D&D General What is the Quintissential D&D Mascot Monster?

[Quickleaf]

You link rusty but not mimic or cube!? Unacceptable! I’ll have to do it myself
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Nonsense! As IF there's a plush version of a squicky mimic or an acidic gelatinous cube......

Well... no... I mean... ok, but there's not going to be a plushy gelatinous cube surely... ..

Mother hubbard!

 

[Quickleaf]

Thats a lobster, it would look good on the DnD Cookbook though

Only use ceramic or stone cookingware.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Nonsense! As IF there's a plush version of a squicky mimic or an acidic gelatinous cube......

genuinely not sure if this is a bit or you actually don't know that the mimic, rusty and cube i linked are the main protags of a DnD webcomic

 

[Quickleaf]

While dragons are the (literally) emblematic monster, I think in order of precedence, D&D's quintessential monsters are...

1. Beholder
2. Owlbear (there's a reason the movie druid could turn into one)
3. Gelatinous Cube
4. Mimic
5. Displacer Beast
6. Rust Monster
7. Bulette
8. Mindflayer
9. Tarrasque
10. Kobold
11. Flail snail
12. Flumph

Dragons are just sort of a generically important fantasy monster, so they sort of take a 0th position here because of how much D&D has always been a fantasy kitchen sink to one degree or another.

That's what an intellect devourer would say.

 

[Quickleaf]

genuinely not sure if this is a bit or you actually don't know that the mimic, rusty and cube i linked are the main protags of a DnD webcomic

It was a bit that...uh...became a genuine I did not know that!

 

[CreamCloud0]

It was a bit that...uh...became a genuine I did not know that!

it's 'Rusty and Co' if you're curious

 

[EzekielRaiden]

That's what an intellect devourer would say.

For real, I just...I don't think of intellect devourers. I just don't. Cognitively I know they exist. But I have to be actively reminded that they exist.

 

[Tonguez]

For real, I just...I don't think of intellect devourers. I just don't. Cognitively I know they exist. But I have to be actively reminded that they exist.

lingering effects of psychic damage?

 

[Corinnguard]

Posh! Beholder is in the eye of the beholder. It might be a gas spore!

Mimics? Maybe it's just a treasure chest and you're convinced it's a mimic...

But rust monsters?

They're adorable. I gifted one for a friend's kid's bday. I did not send silverware for their next gift, just in case.

They're only cute until they grow up and become a Rust Dragon.

 

[Reynard]

Looks like the Beholder is indeed it, with the mimic and displacer beast coming in 2nd and 3rd, if the 2024 MM cover is anything to go by.