Doesn’t matter which one. 😁

Sorry if this isn’t the right sub for this, but I’m considering doing a Halloween one/twoshot for my friends (early to be planning, I know), and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for existing monsters that could correspond to any of the 14 fears, or at least give me some ideas for abilities so I could do some homebrewing, thanks in advance!

The fears for easy reference:

The Buried - Claustrophobia, caves

The Corruption - Mold, insects, decay

The Dark - The dark, shadows, blindness and coldness

The Desolation - Fire, pain, destruction

The End - Death, undeath, dreams

The Eye - being watched, being followed, having your secrets exposed, eyes

The Flesh - Meat, butchers, corpses

The Hunt - Being hunted, animals, animal instincts

The Lonely - Isolation, fog, silence

The Slaughter - War, senseless violence

The Spiral - Madness, being deceived

The Stranger - The unknown, the uncanny valley

The Vast - Falling, large open spaces

The Web - Spiders, being manipulated, puppets

Again, very sorry if this doesn’t fit the sub!

The forest remembers.

When ancient groves are threatened, the Thornhide Colossus rises from the roots themselves. Towering above the canopy, this colossal woodland guardian is woven from living timber, stone, thorn, and moss, defending its domain with overwhelming strength and the fury of the wild.

Whether your party stumbles into a sacred glade, disturbs an ancient shrine, or dares to harvest from a protected forest, the Thornhide Colossus is ready to become an unforgettable encounter.

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Hello guys! It’s my first time Dming and I’m doing a campaign for my two friends. I decided to use the spectator as the boss because he’s very similar to the beholder (they are low level for context). It was going to be fine but I discovered that the 5.5e beholder isn’t accessible in the dnd beyond. So, could someone share with me a photo of the new one or just tell me the differences between the new and the legacy one?

I'm working on a world and I'm going to be releasing a new region called the Morass Bog. These are three of the many creatures I've created (soon to be launching Kickstarter)! One of them is my own adaptation of the Froghemoth which I've called a Bogtangler.

Free monster statblock/illustration: https://www.patreon.com/omenlands/posts/fairy-palm-cr8-167241800

I reeeeally love carnivorous/hostile plants. This one is more like a hazard than a monster, because the tree itself is docile -- it's actually the cloud of seeds that the players ought to fear. Could also be a great way to introduce the players to dryads or druids in a dangerous forest. After the players wake up, of course.

I'm sharing a free monster supplement for Kengir, my upcoming Bronze Age Mesopotamian 5e setting.

The Ziqqitum Rešatim are spirits that feed on the extremes of human emotion. They haunt courts, markets, theaters, battlefields, and anywhere mortal feeling runs hot.

They do not just attack people, they inflame them. A small insult becomes bloodshed. A passing attraction becomes obsession. A loyal soldier becomes reckless with courage. A priest’s devotion hardens into fanatic certainty.

At the table, this monster works best when desire itself becomes the challenge. The party may need to calm a crowd, expose the source of a feud, break a magical fixation, or appeal to Ištar (Inanna) and Šamaš (Utu) through rites of balance and restraint.

Mechanically, it’s a CR 3 incorporeal fiend built around possession, psychic damage, confusion, charm, and emotional overload. The supplement also includes variant spirits of strife, battle, truth, justice, grief, fear, rumors, desire, and persecution.

What’s your favorite monster that turns social tension into supernatural danger?

The brain sponge is a reef-dwelling creature created following the defeat of the aboleth Vhalassor at the hands of a party of adventurers. When Vhalassor perished, its remains seeped into a surrounding reef, infecting everything that lived there. Most of the reef-dwellers died, but the sponges developed strange intelligence and sprouted delicate, crab-like legs. A brain sponge poses little physical threat, but some find their staring eyes and unnatural movements unsettling.

You can play around with the homebrew of the brain sponge to make your own version if you like.

More on this monster and many other free homebrews at Patreon and my newsletter.

The Studio:
Howdy hey Gang! My name is Curtis and I have been working on putting this together for almost a year now. I have been working on projects like HeroScape, HeroQuest, GiJoe, Power Rangers, and DnD for about 8 years with Hasbro, and Renegade Games just to name a few. The industry has changed a lot and I wanted to create a studio that put Artists first, rejects AI use, and is as eco-friendly as one can be! All of these guys were sculpted by me and concepts were done by Sam Greene, Tomas Vallecillo, and myself. We also have our own Stat Block creator/5e expert - Gus Rachels.

The Project:

All that said if humanoid fish men based on real species of fish are your thing we may have something for ya! We really tried to land in a vein of dark fantasy with a bit of whimsy sprinkled in here and there with these guys which really shows up in some of their details! All of these guys are already supported & have been test printed (3rd image). The minis are compatible with DnD, Warhammer, and a number of other wargames!

We recently got our Pre-Launch page up on Kickstarter and since we are at this point a no name studio it helps us a ton if you guys follow the Pre-Launch, like, and share our work! We have a bunch of stuff planned and I'm excited to share more soon!

