Faerzress-Infused Creature

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At a Glance

An acquired or inherited template, which can be added to any corporeal creature.


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Art Review

Ahhhhh pink! Make it stop!

The choice of color was unfortunate, tragic, and poor. And lame. And ugly. You might as well have made this so-called minotaur a plush doll.

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Chameleon Creature

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At a Glance

An inherited template, which can be added to any corporeal creature except a construct, undead, or elemental. If humanoid, the chameleon creature has the reptilian subtype; otherwise type remains unchanged.

Source

  • Underdark [88581] page 83

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References in Shining South (17929)

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At a Glance

A sourcebook.


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Shining South was written by Thomas Reid, and first printed in October 2004.

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References in Serpent Kingdoms (96566)

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At a Glance

A sourcebook.


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Serpent Kingdoms was written by Ed Greenwood, Eric Boyd, and Darrin Drader, and first printed in July 2004.

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Fiendish Creature

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At a Glance

An inherited template, which can be added to any corporeal aberration, animal, dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, ooze, plant, or vermin of non-good alignment. Animals and vermin become magical beasts, but otherwise the type is unchanged. Fiendish creatures encountered on the Prime Material have the extraplanar subtype.

Source

  • Monster Manual [17755] page 107

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Celestial Creature

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At a Glance

An inherited template, which can be added to any corporeal aberration, animal, dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, ooze, plant, or vermin of non-evil alignment. Animals and vermin become magical beasts, but otherwise the type is unchanged. Celestial creatures encountered on the Prime Material have the extraplanar subtype.

Source

  • Monster Manual [17755] page 31 – the official version doesn’t allow the template to be applied to oozes; however, fiendish creature can be applied to oozes, so logically celestial creature should too… that’s how it works in the Xaeyruudh campaign, anyway

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References in Monsters of Faerun (11832)

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At a Glance

A sourcebook.


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Monsters of Faerûn was written by James Wyatt and Rob Heinsoo, and first printed in February 2001.

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Beast of Xvim

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At a Glance

A template, which can be applied to a wide variety of creatures.

Xvim seems to prefer certain animals including bats, cats, dogs, hawks, and vultures, and monsters such as beholders, blue or green dragons, hell hounds, cockatrices, imps, dark nagas, and various undead.

Beasts of Xvim are associated with Iyachtu Xvim.

Source

  • Monsters of Faerûn [11832] page 85

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Monsters in Libris Mortis

These monsters are described in Libris Mortis: Angel of Decay, Atropal Scion, Blaspheme, Bleakborn, Blood Amniote, Bloodmote Cloud, Bone Rat Swarm, Boneyard, Brain in a Jar, Carcass Eater, Cinderspawn, Corpse Rat Swarm, Crypt Chanter, Deathlock, Desiccator, Dire Maggot, Dream Vestige, Entomber, Entropic Reaper, Evolved Undead, Forsaken Shell, Ghost Brute, Grave Dirt Golem, Gravetouched Ghoul, Hooded Pupil, Hulking Corpse, Mummified Creature, Murk, Necromental, Necropolitan, Plague Blight, Quell, Raiment, Revived Fossil, Sand Swarm, Skin Kite, Skirr, Skulking Cyst, Slaughter Wight, Slaymate, Spectral Lyrist, Swarm-Shifter, Tomb Mote, Tombstone Golem, Umbral Creature, Undead Bat Swarm, Undead Beetle Swarm, Undead Centipede Swarm, Undead Fly Swarm, Undead Leech Swarm, Undead Maggot Swarm, Undead Parts Swarm, Undead Rat Swarm, Undead Scorpion Swarm, Undead Spider Swarm, Undead Worm Swarm, Half-Vampire, Visage, Voidwraith, Wheep

Absurd Adversaries

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At a Glance

This is the Honor Roll of Stupidity. The monsters here are too dumb to appear in the Xaeyruudh campaign. Rejected!

Abrian — An absolutely pathetic start for the Fiend Folio.

Achaierai — A flightless bird, with insufficient coolness to make up for that massive fail.

Brain Golem — I don’t agree with Stupid Monsters on everything, but I agree on this one: “It’s like a bunch of PETA vegans creating a Celery Golem.”

Senmurv — You have three options: (a) stop eating the mushrooms you can’t get from any national grocery store; (b) stop designing D&D monsters; (c) all of the above. Choose wisely.

Half-vampire — Ugh. I wish I could blame this one on trying to appeal to Twilight fans, but Libris Mortis was published before the first Twilight book so there is no excuse.

Credit Where It’s Due

  • Stupid Monsters (Part 1 and Part 2) — other than the quote about the brain golem, I don’t think I’m taking anything directly from Stupid Monsters, but it is an earlier work. I have different criteria for rejecting monsters, but Stupid Monsters was the inspiration for writing a blog post bringing attention to all of them in the same place. So that’s that.

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