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Idea: add the Shai-hulud to your random encounter table.
You say âbut shouldnât this be a really rare event? Itâs a CR 25 creature, and we donât want to consume the whole party!â Hereâs the strategy: you give it the same chance as any other creature. Maybe even a little higher. But when you roll that number on the table, describe the terrain and then ask the players how theyâre walking.
If they walk without rhythm, they wonât attract the worm.
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Sometimes I feel like just putting actual Cthulhu in D&D kinda waters down the more "native" Lovecraftian elements of the game, like aboleths, slaadi, gibbering mouthers, Tharizdun, etc.. And no offense to Bruce Cordell, but I feel like the Far Realm has done a good bit of damage by sort of isolating cosmic horror from the regular multiverse and putting it all in one big impossible box. Have we truly lost the sense of wonder that going to other planes should evoke in us?
What are some of your favourite Lovecraftian elements of D&D that aren't just stuff directly from the Cthulhu Mythos?
In my own setting, I use the Far Realm as the source of psionic energy and the âanti-realâ, with heavy inspiration from Terry Pratchettâs otherworldly dimensions. I think it works well in this case because I have a simple multiverse, rather than the Great Wheel which already has 7 planes full of scary monsters and evil energy.
I do agree with OP that Firestorm Peak and subsequent Far Realm canon has done some disappointing worldbuilding. It really waters down aberrations to try and explain the unexplainable and especially to trace them back to a common source.
With all that said! Hereâs my favorite eldritch horrors and cosmic creatures of D&D:
Things that live on the Ethereal Plane and hunt in our world! Itâs very Upside Down, very spooky to see living creatures that come from the ghost realm. Thereâs the Xill (intelligent parasitic bug aliens) and the Thought Eater (a psychic platypus skeleton) and the Ethereal Bros, Filcher and Marauder, who are kind of silly but a genuine menace to adventurers.
Mind Flayers. Overused? Maybe, but I love their whole lore of being from an inevitable doomed future and their inability to feel emotions without eating your brain.
The Sussurus, a strange creature made of living glass that eats air and kills undead. I think it would be cool to have a quest where youâre protecting a client from this mysterious thing, and then find out your client is a vampire!
I really like the kuo-toa lore about them inventing new gods and making the gods real. Are they just more powerful believers than anyone else? Or is there some pre-existing well of fishy deities that the kuo-toa can tap into when they need a new patron? What does that imply for, say, a human cleric of Mystra?
Idea: run a campaign that focuses on your favorite monsters from a particular category.
Superhero (or villain) Ideas for your next Mutants & Masterminds game
Captain Subterrane, immune to damage from magma (not lava) and vastly enhanced strength/agility while underground
Roadrage, capable of driving cars remotely. They can control one vehicle at a 100 mile range and multiple vehicles within a mile or two.
The Mothematician, who uses probability to predict the future by watching lepidopterae. Each flap of a butterflyâs wing tells them about threats and important events.
Alpaca 2.0, a cybernetically enhanced camelid that can scale any vertical surface, speak two dozen languages, and shoot lightning from their mouth.
Spider-Crab-Man, bitten by a radioactive spider crab. He gained the power to breathe water and resist pressure with his spiny carapace, as well as limbs about two feet longer than the human average.
Leapyear Legend, who experiences a full year on every February 29th. During this time, others observe them moving and acting at incredible speed (when they can be observed at all.)
Hydra: Theyâve been tested as a mutant, and theyâre pretty sure if someone cuts their head off it will grow back two heads. Seems really uncomfortable and scary though, so theyâve developed elite hacking skills to achieve their goals remotely.
Doubledare, able to impose commands on anyone if they can first get the subject to lose a bet or accept a challenge. The strength varies with the quality of the bet (for example, âif I win rock paper scissors you have to buy me a sodaâ works, but âif I can guess your favorite color you have to give me the launch codesâ is easier to resist).
Lichenthrope can transform into a two-dimensional form, creeping along walls or under doors. Their fungal/bacterial nature allows them to survive intense heat, cold, or radiation.
The Grim Sweeper was trained by an immortal janitor in awesome broom-based martial arts. They can sweep negative emotions right out of a person, ending various mind-affecting powers.
