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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7781010" data-attributes="member: 926">Very cool.  I'd like to use this for some unique local legendary monster in my homebrew world of Alterra.  I'll call it either the Camford Devil or the Oxbridge Devil, a creature that haunts the deeply wooded areas just outside of one of the two dueling rival university cities, with the stories of the creature spread by the students (yes, I did that.)I've always liked the idea of using these kinds of modern monster/"cryptid" type creatures for D&D.  I can't recall if you have or not, but did you happen to do a writeup of The Slender Man?  I've always thought that was a cool monster for a more horror-themed D&D game, and back in Pathfinder campaign that I ran a few years ago I used stats for it that I found linked on the official Pathfinder forums, a fan-made PDF called The Tome of Slenderotica.  I've always liked the idea of it being some kind of dark, twisted Fey Aberration that abducts children, the mentally challenged, and socially isolated individuals and steals them away into the woods, but only after terrorizing them with fleeting glimpses and nightmares that drive them mad with an obsession with the monster, to the point that, by the time they're taken, they're almost actually gleeful about it.On the same note, there are quite a few of the more unusual yokai that would be very interesting to see as some of your writeups, especially the one with more modern Japanese urban legend origins.  Also, I recently remembered reading an old Forgotten Realms novel back in the early '90s, The Night Parade, so I decided to look it up online a few weeks back and was totally surprised to discover that the idea (and actual name) of the Night Parade actually originated in Japanese yokai mythology.  So something along those lines; either a writeup of the Night Parade itself as an event/occurrence that the PCs could encounter, or just stats for more yokai that could be included in a Night Parade event, would be very interesting writeups to see from you.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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