Part of the bandwagon started by Louis and Loch. Use this generator, and make 1d2 monsters in a 1d4+1 area dungeon. | Whose Measure God Could Not Take
Discordian FifthDragon posted an image of this tumblr post the other day:| Whose Measure God Could Not Take
More fun playing with Loch and Louis's monster generator . This time, I mostly went through a list of half-formed monster ideas and used...| whosemeasure.blogspot.com
Extraordinarily powerful creatures possess exploitable weaknesses. Some cultivate relationships with less powerful creatures to help offset those weaknesses. These lesser beings are called "rider monsters," and they add a wrinkle in combats against boss monsters. The post Rider Monsters: I can’t wait to use these little constructs to surprise my players appeared first on Kobold Press.| Kobold Press
Much of the wildlife in the Lakelands has not changed since the Arrival: beavers still industriously dam rivers, ducks migrate seasonally, and bumblebees sleep in flowers. However, the substantial decrease in human development has had a number of effects. Feral populations of once-domestic animals have established themselves here and there: colonies of cats, packs of dogs, sounders of pigs, flocks of chickens and goats, gaggles of geese, and herds of cattle, horses, and llamas have all found ...| Advantage on Arcana
Since I wrote about indentured magic-users and clerics being encountered among the city guard/watch, I've been poring over the rest of AD&D's city/town encounters. Yes, yes, that's the part of the book with the infamous harlot table:| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
A 5-Star Review of Kalie Cassidy’s Unforgettable Siren Story Are you a big fan of romantasy books (romance + fantasy)? I don’t read a lot of this genre. However, after reading In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy, she has turned me into a fan. The storyline of a Siren becoming bonded with […] The post In The Veins Of The Drowning By Kalie Cassidy: A New Romantasy appeared first on TBD Teacher.| TBD Teacher
Just posted for paid members of the Monster of the Month Club: August’s Monster of the Month just might be the ancestor of all headless riders, from Sleepy Hollow to Ghost Rider. Usable with all – and I do mean all – tabletop RPG systems. Paid memberships start at just US$1.00 per month, so don’t […]| Graeme Davis
The Maul of America is the primary dungeon in Invisible Hands , a campaign I have thought a lot about but not run. Here are some of its mon...| nothicseye.blogspot.com
This encounter could be used on the road, in the wilderness, or in a dungeon. If encountered outdoors, it works best at night. If the PCs co...| tales-of-the-lunar-lands.blogspot.com
Hierarchy of Ladies for AD&D 1e| Grim Schneider
Everyone deserves a second chance, even old monsters.| Mythcreants
More monsters that my players have run into during my current City of Spires campaign. These ones lean further into science fantasy, as one of the key conceits of the campaign is that it's a fantasy setting built on top of the ruins of an SF setting. The deeper you dig the more likely you are to start running into all the malfunctioning cyborgs and radiation zombies left over from previous ages of the world. | Against The Wicked City
A few monsters who have turned up in my current campaign. I think my PCs have figured all these guys out well enough for me to safely list them here.| Against The Wicked City
I've been desperately trying to get this out before Halloween, and HERE IT IS!| Shadow & Fae
We're Ogre-Posting today.| Shadow & Fae
"From Goblin Market" Arthur Rackham, 1933| Shadow & Fae
Let's pretend it's still 2024. It may now be the Year of the Snake, but in my heartit's still the Year of the Dragon!| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
No, I'm not actually going to describe one hundred thousand encounters with a dragon. How would I even do that? If you want an exhaustively ...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
When I first read Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth (and other Appendix N literature) and became familiar with Mazirian the Magician, C...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
Ogre priest by Tony Ackland, from the Doomstones adventure Blood in Darkness. Ogres were first presented as playable characters in WFRP in 2021, when Cubicle 7 published Archives of the Empire, Vol…| Graeme Davis
A book of monsters, of visions. A 102-page pure art book with “12 iconic monsters from the pastiche swirl of d&d's fantasy pool ….| False Machine
Wraiths with opal wings. Messengers, dipolmats and chatterers. Navigators of realities. Hunters, predators. Gas-addicts and maximal guano-pollutors. The Bat-Men, or Opal Winged Chiropterae. Subtle, vulnerable, savage and discursive creatures.| False Machine
"I bin trawlin' these waters since I was a wee little scamp, even younger than you, ya grimy landlubber. I thought that nothin' could shock ...| anxiousmimic.blogspot.com
Whales are weird | Anxious Mimic
This is not a Dragonlance post!| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
Something I often struggle with when creating a sandbox is the level of detail to give to each location, and at what point in the process to do so. My sandboxes tend to be big - probably too big. The 100-hex sandbox was my attempt at codifying a procedure for creating a play area that felt big enough to contain the bare essentials that I would want for a campaign without going overboard. | Blog of Forlorn Encystment
A strange mummy wanders the sandy wastes, not bound to a tomb | Homebrew Homunculus
Our Minecraft Dungeons Arcade machine, which has exclusive game content not found at home and vends cards, has been updated to Series 4.| Arcade Galactic - Classic Coin-Op Arcade Gaming at Valley Fair Mall in West V...
