Fictional creatures that would make good monsters

[Nifft]

Huh? Which monster are you calling Banths then?

Displacer Beasts. Eight limbs and feline... sorta.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any parent who wouldn't want their kids to read the Oz books by Baum needs to toughen up: These were the equivalent of the Harry Potter books for their grandparents and they all survived the mild peril that Dorothy, Ozma and all the rest went through. They're awesome fantasy books and I would love to see a D20 adaptation of the Baum catalog.

 

[PwrMnky]

What about?

Gremlins?
Maybe I just don't own the book that they're in.

Living Constellations?
Living Islands?
(Sure it's easy to build them, but ... it would be easy to build nearly any creature.)

The Whether Man?
Mountian Barnicle?

 

[Set]

Aliens? (Gosh, wouldn't they make a fun slave-race for the Illithids...)

Predators? (Making them half-Slaad / half-Githzerai could be a scary twist!)

and hey, let's make it a modern horror classic trifecta;

Terminators. (A new 'Body' feat for Warforged allows them to have a morphic flesh carapace that has no natural armor, but can allow a Disguise Self-like ability. It's harvested from Changelings, in a dark ritual that only kills them really, really slowly... The 'Terminator' Warforged cult is always hunting for Changeling loners and outcasts who 'won't be missed,' so that they can add to their repertoire of 'disguises...')


But really, if one wants to plumb the depths of fantasy / sci-fi, I think we need stats for the Hooloovoo. I just don't know how D&D has managed to survive this long without this timeless classic. I mean really, Orcs? Dragons? Vampires? Meh.

 

[painandgreed]

I used the Brood from the X-Men. Flying insectile alien creatures who impregnate host creatures with their young and those young get the abilities and memories of the host creature.

 

[IcyCool]

Aliens? (Gosh, wouldn't they make a fun slave-race for the Illithids...)

Steel Predators are remarkably similar to this. Kythons are also a possibility.

But I really just wanted to chime in to say that your "terminator" idea is awesome, consider it yoinked.

 

[Thurbane]

There's many cool monsters and races in Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels...

Sandgorgons
Cavewights
Waynhim
Nicor

 

[Richards]

Huh? Which monster are you calling Banths then?

We have the Barsoomian white apes in the form of Gorillons, but that's about it AFAIK.

There's also the osquip, which is a poorly-disguised Barsoomian ulsio.

Johnathan

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I would love to see a workup on Sandkings (from George R. R. Martin's short story).

They were similar to extremely nasty ants- one part drivers, one part fire, etc., but their queen was intelligent and (in game terms) psionic. They used actual military tactics to take down larger prey. While they started off less than 1" long, they eventually escaped, with some reaching 1' long or so...

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And then their mobile forms eventually became the size (and shape!) of a human child...

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

I second that Bonnacon vote. Napalm dung is long overdue.

Pffft. Already been done. Read the opening chapter of Blood Rites by Jim Butcher.