Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Monsters of the Month: Otherworldly Aberrations

The sky ruptures along some philosophical faultline and the sun splatters across the horizon like a dropped egg. There comes the distant dull crack of the cosmos breaking. Aberrant things begin to drip out of fissures in reality.

Fluorescent vermin with odd limbs come to graze on the verdant quiddity. Abominations fall from the flickering stars, and the world turns to mismatched bone and metal as they crawl by. There is something striding across the upper atmosphere, spindly legs higher than any tower. Space itself breaks open, and things feed on its viscera.

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Introducing the first in what should be a series of monster books for Dungeons & Dragons! This one is all about extraplanar and interdimensional beasties, like the Treader: an infinitely-long spindly leg dangling from the sky and traipsing about the landscape.

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Inside this creature compendium, you'll find

  •     38 pages of bizarre monsters from CR 0 to CR 16
  •     Tactical advice for each monster
  •     Creatures crafted with modern D&D 5e design principles
  •     50 variant monsters for different environments and themes

Available now on DriveThruRPG!

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