Scary Monsters
 

Vote here for your favourite pen and paper dungeon crawl monsters! If yours isnt included in the list, make sure to add a reply to this topic
Im sure y`all will think this is nuts but itll make me chuckle
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Unfortunatly, I've never had the pleasure of playing a real pen and paper game, but I have played and GMed a few 'free form' (make up your own rules) RPGs over the internet. In one game I GMed, I had a lot of fun with a room full of "living sand" that likes to clog your nostrils and choke you to death. Each grain of sand was an individual creature, so weapons were pretty much useless against it.

Solar

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Freeform games are more fun in my opinion but the old skool games are fun too

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My favorite, by a narrow margin, is the owlbear.

Coming in a close second is the bulette (aka "landshark"). I've even got a pLastic figure for one from my AD&D 1/e days.

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I always enjoyed the lower-level play in AD&D and the like, where every monster you encountered was a challenge and each choice of spell, weapon, or what-have-you really meant something. I think quite a few games loose something when you get to the higher levels.

Because of that, some of my favorite monsters are the lower level ones - the same kind that just become quick grease-stains later on.

I remember a particularly memorable adventure where our freshly-minted characters had been sent to clean out an abandoned tower that was now a breeding ground for stirges (am I remembering the name right? The big mosquito-bird combo thingees that'd attach to you and drain away until dealt with . . . )

We battled the aforementioned nasties, plus the cheerfully insane cleric who was breeding them, and feeding captured villagers to them, thinking he could train them into a loyal force. In the end, we tossed him into a room with a bag full of his "pets" and spiked the door shut. Heh-heh! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Just been reminded of another great AD+D Old skool monster:
Stirges
Bird creatures with a long pointed nose they use to drink your blood. My first ever expierence in a random monster encounter was with a D3 stirges!
Oh, it brings a tear to the eye

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BTW, they taste just like chicken! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Yeh! Does anyone have a nice stirge recipe???

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I find the secret is make sure they are properly tenderized. As such, I like to apply 2000 pounds of force per square inch to the stirge meat before slicing, battering, frying, and serving them up with a choice of dipping sauces.

I called the receipe <koff> "Press-Ton Stirges" . . .

<dodge>

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He he!
I'd been trying to think of a good "stirge" joke but that was magnificent
Magnificent?
Magnificent 7 was directon by...
John Sturgess!

he he!