D&D General Which video game monster have you used in your game?

[Alzrius]

I once put the titular creature from Rogue Genius Games's Everyman Minis: Malborgoroth (affiliate link) into the random encounter tables for a PF1 adventure path I was running, but it never actually came up in play.

Just to be as clear as possible, the creature in question is a "serial numbers filed off" version of Final Fantasy's malboro.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Not quite monsters, but the PS2 video game Red Star got me curious about doing a "bullet hell" where there are objects that move around the battlefield in particular patterns and goes off at a particular initiative. if it occupies your square, I treated it like a flaming sphere.

 

[toucanbuzz]

More a puzzle than a traditional monster, but the Dragon Age "Spirit Apparatus:"

 

[Stalker0]

I did a campaign where reality was starting to break, and so the players at one point fall into a fragment of discarded reality (aka a place the gods made way back in the day, but discarded from the true reality once they firmed everything up....kind of like a half finished painting you decide not to show in the final gallery).

And that place....was Azeroth. The player encountered Nightelfs, fought Undead ghouls, Crypt Friends, and gargoyles...and of course the death knight himself.

A few little side romp for several sessions.

 

[Theory of Games]

Alien xenomorphs. They hit even against superheroes

 

[SkidAce]

Malboros, cactuar, elementals that take damage from the opposite element,

Monster Hunter creatures,

Slimes from Dragon Quest,

etc.

 

[Gorck]

A Shining Force enemy, the Armed Skeleton, inspired a similar monster in my 2e games (the "necromech").

Shining Force! I loved that game when I was growing up. I had a Nintendo, but my friend had a Sega Genesis and he had Shining Force, as well as it's predecessor Shining in the Darkness, and another game called Sword of Vermilion. He preferred the latter two, but I was obsessed with Shining Force due to its turn based combat mechanic. As much as I loved the original Final Fantasy, the "separated, 2-sides" combat paled in comparison.

Sorry to derail the original thread, but you just bombarded me with a heap of nostalgia over a game I haven't thought about in decades.

 

[Richards]

In a recent adventure, I statted up Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff, and the Rabbids as foes for my D&D 3.5 game - it was a dream sequence where dream elements from another universe had "bled" over into the dreams of the campaign world, and the PCs had to deal with them. I've also used various kaiju from the Godzilla and Gamera franchises in similar roles.

Johnathan

 

[the Jester]

Goldmen (goldfolk) spring to mind.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

I once redid the old apple 2 chivalry game with an adventuring party and ran the rough map, for our plucky band of heroes.

it was a blast watching them roll the die to determine where they ended up and then seeing how they ended up on the encounter.