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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6292929" data-attributes="member: 4937">Raggamoffyn: These are actually not stupid and depending on the presentation vary from reasonably scary to downright creepy.  They can be used anywhere you'd place a haunt, sentient curse, or spontaneous magical effect.  It's not really that hard to create a backstory.  For example, I'd use one to represent the cursed wedding dress of a bride murdered on her wedding night.Most of the rest of his entries wouldn't make my top 20 list of most useless or dumbest monsters.Stench Kow is perfectly acceptable as part of the horrors of hell if you are ever inclined to portray that Dante style.  If you've ever smelled a cow that died in the winter after the spring thaw, you know full well just how bad even a normal cow can smell.  An angry herd of cows that smell like that even when stomping your body into the jagged obsidian of Hell's heated plains doesn't sound to me like anything I'd want to face.  But I'd rather face one than be one.Jester's List:Psuedo-Undead: I've considered using these in the past for 'half-undead' creatures, such as the 'half-vampire' concept of 'Lost Boys', 'living zombies' perhaps disease or drug induced, a 'boy raised by ghouls' and other similar concepts where the creature is existing in a half-state between life and death.Spanner: The idea of a cursed or haunted bridge isn't all bad, but the implementation is probably lacking.Toothbeast: *shrug* Doesn't seem so bad.  Not nearly as bad as I was expecting from the name, which was more like a sentient cavity that attacked your teeth and caused toothaches or a literal tooth that tried to crawl in your mouth and replace one of your own.  This expectation would be par for the course of a real list of the most stupid monsters in D&D.Astereater: Typical Spelljammer gonzo gaming, and hardly the most ridiculous or useless Spelljammer monster.</blockquote>

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