Dungeon 197 - Creature Incarnations - Hordelings

[Shroomy]

My latest article is up here. Get your dice out and revel in the many, many randomized tables. This article was a labor of love; when I was a kid, I rolled up many types of hordelings using the tables in the 1e MM2.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

Nice. That looks like a lot of fun to play with from a DM's perspective. I look forward to putting this to use at some point.

 

[Shroomy]

I hope that anyone who rolls some hordelings up will share their creations here.

 

[Incenjucar]

Huh. I figured that the image with lots of different fiends from the Vile Darkness book gallery was hordelings. Still, nice to see them back. That was one of the most interesting monster entries in Planescape just for coming up with ideas for specific monsters.

 

[Shroomy]

Huh. I figured that the image with lots of different fiends from the Vile Darkness book gallery was hordelings. Still, nice to see them back. That was one of the most interesting monster entries in Planescape just for coming up with ideas for specific monsters.

They are. In the 4e BoVD, hordelings are swarms of tiny, random demons. The greater hordelings in my article are of course based on the classic version, but they are grown up verisons of the ones in the BoVD.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Quite cool! I'm guessing the BoVD "normal" hordelings are a lot more homogenous, and if so, these bad boys are going to be my campaign's true hordelings!

 

[Shroomy]

Quite cool! I'm guessing the BoVD "normal" hordelings are a lot more homogenous, and if so, these bad boys are going to be my campaign's true hordelings!

Statistically, they are (however they do have some cool mechanics) but they all look different from each other. Here is the artwork from the BoVD for the hordelings.

 

[Klaus]

My latest article is up here. Get your dice out and revel in the many, many randomized tables. This article was a labor of love; when I was a kid, I rolled up many types of hordelings using the tables in the 1e MM2.

Behold, it is awesome!

This takes me back to the 2e Monstrous Compendium! I loved rolling in those tables!

Now I want a hordeling statblock generator!

 

[Will Doyle]

Wonderful charts.

My slimy hordeling gibbers and has a discoid, lumpen head atop a rubbery, hunched body.

 

[Tazawa]

My hordeling is a small skirmisher with a wrinkled spherical head and a feathered, slug-like lower body. It has a single glowing yellow eye on a stalk. Its three-beaked mouth crackles with electric energy and its four stubby arms ends in fiery claws. Although small and legless, it moves with surprising speed, ambushing its prey from the walls and ceilings of the abyss.