Silly Monsters

[Aeolius]

And second me for the tojanida. WTF is that supposed to be? Has anybody ever even used one? They left the zaratan out for this...

Without the tojanida, the giant glass anemone forests would grow out of control! The zaratan is in the Arms & Equipment Guide.

I'm electing the vampiric manta rays from the Monster Manual 2 who's names are impossible to pronounce...

How about using the new aquatic demons in 3e to add the half-fiend template to a vampiric devil ray... the vampyrmyrmyxitxchitl...

 

[demiurge1138]

Without the tojanida, the giant glass anemone forests would grow out of control! The zaratan is in the Arms & Equipment Guide.

Now that's a good use for a strange monster. As well as an excellent idea for an encounter, with the tojandas swimming around as the party tries frantically to gauge their distances through the transparent anemones. Mmm...

Demiurge out.

 

[Aeolius]

Now that's a good use for a strange monster. As well as an excellent idea for an encounter, with the tojandas swimming around as the party tries frantically to gauge their distances through the transparent anemones...

And based on real world experience. Aiptasia are nasty little buggers; transparent anemones that will take over a tank if left unchecked. You can get copperband butterfly fish, which will sometimes eat aiptasia, or a special nudibranch (sea slug) which will eat them sometimes as well. My favorite method is to fill a syringe with a solution of pickling lime, and then squirt it into the anemone's center. You can literally see the lime travel into their stalks, as it begins to dissolve them. As a bonus, the pickling lime is a good source of calcium, for the benefit of stony corals.

 

[Tinner]

Digester's and Trogdor/Ravid

For some reason, I had a player who really liked digesters, so I altered their description a bit and used them in a wilderness encounter. They were pretty good for surprising and partially liquifying the party (no fatalities, but messy flavor-text).

I got a lot of mileage out of the Digester.
The best thing about these critters is their speed.
That makes them perfect for hitting a mounted party travelling overland.
Sure it's only gonna annoy the PC's, but their horses and pack animals are now goop.
Almost got the Paladin's poke-horse too!

For some real silliness, you need go no further than the only monster in the MM inspired by Homestar Runner - The Ravid.
Lessee ... it's kind of a limbless dragon, and it's got one big beefy arm! Throw in some bizzare positive energy powers and you have one really stupid critter.

 

[demiurge1138]

Somehow, I don't think the ravid is as silly as, say, its alphabetical neighbor the rast. It's a spider-legged floating creature with tusks that drains blood. It just looks a little... off. The ravid is at least kinda alien in a wierd way (and it has armies of animated objects following it).

Demiurge out.

 

[Incenjucar]

The rasts looked much more.. Far Realmsian... in 2e's Planescape Monster Compendium 3. Like fleshy worms with hooks.

 

[Voadam]

Silliest monsters I've used,

Gummi werebears

Dough golem

The Mind Filleter

Yes, I ran castle Greyhawk the 1e spoof module!

 

[Stormrunner]

Lots of the really silly monsters are based off of real myth. Its really odd what some cultures find frightening.

Like the Japanese monster that looks like a folded umbrella with one eye and one big foot, and a tongue?
Fortunately that one hasn't made it into D&D yet. But I've seen it show up in at least three different comics now...

 

[Ununnilium]

Actually, the gas spore makes an interesting kind of sense. Sort of like the non-poisonous viceroy butterfly, who has evolved to look like the poisonous monarch butterfly. Except, of course, the gas spore wants you to hit it... hrmmmm.

And yes, the Japanese umbrella-monster is weird and cool. ``v

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, what about the one that looks like a wall?