D&D General Favorite Creepy Monster To Run?

[TravDoc42]

And there's definitely room for more blights as well. Pumpkin blights, anyone?

A pumpkin blight would be SO COOL!! More blights!!

 

[Nyx_Necrodragon]

In terms of a one off monster I've had great experiences running the false hydra.

In terms of lots of little monsters I love kythons! These are tyranid/xenomorph like demons which originally appeared in 3.5 and they are great. They are a genuine threat just by their ability to evolve and mutate make them horrifying.

 

[Tonguez]

I’m sad that the campaign fell apart before they could get to the reveal, but I did have fun roleplaying a hag as the villain of the initial plot arc. Making the party think that this grandmotherly forest sage was helping them when really she was the cause of the crisis and using them to further her goals gave me that “everything that has transpired is according to my design!” feeling. As for creepiness, the description for how a hag is born made me assume they’re ontologically the same as the person used, so in my eyes having the hag remember being a human before becoming a hag made it even worse.

can I ask what the Hags villainous plot was? While I've used a few hags and made them monstrous and cannibalistic I've not been able to sustain them as antagonist, I tend to lean heavily into their mythic role as crone representing the bleakness of winter so they most often become more guides and even patron rather than BBEGs

 

[Fifinjir]

can I ask what the Hags villainous plot was? While I've used a few hags and made them monstrous and cannibalistic I've not been able to sustain them as antagonist, I tend to lean heavily into their mythic role as crone representing the bleakness of winter so they most often become more guides and even patron rather than BBEGs

The full story has some elements that I’d need to double check the rules to see if I can post about (I mean, it is based on the way the 2014 MM says hags make more of them, which I’ve been kind of dancing around actually describing), so I’ll get back to you on that. Suffice to say, she killed the person most responsible for her transformation using a combination of her magic and werewolf abilities (she had lycanthropy before she became a hag). Then she turns another person who’s reasonably to blame for it into a Gulthias tree and opens a gateway to the Shadow World, gathering a force of blights, wolves, shadows, and minor sorrowsworn. She sends this army against the barony of a lord who could have handled the situation leading up to her transformation better, but this is still leading to a lot of suffering for people not actually involved. But she’s still angry, so she uses the party to gain the trust of her two former siblings, who were really just as much the victims of that day as she was, but she’s so addicted to revenge at this point that she sees them as yet another group of perpetrators.