Ptermite, the insectoid pterosaur, was created in a lab by the villainous John Hammond (no relation). While they denied their evil purpose, this flying mutant still struggles with an urge to consume all the plant matter in the city.
Yoyo McGrae has the power of enhanced speed (not quite supersonic, but a decent 60-70 mph) and the ability to reverse her direction mid-course. For example, she could be thrown off a building by some enemy, and then come flying back to kick them in the face.
Planescape Background: Limbo Sculptor (5e)
Dwelling amid the formless chaos of Limbo, you studied techniques for creating matter and light. Perhaps you designed a small town for a few families and lost travelers, or maybe you worked for a more warlike group of slaadi or githzerai to dream up battlefields and shape them in your favor. Is the stability of other planes a relief? Or do you find yourself bumping into walls where you wanted there to be a door, sinking into mud that you could have changed to solid stone?
You are proficient in Performance and Survival, and with one set of artisanâs tools. You have a reputation for quality among planeswalkers, and can make simple terrain and breathable atmosphere on Limbo without a check, or even while you sleep (as long as nobody contests it).
Quest Idea:
An ant rolls a small diamond up to you, followed by a dozen more ants bearing a note. It says âWeâre at war. Need mercenaries. 50 more like this for your help.â
The actual war, between two sentient ant colonies, is not very dangerous.* The real mission is the harrowing journey through miles of wilderness to the nest of your employers. Will you risk the lives of your ant guides by having them follow the scent trail home? Or become lost in the woods as you look for tiny landmarks?
*Unless your friendly GM has had the enemy ant colony hire mercenaries as well. Will you kill a person for dominion over a decomposing log?
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Shadow In Lake Persinari
The fifteenth century was a time of change, violence, and doubt across the world. Of course, that's true of almost any time in history. But in the land of Wallachia, a dark struggle for the throne is casting ordinary people into a nightmare. Your characters work for some local boyar or are sent by your desperate neighbors to investigate horrible rumors that can't possibly be true. Do they have sympathies with the Ottomans, the Hungarians, the Saxons, or some other group fighting over this territory?
The warlord Vlad Dracula is sweeping across the land, eliminating rivals and terrorizing the peasants into supporting him. They say he's made a bargain with the devil. They say he can't be killed, that he drinks blood and strangles horses with his bare hands. They say he impales any "enemies" on a stake... You will learn in the course of your investigations of the god Glaaki, an ancient thing in the depths of a lake near Targoviste. Metallic spines from this monster, when stuck into a living person, can turn them into an undead, shambling thrall of Glaaki. How many of the stories about Dracula are true? How many of the victims in his "forest of stakes" have returned as diabolical creatures? Can you stop him, and how will history change if you do?
Play Cthulhu Dark Ages!
Cantrip Idea:
Grindelgarbâs Subtle Shibboleth
Duration: 1 hour. Components: Somatic, Material (your shoelaces, which must be worn and visible throughout the duration). Range: Personal. School: Enchantment
When you cast this simple spell, you must choose a category or descriptor for the creatures you wish to affect. For example, you could pick âanyone whoâs not Chaotic Evilâ or âcreatures with levels in the Psion classâ or âhumanoidsâ. The descriptor must be simple and unambiguous. Throughout the spellâs duration, your shoelaces take on a hypnotic significance. Any creature who fits your criteria and sees them receives a mental ping, becoming aware of your identity.
The mad mage is said to have invented this spell while on a long term undercover mission. He and his team had to go in disguise to a kobold factory, and recognizing each other was essential to survival. The significance of the shoelace is unknown.
Actually implemented this in a game I've been building: A cosmic horror creature that rolls dice to determine the bonuses and stats for each... individual...roll. It's attacks are also randomized as well as the base stats. Literally unknowable.
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I think a good way to do this would be: make a table of creatures, or roll a die with one side per monster in the monster manual. Every time the players interact with this shapeshifting thing or after it takes an action, roll again on the table.
Using a smaller table could work well if you wanted to have a theme - hereâs a dragon that changes color and elemental abilities at random! Hereâs a drow druid who can shift between several spider and demon forms!
