What monster types have been done to death?

[Drkfathr1]

Humaniods. Definately Humanoids.

The endless varieties of the same elves, dwarves, humans, and orcs is bad enough, but the anthropomorphic races are really annoying.

Waaaay too many undead too. The basics are just fine, I don't need a type of undead for every possible death.

 

[devilbat]

None, I love options.

 

[lukelightning]

Hear hear! Half-templates are done to death, and generally make no sense. A dragon mates with a demon...is the brood half-dragon or half-fiend? Plus lots of them are just plain gross. A human mating with a red dragon? It's bestiality for the human and food fetishism for the dragon.

I should have voted OTHER....after I thought about it I know the one type of creature I don't ever want to see again.

The half-anything.

No more half-elementals, no more half-constructs, no more half-dragons, etc. Just sat no to half-anything.
Chris

 

[lukelightning]

My rule of thumb: if a creature could be represented by a human in a costume/mask, it's not needed.

I am particularly not fond of anthropomorphic animals as humanoids. Cat-people, dog-people, bee-people, badger-people, elephant-people, snake-people, bat-people, etc. It is like a casting call for 50s B-grade horror films. Frankly, almost any animal-human combo could be done with a template, like the one for lycanthropes.

 

[Tonguez]

I just say NO to

UNDEAD - ohplease not another bloody undead!!!!
DRAGONS - again way to many 'variants' that are just a waste of space
HUMANOIDS - way to many, give me culture over stats please
OUTSIDERS - if I need an outsider I'll slap a template (or three) on something cool, give it class levels, a personality and a backstory I like. (so yep I've got a fiendish aquatic Otyugh as an NPC, a half Magma paraelemental Ogre Magi as a BBEG and a plaguebearing, half-balckdragon insectoid troll psychic warrior worshipped as a god of disease)

I think we need more Abberations as long as abberations are defined as things with tentacles (catealopas should be magical beasts, willowwisps might be elementals (*though I'd create a new category of energy creatures and put elementals, wisps, Nightshades and even Unseen Servants into it maybe freewilled psychic constructs too)

 

[DMH]

The difference between these and the generic catfolk No. 26 is that Mieville's humanoids all have interesting and well fleshed-out cultures, histories and a place in their world, as opposed to maybe a brief paragraph on their society.

That is why I like Primal Urge's Emerging Forms line, Goodman's Complete Guide series, Silverthorne's Races of Evernor and Behemoth3's Maze of the Minotaur. All of them are much more than a page or two write up of another elf varient. (Though I have to say that Khan's Press Fringe Races: Elves does have some interesting ideas in making elves fey.)

 

[DMH]

I would like to see more drake type dragons in the mold of wyverns, dragons that are large beasts without real sentience or magical spells.

Do you have Brixbrix's Guide to the Creatures of Ados? They are intelligent, but the large number of drakes (and two dragons) provide an interest group of varients.

 

[BOZ]

but you know what... a creature of any type could be done poorly or extremely well.

 

[Shade]

so, giants, fey, and magical beasts have not been "done to death"... so noted.

Don't forget animal, plant, and vermin.

 

[BOZ]

they're easy to forget.