What's the Craziest Monster You've Ever Had?

sniderman · December 17, 2014, 08:02:19 AM

I played around with beholders that were based on other sensory organs than "eyes." I enjoyed my "Nasal Tyrant" that had a giant nose where its central eye should be, and elephantine trunks in place of its eyestalks. It spoke with a nasally whine, adding to the humor. (I kept all of it's magical abilities identical though, just to mess with the players.)

Natty Bodak · December 17, 2014, 07:36:24 PM

I'm not generally a fan of performance art posters, but I have to say this one is growing on me.

Quote from: tuypo1;804859i dont know about weird its more like horrifying but i will post it here anyway.

i am about to try and stat up a truly horrifying beast.

Im going all out on this creature im even using puncuation.

At first it was just going to be a multiheaded (savage species page 124) flesh colossus (epic level handbook page 170) but with each head being a crawling head (fiend folio page 35) with its tentacles sunk into the neck of the colossus. This part i came up with ages ago but never got around to doing.

Today i decided to get around to it and also to make it winged (savage species page 137) and to complete the unholy trinity make it a symbiotic creature (savage species page 131) with the colossus as the host and an Atropal (epic level handbook page 159) as the guest.

I will want to remove the coleuses anti magic field as only supernatural ability's are allowed to come from its source not the spell likes.

If the atropal is removed rather then the colossus reverting to mindlessness the human necromancer inside the colossus takes over its control.

While the atropal is still attached the necromancer has not actually used magic jar to put his soul in it he has previously been in physical body inside the beast using his power to bolster the colossus and casts magic jar when the atropal is removed.

Of course at this point the necromancer is no longer bolstering the collosus so it is now weakened.

Im thinking maybe a vampire (monster manual you lazy fool) and a demilich (epic level handbook page 174) as the creatures inside with the vampire being the first to take over while the demilich continues to scot around acting as a servoskull (warhammer 40k).

Of course the number of heads will be maximised and i suppose they will be able to crawl around the neck by moving there tentacles under the skin. if the players find a way up there they could kill a heap of them.

I may also make it tauric (savage species page 132) with both parts being flesh colossi 1 bipedal and 1 quadrupedal.

tuypo1 · December 17, 2014, 07:44:43 PM

Im not entirely sure what you mean by performance art poster but i have nothing to do today i should be able to stat it up by the end of the day

Will · December 18, 2014, 12:15:22 AM

I've been kicking around 'hand-headed' creatures for a while, rendered two...

Dexter and Sinister

RPGPundit · December 23, 2014, 01:53:50 PM

Hmm, well, that's not exactly how I envisioned my guys.

Xavier Onassiss · December 25, 2014, 04:18:13 PM

Not from a fantasy campaign, but from my last (ever) Traveller campaign...

The players were journeying down a river, and found the whole thing blocked by an immense mound of vegetable matter, a colony of filter feeders, sucking up all the river water for whatever nutrients could be had and dumping it all downstream. The water coming out absolutely reeked of waste products!

Yeah, it was a Sewage Plant.

Did I mention there were some seriously bad puns in that game?

James Gillen · December 26, 2014, 07:53:36 PM

Quote from: Xavier Onassiss;806067Not from a fantasy campaign, but from my last (ever) Traveller campaign...

The players were journeying down a river, and found the whole thing blocked by an immense mound of vegetable matter, a colony of filter feeders, sucking up all the river water for whatever nutrients could be had and dumping it all downstream. The water coming out absolutely reeked of waste products!

Yeah, it was a Sewage Plant.

Wocka Wocka WOCKA!!!

RPGPundit · December 28, 2014, 11:54:50 PM

Oh man.

TristramEvans · December 29, 2014, 01:20:59 AM

Quote from: Xavier Onassiss;806067Not from a fantasy campaign, but from my last (ever) Traveller campaign...

The players were journeying down a river, and found the whole thing blocked by an immense mound of vegetable matter, a colony of filter feeders, sucking up all the river water for whatever nutrients could be had and dumping it all downstream. The water coming out absolutely reeked of waste products!

Yeah, it was a Sewage Plant.

Did I mention there were some seriously bad puns in that game?

That reminds me of a CoC game I ran where there was nothing supernatural going on whatsoever, the players just ransacked some poor farmer's house while he was out for the day and ended up falling into a cesspit in the back yard. It only worked after I'd been running "typical" CoC adventures for about a year, but it served well to illustrate how the game had trained them to not act like normal people at all.

Will · December 29, 2014, 12:20:41 PM

There's a funny snippet that illustrates CoC where an investigator, suffering various symptoms including bloody stools, weeps with relief when he finds out it's only colon cancer.

James Gillen · December 29, 2014, 07:48:24 PM

Quote from: Will;806738There's a funny snippet that illustrates CoC where an investigator, suffering various symptoms including bloody stools, weeps with relief when he finds out it's only colon cancer.

Watch out for Flying Polyps.

JG

Will · December 29, 2014, 10:59:02 PM

I'm tearing up here, man, thanks, I needed that.

RPGPundit · January 02, 2015, 01:16:54 AM

Quote from: James Gillen;806823Watch out for Flying Polyps.

JG

Oh, dude. Seriously? Dude.

What's the Craziest Monster You've Ever Had?

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