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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 1915966" data-attributes="member: 1106">This is a different kind of lame though - these three are lame in a cartoony sense (because they could be considered silly and therefore not welcome in a "serious" campaign).  I'm quite happy to have these on a wandering encounter table, alongside other whimsical Fiend Folio entries such as adherers and al-mi-raj, because my vision of D&D has a lot of room for whimsy, and being bushwacked by bushes which shoot thorns and horned bunnies and skulls on muscular springs and fanged electric furballs is great fun if you dig that vibe.I draw the line at singing fungi and faerie whose main attack is swinging on a beard, though...everyone's got to have standards. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Destrachan, digester and yrthak are lame in a totally different way - they're not cartoony, they're just alien and weird, and lacking in a theme, which makes them more or less arbitrary with no "cool factor" to compensate for that (which is unsurprisingly, because they're only in there for their attack forms).  I know some people dig that in their D&D though, and it can be done right - the moonbeast, mooncalf and those brainiac rats from MM2 are way cool ways to play that card, in my book.</blockquote>