Despite being a lifelong fan of Dungeons and Dragons, for whatever reason, aboleths are stuck in a blind spot on my D&D nerd-dar. If you aren’t familiar with aboleths, they’re basically giant, Lovecraftian, psychic fish monsters that can turn humanoids into thin-skinned, water-breathing servants. Pretty ick all the way around. But this article isn’t about […]
Some nothics, driven by an overwhelming compulsion to reconnect to magic–even if they aren’t quite sure why–take to desperate measures. Usually, this results in a lot of dead nothics. But sometimes, it creates potent aberrants, more horrible and weirder than the original nothic ever was. Nothic ingesters are created when a nothic consumes a great […]
Ah, life – there’s no spot in the multiverse where it hasn’t managed to take hold. Perhaps, in a tome dedicated to the creatures of the inhospitable Inner Planes, such a concept should be a theme or even the theme. There’s life everywhere. The Positive and Negative Energy Planes are no exception to this rule. Somehow, on […]
I don’t know what it is about the old pulp luchador stories and art, but I just love the stuff. The idea of a Mexican wrestler going toe-to-toe with Dracula and the Wolfman is so damn thrilling! Masks, capes, muscles–they had it all. I mean, these guys were superheroes before superheroes were superheroes. And the […]
Phaerimm are powerful magic-using beings that move by natural levitation. They resemble upright cones, the widest part uppermost, and the point ending in a barbed stinger-tail. They are intelligent, inimical, and highly dangerous. The phaerimm like to live near others of their own kind (for mutual protection and the social satisfaction of vying with each […]
Chukchuls, also known as astral devourers, are horrible aberrations that lurk among the petrified god-corpses of the Astral Plane. Sapping astral travelers of their mental energy, these beasts wrap their massive maws around the heads and shoulders of their prey, leaving nothing more than a catatonic husk. Despite their bestial intelligence, chukchuls appear to have […]
Ah, the hounds of tindalos. Easily one of my all-time favorite Cthulhu Mythos monsters, I finally decided to get off my kiester and create stats for these awesome beasts. I plan on using the hounds of tindalos this Saturday in my normal Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition campaign when my PCs run through Dyson Logos’ […]
The carrion crawler is a classic Dungeons & Dragons monster. Today, I’m going to be creating a few variants for this crawling critter. What is a carrion crawler? Originally appearing in the 1975 Grey Hawk supplement, carrion crawlers are basically giant centipedes with poisonous tentacles. And, well… that’s it. Ha! Not to knock them, but […]
The Demi-Plane of Nightmares is host to all sorts of weird monsters. Here’s 4 for you to use in your own D&D 5e campaigns.
The ocularon was one of the weirdest monsters from 3rd edition. This eyeball stealing, jellyfish thing is quite scary. Time to update it for 5e D&D!
