Best 3E era monsters?

Primal Urge's Emerging Forms line is a series of races usable for PCs. I think the author is really creative with each of them, but 4 stick out as more useful for the GM than the player:

Cyndarim are humanoids with jellyfish like heads. They are evil, manipulative and slightly toxic. A great counterpart to the sahuagen.

Equsam are plants that feel superior to all animal life and use them as livestock. They are parasitoids that live on dead creatures. They do not go around and capture people for this use however- they have farms where necromancers and transmuters alter animals to make them more useful.

Rynoth are frog like parasites. They attach themselves to larger creatures and both feed off of and control their host. With racial levels, they get much better at both.

Xeshaal are faceless humanoids who use mouths in their hands to consume objects for transport to their home plane.
 

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Six Swarms from Ronin Arts has the Wizard Doom- ash of a lich that sucks magic out of casters.

Monsters of the Boundless Blue:

Alspir are fey that make huge pieces of art.
Guashdan is what happens to cannibals on the high seas.
Naltchea are humanoids who view all other life as alchemical components.
Shamadi are giant sea cucumbers. Their guts they emit are extremely sticky and can envelop attackers.

Monsters of the Endless Dark:

Hatchoth are insectoids that both drain brain fluids and emits fire, bombadier beetle style.
M'brocht are cyborgs that leave tailing valuable to the standard races. What they do with the rest is a mystery.
Unkili are oozes that contain spines.

Into the Black:

Leytru are fast, slender humanoids whose features make me think advanced cyborg.
Ravvimen are fish people who invade sewers from the ocean and feed upon the city's populace.
 

demiurge1138 said:
...ironic that immoth also predate 3e. They're pretty obscure, though. From the Planescape Monstrous Compendium 3.
Darnit, I knew that as soon as I picked out a favorite, it would turn out to be in some obscure pre-3e product. *shakes fist impotently at the sky*
 


There isn't many from MEG's Nightmares and Dreams I & II I would place in a best catagory, but here are the few:

Lumenage, I- living fireworks plants.
Visceral Mass, I- undead mass of organs.
Bolbouloid, II- fire breathing sky squid.
Graffiti Demon, II- can duplicate the handwritting of any creature that speaks in its presence.
Wrecker Beast, II- colossal monster that consumes worked goods, like cities and castles.
 





Strictly WotC Speaking

Book of Vile Darkness: Kython*, Vilewight, Bone Creature

Cityscape: Siege Golem

Draconomicon: Ironwyrm Golem* & Pyroclastic Dragon

Dragon Compendium: Bodak Creature, Purple Dragon* & Granfather Plaque

Dragon Magic: Blazewyrm, Drakkensteed* & Redspawn Berserker

Expanded Psionics Handbook: Intellect Devourer, Neolithid, Unbodied

Fiend Folio: Khaasta*, Nerra, Sarkrith, Steel Predator*, Terlen & Wendigo

Frostburn: Smilodon, Entombed, Ice Golem, Ice Beast & Urskan*

Libris Mortis: Brain in a Jar*, Carcass Eater, Entropic Reaper*, Evolved Undead, Necromental* &Swarm-Shifter*

Miniatures Handbook: Equiceph, Kruthik*, Nothic*, Phargion*, Ramadeen, Khumat (Shadow Beast), Stonechild & Walking Wall*

Monster Manual: Allip, Aranea*, Bulette*, Devourer, Doppelganger*, Iron Golem, Gorgon*, Grick, Werewolf*, Merfolk*, Mind Flayer, Minotaur, Nymph*, Sahuagin*, Sea Cat*, Triton*, Vampire*, Winter Wolf, Yuan-Ti Halfblood*

Monster Manual II: Abeil, Bronze Serpent, Catoblepas, Desmodu, Sapphire Dragon*, Kopru, Megalodon, Myconid*, Neogi, Spellweaver & Tempest*

Oriental Adventures: Tun mi lung Dragon, Me-zu Oni & Tengu*

Planar Handbook: Elsewhale* & Energon

Sandstorm: Ashworm*, Dunewinder*, Werecrocodile, Marrulurk, Saguaro Sentinel, Sand Golem*,

Stormwrack: Anguillian*, Balckskate*, Coral Golem, Ramfish & Sea Wolf

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* My all-time favorites
 

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