Need weird, creepy animal ideas

[Cage-Rattler]

I second InVinoVeritas' suggestion of taking inspiration from the Silent Hill series. Canines whose jaws opened vertically; two-headed baby-monsters that ran at you on their forearms, things that looked like they had once been people who had been wrapped in straitjackets, doused in oil and set on fire...good stuff. The movie Jacob's Ladder, which inspired a lot of Silent Hill's atmosphere, is an excellent movie to review, as well.

I also suggest taking inspiration from the "Fallout" series. Brahmin could be fun ("Moo, I say!") or, for the creepy-factor, you could borrow the "centaurs" -- which were, from what I could tell, a mass of human limbs fused with the hairless, eyeless head and neck of a camel or a horse.

 

[Switchblade]

Already in DnD but the cranium rat from Sigil, top of it's skull is translucent so you can see the brain pulsating underneath with an inner light.

A dog and man who have had some traits swapped over, the dog talks and the man is dumb but very loyal.

Horse that's skin is losing it's hair in clumps, underneath the bald patches is glistening, muccus covered transparent skin showing the organs underneath.

Squirrels with snake like fangs and has lost it's rear most legs, dragging itself across the ground.

Cyclopian man or animal with a large eyeball in its mouth and two small mouthes where it's eyes used to be, desperately trying to bite and failing as the mouthes are set so far back on the face. Combine with beholder like eye ray to turn it from pathetic into a threat.

Anything with:
Eyes and mouths in the wrong places, possibly wheeping or salivating blood. Eye stalks, no skin around the stalk, just blood vessels, optic nerves and tendons. Cancerous growths the size of mellons. No skin, just raw, bloody flesh, surrounded by flies and magots eatting it alive

 

[megamania]

Chaos eh....?



a few mice are chasing down cats. If you have the second CC book there are come carrion rats stats there.

A dog sits outside of an inn. It wags its tail as you come close. As you reach up you see it has a purple tongue and the teeth are moving on its own. It wags its tail and the eyes change color.

A well-to do woman is screaming and running by you. Her tall forgien hat has straw on the top. Tiny little birds are attempting to make a nest there.

Normal birds are roosting like bats- up-side down with their wings covering their heads.

Step in a mud puddle and dozens of worms rise from your footprint. as you leave wet prints on dru earth more worms surface then burrow down again quickly. This leads to birds following you for a quick snack,

A cat is hunched over and trying to cough out a hair ball. It does. Then ever so slowly the hairball unwraps itself and stretches before slowly walking away. The small mouse seems none for the worse or worried the cat remains there.

more?

 

[Ulrick]

A Flumph.


It might not be an animal, but raw chaos energy can do a lot of things...like summon a flumph or twelve or thirty. And they're not LG.

 

[szilard]

• A wall of an alley has writhing rats embedded into it.
• A goat wanders down the street. It has no eyes, and its horns grow from its eye sockets.
• Anything with transparent skin.
• Cats with hands.
• A ginormous stray dog. Each time it is wounded, a smaller (normal-sized) dog erupts from the wound, and the giant dog shrinks a bit. (It was originally a pack that was strangely merged)
• Random trash becomes animated. Treat as animated objects. Use a swarm for extra fun.
• A suit of human clothing walks down the street, filled by a shifting mass... of insects? They swarm out of the clothes to attack.

-Stuart

 

[Scarbonac]

A writhing mass of tentacles, with semi-translucent blue-grey skin, studded all over with mouths and eyes of varying sizes (from mouse-sized to Nerf football-sized) and colors, with or without freaky powers, weeping tears of acid and blood.


I used this one in my campaign.

 

[Tinner]

Mutant animal combinations are always creepy.
Just do a GIS for photoshop, animal combinations.

Gorilla with the head of an Octopus = mini Cthulu!

 

[Festivus]

A dog, or what was once a dog, appears to have been horribly transformed. Remnants of it's brown fur now hangs in clumps, large swaths of it dragging along on the ground. Places where there was once fur is now reddened flesh and blood, with a glowing green ooze dripping from the wounds. Where the dog might have once had ears, now only a pair of holes exist, you occasionally catch glimpses into the skull and can see the noodle of cerebral matter jostling about. The fangs in the dogs mouth appear to have grown at an abnormal rate, and the canine teeth are now so long that they scrape along the ground, further sharpening their already sharp points. The eyes of the animal are lidless and have a feint greenish tint to them.

(Was that the sort of thing you were looking for?)

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Chromatic spider dragon

 

[jdrakeh]

Skinless animals creep me out. I remember dreading the taxidermy course that my high school once offered (thankfully it was discontinued before I was forced to take it). I recall the jar containing a skinless Rhesus monkey really creeping me out badly.