Underused Monsters

[Alzrius]

It screams for mercy while you kill it.
Or it has sorcerer powers and kicks your butt when you try.

Hmm.
The fell creature, rumoured lich, that has been thwarting your efforts all this time, turns out to be a...lich chicken.
You could do a whole Chicken Boo thing here.

I made a write-up of Chicken Boo myself a while back. It was great fun.

 

[Derro]

So what happens if I eat an awakened chicken?

Does the chicken's knowledge of its own suffering make it that much more delicious?

I'm tempted to awaken all my future meals. Mmmmmm, awakened veal.

Actually that could make for a pretty creepy encounter. A pen of awakened animals that know they are going to be eaten. I guess since it's a druid spell that's pretty unlikely though.

 

[Nifft]

Actually that could make for a pretty creepy encounter. A pen of awakened animals that know they are going to be eaten. I guess since it's a druid spell that's pretty unlikely though.

What if it were done as a protest?

Cheers, -- N

 

[Alzrius]

What if it were done as a protest?

Then, to lift a scene from The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising, some annoyed local mage would likely cast animate dead on their corpses as they were cooking, and have them attack the druid.

 

[Derro]

Then, to lift a scene from The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising, some annoyed local mage would likely cast animate dead on their corpses as they were cooking, and have them attack the druid.

Sweet.

Let's just take this full circle make that Create Undead so the chickens are ghouls and have them eat the chef.

That's good gaming.

 

[Rechan]

The Gamers 2 is out?!

 

[CoatRackOfDoom]

Harpies.

As I run 'em, they're tremendously egotistical and vulnerable to flattery.

 

[Alzrius]

The Gamers 2 is out?!

No, I saw it last Gen Con at one of the showings. It is, however, available for pre-order, and will be out at Gen Con.

 

[Cirex]

I just finished the first part of a dungeon starring cannibal elves and halflings.

The PCs did not expect it and their racial encounter powers are really great for enemies. Many halfling stouts (minions) survived thanks to the second chance, while many misses turned hits with Elven accuracy.

 

[jdrakeh]

Medusae, harpies, griffons -- anything out of actual myth seems very underused, really.