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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mengu" data-source="post: 5373834" data-attributes="member: 65726">I often comb resources to find creatures that fit my campaign. One such creature is rockscythes. They are these burrowing insectoid creatures with scythe-like front appendages. They make their home on the sides of plateaus and mountains (I have weird geography with civilizations atop high plateaus). Every time my players have to do a long term climb, they keep an eye out for rockscythes (since they encountered them at first level). Appendages from a rockscythe showed up in a ritual component list at one point (level 6ish). And at another time when their flying ship crashed in a desolate area where they didn't know if there would be any life at all, they found some rockscythe tracks which gave them the first hope (level 9ish).Once you fit a creature into your world ecology they're not so strange or lame.Look at Dementors, and Thestrals, and Boggarts. Without context they are all pretty strange (and some would say pointless) creatures. But placed in context, they help tell a story. Every creature has that potential. Of course no one is going to use every single one of the 4,000 or so creatures in the compendium (nor should they!).Oh yeah, rockscythes are kruthiks.</blockquote>