5E: Monstrous Arthropods for Fifth Edition

[Cleon]

Culicoid, Giant (Dire Mosquito Female)
Size type, alignment

(Monster designed by Casimir Liber and Cleon on Enworld.org's General Monster Talk Creature Catalog Forum; originally appeared in Polyhedron Magazine #67 (January 1992) with a credit to Jeffrey Morris in "Monsters - by Network Members".)

 

[Cleon]

Culicoid, Giant (Dire Mosquito Male)
Size type, alignment

(Monster designed by Casimir Liber and Cleon on Enworld.org's General Monster Talk Creature Catalog Forum; originally appeared in Polyhedron Magazine #67 (January 1992) with a credit to Jeffrey Morris in "Monsters - by Network Members".)

 

[Cleon]

Culicoid, Giant (Dire Mosquito Wriggler)
Size type, alignment

(Monster designed by Casimir Liber and Cleon on Enworld.org's General Monster Talk Creature Catalog Forum; originally appeared in Polyhedron Magazine #67 (January 1992) with a credit to Jeffrey Morris in "Monsters - by Network Members".)

 

[Cleon]

Culicoid, Giant (Giant Mosquito)
Size type, alignment

(Monster designed by Casimir Liber and Cleon on Enworld.org's General Monster Talk Creature Catalog Forum; originally appeared in Dungeon Magazine #41 (May/June 1993) as part of "Old Man Katan and the Incredible, Edible, Dancing Mushroom Band" by Ted James and Thomas Zuvich.)

 

[Casimir Liber]

Incidentally I also have just done a 2024 layout for the giant tabanid

here

 

[Cleon]

Culicoid, Giant (Giant Mosquito Swarm)
Size type, alignment

(Monster designed by Casimir Liber and Cleon on Enworld.org's General Monster Talk Creature Catalog Forum; originally appeared in Dungeon Magazine #41 (May/June 1993) as part of "Old Man Katan and the Incredible, Edible, Dancing Mushroom Band" by Ted James and Thomas Zuvich.)

 

[Casimir Liber]

ok which one should be the CR 3 one I started statting up?

 

[Cleon]

ok which one should be the CR 3 one I started statting up?

The "Female Dire Mosquito" is the Challenge 3 one.

As well as the Polyhedron Large monsters there's also a Dungeon adventure with Tiny Giant Mosquitos I fancy converting, since they'd be a suitable basis for a Swarm.

We can worry about those later though.

 

[Cleon]

Just updated the Index of 5E Monster Arthropods and Want List of Monstrous Arthropods with links to the mozzie working drafts.

 

[Casimir Liber]

The "Female Dire Mosquito" is the Challenge 3 one.

As well as the Polyhedron Large monsters there's also a Dungeon adventure with Tiny Giant Mosquitos I fancy converting, since they'd be a suitable basis for a Swarm.

We can worry about those later though.

Griffons Saddlebag has exactly these (tiny giant mosquito + swarm stats) in dndbeyond - will screenshot