They are a viable threat–well, A) you don’t have to be so loud, I’m right here. Ghoulsīut wait, you might be shouting at your screen, ghouls are a staple of undead encounters. Did you invest a lot of money in buying a suit of plate mail for your character? Hope you roll well on your save, or all that gold is basically gone. Sure, some editions tried to make it so that they only affected non-magic weapons, but, even so, they were one surefire way to get any party of players up in arms. Rust Monsterīecause if there’s one thing that every player loves, it’s losing all of their hard-earned equipment.
From kobolds, orcs, and goblins, to dragons, beholders, and gray renders there’s no shortage of friends to make or foes to fight, sometimes you start off fighting one, and then you end up giving it a name and it now this weird goblin or beholder that your party “adopted” is the one thing in the world you’d die for.Īnd then there are the ones that, when you see their minis hit the table, you groan, roll your eyes, and prepare for an hour and a half of torture and tedium. The pages of the Monster Manual are ripe with possibilities. Dungeons & Dragons is home to monsters of all shapes and sizes–but these five might garner some groans when they show up on your tabletop.
