Category: D&D

  • Mind Flayer: A Love Letter to H.P. Lovecraft

    Time for one of the big ones, everybody! This is an essential D&D monster! Let’s see if it lives up to the hype! Lore: Cosmic Conquerors Illithids, or Mind Flayers, are tyrants and slavers on a cosmic scale. Long ago, they ruled entire worlds and races, many of which we’ve covered in the past. Their…

  • Mimic: Dark Souls PTSD

    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…

  • Merrow: Angrier Mermaids

    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…

  • Merfolk: Angry Mermaids

    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…

  • Mephits: Six For One Bargain!

    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…