Using a larger table could represent a truly chaotic and unpredictable shapeshifter, but makes it harder to balance or manage in combat.
Ixitxachitl are such a rarely used creature, despite their depth of lore. You have sentient manta rays, and some of them are vampires! Then thereâs a related species that lives underground (the ixzan). They have a religious schism between clerics of the manta god and worshippers of Demogorgon! They practice eugenics, so you can tell theyâre classic villain material.
Campaign Idea: These demon rays are preparing a terrible unholy ritual, which will begin draining life from the ocean and all its creatures into their leader Okâtixetl. PCs become involved as abyssal whirlpools and necrotic sea monsters cause havoc for the island nation they call home! They must stop the ixitxachitl from breaking three celestial warding beacons, or the vampiric leader will become an avatar of Demogorgon (to say nothing of the ecological devastation wrought by the ongoing ritual)!
Every time I go out to visit the midwest or mountain west I'm baffled as to how anyone lives in these gigantic flat plains or giant bowl valleys between mountains with no trees to speak of. It's nature's panopticon. You can go inside I guess but that roof can't hide you from God like the woods can. It's gorgeous of course but I'm going back to Mirkwood where I can think my wicked little thoughts in peace, thank you very much.
i feel the same except the complete opposite. the mountains are nice to visit but how does anyone live there? you donât know whatâs hiding in there. peace is endless flat plains, nothing but you and the angel youâre struggling with.
fascinating! enjoy the type of horror that feels like home to you and I will do the same xoxo
Idea: a Powered By The Apocalypse horror game where the playbooks are all based on different terrains! The Plains-Dweller, The Mountaineer, The Coaster, The Deserted, The Tree-Speaker etc.
Your characters all imply the existence of different kinds of entities or forces in the setting: if anyone plays the Mountaineer, there are cryptids and stealthy hunters. If anyone plays the Deserted, there are aliens and spacetime anomalies. However, you also have skills and powers to help deal with the horrors that are out there!
I see this either as a traveling campaign or a situation where everyone has moved to a big city. What do you think? In either case, you must investigate the supernatural or sinister events that you encounter, bringing your distinctive viewpoints to solve problems (or just survive).
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Supervillain Idea: The mutant known as Polygraph was a sidekick in her youth, trained by the legendary Cricket. Reporters like to sketch out her path to evil, beginning when Cricket named their protege âPinocchio Lassâ, but surely a silly hero name wouldnât make someone turn to a life of crime.
Polygraph has one major power, which appears in some cases as a weakness. Whenever she tells a lie, the earth shakes violently (increasing in intensity with the severity of the lie). This has great destructive power, but also can be directed quite skillfully by lying about specific things. Once, while fighting their former mentor in a stadium, Polygraph targeted the sound system to prevent Cricket from broadcasting their soporific music. Bystanders said the lie that shattered every speaker in the building was âI actually quite enjoy Seven Nation Army.â
Donât make the mistake of assuming Polygraph is a one trick villain. She has done countless hours of research, learning many subjects in depth in order to lie about them more effectively. And she usually has a few minions on hand to collect MacGuffins or block a punch - while the seismic schemer has Cricketâs martial arts training, sheâs not unnaturally strong or bulletproof.
A tin box of danish butter cookies of inconvenience. When you want a snack, it's a sewing kit. When you need to sew or patch something up, it's butter cookies. If you open it but you don't need anything at the moment, it's empty
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Idea: use this sewing kit when youâre playing an animated gingerbread man with a Rust Monster companion. When Rusty is hungry, you have plenty of needles and thimbles and scissors to feed her! And when you need to patch up your wounds or make new dessert clothes, the tin fills up with cookies!
What other cursed items can turn into benefits with a clever (if unlikely) character build? Play a Nilbog who has a Spear of Backbiting and heal yourself with its malevolent attacks!
give your call of cthulhu party a deck of many things. go on. do it.
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Ok, hereâs how you do it. First adventure is a standard cthulhu monster - yithians, or something. You introduce the Big Bad, an evil cultist who is trying to spread chaos in the world. Second adventure is opposing some of the cultistâs minions, and it introduces some magical items like chalk that comes to life and a mirror that can see into the past.
