Broodmother Skyfortress (5e) – The Broodmother

See the index post for the context of this monster. My PCs never fought the broodmother because they woke Zeus (skygod) who killed a party member before the rest prostrated themselves, Zeus then promptly killed there remaining broodfiends – Swordmaniac, Runt Runt and the Broodmother – giving the party enough time to flee. With the […]

Crawlers (Nanite Cloud)

My PCs recently derailed a whole bunch of my planning through creative play – which is fine, the surprises make the game more entertaining for me this way – they ended up in the Slumbering Ursine Dunes and here are converted monsters for my own reference with abbreviated 5e stat blocks. Crawlers are 10 or […]

The Lake of Tranquil Contemplation

This was meant to be a “scenic” encounter – that is – the PCs see it and move on. But no, the bamboo folk ninja in my party was keen to talk to the birds via “speak with animals”. This triggered the gryphs. They swarmed the PC and laid eggs in him., which then hatched and flew away. The PCs then retreated. To […]

ILLITHOCYTE

in “Dawn of the Overmind“, below the Undercity of Penumbra, deeper than the Tuennelscape is the Nethermost. This is where the Annulus lies guarded by the Unredeemed Beast. But before that, a gargantuan swarm of illithocyte need to be dealt with – which my level 19 party did by using chain lightning to wipe them […]

velvet ants

in “Dawn of the Overmind“, below the Undercity of Penumbra, deeper yet, there are the Tunnelscapes dominated by warring grimlock tribes each sure they are in the right about the interpretation of a shared religious article – the Gyor (“grey“) and the Hiao (“green“). One of the tribes has learned to “tame” velvet ants – […]

VEGEYPYGMY HORDE!

For some reason that pineapple on the left reminds me of a vegeypygmy. Maybe its the maniacal sugar driven grin. Or maybe its the topknot. ANYWAY, in Expedition to the Barrier Peaks there are exactly 264 vegepygmies in the northern tribe and a similar number in the southern. Thats a lot of little plantmen. If […]

MENACE MANUAL: ROT GRUB SWARM

In retrospect I think these would work better as a hazard than an actual creature. They didn’t get much flesh in my game. My players were suspicious of the “column of flesh with puckers” and attacked the column at range from outside the room. After the swarm spilled out they cast wall of fire and […]