D&D 5E Give Me Any D&D Monster and I'll Homebrew You A Better Version

Fifinjir said:

Twig, needle, and vine blights.
Also, can I see a bumped up to CR 1/8 lemure?
And just because I’m curious at what you’ll devise, commoner.

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The nupperibo is kind of the "beefy lemure" in my view. I honestly am stumped on actual lemures, since their lore can be pretty tidily summed up with "totally useless", unless they've got a cool magazine article about them I haven't read.

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Nupperibo
Commoner

Fifinjir said:

Twig, needle, and vine blights.
Also, can I see a bumped up to CR 1/8 lemure?
And just because I’m curious at what you’ll devise, commoner.

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Not quite what you asked for, but here is a: Lemure Swarm I did a while back.

dave2008 said:

Not quite what you asked for, but here is a: Lemure Swarm I did a while back.

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Ooh, doing them as a swarm is a really good idea.

Can I present a curve ball? How about a D&D monster that is not written up like a monster? One of the things that kills me about the MM is the "gotta stat it all" mentality that eats up the word count. I get that in super rare cases PCs might fight a treant or a sphinx... but IME at least those are exceptional circumstances. Normally things like treants and sphinxes are a completely different type of encounter.

For example a Treant entry might have a "waking the treant" skill challenge, a random table of treant motivations, and then just a tiny paragraph of stat material. Or sphinxes... give me all the riddles and interesting "Tests of the Worthy"!

Sorry if this is deviating too much from your intent with the thread @Conflux Creatures , but it's been on my mind a lot lately. Been designing some hag villains, and even with Volo's, I wish there were more inspirational bullet points or tables I could consult.

Conflux Creatures said:

The nupperibo is kind of the "beefy lemure" in my view. I honestly am stumped on actual lemures, since their lore can be pretty tidily summed up with "totally useless", unless they've got a cool magazine article about them I haven't read.

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Nupperibo
Commoner

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Fair enough, and thanks.

dave2008 said:

Not quite what you asked for, but here is a: Lemure Swarm I did a while back.

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I’ll take a look at it,t hanks.

dave2008 said:

Not quite what you asked for, but here is a: Lemure Swarm I did a while back.

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fantastic idea!

The humble skeleton and zombie

The "Guard", the CR 1/4 soldier monster!

Wolf in sheeps clothing

okay - I like the hill giant. stone giant variant is interesting in SKT...but fire giant pretty vanilla...