Like most of you, I’m a big fan of John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, The Thing. It’s the perfect blend of cosmic horror and absurdity and it’s still hella creepy even by today’s standards. So here is my take on the classic monster that appears in the movie for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. The Thing […]
A flitterbug is an aberration that is home in the swamps and mires of Omeria, particularly near the Obsidian Plain. Misclassified as an “insect”, flitterbugs are actually horrific aberrations created through rogue conjuration magic. The Striped Conjurers of Karmithyash trained the flitterbugs as guardian creatures, using them as a “living landmines” in the Black Swamps […]
Welcome back to Dave’s Daily Fifth Edition Monsters! Today, I’ll be tackling the aboleth. Here’s what you can expect from this post: A short introduction to aboleths. My thoughts and inspirations going into creating these variations. 2 new aboleth variants plus 2 spin-off creations. Aboleths, the Horrors from the Depths Aboleths. They’re totally gross, right? […]
It is a shape-shifting creature known as a Glamour who is billions of years old. Although It lived on planet Earth for many years, It originated in a void/dimension outside the regions of space known as the Macroverse. Since Its true identity is unclear, due to its shape-shifting abilities and being from another universe, It’s real name and […]
Every month, I turn to my Patrons over on www.patreon.com/dmdave for cool ideas. Last month it was monsters and they certainly delivered. Now, it’s aliens. Here are some of the cool aliens that they came up with to help populate the science fiction campaign setting of Blueshift. Some of the races work best as monsters while others […]
The Xenomorph XX121, better known just as Xenomorph (which literally translates to “strange form” from Greek ξενος, xenos=strange and morphe=form) or the “Alien“, is an extraterrestrial endoparasitoid species with multiple life cycles, possibly originating from the planet Proteus (also known as “Xenomorph Prime”). One of the deadliest of all known alien species, these creatures require a host organism in order to […]
Every month, I turn to my Patrons over on http://www.patreon.com/dmdave for cool ideas. Last month it was monsters and they certainly delivered. Now, it’s aliens. Here are some of the cool aliens that they came up with to help populate the science fiction campaign setting of Blueshift. Some of the races work best as monsters […]
In July, I offered up free monster requests to all my patrons which would appear in BroadSword Monthly #2. And boy did they deliver! Here are those monsters. If you’d like to see your requests made by DMDave, join up as a patron. It’s only $3 to become a member and there’s always a special theme each […]
In July, I offered up free monster requests to all my patrons which would appear in BroadSword Monthly #2. And boy did they deliver! Here are those monsters. If you’d like to see your requests made by DMDave, join up as a patron. It’s only $3 to become a member and there’s always a special […]
This is a preview of Cthulhu for Fifth Edition. If you’d like a printable PDF of this stat-block Cthulhu, head over to my Patreon. Great Cthulhu is nightmare made flesh, towering well over 1,000 feet high. His head appears as an octopus or squid, with writhing lengths of tentacle reaching 100 feet or more. His body is a […]
