D&D General Looking for the name of a mystery monster

[Son of the Serpent]

I used to know about this exceptionally large race of creature and now i cant remember its name. Its ancient, has a ridiculous number of armlike tentacles ending in mouths, existed back when physical qualities of the universe were not yet established, individuals are generally now trapped in the planes, are generally shaped like giant angry kooshballs, are from an edition prior to 4e, and they are not gods. HALP ME!!!

 

[jgsugden]

Death kiss ?

 

[ccs]

Sounds like some sort of Hundred Handed one.

Why not just pull up the table of contents for the later 3.5 MMs/Fiend Folios/Epic book & see what's listed name-wise?

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Sounds like some sort of Hundred Handed one.

Why not just pull up the table of contents for the later 3.5 MMs/Fiend Folios/Epic book & see what's listed name-wise?

Ive looked quite a lot actually. For 2 months. Nothingni come across rimgs a bell. Its a race relevant to one of the periods the cosmos went through a major structural changed. They are said to be used to there being nothing physical and so material bothers them. They try to make more nothing. Its what they remember and are comfortable with. They drifted through the cosmos. They are not hecatonchires or death kiss. They are as large as a celestial body like a moon. They are shaped like giant kooshballs. I think they are also originally from an edition older than 3e but am not sure. Definitely older than 4e.

 

[coolAlias]

Could you be thinking of Astral Dreadnoughts?

EDIT: Never mind, I just looked up a koosh ball. No idea, sorry.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Hey you tried lol

 

[lkj]

I don't know the answer offhand but could it be something out of Lords of Madness or the Elder Evils supplement?

Lords of Madness - Wikipedia

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Elder Evils - Wikipedia

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[ccs]

Ive looked quite a lot actually. For 2 months. Nothingni come across rimgs a bell. Its a race relevant to one of the periods the cosmos went through a major structural changed. They are said to be used to there being nothing physical and so material bothers them. They try to make more nothing. Its what they remember and are comfortable with. They drifted through the cosmos. They are not hecatonchires or death kiss. They are as large as a celestial body like a moon. They are shaped like giant kooshballs. I think they are also originally from an edition older than 3e but am not sure. Definitely older than 4e.

Crap out of mid-late 2e?. Or maybe something out of the Immortal portion of BECMI?
If it's something out of Dragon or some 3party? Then good luck. You could be sifting through mounds of crap for the rest of your life

 

[Son of the Serpent]

It doesnt appear to be in either of those books.

Another tip. I remember that they have mostly been inactive since the multiverse's physicality has become more stable.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

I think they were actually a major part of the cosmology but just not written about too much. Ive definitely seen them mentioned in cannon books. Just cant remember which ones.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

You know what we need? A filtered searchable data base of all monsters in d&d

 

[Seramus]

Sounds familiar. Think it was a Dragon Magazine monster.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

It may have been mentioned but i think it goes way back. Im sure its been mentioned in cannon books too.

 

[CapnZapp]

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[Imaculata]

You know what we need? A filtered searchable data base of all monsters in d&d

It already exists for third edition: D20 Monster Filter
However, such data bases are mostly useful when you at least have an idea what the subtype of the monster is, or the challenge rating. This database covers not every monster ever released for third edition, but it does cover most of the common books, including Lords of Madness and Fiend Folio.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Flumph

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Used to have stuff like the subtype and other things about it memorized. Got out of d&d for two years. This particular critter's stat block is one of the memories that suffered. I think its either an aberration or an abomination (though i dont think abomination is generally used as a subtype if i remember correctly).

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Flumph

Lol. No. Funny but no. Flumphs are great. Intelligent flying kind hearted but disgusting jellyfiah like creatures that make a quiet fartinf noise wherever rhy float.

 

[Mon]

Sounds to me like the Draeden, which was in the D&D Immortals boxed set back in the day.

Link:

Draeden - Wikipedia

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Definitely not on the d20 filter site. Not surprised. Its definitely spoken about less often than the tarrasque.

I just put minimum cr 15 in (im sure its signifficantly higher than that) and read them all. No match.