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Monsters 09/15/16(Thu)17:01:53 No.49363306
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Monsters Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)17:01:53 No.49363306 Archived
/tg/, I require your great minds for some brainstorming.

For a while I've been wanting to put together a sort of bestiary as a pet project. I'm a (mediocre) artist and I think it'd be a really fun way to practice. So, can we have a thread for monsters? Whether from actual myths, favorite made up fantasy monsters, monsters you've invented yourself, anything that might look good in a bestiary. You're welcome to dump pictures, write descriptions, tell stories about stuff that happened in your games, we can consider it a general inspiration thread.

For my own goals, I'm going to be aiming to emulate a style evocative of pic related, written in a quasi scholarly way. Once I get the project off the ground I'll be sure to report back.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)17:18:55 No.49363518
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)17:18:55 No.49363518
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>>49363306
I have a few. I tend to only save something if it's unusual (I'm afraid that I rarely get a thrill from a pic of a minotaur or goblin, since I've been playing fantasy games for 20 years or so).
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Anonymous
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09/15/16(Thu)17:27:37 No.49363621
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)17:27:37 No.49363621
>>49363306

One of my favorites that really stuck with me is the giant spider who's camouflage is that of a city beggar or stabbing victim. There is a picture of it floating around somewhere but I didn't save it when I saw it.

Also love the project and it is one that I have thought of doing myself as well, really adds something to the world.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)17:33:31 No.49363692
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09/15/16(Thu)17:34:28 No.49363707
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)17:34:28 No.49363707
>>49363306
mankind was the real monsters all along
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)17:34:47 No.49363711
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09/15/16(Thu)18:07:20 No.49364089
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)18:07:20 No.49364089
Bump.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)18:14:46 No.49364179
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)18:14:46 No.49364179
>>49363692
is that thing a fourth leg or a dick?
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)18:16:59 No.49364203
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>>49363306
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)18:19:13 No.49364231
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)18:19:13 No.49364231
>>49363306
For some reason an idea that keeps sticking in my head lately is the "balloon frog". It would be an exaggeration of how frogs will swell themselves up with air to intimidate predators. The younger ones would be able to float that way, get from pond to pond when migrating or something. But as they aged they'd get huge, adopt a more sedentary lifestyle, but be able to use their now enormous throat sacks to exhale gale force winds to defend themselves with.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)18:20:49 No.49364251
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)18:20:49 No.49364251
>>49364179

Use your imagination.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)18:24:46 No.49364292
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)18:24:46 No.49364292
Radon Elementals.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)18:50:27 No.49364586
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)18:50:27 No.49364586
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>>49363621
I got you.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)19:46:25 No.49365143
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)19:46:25 No.49365143
>>49364586

Many thanks kind wanderer
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)22:00:38 No.49366924
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)22:00:38 No.49366924
One useful thing for you might be running through different subspecies throughout the world. Not just an entry for Dragons but also for Celestial or Aquatic species

Or maybe some different entries for Mountainous vs Plains Minotaurs
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)22:05:27 No.49366990
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)22:05:27 No.49366990
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>>49363306
Capelobo
>Means "broken bone wolf"
>big, strong claws to crack your skull
>anteater head that slurps your brain out of it
>or it cuts your throat and sucks your blood
>round hooves that difficult tracking
>it also eats recently born cats and dogs
>can only be killed if you shoot his bellybutton
>some xingu indians from Brazil could become one

Also, archives. Lots of ideas:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17057731/
>Mythological creatures that are much more fucked up IRL myths than in the RPGs they appear in.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18350298/
>desert/Arabian Nights

https://warosu.org/tg/thread/30685000
>How can I make witches a legitimately terrifying threat?

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4847968/
>vampires I

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18442709/
>vampires II

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/33071790/
>werewolf

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/41729483/
>favorite folklore monsters
>The copper penis owl.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/45778623/
>real life magical realm
>legless brother bug impregnates his sisters and dies. then the sisters are born
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)23:09:53 No.49367819
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)23:09:53 No.49367819
>>49366990

This list is excellent, thanks a ton.

>>49366924

I also like this idea of doing variants of certain species, it could be an interesting approach compared to the usual grab bag of monsters.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)23:20:57 No.49367955
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)23:20:57 No.49367955
>>49363306
My favorite one I made was a frog with large porous holes on its back.
The holes emitted an odor that was dependent on its diet. Naturally, the frogs eat a myriad of disgusting things to emit a vile and toxic smell to ward away predators, but people have found that you can feed these frogs various other things to make much sweeter smells.

lots of people own them as pets, and crush up flowers to mix in with the frogs diet to make their homes smell nicer.
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Anonymous
09/15/16(Thu)23:27:00 No.49368029
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)23:27:00 No.49368029
Shafter:
Tall and thin, they look as though they were made from wheat shafts.

Resistant to piercing and bludgeoning damage, vulnerable to ice, extra vulnerable to slashing and fire
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Anonymous
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09/15/16(Thu)23:45:42 No.49368255
Anonymous 09/15/16(Thu)23:45:42 No.49368255
>>49364179
Anything is a dildo if you are brave enough
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Anonymous
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09/16/16(Fri)04:12:52 No.49370884
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09/16/16(Fri)05:19:22 No.49371264
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Anonymous
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>>49370884
>a herd of these creatures is lead by a matriarch
>the mother phooka
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