In the third adventure, some trouble has been stirred up by the results of the Deck of Many Things - in the hands of the villain! The cards become worthless when drawn, so they can be found as clues: The Skull has summoned a horde of skeletal reapers who are hunting down the cityâs reigning crime boss, and the Vizier has given a popular artist knowledge Too Great For The Mortal Mind. Your players will recognize these cards, and understand that the rest of the deck is out there.
In the next adventure, they catch up with the Big Bad* and find the aftermath of the cultâs latest ritual. In the path of destruction left by a rogue byakhee, the trampled leader lies next to a deck, with one card turned up: the Looking Glass.
Now they have the deck, but more importantly: they know there are cards in it beyond what they have memorized from D&D. Will they risk drawing? What can push them far enough to take that risk? *Perhaps the Big Badâs twin showing up to take revenge?
Monster Idea: A chimera with the head of an eagle, tail of a stingray and the body of a peacock mantis shrimp (which is just one thing.)
Surprise your players with a beast that can spot them miles away, skitter up to deliver a supersonic punch, and then avoid being surrounded with swipes from its razor sharp tail barb! These creatures lurk in shallow marshes, tide pools, and mangrove shores where they can hide and hunt for fish. But theyâre not a natural species - if you see one, look around and youâll find an evil wizardâs lair nearby. The Unerring Shrimpray is designed to be a guard and occasional familiar for masters of transmutation and thaumobiology.
If someone can stat this up I'll put it in my game
Eons later, here it is:
Unerring Shrimpray (Medium Monstrosity, unaligned). AC 16 (natural armor), HP 90 (12d8+36). Speed 40 feet, Swim 40 feet.
STR 15, DEX 20, CON 16, INT 3, WIS 11, CHA 14
Skills: Acrobatics +8, Perception +6. The creature has no penalty to perception at any distance, as long as it can draw line of sight. Proficient in Constitution saves.
The Shrimpray can make two Beak attacks as an action, or it may replace one with an Explosive Punch if it is charged:
Beak +8 to hit, 1d8+5 slashing damage.
Explosive Punch (Recharge 5-6). All creatures in a 30 foot cone must make a DC 16 Strength save, taking 2d8 bludgeoning, 1d8 radiant, and 1d8 force damage - half damage on a successful save. If the Shrimpray and targets are underwater, targets who fail their save are pulled 15 feet toward it.
Scuttling Charge: as an action, the Unerring Shrimpray can move up to its speed in a straight line toward a hostile creature. It can then make one attack.
Lashing Sting: Creatures who make an attack of opportunity against the Unerring Shrimpray must make a DC 16 Dexterity save or take 1d12 piercing and 1d10 poison damage as they are struck by the stingray tail.
Monster Idea: A half-dragon Gorgon.
The iron bull has striated bands of white scales, and metal wings emerge from its sharp ridged back. Its breath combines the standard petrifying gas with a magical icy blast!
If you arenât turned to stone, the cold breath will harm you right away. If you are petrified, the chill remains in your stony form - as soon as you get restored to your normal state, you take damage from the breath weapon. This can be avoided by heating up your petrified companion to a healthy temperature before you cast Stone to Flesh.
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Curse of Strahd campaign where at least one elected member of your party must beat Strahd in a rap battle to fully defeat him.
Your bard will feel so loved and appreciated :D
Idea: The villain's minions are having a singing/rap contest to choose who will compete against the party! So far, Strahd has won every year, but a new flesh construct with built in speakers is a crowd favorite.
Play this as a oneshot, to take a break from your regular campaign! It could be fun to see all the terrors of Ravenloft in a competitive mood, doing the Monster Mash and voting on the best performance!
Creature Idea: Newtonic Newt
This adorable amphibian is less than a foot long (0.000308 km) but contains enough magical force to level a small building. Its strength score is 24, and it can change the pull of gravity for itself in any direction! Furthermore, any attack against it generates an equal and opposite force that can shatter or fling weapons away.
Newtonic newts (so named for their diet of fig cookies) were originally from the Quasielemental Plane of Radiance, but a wizardâs miscast summoning spell converted their entire species from energy into matter. Now they live and thrive in our world!
