Vanim the Half-Elf Alchemist
PCs! in some ways I find doing player characters a little easier than monsters as we tend to push the monster designs a bit wackier. This guy is a character I created for a PvP tournament we're running...
View ArticleHengeyokai
Hengeyokai are more a varied creature type than a true race. Some animals already have inherent ties to mysticism and are used as familiars or sacrifices. These same animals can find their innate...
View ArticleSerpentflesh Golem
Serpentflesh is actually a bit of a misnomer when it comes to this particular type of golem; it isn't made exclusively from snakes. Rather, the serpentflesh golem is actually made up of any body part...
View ArticleElessia, Changeling Wizard
So this weekend just gone we finished the Pathfinder campaign I've been DMing for the last few months. It went off with a bang! You can see my previous post on the whole business here.In commemoration...
View ArticleRedcap
The veiled acolytes of the Great Red God of the Deep are a  most unwelcome sight on any lonely road. Known colloquially as "Redcaps" (on account of the great, blood-soaked hoods they adorn themselves...
View ArticleGriffon
The Griffon, along with the dragon and the unicorn, is among the most recognized of the world's magical beasts. Being a combination of lion and eagle, two very admired mundane animals, ownership of a...
View ArticleSkiurid
Yes, D&D has an evil squirrel.Part of the wildlife of the Shadow Plane, Skiurids usually live in colonies of up to two dozen individuals, along with their pups. Like other natives of their plane,...
View ArticleIce Weird
The Ice Weird is the more solid version of the Snow Weird, water-influencing rather than air-influencing. Like other Weirds, she's an especially powerful elemental tied to the mortal world by an...
View ArticleEPIC MONTH: Phoenix
The Phoenix is a unique creature. In fact, it may be the only one of its kind. Its plumage is the colours of fire and burn with the same intensity. Even when a feather is shed, assuming it doesn't...
View ArticleEPIC MONTH: Abomination, Phane
Abominations have been covered before here. They're unholy unions between deities and something else, whatever that may be, and however it may be done. The higher divine creatures, being in that...
View ArticleEPIC MONTH: White Slaad
The Death Slaad isn't the final evolution of the slaad species. Neither is the White Slaad; it's merely the next step.But first lets go over the many many steps needed to get to a white slaad. First a...
View ArticleEPIC MONTH: Shen Lung
The Shen Lung is one of many different dragons of the Lung type. Ordinary dragons are highly magical creatures, but in the end they are merely intelligent, large and potent beasts. The Lungs are...
View ArticleNereid
Nereids are sea nymphs, the ocean being their usual habitat when they're not in the Elemental Plane of Water, their true home. Much like Dryads, the tree nymphs, are bound to their tree to survive, the...
View ArticleTsochar
The Tsochar is a colonial organism. The tangled-looking body is actually formed of several "strands", each possessing its own functional respitatory, digestive and nervous system. When fused, the...
View ArticleNightmare
The Nightmare is literally a horse from hell. But if you want to be more specific, it comes from the Gray Wastes of Hades, the battleground dimension between Hell and the Abyss. These solitary smokey...
View ArticleWerecrocodile
I know when I first saw the Werecrocodile in all its goofy glory in the pages of Sandstorm I was all pshaw running out of ideas are we Wizards and here I was thinking Weretigers were dumb. But after...
View ArticleTomb Mote
Necromancers would do well to switch graveyards on a fairly regular basis after their rituals, lest they end up with a minor infestation of Tomb Motes. Necromantic magic generally animates bodies or...
View ArticleRavid
The Ravid is one of those jolly extradimensional creatures that are fairly harmless on their own plane but a good deal more chaotic when they cross over into ours. This particular creature comes from...
View ArticleGreen Warder
Green Warders are cultivated by the elves of Faerûn to act as guardians of their most sacred places. Despite this, a Warder is still a plant rather than a constuct, since constructs are normally made...
View ArticleMimic
It takes on whatever shape is most appealing.The origin of the mimic isn't completely certain, but the most popular theory is that a wizard did it. And with their track record, it's not exactly a...
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