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Monsters that represent existential threats.

Started by Socratic-DM, October 07, 2024, 10:26:42 PM

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Socratic-DM

#15
October 09, 2024, 10:25:46 AM
Quote from: jeff37923 on October 08, 2024, 08:27:09 PMEqually terrifying for fans of body horror is the transhumanist concept that a sufficiently advanced biotech culture will see humans as not food, but spare parts and peripheral units for its technology to use. Literally reducing our biosphere and us to just cogs in a biological machine.

That gives me vague All Tomorrows vibes, I'm going think up threat around that idea.
"Every intrusion of the spirit that says, "I'm as good as you" into our personal and spiritual life is to be resisted just as jealously as every intrusion of bureaucracy or privilege into our politics."
- C.S Lewis.

tenbones

#16
October 14, 2024, 07:16:23 PM
Can I introduce you to the most of the antagonists in Rifts?

JeremyR

#17
October 14, 2024, 08:14:27 PM
I don't know about existential, but it always seemed to me that a D&D world would end up being entirely populated by wererats

tenbones

#18
October 15, 2024, 03:27:38 PM
Quote from: JeremyR on October 14, 2024, 08:14:27 PMI don't know about existential, but it always seemed to me that a D&D world would end up being entirely populated by wererats

The End Times have already arrived: Vermintide.

shirleyishmael

#19
January 12, 2025, 01:13:38 PM
Quote from: blackstone on October 08, 2024, 09:13:24 AMI always thought doppelgangers should be considered an existential threat

Someone, or yourself, being replaced, then no one knowing, is quite unsettling.

unclefes

#20
January 14, 2025, 08:00:06 PM
The obvious one is the Tarrasque, which seems to have been nerfed so hard and so diligently that it's hardly a threat anymore. The Tarrasque should be an unstoppable continent killer, something spoke of by planes-travelling adventurers in hushed tones.

But an existential threaet I think gets overlooked are drow. They all use spells, they are excellent murderers and slavers, and they're allies with mind flayers?? Whole towns would disappear.

Man at Arms

#21
January 14, 2025, 10:18:43 PM
A Death Knight, with access to graveyards and battlefields.  Once they get rolling, they should be challenging.

tenbones

#22
January 15, 2025, 03:24:52 PM
A fully realized undead-apocalypse could easily be done using D&D. But the antagonist needs to be thought out in terms of how they're going to decimate all the high-powered NPC's outside of the PC's. If you run it smart, it could easily work.

Especially if NPC's of significant power retain that power upon turning undead. Unlike the "zombiepocalypse" where everyone is a zombie, who give a shit if Mordenkainen suddenly is reduced to a 1hd shambler? But let him keep his power... now we're talking something else.

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