Under your bed. In your closet. Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? This tag covers questions relating to monstrous antagonists.
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How many rays can a beholder use in one full-attack action?
What it says on the tin. Beholders and beholder kin are given a number of rays that they can use. The entry for the Beholder-kin: Watcher notes that each eye can use one of its powers every round, ...
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Rebalancing the Orc Brutes in Thunderspire labyrinth?
The Orc Beserker is a miserably designed sack of hitpoints:
Orc Berserker
HP 66; Bloodied 33
AC 15; Fortitude 17, Reflex 13, Will 12
Speed 6 (8 while charging)
Greataxe ...
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How can I convert monsters from D&D 3.5 to d20 Modern?
What sort of issues would I run into if I wanted to co-opt some D&D 3.5 creatures into a D20 Modern setting? I'm looking mostly at devils, demons and some of the astral creatures.
Will such ...
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How can I modify a solo for a 2 player party in Dungeons and Dragons 4e?
Most encounters are scaled down by removing monsters from play. However, solo monsters are designed around a 5 player party.
What is the best way to scale them down to be an interesting fight for 2 ...
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Can a Piercer attack more than once?
From the 1st Edition Monster Manual:
...and when a living creature passes
beneath their position above they will
drop upon it in order to kill and
devour it.
After they drop, can they ...
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Can a creature be grabbed by two different creatures at the same time?
I've been playing the Thunderspire Labyrinth adventure for D&D 4th edition, and at one point a character was grabbed by two different monsters.
Can two different creatures of different types grab ...
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Where can I find good 2D representation of AD&D 1st edition monsters
I am looking for a good source of images of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition monsters from the Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, and Monster Manual II.
Sure, there are drawings of most of ...
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What does a Troglodyte actually smell like?
In 1st Edition AD&D, the Monster Manual states that Troglodytes
...emit a secretion which smells
extremely disgusting to humans...
If I want to keep the party on their toes, I would like ...
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How can I make combat more challenging without making it too frustrating?
My fellow DMs and I have come across a problem. It feels like the party has been doing a good job of dispatching our monsters with relative ease. We are not upset about this part, our party has done ...
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Is an Ooze a living creature?
Is an Ooze or something with Ooze traits a living creature for the purposes of things like Vampiric Touch?
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What is a Gremlin?
What is a Gremlin? Is there a conventional, standard-issue portrayal of Gremlins in fantasy settings, much like there is for Dwarves, Elves or Orcs?
What games include portrayals of Gremlins?
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Where can I find miniatures for AD&D monsters?
This is a follow-on to this question.
I am looking specifically for only monster, not character or NPC, miniatures from the 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, ...
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How can I judge rarity of monsters?
One of the things I like about 4e is the scalability of monsters. If I say, for example, that kobolds are common I can then make then the most common monster for encounters for quite a few levels.
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Do any editions of DnD have race/monster stats for Moggs?
I always liked including a variety of sub races or demographics for the major nations and races in my games.
I'd always wanted more variety to goblins; not goblin-oids (Bugbears/Hobgoblins) but plain ...
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What is the relationship between Yuan-Ti and Nagas?
Yuan-ti are snake humanoids. Nagas are snake humanoids. What are the differences? What different roles do they serve? Is there in-game history about this?
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10-100 Troglodytes is too many!
I'm picking on troglodytes as an example. In MMI, the number of troglodytes appearing in their lair(cave system/dungeon) is 10-100. Troglodytes are a nice, not-too-tough, HD2 monster with some ...
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How would I build a Tsuchigumo in D&D 4e?
I need help building a monster(s). I want a Tsuchigumo from Japanese folklore. I'm aiming for the under ground race/spider shapeshifter cross-blend, having these be a community from the Feywild that ...
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What makes a creature Aberrant?
Aberrant creatures are native to or corrupted by the Far Realm. But what other than origin makes something thematically of the Far Realm?
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What makes something a signature monster?
I've seen the term "signature monster" thrown around a lot but I'm not exactly following it. What makes these monsters signature? What makes any monster signature to a given game? Is D&D the only ...
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How do I use the same type of creature as characters level up without using more of them?
Is there a good formula/strategy for making monsters harder as characters level up without just throwing more of them? My kids, for example, love Kobolds but I just don't want combats of 30 of them.
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Likelyhood of Feywild creatures in Nentir Vale
What are the population level of Feywild creatures in Nentir Vale? It must not be massive. For example, everyone should be terrified of scarecrows.
