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.


Details

Author, etc

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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Half-Vampire

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At a Glance

A template, which can be added to “any humanoid or monstrous humanoid.”

Absurd Adversary

Even within the context of a fantasy world which breaks many of the “rules” that govern our own, this monster is irrational and/or fundamentally stupid, earning it a spot in my Absurd Adversaries list.

  • Dead —and by extension undead— cannot procreate. Meiosis does not occur when one or both of the parents has no living cells.
  • Let’s be more clear. If daddy is dead, there is no sperm. If mommy is dead, there is no egg. In either case, there is no baby bump.
  • You cannot become undead without dying first, so being half-undead doesn’t make sense. “Hi, I’m Ben… no, just the right side; the left side of my body is still worm-food. Yea, it’s complicated. I’m half-undead.”

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Hooded Pupil

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At a Glance

A template, which can be added to “any corporeal giant or humanoid.”

Source

  • Libris Mortis page 108

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References in Dragons of Faerun (95379)

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At a Glance

A sourcebook.


Details

Author, etc

Dragons of Faerûn was written by Eric Boyd and Eytan Bernstein, and first printed in August 2006.

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Mephits

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At a Glance

Mephits are like the sprites of the Inner Planes. They’re small winged humanoids who are always getting into everything. For the most part they’re curious and mischievous, rather than malicious or sadistic, but there are exceptions — it’s best to avoid groups of ash and salt mephits.

There are at least nineteen types of mephits; sixteen corresponding to the elemental planes and three known oddballs.

Source

  • Various sources; see individual descriptions

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Wizards’ Favorite Monsters

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At a Glance

Eleven monsters from the Monster Manual are declared Product Identity, and therefore could not be included in the d20 SRD:

Source

  • The d20 SRD FAQ mentions this information to answer the question of why some monsters are missing from the SRD

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