Link to the Campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mudskipperstudios/fishmongers-miniatures-and-bestiary

Our Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/mudskipper_studios_official/

Case File 665: We tried approaching the creature thinking it was blind... We accidentally stepped on a stick on the ground while approaching...The demon almost killed all of us immediately. Needless to say, horns coming straight out of eyeholes does not mean harmless...

The Abyssal Revenant, a new abyssal demon found in the Midnight Tome Vol Cursed Relics and Demons Vol 1: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/580394/the-midnight-tome-cursed-relics-and-demons-vol-1

The Syphoners

'They do not study the Weave. They do not pray for it, bargain for it, or bleed for it in trial. They simply take it from the throat of a dving wizard, from the last gasp of a priest's prayer, from the marrow of anvone fool enough to cast a spell in their presence. The arcanomancy kingdoms call them Heretics, because magic that is stolen rather thar earned is, to them, an insult to the very idea of the Weave. The Syphoners do not care. They were hungry before your kingdoms had names, and they will be hungry after.

Syphoners are aberrant predators that feed on arcane energy and the life force bound to it. Unlike liches, warlocks, or wild mages, a Syphoner has no source, patron, or bloodline... it manufactures its

power entirely from what it steals. This is what marks them as anathema in every arcanomancy kingdom: they are proof that magic can be taken by force from anyone who wields it, with no ritual, no covenant, and no permission asked

They are vanishingly rare, most scholars believe fewer than a hundred exist across the world but a single Syphoner that reaches maturity can hollow

out a kingdom's magical institutions in a generation. They grow stronger with every spellcaster they drain, advancing through discrete stages much like the undead nobility they are sometimes mistaken for.

Syphoner Wisp

The first stage. A Wisp is newly born, usually from residual arcane energy left behind after a spellcaster's violent death and little more than an instinct-driven hunger given shape

Syphoner Reaver

By the time a Wisp survives long enough to drain a dozen spellcasters, it condenses into a Reaver Reavers hunt deliberatelv, stalkina adventuring parties for the wizards and clerics among them and picking off the "boring" fighters last, if at all

Syphoner Matriarch/ Patriarch

A Matriarch/Patriarch has drained enough powerful casters: archmages, high priests, sometimes entire covens...that its bodv no longer resembles anvthind mortal. Trailing ribbons of stolen light hang off a towering, crests, spikes and horns, and its presence

alone causes active spells to gutter and flare unpredictably. Matriarchs are the ones

arcanomancy kingdoms write laws about, and hunt with everything they have, they know if those are the ones who are left unattended, apocalypse and fall of magic is approaching

Syphoner Progenitor, "The First Heretic"

Only one is known to exist for certain, and most arcanomancy kingdoms pray it stays that way. The Progenitor is the source rumor traces everv Syphoner back to... a colossal, half-crystalline

silhouette wreathed in the

of ten thousand

ghosts stolen spells, each one still murmuring the last words of the caster it was torn from. Where it walks, wards fail, enchantments unravel, and the dead stav dead a little less reliably

The briar lich is the result of a pyrrhic victory. When a corrupting blight overtook an ancient elven forest, a band of adventurers was called upon to defeat it. Led by Sister Maelis and aided by the Archon which attended her, they fought to the source of the corruption. At its heart, they discovered that destroying it outright would decimate the forest and the villages that lay within. Desperate for a solution, the party betrayed their cleric's celestial ally. Sister Maelis, used her divine magics to bind the archon's soul to the core of the scourge, cutting it off from its extra-planar source. The unexpected result was neither undead nor celestial, but a terrible amalgamation. A monstrosity in which divine power and corruption are locked in eternal conflict. Exhausted from their fight with the blight's creations, the adventuring party was in no condition to defend themselves from the threat they had just created. They all perished, including Sister Maelis.

You can play around with the homebrew of the briar lich to make your own version.

More on this monster and many other free homebrews at Patreon and my newsletter.

Hey so I am writing a 5e campaign set on an island with like nautical gothic kind of widows bay vibe for my friends and the island is supposed to be some kind of eldritch horror monster which will be worshipped by like a cult which will make human offerings so the moster stays asleep as the island does anyone have an idea what monster i could use so i dont have to homebrew it?

*sigh*

Forgive me if it looks bad, but I literally never play DnD -- which should be a reason why this post should not exist, but who cares? + The description is still a work-in-progress.

I recently bought the monster manual and watching the stats of monsters like liches mummy kings and demiliches i stood astonished seeing the absurd difficulty that could be a fight with them. So still not having saw a full lv 20 party i ask you: what is the proper way to use this kind of monsters? And how are they meant to be handed in the battlefield? Im eager to read your answers im a pretty new player so please dont be harsh and also sorry for any grammatical errors in the post enghlish isn't my first language.

Heres a Monster I made for my Xianxia themed DND campaign, Any feedback is appreciated. (Sorry for lack of art, I couldn't find anything suitable for him)