#quaggoth

On the left, Green Dragon! Adults are in the 20-80 foot (6-24 m) range. Green dragons are great at sweet talking, enjoy taking exceptional people into thier fold, have all sorts of wonderful emerald hues, and thier breath has a chlorine scent! Because it's chlorine gas, don't breathe too deep. Look, even the dragon god opposing them said that in some ways they're the most dragonlike of all dragons! Unfortunately that does include sweet talking and manipulation, and thier favorite targets to corrupt and/or devour are elves, so maybe be careful if you're an elf.

On the right, Quaggoth! 6 ft (1.8 m) tall, notably athletic, just get stronger as they wear down, and some can even use psychic powers to cast spells like mage hand and Enlarge/Reduce! They also have basically no fear. Forest dwelling creatures driven underground by elves, where they were enslaved by mindflayers and drow. Some have escaped, and all have 0 fucks left to give. Also maybe be careful if you're an elf, they remember they're supposed to be arboreal.

wow these four took a while! we got more npcs here with:

Korth Boomtail to the left

Delilah in the middle

Fawkes the wererat at the right

and Mr Green at the back

Image © Wizards of the Coast

[The quaggoth is a perfectly fine monster, and has been around in D&D for ages. The first appearance I know of is in the 1e Fiend Folio, but I’m not sure if they appeared earlier in a White Dwarf column like so many of that book’s monsters did. Two things make the quaggoths in 5e stand out to me. One is that it got rid of the little round ears, which made them look more like feral Ewoks than anything. The second is giving them an origin story, having been pushed underground by elves. This implies that surface quaggoths were hairy, forest dwelling humanoids, so it was easy for me to make the ancestral quaggoth a sasquatch, and tie them into my ever-growing collection of Bigfoot and Bigfoot-adjacent monsters.]

Quaggoth CR 4 CN Humanoid This stooped and bestial humanoid has clawed hands, white fur and small, pointed ears.

The quaggoths are bestial omnivorous humanoids native to the Darklands. They are descended from a group of sasquatches that were displaced from their forests and driven underground by elven colonists. As they descended further into the depths, they grew pale and lean, eventually turning to cannibalism in order to find enough to eat. Much of their society has collapsed, replaced by that of those that would exploit them—drow and duergar in particular. Drow stoke the hatred that quaggoth feel for surface elves, inciting them to violence or keeping them as slaves.

Most quaggoths prefer to fight with their talons, but some use stone weaponry. They are fearless in battle, whipping themselves into frenzy and seemingly getting stronger the more badly injured they are. Quaggoths will eat almost anything organic, and are immune to toxins and venoms of all kinds. Their battle strategies are usually disorganized and competitive unless spurred on by one of their thonots.

Quaggoth Thonot Thonots are the lore-keepers of the quaggoths, imbued with occult power through exposure to strange Darklands energy. Many thonots seek to restore quaggoth glory, but they ride a delicate balance; a thonot who fails his tribe too often is killed and eaten in an attempt to absorb his power. A thonot is a quaggoth with the advanced simple template that can use the following psychic magic (10 PE); augury (2 PE), cure moderate wounds (2 PE), feather fall (1 PE), heat metal (2 PE, DC 13), mage hand (0 PE), mirror image (3 PE) A thonot is a CR 5 creature.

Took a break from commissions to draw some characters from Out of the Abyss because I'll be DMing that after our party finishes Curse of Strahd :3

Also there's like almost no fan art for oota and I wanted fun little doodles of some of the characters my players will meet XD