Category: Best of the Bestiary

Sometimes a chest is just a chest, but don’t bet on it. X the Mystic’s 3rd rule of dungeons survival After years of playing From Software games, just saying the word mimic is enough to increase my heartrate. So this should be fun. Lore: When the Loot Swings Back Shapeshifting predators, mimics often reside within…

Wait, didn’t we just do this? Lore: Aquatic Servants of the Demon Prince Merrow are savage hunters that will eat just about anything edible, from fishermen to merfolk. Long ago, they were themselves merfolk, but that all changed when one tribe found an idol of a Demogorgon. All in the tribe touched it and went…

Lore: Scavengers of the Sea Residing deep beneath the waves, merfolk rarely interact with land-dwelling creatures, thus becoming the focus of many a sailor’s romanticized tales. They lack the means to create a proper society beneath the water, such as making weapons or writing histories, and thus live in hunter-gatherer tribes. On occasion, multiple tribes…

Yes, you read that right. We’re gonna do all six of these little guys at once. Mainly because I can’t be bothered dragging them out for six whole weeks. Partly because each of them have less than a paragraph of lore on their own. Hoo boy, this is gonna be exhausting. Lore: Elemental Imps Natives…

Two classic monsters in a row, eh? Not only that, but this one is one of my favorite monsters from Greek mythology! How will they fit that into D&D lore, I wonder? I mean, they can’t exactly do the real story of Medusa. Unless… Lore: The Price of Eternity There are many out there who…