Monsters, new & old
4E is a game full of complexity. It is often complexity of the good sort, it makes the game more dynamic, challenging and exciting all of which are desirable. However sometimes things are a little too complex and something similar is desired. Looking at the 4E rules for PCs the answer is clearly found in …
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze up blew; The mariners all ‘gan to work the ropes, Where they were wont to do; …
Original Source: Dragon 89 Appearence: Amitoka (singular amitok) are broad in build and their bodies are covered with fur that is white or light grey in colour except their pale blue faces and clawed hands. Under there skin they have a thick layer of fat keeps them safe from even extreme colds, and it, along …
The Tarrasque is one of those DnD monsters that has become part of the mythology of the game, a giant dinosaur like thing that consumes and destroys everything, a beast everything must fear. The problem with the Tarrasque, by and large, is that at level 30 it is a campaign ending kind of foe, and …
Original Source: Dragon 198 (October 1993) Appearence: While unmounted the skullrider appears very much like a human skull with small spiderlike legs. It can retract these legs into its skull-like body making it nearly indistinguishable from an actual skull, a fact it will use to capture victims. When it has taken over a body converting …
Original Source: Dragon 199 (November 1993) Appearence: A fire troll is a tall, thick limbed humanoid with smooth, blood-red skin. Within its sunken sockets, its eyes glow a fierce yellow, and its hair is a tanlged mass of vibrant oranges and yellows. Its claws and teeth are long, razor sharp, and as dark as fire …
The first in what I intend to be an ongoing series of posts, each of which will feature a monster that originally appeared in Dragon Magazine in either 2E or 3E format (or possibly both). Due to copyright I will not reproduce the whole original article, but will supply enough information to use the monsters. …
Every dragon thinks it is invincible, a power to be feared and respected by all others it encounters, and Malapraxith was, if anything more than sterotypical in this belief. So it was that the young red dragon on finding a fey crossing and the means to use it journeyed into the Feywild to seek a …
The Cyclops Shaker is a simple brute that provides a powerful foe from the Feywild to support other heroic tier fey creatures or as a “filler” for a high heroic or low paragon encounter where the spotlight monster is something more powerful from the Feywild. (Note damage may be to low according to MM3 expressions.)
