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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8021544" data-attributes="member: 29398">Undead fit the bill for sure, though using them gets stale pretty quick particularly at low levels; never mind that some classes do very well against undead and others not so much (particularly in old-school games), so constantly using undead as the foe is going to play some merry hell with your long-term class balance.Aberrations, abominations and fiends also fit the bill but only for mid-to-high level parties - there's still a hole at low level.Couple that with a desire to have opponents be vaguely relatable - as in: made of something resembling normal flesh and blood, native (or close enough) to the PCs' home world, and humanoid enough to count as a 'person' for purposes of being affected by the varions 'xxxx Person' spells (Hold, Charm and Dominate are three such) - and we're back to, in effect, looking to replace orcs and goblins and so forth with similar-but-different creatures* for use as go-to low-level foes.* - or, back to just using orcs and goblins and suchlike and having done with it.Lizardpeople are one possibility, troglodytes another; though in both cases their preferred swampy habitat rather severely limits their spread.  Easy enough to refluff kobolds as a smaller variant on lizardpeople much like Hobbits are pretty much smaller variants of Humans, to give some more variety.</blockquote>