Neglected Monsters

[demiurge1138]

What monsters do you feel have been overlooked? Creatures that you never seem to find a good excuse to use, or critters that just strike you as underappreciated.

One that's new to 3e (as far as I know) is the skum. Has anybody used these poor neglected gill men? Not that I know of.

Another creature that's been trampled by the masses is the xvart. When it was finally converted, it was done in the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer, not exactly something that many of us have access to. My first D&D game featured these little humanoid kickballs, so it saddens me to see them fall by the wayside.

Demiurge out.

 

[Zweischneid]

...Humans

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

...Humans

... the most dangerous monster of all.
/cliche

I think Yuan-Ti don't get used enough - big fan of those snakey mutants. But they always seem to get edged out in the evil race stakes.

 

[Piratecat]

Flumphs. Poor little fellas. If it weren't for Hellhound, they'd get no love at all.

 

[Gez]

Anyone used Grey Renders? Or Phasm? I know I don't. I would not even think of hinting they could exist IMC.

 

[diaglo]

quickling

 

[The_Universe]

Grey Render, maybe. Phasm - absolutely not. It's a monster half way between a mimic and a doppelganger that's actually just a glowing sticky ooze. Blech. How stupid.

Also - shock lizards. Who uses these pikachu ripoffs?

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Anyone used Grey Renders? Or Phasm? I know I don't. I would not even think of hinting they could exist IMC.

I had a grey render show up as a random encounter once. It kept looking all hungry at the PCs' horses (they had several extras) and drooling. Instead of giving it a horse, it attacked.

They defeated it, but not before it bit the dwarven fighter in half.

Then there was this one time with a wyvern that snatched one of the PCs, killed her with its' poison sting and returned to its' lair where it ate her. The party eventually..er..uhm..recovered parts of her..

But the chuul and the ythrak, now THEY get no love!

 

[buzzard]

Also - shock lizards. Who uses these pikachu ripoffs?

Well considering the shocker lizard was in the 1st Ed. Fiend Folio, I'd say Pikachu is the rip off here. Ol' Shocker has the toon by about 15 years.

buzzard

 

[Richards]

Actually, I don't believe there are shocker lizards in the AD&D 1st Edition Fiend Folio. There are "shockers," but they're humanoid in build. There are "volts," but they're flying spheres with long tails. Maybe you were thinking of one of them?

Johnathan