This blog isn't pink and gay enough, right?| In The Land of Twilight, Under The Moon
Djellos, the genies of the Elemental Plane of Candy.| In The Land of Twilight, Under The Moon
A gargantuan tree, that can be seen from miles away. It is seen in the center of the world. It is also outside the world, keeping it in its branches. Both are true. The Tree is at the center, wherever the center is defined to be.| In The Land of Twilight, Under The Moon
So before you read any further please read Basic Red's Crazy Boys article. I'll wait. It's super good and if you haven't read it already you're wasting my time.| In The Land of Twilight, Under The Moon
It has happened to all of us who enjoy the Procedures of these earlier presentations: You throw those two dice for that Oracular Reaction Roll and are greeted with Box Cars. While the triangular distribution is designed to make this rather rare, a plucky Player Character with a higher Charisma Score can also often increase the frequency. | d4 Caltrops
The Cataclys Region al Legadex T he Cataclys region is one of immense natural beauty and intricately layered histories. From the unsum...| crateredland.blogspot.com
There are a great many islands in the Tennurhaf, ranging from humble sea-stacks to realms in their own right. The largest of them all, howev...| tales-of-the-lunar-lands.blogspot.com
The outtakes from Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement (published as Terror in the Dark) continue this week with two more locations from the quest generation system: Monastery Catacomb and Sanctuar…| Graeme Davis
Last week I promised you the monster tables to go with my previous AHQ posts (Fiction, New Hazards, Undead Monsters, Dark Wizards, and Other New Monsters). Turns out I was lying. Yo…| Graeme Davis
Carrying on from the previous posts (Fiction, New Hazards, Undead Monsters, and Dark Wizards), here are some more outtakes from my manuscript for Advanced Heroquest Undead Supplement…| Graeme Davis
I have been thinking about two wildly different shows: Mrs. Davis (a stage magician hunting nun / mystic from Reno, Nevada) and Scavengers Reign (space colonists get marooned on a planet with a mysterious and infinitely complex ecology). What they have in common is a strong sense that something strange is going on deep behind … Continue reading food web| hex culture
Casimir, that Midgard-trotting chronicler, tells you everything he's learned about mimics!| Kobold Press
It is the deepest and darkest of the forest that the mysterious and inscrutable elves call their home. Ageless and ethereal beings, they are...| tales-of-the-lunar-lands.blogspot.com
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they might be working toward when encountered as wandering monsters. But motivation only explains what the monster wants. Disposition, on the other hand, is a way to help understand the general attitude of the monster, and how they interact with others. This again is because alignment alone (even dual axis alignment) doesn't really help a DM in know...| Save Vs. Dragon
On the whole, I find that alignment alone (even dual axis alignment) doesn't really help a DM in knowing how to play a monster during encounters. To that end, as part of the Expanded Creature Cache stat block, I'm playing around with the ideas of "Motivation" and "Disposition." Then, in combination with the classic Monster Manual stats (like Intelligence), you start to get a better idea of how to play the monster.| Save Vs. Dragon
200 new monsters based on PD pulp images statted for classic editions (OSE, B/X, BECMI, LL, etc.). Available in PDF from DriveThruRPG, and in hardback and paperback from Lulu.com. The hardback has white interior pages, and the paperback has a cream interior (nodding to the books pulp roots). Includes new animal-related spells and new psionic abilities for Basic Psionics. (236 pages)| Save Vs. Dragon
Casimir, that Midgard-trotting chronicler, tells you everything he's learned about mimics!| Kobold Press
We have a big problem. Our tap water is being contaminated every single day. The laundry that we do every single day is the cause! 94% of American tap water contains invisible plastic fibers. Tiny plastic fibers in our clothing – polyester, nylon, spandex to name a few – escape every time we do our […] The post Did you know your laundry is toxic? These laundry monsters represent reality appeared first on Von Wong Blog.| Von Wong Blog
Stern Pinball has announced Godzilla 70th Anniversary Premium, a sweet looking celebration of TOHO's King of the Monsters.| Arcade Heroes
Casimir, that Midgard-trotting chronicler, tells you everything he knows about the enigmatic moon knights of Midgard!| Kobold Press
Cursed mummies, haunted mysteries, ancient magic. I write about some of my favourite things in this month’s Fortean Times.| Maria J. Pérez Cuervo
Casimir, that Midgard-trotting chronicler, tells you everything he knows about the Midgard kobold!| Kobold Press
Hooray - Granny's in Town!| Nagora's Corner
I recently finished a campaign of Knave Second Edition, and I think there’s stuff to say about it. This isn’t a review per se – neither of Knave 2e nor of the material that saw pl…| Augury Ignored
∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗ (3/10) Future James Bond producer Albert Broccoli and Irving Allen masterminded this 1956 British genre mashup about two journalists fighting zombies and gamma ray cannons in a made-up European micro state. Individual parts work fine, but the balance between horror and comedy doesn’t gel, and too many different ideas and concepts compete for space…Read more The Gamma People| Scifist
∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗ One of the last entries in the ever-declining line of sea monsters of the mid-fifties, this super-low-budget film was released by ARC as a B-bill to Roger Corman’s Day the World Ended. An incompetent spy whodunnit meets a ridiculously bad nuclear monster hunt. One of the worst scripts of the fifties, but the acting…Read more The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues| Scifist
∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗ (5/10) Known internationally as Half Human, this abominable snowman film is most famous for its unavailability. After complaints about how primitive villagers were portrayed in the film, Japanese studio Toho pulled it from circulation right after its release in 1955, and has sat on it since. A grainy print of Godzilla director Ishiro Honda’s…Read more Ju jin yuki otoko| Scifist
∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗ (3/10) The first American yeti film is brought to you by Z-movie specialist W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy Wilder. Like his earlier sci-fi movies, The Snow Creature is ineptly filmed an…| Scifist
Four hundred years ago, the Children's crusade began, starting 'the Year of Nightmares.'| Anxious Mimic
A Russian princess is said to lie in a glass coffin in her opulent Paris tomb. Anyone brave enough to spend a year alone in her mausoleum ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
A tomb in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, is said to house a vampire. The vampire, blamed for a railway tunnel's catastrophic collapse, is ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
This week, I are mostly been printing... A Colossal Chromatic Dragon!!| roleplay-geek.blogspot.com
A previous post on here listed a number of field and other local minor names from Lindsey that made reference to folkloric and monstrous cr...| www.caitlingreen.org
Most of these are drawn from Greek mythology, though there is inspiration drawn from other locales such as the Qilin, a Chinese creature.| Words for Yellow
Character generator, using races and classes based on Tajira, my homebrew setting. If you want to change those details though, it should be perfectly usable for just about any setting, from epic to historical fantasy. Also, it generates a fully original name each time, so feel free to just roll up names! (This is probably my best work here, and also the most liable to change.) | Words for Yellow
I drew these, as some possible results on the sword generator| Words for Yellow
This is part of a GLOG community project to make rules for fighting and playing as kaiju (if you can believe it), proposed by Arkos over at Tome of Dreams. Some parts were quite a challenge, but it's the kind of challenge that you really want to rise up to, and I can only hope that I did a good job.| Words for Yellow
Monsters have been known to take many forms, from seductive succubi and skulking bogeymen to blood-slurping chupacabras and giant krakens. Among the most unusual and horrific of such creatures has to be the cockatrice. Associated with demonic forces and deadly powers, this small, peculiar beast stirred panic in the hearts of late-medieval Europeans. Part-bird and […]| A-wing and A-way
When the time comes for describing the monster the GM looks up and to the left, searching for the words, and the hands come out and begin delineating and caressing the invisible contours of this thing they are imagining. The players are transported, to some extent, by this performative enactment of monstrosity. It is not merely the actual description of the monster but the struggle for description that bears the aesthetic reward. There is a moment of shared mythopoieia where the GM is delvi...| Middenmurk
MYTHICAL BEASTS OF LEGEND| Dungeon of Signs
As regular readers of this blog may know, I don't love Monster Manuals, and rather enjoy designing my own monsters - usually via a quick re-skinning of something simple (A bear, giant rat or 1st level fighter being the most common). This doesn't mean I'm uninterested in monsters for tabletop games, or the general concept of monsters as a sociological phenomenon. I've been slowly reading through "Monsters & Treasure - the earliest edition of D&D's monster manual, thinking about the foes pr...| Dungeon of Signs
Discover "Monsters at Christmas Book Club Fun" - a Christmas book for toddlers with adorable monsters. Check it out on site now!| KiddyCharts
I drew this monster last night on the iPad while listening to music. Don't the eyes look 🥹.| Lara L. Schenck
P roponents of Overloaded Encounter/Hazard Die might sometimes find themselves in a bit of a bind or at a loss for some of those Telegraph...| blog.d4caltrops.com
Hi everyone, it's time for our monthly Kid Craft Stars challenge! Every month we have a challenge between a few blogger friends and I, to in-cooperate a different craft medium or technique into a simple kid| I Heart Arts n Crafts
I drew this monster last Thursday. I tried to think of a body shape I haven't drawn before, and I think the legs are unique.| Lara L. Schenck
Gosh, what a week!| Lara L. Schenck
Although their abilities defy classification, their forms do not. Dragons of the Upper Air Of unknown provenance, perhaps even more powerfu...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
