What monster types have been done to death?

[Chunklets]

I'm with all the folks who've noted that there are way too many humanoid monsters to ever be truly useful. I think about 5-10 are ideal for any particular campaign world; enough to give some variety, but not so many that the PCs can't actually "get to know" them.

The number of outsiders has gotten a wee bit out of control as well; In my campaigns I've tried to keep them as rare outside their own planes as possible simply for the sake of adding a bit of mystery to them.

On the other hand, I'm always happy to see more fey and more animals.

 

[genshou]

Fey, humanoid, outsider, undead.

The Unseelie Court has no place in my games; why would my PCs ever be involved? I rarely even use any fey except nymphs (and them only as allies for the ranger when he needs some good old-fashioned druidic lovin' ala cure spells).

There are so many type humanoid races out there that I can't fit even a tenth of them into one setting. That's quite overdone.

Outsiders just feel to me like they have no purpose other than to be foes for adventurers.

Undead are just too trite after a while.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Swarms.

 

[Tarangil]

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

I agree with you there! Creating a Half anything creature is nothing but a lack of creativity when trying to create a new monster. I'm suprised there's no Halfling/Hillgiant half breed yet...or is there??

 

[VirgilCaine]

What I'd like to see is something like the massive encounter tables of old in the 1E DMG - by geographical region, so I know if I'm in a cold / mountainous region, what sort of creatures might particularly like it there. That can be handy for random encounters. That is also handy for creating an adventure in a particular locale.

However, I would like them to NOT be 1/3 dinosaurs, 1/3 giant animals and 1/3 everything else.

 

[genshou]

Swarms.

I actually can't get enough of swarms, but that's because I don't play 3.5. They come up on very rare occasions as a result, and thus don't get overdone for me.

 

[delericho]

I'm sick of half-creatures and subraces. And, to a lesser extent, the animal-races - just give us the template already!

Other than that, there's no type of monster I'm really sick of. If nothing else, I can just ignore monsters I don't like. Or, better still, use a small subset in one campaign, and then a different subset in the next, to provide a different tone.