Dungeons and Cute Dragons

This time @thegorgonist has done it again and this time it’s a combination of things I found useful as a DM, cuteness, and The Adventure Zone.  Our gaming group is nearly done with the Lost Mines of Phandelver, and to help populate the blog I’d been choosing monsters from Wave Echo Cave.  A drow wizard isn’t exactly a monster but we didn’t need a lot of excuse to draw what’s a fanart of Magic Brian.  And I get to use it in the game I’m running!

As always, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

Wraiths are undead and one of the earliest monsters from Dungeons and Dragons.  They are incorporeal and appear as little more than a dark robe barely distinguishable in the darkness save for their glowing, red eyes.  @thegorgonist‘s wraith mage is FAR more fashionable and has bedazzled themself with stars!  Also they’re cute.

As always, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

If you were paying attention earlier this week, you might have spotted a still-cute but less-date worthy bugbear hiding on that map.  Today is another piece by the remarkable @thegorgonist, a bugbear!  This one is ready to rumble and has a keen mind for military planning rather than wedding planning.  

As always, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

Today is a slightly different cute dungeons and dragons picture.  Here’s a screen grab of our cute monsters in action!  We play on roll20 and use Discord in order to communicate with one another in four different states.  I DM a game for my friends and @thegorgonist and I have been having fun populating the map with cute monsters!

Rolecall:

Caladwen Undoval, played by my amazing sib @cloverfirefly, is a champion of love and justice and a pretty amazing half-elven mage.

Benedetta, played by our buddy, is a human barbarian/fighter who is a bit impulsive when her friends take too long to decide what they ought to do next.

Sadye Ayende, played by the incomparable Draggyish, is a teifling rogue who really wishes treasure was less dangerous to come by.

Ilphynrae Rilynval, played by the beautiful @elleskinner, is a drow druid/ranger who has yet to meet a monster she doesn’t want to tame.

I’m excited to upload a new, cute monster today because I’ll be DMing in about an hour so here we go!  It’s a Spectator by the amazing @thegorgonist.  Spectators are a type of beholderkin that date all the way back to the first Monster Manual II (well, really before that in a module and I really feel like I might own it somewhere).  They specifically have four eyestalks and are known to create friendships with other creatures, making it unique among beholderkin.  

As always, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

This cute zombie seems to be missing an arm and @thegorgonist seems to be of the opinion a certain ghoul is to blame!  Zombies were one of the earliest creatures introduced in dungeons and dragons; they are corpses reanimated through necromancy and under the command of the evil mage or cleric who created them.  There are several variants of zombie, including playable versions, and we’ll visit some of these down the line!

As ever, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

This bugbear by @thegorgonist was meant to be the first entry for date-able fridays!  He is now our first slightly late date-able Friday but also our first cute bugbear!  A bugbear is based on an amalgam of “bogeyman” type creatures of folklore used to keep children from misbehaving.  In the context of Dungeons and Dragons, bugbears are larger, stronger goblinoids than their cousins hobgoblins and goblins and tend to be far better at militaristic maneuvers.  In the context of this blog, he’s just a big, green lunk looking for someone to love and to help plan the control of a local township.

As ever, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

If your campaign doesn’t have enough neon in it, @thegorgonist“s Flaming Skull has you covered.  It is both neon and very cute.  The product of necromantic magic, flaming skulls are made from the skulls of recently murdered humans.  But I don’t see why they can’t be the skulls of other humanoids.  Often used by evil wizards/necromancers as guardians because flaming skulls are small, intelligent undead capable of speaking many of the languages they spoke in life.  

As ever, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

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A wolf!  By @thegorgonist, today’s cute monster is a wolf.  Technically a beast rather than a monster, wolves are pack hunters and often tamed by rangers and monstrous humanoids alike.  

As ever, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

Awakened Shrubs by the fantastic @cloverfirefly!  This is her first piece for the blog and it is indeed cute!  An awakened shrub is a shrub had has been given motion and sentience by magical means.  Clearly, that motion has been stumpy little hedgehog legs this whole time!  

Feel free to use this in your campaign if you, like us, wondered just why are there no cute pictures to use for that monster.   If you do use our monsters we’d be thrilled to hear about it or see pictures!

This might be my favorite of the monsters @thegorgonist has provided us so far!  Here we have a ghoul, another form of undead.  Ghouls are the restless bodies and spirits of humanoids who have enjoyed cannibalism in their lives.  Beware, for they can paralyze their victims so they can begin to eat while they still live.  Those who die of their diseased bites can also become ghouls in their post-life.  

Feel free to use this in your campaign if you, like us, wondered just why are there no cute pictures to use for that monster.   If you do use our monsters we’d be thrilled to hear about it or see pictures!

Up until this moment I had been using a Lego skeleton in the game I DM twice a month but NO MORE!!!  Today @thegorgonist has made this adorable skeleton!  Skeletons, in the monstrous D&D sense, are humanoid remains that have been reanimated through necromantic magic.  

Feel free to use this in your campaign if you, like us, wondered just why are there no cute pictures to use for that monster.   If you do use our monsters we’d be thrilled to hear about it or see pictures!

Today @thegorgonist has brought a super cute Stirge which, as basically a really big mosquito, isn’t a traditionally cute sort of monster.  But look how amazing it is!  Bane of many a low level party, beware.

Feel free to use this in your campaign if you, like us, wondered just why are there no cute pictures to use for that dang monster.  

In an effort to kick things off, the right honorable @thegorgonist has brought us an Ochre Jelly!  It’s a type of ooze, mindless jello-like blobs that live to do nothing but consume.  This is why you don’t let slime molds get too big.  

Feel free to use this in your campaign if you, like us, wondered just why are there no cute pictures to use for that dang monster.