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

[Leatherhead]

Chocobos.
More like beasts of burden/mounts than enemy monsters, but still.

 

[Tonguez]

Koopa troopas and King Koopa
and Goombas

 

[JEB]

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.

Nice to find another Shining Force fan! Shame there isn't anything quite like it in the current market. The games are still influencing my D&D campaign preferences even now...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Alien xenomorphs. They hit even against superheroes

I've used them of course, but more recently I rushed the party with a great many creatures which where closer to Starcraft Zerglings, which where themselves inspired by Alien(s).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Chocobos.
More like beasts of burden/mounts than enemy monsters, but still.

I've had players refer to axe beaks as chocobos.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

I want to use the villains from Joust one day.

Any ideas of what to use and what sort of plot?

 

[Mecheon]

Any ideas of what to use and what sort of plot?

They turned up in Warcraft once as just a 'yup, we're doing a Joust reference' series of quests, so they really just fit anywhere guys flying around on bird things can fit