What's the lamest monster you've seen made cool, and how?

[mhacdebhandia]

What was the Accordlands take?

 

[catsclaw227]

What was the Accordlands take?

They've made them short-lived (like 30 years), chaotic evil necromancers. They've got horns, a pale white skin of very fine scales (almost unseen) and they generally wear bone armor.

Due to some cataclysmic event in the past, they don't have a god, instead worshiping an aspect of themselves, like bone, blood, flesh, spirit, and then strengthen that part of themselves in an attempt to bring about their own unique form of immortality.

 

[VirgilCaine]

The closest I've come were Basidirond's, which I can't make cool but at least I managed to not make lame...

I love the Basidirond's hallucination effects. I mean, what other monsters make your PCs hallucinate? None I can remember!

Which reminds me, I need to use them before my PCs are out of their level range.

Hmmmm. Wood Element Basidironds or Earth Element Basidironds? Or multiple basics?
Choices, choices.

[sblock]Why yes I have seen Night of the Triffids how could you tell.[/sblock]

[sblock]Night? I've read Day of the Triffids... /Wiki.../ Interesting...[/sblock]

 

[VirgilCaine]

Double post.

 

[VirgilCaine]

They've made them short-lived (like 30 years), chaotic evil necromancers. They've got horns, a pale white skin of very fine scales (almost unseen) and they generally wear bone armor.

Due to some cataclysmic event in the past, they don't have a god, instead worshiping an aspect of themselves, like bone, blood, flesh, spirit, and then strengthen that part of themselves in an attempt to bring about their own unique form of immortality.

Ah!

Awesome! Another variant product of the Elfpocalypse in my campaign.
Some became the Seelie/Unseelie, some those shadow-fey, some straight undead...and now, CE necromancers with ultrafast lifespans and a penchant for necromancy and undeath.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Okay so I messed up the name. It's been at least a decade and a half and I still remember the B-Movie adaptation, it really WAS that bad even if the name got a little blurry. Maybe I'm just blanking out the horror of it.

Awesome! Another variant product of the Elfpocalypse in my campaign.
Some became the Seelie/Unseelie, some those shadow-fey, some straight undead...and now, CE necromancers with ultrafast lifespans and a penchant for necromancy and undeath.

That's a good one, even more flavorful than my own homebrewed elf-squash. I just dropped them down to human lifespans, and made them militaristic racial supremacists with a society built around disturbing magical/biological technology and icky living weapons. In my homebrews elves get more hate than d20 at Diaglo's house.

 

[NiTessine]

Wrackspawn. When it originally came out in the D&D Miniatures line - Angelfire set, I believe - it was the ugliest mini of the set, possibly of the entire game line, and had crappy combat stats to boot. It looked like this:

It looks worse in real life, believe me.

Then, out came Monster Manual V, with its wrackspawn entry, and background about how they were souls, tortured and twisted by fiends to their present form and insanity. Also, now they looked like this:

And my players shall look upon the face of death, and they shall know fear.

 

[Moonstone Spider]

Hmm, can't recall the name offhand but there's an undead severed head that walks around on it's hair.
How is it possible that make that cool?

 

[notjer]

There's a lot of weird monsters which doesn't make any sense to me at all. However, the most lame monster must be the Ooze!!!!!

I just can't take it seriously... a living magic mass of weird pudding slime which consume everyone who pass by. I would never use such 'creature' because Ooze is the defination of 'lame'.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

I'd say that most people who played the 2E AD&D Boxed Module "Dragon Mountain" probably remember how "cool" kobolds could be when used properly.