Top Five
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This week, we flip through the Monster Manual to find our favorite D&D Monsters.
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not listened yet but my own top five.
5 The Rust monster. a monster made solely to screw pc’s in plate mail by the first gms the first grudge monster
4 Koblods are they dogs, baby dragons, both? who cares… they have traps and a willingness to use them
3 The Orc from the man-smart warlord to the strange shaman to the dumb as rocks ones classic evil in a green bag
2 Beholders, we see what you did there, super smart magic blasters
1 Dragons the godfather’s the big bad’s the game is named after them, end of.
also rans the gith, Mind flayers, aboeth, flump and umber hulks / their neogi Masters
Yes! I don’t know if it was my write-in suggestion or someone else’s, but I’ve been waiting to hear this Top 5 for like 8 months. I spent a large portion of my summer staring at dirt and bugs in a microscope and Top 5 ear-tertained me through the visual drudgery. My top 5 have pretty much been covered, but that’s because they’re the best.
5.dragon – This one is undeniable. You have your smart dragons. Your servant dragons. Your god dragons. Your shape changing dragons. All good.
4.beholder – It’s not just the eyes. Yes, they’re formidable enemies and so on, but how creepy is their weird inter-eye skin. They always look like someone peeled an old peach and then smeared it with roadkill.
3. lich – These guys/gals are scary because of what they represent, which is that a hunger for power and hiding of your heart will turn you into a walking dead woman/man.
2. goblin – classic. I need not explain for one cannot account for the vagaries of the heart.
1. properly creepy human wizard – I feel like you can get the richest and most compelling backstory with a human and all of the extra information is what makes a monster, for me.
Such a great episode! It was like my two favorite podcasts, Critical Hit and Top Five rolled into one!
One gripe I do have with the episode is that you guys no-sold Matthew’s great joke about George Lucas wanting to use the Gelatinous Cube as a Jedi. That was both clever and funny. Kudos for that joke.
My history of playing D&D is as follows:
AD&D: Owned all the books, played as DM for only one or two players. Ignored most of the rules.
2nd Edition: Owned some books, but never played.
3rd/3.5 Edition: Bought the basic set but gave up during character building stage.
4th Edition: Stumbled upon Critical Hit, got hooked, subscribed to Insider and played entirely without books, and had a campaign that reached about 15th level.
5th Edition: Own every book, but haven’t gotten the group together since July 2015. Lots of ideas, so I hope to play soon.
Anyway, here’s my list:
5. Githyanki: They are badass skeletal space pirates that sometimes ride dragons and hunt mind flayers. How can you not love that?
4, Goblinoids: I love all three types, Goblins, Hobgoblins, and Bugbears, and think they can be fit into any campaign easily.
3. Tieflings: I had a whole arc revolved around these sexy devil people in my 4e campaign and they worked so well I can’t wait to use them again.
2, Drow: I’ve always found these spidery dark elves to be fascinating, even if they have been overplayed in the Forgotten Realms setting.
1. Yuan-ti: I’ve always loved these snake people, so I built my first 5e campaign around them, but I haven’t gotten the group together for over a year. I hope to revive the campaign since getting Volo’s Guide because they really fleshed them out in that book.
Apparently I like humanoid monsters best, probably because they have cultures that can be really delved into which gives them more personality.
That was great. I hope you guys do a Top 5 Worst D&D monsters too!
We always laugh at Matthew’s funny jokes.
Lol,. Well I thought the Jedi Gelatinous Cube was a good one. ;)
Wizardry Carrion Crawler pic located here: http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/akalabeth-world-of-doom/pictures/