Greco-Roman Hydra

I am currently running my players through an O5R (D&D 5e hacked to feel and play like OSR) version of Odyssey of the Dragonlords and decided to google up some greek/roman monsters for inspiration and found this (and other) great entries. I like this version of the hydra. Here is a 5e version of the creature. […]

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 […]

Terrifying Iron Cobra

A nice counter to large parties of PCs with lots of actions. Used as part of the Bronze Liche encounter. I didn’t end up using the noxious fumes or poison breath weapon as only 1 PC was every engaged with the cobra. I also forgot 🙂 I used its dazing ability liberally though. A nod […]

MENACE MANUAL: Omnimetal Aurumvorax

This guy was a nice/weird/odd encounter for the group while they explored the The Choking Tower. Taking inspiration from the original Planescape and 3e Omnimetal from MM3. My characters wanted to tame him. I left notes from Xoud indicating this was a successful experiment of his. OMNIMETAL AURUMVORAX Small beast, unaligned Armour Class 16 Hit Points 192 […]

MENACE MANUAL: Aurumvorax

First of The Choking Tower conversions. I ended up creating a more elemental themed version – omnimetal aurumvorax. AURUMVORAX Small beast, unaligned Armour Class 16 Hit Points 192 (38d6 +76) Speed 40’ STR 18 (+4) DEX 14 (+2) CON 15 (+2) INT 3 (-4) WIS 12 (+1) CHA 8 (-1) Skills Perception +5, Stealth +8 Senses passive Perception 15 Languages – […]