D&D Monsters that look sci-fi

[Nightchilde-2]

Any of the Inevitables.

The Keeper (from Fiend Folio)

 

[Wippit Guud]

Flesh golem almost looks borg-ish. Iron golem reminds me of a Vorlon encounter suit. Just give them an intelligence and you're good to go.



Can always crack into the Star Wars d20

 

[Moulin Rogue]

Malaugrym from Monsters of Faerun

 

[Henry]

That's RIGHT! I almost forgot about the ferengi - er, neogi...

 

[Ghostwind]

PIck up a copy of Liber Bestarius from Eden Studios. Most of the monsters in that book have a sci-fi look to them and would adapt well. Besides, it's one book that is highly unlikely that your players have memorized from cover to cover.

 

[Klaus]

From 2e (I believe MC Annual 1, with DiTerlizzi illustrations):

- Neogi
- Spellweaver (think tall, thin gray alien with 10 arms!)
- Ormyrr (a Jabba lookalike)

From 3.5
- Aboleth
- Umber Hulk

Plus anything with the half-machine template from Dungeon mag

 

[Serpenteye]

Bodaks, slimes and oozes.

 

[s/LaSH]

Xorn. Nothing says scifi like trilateral symmetry.

Formians. "I was a mind-slave of the insect queen!"

Trolls. You've got to have at least one large semihumanoid race that acts as the perfect unstoppable bodyguard. I'm thinking more the abilities rather than the illustration at this point.

Sahuagin look pretty cool.

And the Gibbering Mouther is just... perfectly weird.

 

[demiurge1138]

Chaos beasts
Kaorti (FF)
Rukanyr (FF)
Slaadi (how can you hear the phrase 'giant chaos toad' and not think pulp SF?)
Half-golems
Steel predators (the FF illustration is especially Alien alien)
Kythons (BoVD, another Alien ripoff)
The ethereals (ethereal stalker, filcher, slayer, doppelganger, and scarab)
Ethergaunts (FF)
Psurlons
Derro (they were stolen from the "factual" accounts of the Hollow Earth by some turn-of-the-century pulp-writer-turned-paranormalist.)

Demiurge out.

 

[Hypersmurf]

The very first one that sprang to mind was the Tojanida.

And when I checked the picture in the MM to see if it really was as weird as I remembered, I saw the Thoqqua on the same page...

-Hyp.