General Discussion and Sugestions

[ketaro]

Demonhives.

Colonies of demonhives!

[Raineh Daze]

Swarms sound glorious.

And then I can stop pondering playing hybrid gelatinous cube hellwasps. JELLYWASPS.

[Rakoa]

I'm looking at making a character for an upcoming campaign. Does anybody know of any monsters with an affinity for Binding? I can't recall any off the top of my head.

[Yasahiro]

I would like you guys to consider This Guy

Ain't he cute?

Draegloth's are underappreciated, guys.

[GuesssWho]

I'm still hoping for a half-farspawn class. Or just farspawn, since I'm not sure they really needed the word 'half' there LOL

[oslecamo]

As a reminder, the request list is here.

[Rakoa]

Just a question I was pondering earlier, and I'm curious to get some responses. Of all the Monster Classes here, forum goers, which do you consider to be the "creepiest"?

[Anomander]

Depends what kind of creepy you're aiming for.
For creepy in general I'd say the Pseudonatural Creature.

[Raineh Daze]

Depends what kind of creepy you're aiming for.
For creepy in general I'd say the Pseudonatural Creature.

Mindshattering tentacle rape grapple monster? Yup.

[Rakoa]

Depends what kind of creepy you're aiming for.
For creepy in general I'd say the Pseudonatural Creature.

Well, it is certainly open to interpretation, but that is part of the reason I asked the question. I know a friend of mine who is terrified of the more animalistic monsters, like Xenomorphs, that can't be reasoned with, where for me it would be the malign, intelligent, supernatural entities.

That said, I think it would be hard for anyone to not find the Pseudonatural Creature creepy. 

[Anomander]

Well, there is the uncanny valley to evaluate creepiness. When the subject becomes too similar to something well known but is different enough to be able to tell that it is completely wrong.


In that respect, I'd say that most of the hags, the keeper (eyeless and queer anatomy) and most of the humanoid undead creatures fit the bill nicely. Like the ghoul and the penanggalan/manananggal (no class for thosee yet but that can be arranged very soon if you want).

Pseudonatural Creature is still quite perfect but if you'd rather avoid stuff from another world the undeads and things like the carrionette or any almost-human creature with the most disturbing habits would work great.

[Rakoa]

Ahh, I am such a fan of the uncanny valley. Mostly because it is so very accurate. I was considering nominating the Visage myself for the creepy factor, but hadn't quite decided. Maybe I'll take a scroll through the index and see what I can come up with to add to the discussion.

Speaking of which, I noticed that the Blackscale Lizardfolk is recorded on Fireinthesky's table as being two levels long, but it is actually three. I think this would be the place to mention that? I'll go with that.

EDIT: Officially nominating Sorrowsworn Demon for the creepy contender. That dude is messed up.

[FireInTheSky]

Speaking of which, I noticed that the Blackscale Lizardfolk is recorded on Fireinthesky's table as being two levels long, but it is actually three. I think this would be the place to mention that? I'll go with that.

Noted. I'm gonna update that thing at some point, I swear!

[TraceChaos]

So, would this board be the appropriate place to post a non-D&D monster? Like say I wanted to write up a class -for- 3.5 but FROM some video game or another?

[oslecamo]

You must be new here aren't you?

Yes, as long as it's a class for a monster, it doesn't matter if the original source is Pathfinder or 2e or pop culture or another game or something made up from scratch, it is welcome here.

[TraceChaos]

Freakin' awesome. Okay, so now I just need to collaborate with some of my more D&D-oriented friends and make a Reaper.

That or I need to find people on here willing to help me figure out how to space it. I've honestly got a rough idea for what all I want to include as class abilities.

[SolEiji]

Is that Mass Effect?  Good good.  If you want, you can take a peak at some of my homebrew and steal/draw inspiration from a reaper expy I once made.  Not having played ME in its entirety I couldn't tell you how accurate it is to source material, only that it's based off it.

Have a quasi-reaper, and the accompanying Elder Evil which goes with it.  CR 25 mind you.

[TraceChaos]

Hrm, that's.... rather neat. I'll look into it, though I was thinking of having it be a construct or something. *looks it over more either way for possible inspiration*

Thanks for the permission to take stuff from yer homebrew, though SolEiji!

[Threadnaught]

If you want, you can take a peak at some of my homebrew and steal/draw inspiration

Probably not the right place to bring it up, but Saiyans have had Super Saiyan removed completely, the more recent (but not quite new) version lacks Super Saiyanjin 4 transformation, though the saving throws against exhaustion are just as impossible as the original's, which made the Truenamer's Skill Checks appear easy. I still fancy running a game for an entire party abusing Super Saiyanjin, not a serious one mind you.
If you decide to bring back Super Saiyanjin 4 transformation, would you for the sake of accuracy, allow characters to skip Golden Oozeru after the first successful transformation, or is Golden Oozeru forever a requirement?

[Jackinthegreen]

Is there an option for a creature that doesn't eat to gain increased sizes?  I got looking at Titanic Creature and think it'd be nice to add onto some other stuff, but that chomping requirement limits that.

Perhaps a way to generally increase the size of something that doesn't have a Con score?