8 Dungeons & Dragons Monsters You Don't Want to Meet

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8 Dungeons & Dragons Monsters You Don't Want to Meet

If you're a Dungeons & Dragons player, these eight monsters can ruin your day.

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[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Illithids are absolutely a nightmare. They're so psionically talented they put pretty much every other race to shame in that department, they're extremely gifted and knowledgeable about the worlds they inhabit but are completely apart from it. I've always saved Illithids in campaigns for extremely high-level adventures because I feel it cheapens the experience to use them willy-nilly.

Plus they have a great theme, tune borrowed from the Wizard of Oz:

I could while away the hours
Polishing my powers
Inflicting lots of pain
I've a rumblin' in my tummy
Some grey matter would be yummy!
If I only had a brain.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I remember the Illithids in Baldur's Gate 2 were a complete nightmare; if they mind-controlled your main character, it was basically game over.

Strangely, I remember there was also a certain item you could get early in the game that would make you immune to psionic attacks and powers, and if you had that they were easy. Just give it to your best fighter, hold back the rest of your party, and have them run in and beat the tar out of the Illithids.

Also, isn't there some D&D lore that they are actually aliens from space or something?

 

[Scow2]

Illithids are fun because they make humans feel like how the rest of the world probably sees humans. They probably don't even consider themselves the bad guys.

 

[Pyrian]

Also, isn't there some D&D lore that they are actually aliens from space or something?

Yeah. They're definitely not from the campaign setting, although exactly where they come from is rarely specified and not entirely consistent when it is.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

Spoiler: Yeah, Illithid/Mind FLayers were from Spelljammer, weren't they?

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Spoiler: Kinda weird the terrasque got spot number 2, but I guess the Beholder is more common

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I remember a Ravenloft supplement that included a pilotable Beholder Flesh Golem that could run amok.

 

[Amir Kondori]

On the Lich description it says "a few later" but doesn't say a few what later. I presume hours or days.

 

[ffronw]

On the Lich description it says "a few later" but doesn't say a few what later. I presume hours or days.

Whoops. It's a few days later. Specifically 1d10 days later, as I recall.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

What?! I totally want to meet a Beholder. I'd name him Admiral Squiggles Murphy and he'd by my most amazing pet ever! We'd get into all sorts of mystery solving hi-jinks! And he'd have a posh British accent and have a taste for...I dunno, Elf babies? Or something more comical and less evil...like daemon clowns.

Yeah. Admiral Squiggles Murphy, posh crime solver and daemon clown gumbo aficionado.

 

[Thyunda]

My DM warned my highly-powerful psionic would draw attention to himself the more he used his power. The Illithids were the main threat he spoke of, though I did pick up a brain leech from someplace unhygienic.

 

[Synigma]

I definitely agree with most of the list... but... Why you no Dragons? Besides being the titular monster when you actually run into a dragon, in dragon form, it's usually because you're no longer useful in it's chess game and it's going to eat you.