others. In 5.5 they embody...

I was a big fan of Thor's bearded armored look in the 80s.

Tales of the Lance (2e) 2e Undead, Undead Creature: ? Especially Wicked Undead: ? Evil Undead: As lord of false redemption, Chemosh offers "eternal life": recipients spend immortality in an undead and eternally corrupted body. Chemosh rarely explains this when making a pact with Evil undead...

Something Wild (2e) 2e Undead:?

Skullport (2e) 2e The Skulls: Some scholars believe the Skulls to be a ghostly haunting by an ancient race that inhabited the caverns millennia ago, an explanation that is not all that far from the truth. As suggested above in the discussion of Skullport's history, the Skulls are the remains of...

The Alexandrian - Three Clue Rule.

FYI, in classic 1e Greyhawk humanoids like Orcs fit right in walking around in the Free City of Greyhawk. From the 1e World of Greyhawk Boxed Set. "The large free cities are also known to allow various sorts of humanoids free access to their precincts."

SJS1 Goblin's Return (2e) 2e Undead, Undead Creature: ? Rendflesh, Exceptionally Powerful Wight, Spawn of Dukagsh, Undead High Wizard, Former Master: Shortly after the building of Gamaro base, the highest ranking scro war priest, named Rendflesh, was killed by his rival while in the midst of a...

Whereas most I played 3e with did and I did not find it broken, just a different baseline. :)

Eberron 3.5 is the one where I think most leaders are low level. In Five Nations: Queen Aurala of Aundair CR 7 King Boranel of Breland CR10 The Lord of Blades in the Mournland CR 12. King Kaius of Karrnath CR 16 Jaela Darad Keeper of the Flame in Thrane is CR 3. Queen Regent Diana of Thrane is...

Being able to buy low gp magic items in most populated areas is a general core assumption in 3e and 3.5. In the 3.5 DMG it says This is copied over with the same chart from 3e. "Anything having a price under that limit is most likely available, whether it be mundane or magical." A cure...

There were the 1e modules that explored demiplane side levels from Castle Greyhawk, Gygax's EX1 Dungeonland and Ex2 Beyond the Magic Mirror. 3e era you got Arneson's 300-page long Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor, with his name as author. So you can get a version of Castle Blackmoor now and fully...