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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6154375" data-attributes="member: 87792">Just to put things into context, my most monstrous PCs.My most monstrous PC ever, and winner of the "Creeping the table out" award was Iron Maiden - a warforged brawler fighter with the Vampirism feat.  A cursed creature left over from the mists of time who drew enemies into itself and drained them dry, feeding off their blood.  Race under Mearls' statistics: Warforged.  Not officially a monstrous PC.In second place was Peter.  A shifter druid - in other words a no-fooling Garou-style ecoterrorist werewolf straight out of the World of Darkness.  Again not officially a monstrous PC either.In third place was, all ze way from ze Hammer Haus of Horror, Karl ze Hammer.  Who vill trink your blut.  And camp up with all ze B-movie tropes ever.  PC very definitely monstrous.  A no-frills Vampire.  And also officially human.In fourth place was Tisephone.  A former priestess of Lolth in a world that had been overrun by goblins, (for which she blamed Lolth), she was a drow gloom-pact hexblade with the scourge being her snake-headed whips, and when she brought down her cloud of darkness there was only screaming heard from within it.  (She was also the moral conscience of the party, but I digress).  Again pretty monstrous - an out and out drow priestess in background.  But I doubt that they were counting Drow as monster-PCs.In fifth place is Nemo, my changeling feylock.  Or rather my doppelganger, able to change shape and do some messing around with minds.  Are they counting changelings as monstrous?  Probably not - I'd be surprised if they weren't a percent or two of characters on their own.  Again an Eberron race.So what is a monstrous PC?  Minotaurs?  Bugbears?  Githyanki?  And the way the earliest editions of D&D handled monstrous PCs was if you wanted to play a vampire you levelled yourself up from skeleton.  Leading to one notable flying fight between two bands of vampire-led spectres and shades in which they were level draining each other into mummies, zombies, and skeletons at which point they'd fall out of the sky.(And no, I don't just play monstrous PCs).</blockquote>

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