[d20 Modern]Thematic monsters by date

[thedangerranger]

Howdy all,
I thought I would throw a question, that I am dealing with in my current campaign design, out there and see what others thought.

Dave, Ezra, Tien, Sun, If any of you are reading this; Naughty Players!

The Background:
In my campaign (Shadow Chasers leaning towards Urban Arcana) it is assumed that critters originating from Shadow disappear in a variation of "poof-of-smoke" a few minutes after they die. It is also assumed that certain members of the decision making community (government) got fed up with fighting these things and not getting to study the corpse. Parallel with this decision was the discovery that "cryogenics" allowed a way to keep critters pacified without actually killing them. For the last 110-125 years people have been filling a holding area with captured critters.

The Setup:
Different monsters have been iconic for different periods of history. Mummies in the early 1900s, Grays in the 50s and 60s, Vampires in the 90s (yeah, these are debatable).

The Question:
Over the last century and a quarter what time-period / monster pairs leap out to you?

Thanks,
-tdr-

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Frankenstein's Monster (flesh golem) in the early 1900's.

Martians (War of the Worlds style) in the 50's.

In fact, you should look to the 50's sci-fi, drive-in movies for tons of monsters.

 

[thedangerranger]

In fact, you should look to the 50's sci-fi, drive-in movies for tons of monsters.

Yes! Thanks for the reply!

50's-60's pulp cinema is going to make up a big portion of my eventual list. I wanted to make sure that my internal list jived with what others thought, and you know, mine for some ideas

I figured ENWorld's multi-national readership would also give me a little more of a world-view answer to this question.

-tdr-

 

[C. Baize]

Creature from the Black Lagoon (waterborne mysteries ... dark colored Sahuagin?) during the period of seriously starting underwater explorations in the '50s and '60s.

Godzilla from the '60s and '70s.

King Kong from the '30s - '50s.

Mad Scientists are eternal...

Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde from the late 19th century.

Werewolves are periodically popular. '40s, '60s, '80s.

Dinosaurs brought back via genetic manipulation / cloning.

Robots gone mad. This is also a periodically popular theme.

Giant insects / spiders / rabbits / women from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.

I'm sure there's more that I will think of, later. But here's a start.