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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5520626" data-attributes="member: 78958">Alright, ladies and gentlemen, question time:I realized I never use some of the iconic monsters (iconic in the sense that they're in the first Monster Manual) in my 3.xx games. Why is that? I have an idea where some of them are regarded, but not others.Gray Render: too generic. Big brute force monster. Meh.Girallon: come on, a Gorilla, but spelled differently, and with 4 arms? Lame.Gibbering Mouther: freakin' [male cow excretion] monster.Will o'Wisp: never found an opportunity. Like it, though.Beholder: lots of save-or-dies, on a monster that dies easily itself. Just too hard to use effectively as a DM, in my book.Giants tougher than Frost: not the slightest idea why I haven't used them.Achaierai: cool stuff, actually. Why don't I ever use this?Mohrg: icky.Flesh Golem: more icky.Frost Worm: cool monster. Never got around to it.Gorgon: AoE save-or-die. A little too frustrating for me... although I have used the Medusa. Hmm.Chuul: always wanted to use this, never did. Not the foggiest why.Devourer: now this is cool. Whyever haven't I used this dozens of times already?Phase Spider: love the idea, but haven't used it. Why?Nagas: all of them are great. I just never use them.Ankheg: nice threat for the low levels. I still normally choose animals and NPCs over this. Why?Etc. etc.And so it goes. Lots of cool monsters that I haven't ever used in play, after years of DMing D&D. Which ones haven't seen play in your games? And why do you think that is?</blockquote>

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