In the long history of D&D, which monster, non-human race, etc do you consider the most idiotic?  Not in the sense of intelligence, in the sense of being lame, that is.

Nilbog

Flail Snail

Flumph.  It literally serves 0 purpose being statted out.

A modron would give the flail snail and flumph a run for their money.  I'm not sure who would win out of those three.

Early Catoblepas with their droopy necks. Looks like they've changed them recently to just be an evil hippo/warthog/water buffalo cross.

Quote from: Michael Gray;1022045Early Catoblepas with their droopy necks. Looks like they've changed them recently to just be an evil hippo/warthog/water buffalo cross.

The droopy head is part of its original description.

Quote from: Omega;1022050The droopy head is part of its original description.

Yes, I'm saying the droopy neck is dumb.

The Al-Mi'raj.

I dont think any given monster in D&D is dumb. Some are meant to be silly. Some I believe are intentionally made to look silly and then you find out how lethal they are.

Alot of the weird monsters came from the Fiend Folio and most, or all, of those were originally entries in the REALLY early editions of White Dwarf and I believe some of the UK modules.

As I've noted before. As a DM I actually scored a kill on a PC thief who messing with the other party members when innocent little flumph saw his deeds and was morally outraged, promptly dropping on him with all those spikes they originally had. Flumph hits, does 3 damage and injects acid doing 3 damage each round thereafter for 4 more rounds.

"You have been killed by an outraged flumph. Roll new character."

I would hope this thread is approached with a little sense of humor...

I have said it before but I think the Peryton is absurd. Maybe it was the first drawing I saw of it... maybe the idea of doing anything to make a deer (the ultimate prey animal) look bad ass.

And the last time I said it, I was lambasted by the official Peryton Fan Club that resides on this message board somewhere.

But FanBoys be damned... the Peryton is still D.U.M.B.

Quote from: Shemek hiTankolel;1022053The Al-Mi'raj.

The mythological creature I'm fine with. What made this one annoying was the moment you used it as a DM, the rest of the game was pretty much reconciled to Monty Pathon's Holy Grail territory. Fine if you want to go that route, and sometimes we did.

Quote from: Michael Gray;1022051Yes, I'm saying the droopy neck is dumb.

By "original" he means "13th century."  The creature was not invented for D&D.

The dumbest D&D creature?

Players.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1022096The dumbest D&D creature?

Players.

Dumb perhaps, but you can't have dumb players without DMs who invite them to the table, over and over.