Soooooooo Many Monsters... How do you use them all?

[BOZ]

who actually uses all of the monsters they have access to?

if there is anyone, they must have a whole lot of time on their hands, or not much past the core MM.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

Boz speaks the truth! I can't imagine someone deciding to use all the monsters as it would somehow ruin the mystique. Beholder this week. Lich next. Red dragon is on deck. Rhemorraz . . .

 

[Hanuman]

Monsters, Monsters, Monsters I just can't get enough! I'm pretty sure that I have most if not all of the various D20 monster books(hey it's a hobby within a hobby what can I say?). Anyway I have laid the groundwork in my campaign for my players to encounter a merchant prince who owns a huge menagerie of monsters that has problems with beasts escaping (buckets of monsters). The traveling circus/carnival angle is another good idea to run with(monsters & freaks!). Another little scheme I cooked up was the Lawful good Holy academy that had imprisoned many different types of undead for research (liches and vampires and ghosts OH MY!).
Who sez ya can't run em all.





So many monsters, so little time..........................

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

I have too many books, period, let alone just monster books. I now try and use at least one new monster in each session I run. I give NPCs a new spell, magic item and/or feat.

This way, I actually get to use something from all the expensive books I've bought and my players get to encounter cool monsters like dreggs (from the Monsternomicon).

Cheers


Richard

 

[Zappo]

The World's Largest Dungeon includes all the monsters from the SRD. That would be a good start.

 

[diaglo]

who actually uses all of the monsters they have access to?

if there is anyone, they must have a whole lot of time on their hands, or not much past the core MM.

25+ years... too much time... there is never too much time.

 

[BOZ]

well, i have known people who have sat through a Monster Manual (not necessarily 3E, but sometimes) and ran through them all A-Z until they killed one of everything. seems kinda silly to me, but if that was your goal then OK.

 

[frankthedm]

I throw them at the PCs en mass untill they run out of character sheets.

 

[Jolly Giant]

There have been times when I'd come across creatures that I'd love to use, but they just don't fit anywhere in my homebrew world. In those cases I make room for them on some outer plane; I scribble a few notes on a small post-it about which plane I see them living on and what they do there, and stick it on the page. The nice thing about the planes is that they're endless, so there's room for an endless amount of creatures.

 

[Gez]

well, i have known people who have sat through a Monster Manual (not necessarily 3E, but sometimes) and ran through them all A-Z until they killed one of everything. seems kinda silly to me, but if that was your goal then OK.

For this kind of guys, a monster manual sorted out by increasing CR, like what Joe Browning wanted to do, is a godsend.

Otherwise they get to fight balors before they met their first goblin!