Scariest Monsters?

[jarlaxlecq]

Pit Fiend

 

[Hand of Evil]

I would have say Mindflayer would be pretty freaky.

 

[Jupp]

My top three would be

1. Illithids, especially the undead type (?Alhoon?), yuck
2. Larvae, thinking about having a few thousands coming at me freaks me out
3. Doppelganger and Gelatinous Cubes and anything undead share the third place

 

[Tinner]

Hell is other people

A Chaotic Neutral Rogue is pretty scary IMO. Kinda spells psychopath/serial killer to me.
After all, this is an amoral person who has trained speficially to steal things and stab people in ways that are more likely to kill them.
You have to be a pretty creepy kind of person to go for that IRL.

 

[Klaus]

Flumph.


What?

 

[Laurel]

What do you think the scariest monster to see 'doing its thing' would be? Which monsters freak you out?

a Gazebo... on a hill!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!

As a person-- If just about anything from the Monster Manual just appeared in front of or near me I would be freaked out. Well, actually I would freak out once my brain started working again and had decided I was not simply imagining things.

 

[The_Warlock]

Neh-thalgu - otherwise known as a Brain Eater - they have a disgusting, huge updated version in the Epic book, but I remember the first appearance in the Expert module, Castle Amber - a strange cross between an spongy arachnid/lobster body, multi-eyed eel head with a tentacle fringe and a lamprey like mouth. It was enormously intelligent, and it came from it's dimension in search of spell power - by extracting brains - not for taste and preference like a mind flayer - but as a magical capacitor. It would crack open a helpless person's skull and swallow the brain and all its fluids whole - but instead of digesting it - it would be ferried to an empty pimple like sac on it's neck - there the brain, its fluids and all it's memories and knowledge would be stored for the Thalgu to access - and in the event it acquired a mage's brain, it could revitalize it daily, and unleash one or more spells from the brain. And those sacs were translucent - so you could see the extra brains just under it's slimy skin - and even see them arrive shortly after ingestion. And then, the most disturbing thought is - do the brains still have the thoughts of the original owner running in them - do they realize they've been taken from their own bodies - does the thalgu taunt them and torture them in their own mind ...yikes.

In my mind, that puts the old Illithids to shame....

That would freak me out...

The One Warlock

 

[Rugger]

Pretty much everything mentioned would make my brain snap...

But one that struck me that hasn't been mentioned is a Grimlock.

The idea of a hulking, flesh-eating savage that wants to eat you...and has NO EYES terrifies me. You can't hide from something that has no eyes! EEEEK!

-Rugger
"I RunLikeALittleBaby!"

 

[Hand of Evil]

Thinking about it...if everything ever published, said, thought, and gamed about drow was the way they were it would be hard to deal with.

 

[VirgilCaine]

A Chaotic Neutral Rogue is pretty scary IMO. Kinda spells psychopath/serial killer to me.
After all, this is an amoral person who has trained speficially to steal things and stab people in ways that are more likely to kill them.
You have to be a pretty creepy kind of person to go for that IRL.

Amoral? What? No, you're thinking Chaotic Evil.
Chaotic Neutrals won't help people, but they also don't, as a rule, kill or hurt people.