Howlers live on Pandemonium ( Read more... )

Also known as "Ysgardian Trolls" despite having no relationship to regular trolls. Which makes me suspect that these are probably beasties based on the Trolls of Norse mythology (the turning to stone in sunlight thing I remember from Tolkien, and I know he cribbed a lot of Norse stuff, at least ( Read more... )

So Chaos Imps trigger little warning signals to me. "Danger! Wacky Shenanigans incoming!" I will admit, I rarely go for 'zany' in games I run. So the image of a fighter drawing his sword and it being unexpectedly, say, a fish instead, and it flopping downwards with an audible sad-trombone sound, yeah, it's not the sort of thing I'd use. But there ( Read more... )

The Chaos Beast entry opens up with a description of a bit under a dozen of the infinite different forms the beast can take. A lot of them are totally golden, and I wouldn't mind seeing them as unique monsters in and of themselves. I mean ( Read more... )

Another "monster" stolen, or at least very loosely inspired by, creatures of myth and legend. The Bacchae are petitioners "possessed by the spirit of Dionysian revelry" driven into a raving and frenzied orgy of violent celebration. And presumably other aspects of the term "orgy" as well, although that's not touched upon in the entry, perhaps ( Read more... )

The Chaotic Good water spirits/fey of the River Oceanus along the upper plans! Chaotic Good when they're not seducing sailors away from their posts so they can be amused by the shipwreck that follows, or hypnotizing sailors into falling into the water at which point the sharks and predatory fish that often follow them around for just such ( Read more... )

Graz'ztI will admit, Graz'zt never really grabbed me, as an abyssal lord. Humanoid (although, appreciably, one of the few demonic males described as attractive in the game), rules three layers, sophisticated and urbane when he's not flying into inhuman rages, etc. Most of which fills me with a resounding "eh". I'd like to say reading the entry ( Read more... )

The end of Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix I! Before I begin delving into Planes of Chaos: Monstrous Supplement, I'd like to open the floor to feedback. What have you liked about the things so far? What would you like to see changed? What have your three favorite plot hooks so far been?

NycalothHulking, broad fiends with powerful limbs, leathery green skin, giant two-handed axes, Nycaloths are the very picture of... um... the observers and reporter of the blood war, watching the battles of the Tanar'ri and Baatezu and reporting this information back to the arcanoloths ( Read more... )

Ah, Yugoloths! The mercenaries and arms dealers of the Blood War, sating their inhuman greed and cruelty by playing both sides against eachother. You have to love them. There's a brief mention of how "not worth a yugoloth" is an unforgivable insult in Sigil, and some details about "The Book of Keeping", penned by an unknown hand, which contains the ( Read more... )