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As much as I enjoyed a year’s worth of monsters for D&D 5e, here’s the funny (and not that unusual) thing: I’m really not putting much effort into 5e anymore. It’s been a year...
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24 – 30 December 2023 Aspect of the Divine Gods, even the ancients who have long withdrawn from the world, are beings of unfathomable power. In days long before the elves and...
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Look, it’s in the title of the blog. Fifty-two of these things. Which, if I’m counting right, was actually the Cthuloid Hunter on October 7th. No matter. A one-year project’s...
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17 – 23 December 2023 Divine Moochers In the far Northlands, where winter only relents for a few, short, muddy months, the scattered inhabitants have learned how to cope with...
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It’s that solstice-y time of the year, and for a while I’d been thinking “Krampus!” ‘Tis the season, and maybe you’re running a holiday one-shot for 18th-level characters and...
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10 – 16 December 2023 Seven Sisters As has been long known, even to the ancient peoples before they had written language, the stars ought remain fixed in the heavens. Those...
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Some time ago, in the big campaign, my poor players had to traverse the unforgiving Vale of the Long Night in pursuit of an NPC who’d been kidnapped by the Prince of Frost. In...
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3 – 9 December 2023 An Amorphous Curse Few things strike fear into the hearts of dungeon-delving adventurers like the black pudding, a formless, corrosive, never-tiring source...
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An adventuring day carries the potential of all manner of indignities. Hordes of goblins dying at the edge of one’s blade, their stinking blood and viscera all about, with a...
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Okay, okay. Back to scary things any good group of adventurers ought to fight… or possibly flee from, shrieking, vowing to return after they’ve gotten that long rest they’d so...
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26 November – 2 December 2023 Pigs on the Wing For centuries beyond recorded history, the devout servants of the gods of the upper planes believed that the rare and glorious...
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So I was thinking about a great paladin astride their winged steed, the total knight-in-shining-armor schtick, and remembered I’d put together a wee pig with wings way back in...
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19 – 25 November 2023 Natural Wizards In the far ancient ages, before the rise of humans, before the elven empires, before the dragons and giants fought for control of the...
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Ever since the party’s paladin learned find steed, he’s had a faithful elk companion and occasional faux-meat shield. For sensible narrative reasons – goblins consider a large...
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12 – 18 November 2023 Devourer of Souls The gods, as the sages tell us, draw their vast powers from two primary sources: from their faithful worshipers and others who leave...
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I have a hankering for another kaiju, a city-ravaging monstrosity that only a group of super-powered, magically-enhanced, over-the-top adventurers has any hope of stopping....
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5 – 11 November 2023 Weary of War The horrors of war weigh heavily on mortals, and it is rare for those with long experience to come away from those experiences unscathed in...
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Next Saturday – my target make-a-thing-and-post day – is November 11th, and it’s a kind of a big deal day. Depending on where you live, it might be Veterans Day, or Remembrance...
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29 October – 4 November 2023 When Air Comes Down to Earth Few of the elementals willingly leave their home planes, finding the multielemental nature of the Material Plane...
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Autumn. As I write this, the sugar maples are turning a vibrant orange, with undertones of gold, while the locusts, birches, and black walnuts have already dropped their...
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22 – 28 October 2023 Hungering Chaos When Elodric sought revenge against the Order of the Golden Knights, he pursued subtle avenues for many years. He studied ancient tomes,...
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Sometimes it’s fun to imagine a nigh-impossible spell, at least for your players. Sure, your cleric can prepare create undead and have a ghoul fold their laundry for a day, but...
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Here we are, the last full week of October, and it’s high time for a monster worthy of a spectacular horror film. A creature feature. Maybe an awesome old-school effect – all...
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15 – 21 October 2023 A Prophecy of Death Why one becomes cursed by the appearance of a Shadowmirror, even the most learned priests serving Ra-of-the-Golden-Sun, may his...
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Being old enough to remember life before I could search for anything and everything on the Internet, I have a memory riddled with odd facts and fragmentary tales. So much...
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8 – 14 October 2023 The Pumpkin King The Pumpkin King bounds across the lands, his great and long-limbed form leaping to rooftops, over hedgerows, a dance beneath the silver...
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Sometimes you need a silly, mostly unthreatening monster. Because sometimes the right flavor is the most important thing. It’s October now, autumn in this part of the northern...
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Yeah, yeah. If I’d had my act together (ha!) I’d’ve started the Halloween monsters last week. Sure, the Cthuloid Hunter is a jump scare made from tentacles and a nasty beak,...
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1 – 7 October 2023 Amphibious Ambusher The Underdark is a never-ending warren of caves, tunnels, waterways, and more deep beneath the world, and even those cultures which work...
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Each week this year, I’ve scrambled to various degrees, rummaging about the interior of my skull for a new idea to turn into a monster. When I don’t have a plan ahead of time,...