D&D General Monsters from secondary Monster Manuals you got a lot of fun out

[Aging Bard]

The 1e Fiend Folio gets a bad rap for filler monsters, but people forget the iconic monsters it spawned: Aarackocra, Giths, Bullywugs, Drow, Smirvneblin, Kenku, Kuo-Toa, Asian Dragons, and so on. My personal favorites were the Bloodworm and Penanggalan, which populated a literal river of blood in a module for my group.

 

[Richards]

In 3.0/3.5, I've gotten a lot of use out of jermlaine, osquips, iron cobras, mongrelfolk, dread guards, neogi, myconids, needlefolk, and quite a few of the oddball dragons from Draconomicon.

Johnathan

 

[Faolyn]

I recently used a wingless wonder to great effect. The PCs wouldn't go near it, because when I described them getting right up to the wall of the pen it was kept in, they could feel their connection to magic ebb away.

 

[Yora]

What is that even? I never even heard of it.

 

[Richards]

Wingless Wonder

Johnathan

 

[Yora]

Certainly doesn't have wings.

I sat down and made a list of all monster that appeared in 5th edition which first appeared in 3rd and 4th edition. That list looks as follows:

Chuul
Kruthik
Nothic
Sibirex

That's it...
A bit disappointing for nine monster books over 15 years.

 

[Mistwell]

So many. Lots of good ones mentioned in this thread so far, like Leucrottas, hook horrors, grell magmen, grell, drow, slaadi, astral stalkers, formorian, aarackocra, gith, bullywug, kenky, kuo-toa...

 

[el-remmen]

Like others have mentioned, the 1E Fiend Folio is my go-to book.

I think I used Volts at some point in almost every campaign and I was literally just adapting Needlemen into a playable race (using the Bas-Lag cactacae as an inspiration).

And of course, the classic hook horror (which I prefer to the spindly insect looking ones)

 

[Richards]

I sat down and made a list of all monster that appeared in 5th edition which first appeared in 3rd and 4th edition. That list looks as follows:

Chuul
Kruthik
Nothic
Sibirex

That's it...
A bit disappointing for nine monster books over 15 years.

What about the girallon? Isn't it in the Volo's Guide? That first showed up in 3E, although really it's not much more than a Barsoomian great white ape with the serial numbers filed off.

Johnathan

 

[Richards]

In addition, the 3E chuul is little more than a 1E garbug without its wings....

Johnathan