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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 2405895" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>1. Goblins</p><p>2. Ogres</p><p>3. Sahuagin (for when adventures go Aquatic)</p><p>4. Velociraptors (medium sized version)</p><p>5. Sprites (can be friendly NPCs too)</p><p>6. Giant Spiders</p><p>7. Giant Lizards</p><p>8. Dire Animals (Shark, Hawk, Wolf, Giant Eel/Snakes)*</p><p>9. Assasin Vines (representing the plants)</p><p>10. Ghost (who says they have to be humanoid?)</p><p>11. Ghouls (intelligent undead that aren't super powered)</p><p>12. Air Elementals (Whirlwinds are fun)</p><p>13. Trolls (all Trolls are feindish imc)</p><p>14. Otyugh (for tentacle goodnes)</p><p>15. Ettercaps (I like ettercaps for spidery creepiness)</p><p>16. Shadow</p><p>17. Lizard folk </p><p>18. Gnolls</p><p>19. Griffons (I like Griffons for no good reason)</p><p>20. Other <em>Unique</em> creatures</p><p></p><p>The creatures from 1 - 10 I use a lot, those from 11 - 20 not as often</p><p>Dire Animals includes Awakened Dire Animals (which may be should be in their own category)</p><p></p><p>I cheated slightly by keeping slot 20. reserved for <em>Unique creatures </em> - sometimes I will use a monster and make it the only incident of it in the world</p><p></p><p>Remember with Templates even a basic monster can be transformed (one of my favourites was a half-fiend insectoid goblin (considered the gob of flies) who hung out with the ettercaps and giant spiders (and other insectoid goblins). Another minor diety imc is a magma paraelemental ogre scorcerer, I also has a BBEG who was a fiendish aquatic Otyugh Psion</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 2405895, member: 1125"] 1. Goblins 2. Ogres 3. Sahuagin (for when adventures go Aquatic) 4. Velociraptors (medium sized version) 5. Sprites (can be friendly NPCs too) 6. Giant Spiders 7. Giant Lizards 8. Dire Animals (Shark, Hawk, Wolf, Giant Eel/Snakes)* 9. Assasin Vines (representing the plants) 10. Ghost (who says they have to be humanoid?) 11. Ghouls (intelligent undead that aren't super powered) 12. Air Elementals (Whirlwinds are fun) 13. Trolls (all Trolls are feindish imc) 14. Otyugh (for tentacle goodnes) 15. Ettercaps (I like ettercaps for spidery creepiness) 16. Shadow 17. Lizard folk 18. Gnolls 19. Griffons (I like Griffons for no good reason) 20. Other [I]Unique[/I] creatures The creatures from 1 - 10 I use a lot, those from 11 - 20 not as often Dire Animals includes Awakened Dire Animals (which may be should be in their own category) I cheated slightly by keeping slot 20. reserved for [I]Unique creatures [/I] - sometimes I will use a monster and make it the only incident of it in the world Remember with Templates even a basic monster can be transformed (one of my favourites was a half-fiend insectoid goblin (considered the gob of flies) who hung out with the ettercaps and giant spiders (and other insectoid goblins). Another minor diety imc is a magma paraelemental ogre scorcerer, I also has a BBEG who was a fiendish aquatic Otyugh Psion [/QUOTE]
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