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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 8351055" data-attributes="member: 7030100">What a great idea for a locale! I'm not too familiar with the Bnazic Desert, but off the top of my head I can think of a few things, if you're willing to repurpose some underdark monsters:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">cloakers, which look like flying manta rays (CR8, MM p 41). Perhaps give them sky-blue bellies and mottled-green backs or something, maybe knock them down to animal intelligence if you just want a predator species. Envision a flight of aquamarine cloakers and their illusory doubles swooping in for the kill.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">darkmantles resemble flying octopi (CR1/2, MM p46). Give them colors like pink or teal, so they can hide among the other weird faux-benthic vegetation; and maybe replace their darkness power with camouflage or blur or something. They could lie in wait along coral-lined gullies to leap down upon unsuspecting passersbys' heads.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">grell (CR3, MM p) don't directly resemble any sea-creatures, but they are basically hovering betentacled blobs that could be reskinned as floaty jelly-fishy things, if given transparent rubbery bodies and maybe a paralytic poison attack.</li> </ul>Also many fungi resemble coral, so local myconids (CR varies, MM p 230) might take on an undersea aspect, coming in shapes of stony brain-like growths, shambling polyps, or smooth colorful branches. Their spore powers also sort of nicely play into the Dreamland theme, i think.In DarkSun, there was also a massive monster called a cloud ray, which fits both the desert/sea and psychic/dream themes. I don't think it's officially statted in 5e, but would likely be a high-level sort of beast (a cursory google search for homebrew conversions turns up CRs from about 16 to 21).</blockquote>

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