Silly Monsters

[demiurge1138]

Since D&D has so many monsters, it is obvious that some of them are, well, below par. Kind of strange. Just plain silly.

For example, the gravorg from the Monster Manual II is, if you believe the illustration, a giant anti-gravity cave lemur. And, of course, there's the flumph.

So what's your favorite silly monster? Bonus points if you're either a DM who has used one successfully or a player successfully challenged or killed by one.

Demiurge out.

 

[Crothian]

flumph

 

[Chimera]

Scarecrows from the old Fiend Folio.

Only I modified them as per an episode of Fraggle Rock.

They were in a small corn field. When the party approached them, they started singing. It was their singing that carried the charm effect. Once charmed, the victim would be led into the cornfield, where they were drained of blood by the carnivorous corn stalks. And having been charmed, they worked to protect the scarecrows from the rest of the party.

Was a lot of fun. The party Ranger was the only one affected, but he played along wonderfully. "Punkinheads! Don't hurt my Punkinheads!"

 

[Hypersmurf]

Only I modified them as per an episode of Fraggle Rock.

Dance your cares away...
Worry's for another da-aaay...

Damn it, that's gonna be stuck in my head all day now.

Thanks.



-Hyp.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Dance your cares away...
Worry's for another da-aaay...

Let the music play...
Down at Fraggle Rock!

Bloody Hell! Now it is stuck in mine too.

I didn't remember the words until Hyp started singing.

 

[SteelDraco]

I ran an old adventure from Dungeon that featured a nilbog. That's the little goblin from the old Fiend Folio that makes everyone around it act in a manner contrary to their intentions, and can only be killed by healing magic.

The creature was hiding in a village, and the whole town was going nuts because of its aura of contrariness. That adventure was a blast. I still remember the PCs walking into a shop and having a session of reversed haggling with the storekeeper, or the party fighter (at the beginning of combat) failing his Will save, dropping his swords, and charging their opponents for a hug.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Gelationous cube: The only monster that has biologically adapted to fit a square grid.

Seriously, though, I love gelationous cubes. It's a classic D&D monster, right up there with beholders and displacer beasts.

 

[Pants]

The Nilbog and the Flumph come to mind, so does the Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing. The Nilbog practically screams 'Made entirely to hose players.'

It makes you change alignment AND you can only kill it by HEALING it! Awesome, my players are so screwed!

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

We ran into a couple of nilbogs on an adventure. They were very effective against our low level clericless party. And we had met a rather brutal encounter earlier that day, so the group's only healer (a bard/paladin) we had only a few cure minors left. Not sure how we managed to win that fight. They couldn't affect our monk or the bard/paladin with their strange ability, but the characters couldn't hurt figure out how to hurt the nilbogs. I think we were forced to sacrifice some of our very few cure potions to take out the nilbogs.

 

[jgbrowning]

I ran a transposer once that ended with a kill. But I guess it was really the iron cobra in the pit that did the killing, but hey! take what you can get....

joe b.