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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9602232" data-attributes="member: 50987">Most of the monsters I used in this campaign came from official sources:  the Monster Manual, Volo's Guide to Monsters, and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount by WotC, Monster Manual Expanded (I, II, and III) by Dragonix Books, Tome of Beasts (I, II, and III) by Kobold Press, to name a few.  I got them from the Roll20 Marketplace, so they were easy to drag-and-drop into my game--tokens and all.  Some of the third-party ones were free with my Pro subscription, Humble Bundles, and Kickstarter rewards.Most of the monsters were used as-is, but others were just redescribed.  For example:  the "beholders" in my game were Constructs, not Aberrations, and they were shaped like octahedrons.  (I modeled them after the Hedrons, from the Zendikar block of M:tG cards.)  Everything else in their stat block was unchanged.But on rare occasions, I would develop monsters of my own.  These were usually for specific quests or specific NPCs, when the textbook monsters wouldn't quite fit.  I created a whole ensemble of plant-based monsters, including a Vine Dragon, for one adventure.My favorite monster of the whole campaign?  Hmmm...there were so many...I think my favorite was the Marilith General, from Monster Manual Expanded.  In this campaign, she was a yuan-ti boss monster named S'set.  She had so many reactions, and so many different weapons to use--she kept the heroes on their toes (and on the ground) for the whole battle.The stat block that I used the most was probably one of the human ones...Acolyte, Bandit, Cultist, and Noble were pretty popular at lower levels, when the party was hanging around town most of the time.  As they started getting out more and meeting more important people, they started encountering Knights, Enchanters, and Priests quite a bit.  Archdruid and Archmage were used a couple of times for high level NPCs and villains.</blockquote>

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