Abberations - how do you use them?

[Tonguez]

Does anyone use Abberations as more than the occasional weird monster to through at the PCs?

Has anyone gone beyond and integrated them into the worlds ecology as natural animals?

Has anyone elevated them to the level of Gods?

Has anyone ever had an Abberation NPC?

As for me I have an Awakened Feindish Abberation Barbarian/Scorcerer (stats based on modified Otyugh) as an NPC IMC. He is the father of the Half-fiend Demonslaying Warrior-Queen of Kupolu-Manu for whom the PCs at one time did a few tasks. One of which was to deliver a prisoner to be sacrificed to her father (who she hated and 100 yrs earlier had defeated in combat and almost killed - she banished him instead)

 

[Crothian]

IMC Abberations are either failed experiemtns, successful experiments or naturally occuring creatures caused by either wild magic or other such magical gathering naturally way.

I do have many demi gods that are abberations.

 

[s/LaSH]

Goodness, there's absolutely no place in Medieval Europe (my campaign setting) for such things. Anyway, they all hang out in the Underdark and there's no Underdark under Europe.

Everything I've written here is true...

 

[Voneth]

Depends on the setting.

I haven't run any Aberrations in fantasy so I haven't dealt with the problem.

In Modern/SF settings, the critters are strange aliens, space horrors, genetic experiments gone wild, ets.

 

[alsih2o]

early in my creation myth a cat who was a sailor took various races all over the world. when certain races were left in locals that were forbidden by the gods they became abberations.

in the eons since that time many have found ways to escape the far-flung lands they were spread to and they now occupy chunks of territory spread hither and yon.

 

[Pielorinho]

I use a nonstandard cosmology, and for me, aberrations are the embodiments of insanity and nightmares. Cultists attempting to obtain the pleasure of certain gods may drive victims into gibbering madness, using combinations of torture, deprivations, and hallucinogenic drugs; they know they have succeeded when aberrations (gibbering mouthers, chaos beasts, etc.) begin to manifest spontaneously around their victim. Illithids seem to be the literal inhabitants of nightmare. They do not exist naturally in the waking world, but can be summoned by elaborate rites; when they arrive, they can destroy entire cities.

Daniel

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, in my settings, I have some Zerg in it (but they are not know to many, and they are not a main threat), and they are abberations. I have not finished any background decisions, but I think I will not use the Starcraft background - they will probably be "naturally" evolved on a planet, until they were able to leave it.

Since the galaxy has not been fully explored, not everything has been seen so far, and not every culture is known. But I "assume" that there are Mind Flayer Societies outside the explored space (I even made a sketch of their starships).

Otherwise, I was not able to use many abberations, but I assume that they are more or less "natural" creatures on some worlds.

Mustrum Ridcully