Poll #199 - More Monsters Series: What's Next?
Added 2021-08-11 15:04:43 +0000 UTCHey all!
I'm pretty excited to announce that we're going to be doing a More Monsters series.
What are More Monsters? This series will take a pretty standard monster from the Monster Manual and offer 10 or more variants to spice up your encounters a bit. These variants are based on the 4th Edition "monster roles" rules, which are actually pretty cool. That means each monster will get an elite version, skirmisher, controller, legendary, and so forth. These are relatively easy for me to make, so I plan to do one per week.
Our first one, featuring orcs, should debut next week. It comes with 10 new orcs along with a 40 x 30 orc camp battle map for you to use in your VTT games.
What should I make? Like Dungeons & Lairs, I'll let you decide what I make. This time, instead of alphabetical order, I'm going to do it by order of CR (ignoring beasts and non-SRD creatures for now).
We'll start with CR 1/8 and go up from there.
Usual rules apply: only one monster can win! Any that get more than 20% of the vote move on to the next poll. All others are cut 'til they come back around again.
Looking forward to seeing what you choose!
Comments
Similar to American Tail’s mice making a mecha cat to attack the cats, ha
Gravy
2021-08-12 10:03:27 +0000 UTCCurses!
DM Dave
2021-08-12 01:27:20 +0000 UTCI get your train of thought, the problem is I have many homebrew variants I have based on bandits and cultists
2021-08-12 00:41:40 +0000 UTCKobolds was my first impulse, but then I got to thinking of the variations they have already, and the lack of variety in other common enemies like bandits and cultists.
Adam Wiseman
2021-08-12 00:37:26 +0000 UTCI was kidding. In re: yesterday's convo about subs. Sorry.
Chris Spradlin
2021-08-11 21:37:17 +0000 UTCThen it depends how many encounters I need and how much variety I feel like including, but I feel like both bandits and cultists are under-served relative to kobolds. I've got like 7 different flavors of kobolds just in D&D beyond.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
2021-08-11 19:42:27 +0000 UTCWhat if the bandits were a cult?
Frank Moore
2021-08-11 19:27:39 +0000 UTCThey'd probably go with mages, etc. when those come up around CR 6
DM Dave
2021-08-11 18:56:51 +0000 UTCWarlocks?
Chris Spradlin
2021-08-11 18:03:52 +0000 UTCI may have choose kobolds, but if cultist suddenly won i wouldn't complain. They could definitely use the attention
Adahy Bullet
2021-08-11 16:35:56 +0000 UTCHad to make sure Cultists stay above 20%, but Bandits was a close call for me. A variety of bandit stat blocks could really fill out a thieves guild campaign I've been noodling on.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
2021-08-11 16:32:17 +0000 UTCThat is literally the premise of one of the lairs in the book Fantastic Lairs. It's pretty fun.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
2021-08-11 16:30:49 +0000 UTCExactly! Dave does a great job at providing a coherent purpose to the topics he covers.
Frank Moore
2021-08-11 15:52:30 +0000 UTC5e rules make aquatic campaigns hard, so they're rarely given the spotlight or made interesting. But I believe it can be done.
Dale Palmitier
2021-08-11 15:38:22 +0000 UTCCultists for me, because while there are many, very few are given much thought in content that I've came across through the years
2021-08-11 15:35:41 +0000 UTCMerfolk would be interesting. I rarely use them because they're so... eh.
DM Dave
2021-08-11 15:28:55 +0000 UTCThey're probably going to win haha
DM Dave
2021-08-11 15:28:33 +0000 UTCSounds like most of the people I play D&D with...
DM Dave
2021-08-11 15:28:19 +0000 UTCA group of kobolds that invent a dragon body they operate
Charlie Rhodes
2021-08-11 15:17:27 +0000 UTCOkay, here me out. Merfolk cultists, ones that worship a leviathan or kraken. Best of both worlds!
Dale Palmitier
2021-08-11 15:16:05 +0000 UTCBandits, because they're everywhere in every campaign.
Shawn Porter
2021-08-11 15:14:15 +0000 UTCArgh, the possibilities! They all have so much promise. Instant Bandit Gang, Cultist Circle, City Watch…I’ll have to go with Merfolk. Not much diversity in aquatic monsters, this will fix that. But I’m good with any result.
Noxlux013
2021-08-11 15:14:11 +0000 UTCCultists. Because there are few things that are more fun to throw at your party than crazed zealots who are psychotic in their devotion to a cause.
Frank Moore
2021-08-11 15:13:23 +0000 UTC
