D&D Monsters that Scare You and Your Players

[Warrior Poet]

Only one scares me - the blackball (epic monster in 3E).

Is this a 3e conversion/rendering of the Blackball from the 2e boxed set Return to the Tomb of Horrors?

If so, . . . yikes.

Warrior Poet

 

[DaveMage]

Is this a 3e conversion/rendering of the Blackball from the 2e boxed set Return to the Tomb of Horrors?

If so, . . . yikes.

Warrior Poet

Yes, although I *think* the original blackball was in the Mystara Monstrous Compendium for 2E.

I don't remember which came first...

Edit - the sad thing was, when I DMed RttToH, the mage in the party tried to control the blackball as if it were a sphere of annihilation...

His feet (still in his boots) were all that was left of him...

 

[diaglo]

Only one scares me - the blackball (epic monster in 3E).

that used to be a magic item in earlier editions.




as a player i'm worried about mass numbers of critters swarming my small PC.

as a referee.. the players seem to be worried about faeries.

 

[freebfrost]

My players have a major aversion to the Worm that Walks from the Epic handbook. (Probably since they ran into one in a one-shot Epic adventure I ran.)

But ever since, every time I throw in a hooded and cloaked figure, out comes a comment about the WtW.

 

[Lasher Dragon]

Personally I hope I never run into an Entropic Reaper... those things are naaaaasty

 

[Gentlegamer]

My players are deathly afraid of Beholders. They have never even encountered any . . .

 

[Kanegrundar]

Illithids and Beholders for me. Dragons, if done right, can be horrendous opponents also.

In earlier editions, anything that level-drained. Wights and vampires and the like. I got really worried in those fights.

Kane

 

[Crothian]

non by themselves do, they have to be run right and I've played with enough DMs that couldn't scare me with these creatures that it sort of takes the fright out of them.

 

[Jarrod]

Ugh. Worm that Walks. We hit one in a near-Epic game... mage that we'd dealt with before that got a little... icky.

He's invisible, we know where he is. I get the cleric to cast a True Seeing on me. GM takes me aside, shows me the picture.

"OH HOLY #@$@#$!!!!"

Ewwwwww... that, and the discorporation or whatever they do... and that they come _back_...

 

[resistor]

My characters in an Eberron campaign were really freaked out by the Carcass Crab, mostly because it was the first horror of the Mournland they encountered and they weren't at all expecting something like THAT.