To those who have created their own setting and DM in it, what is the most fearsome monster in your world? I don't mean dark lord/powerful wizard/sapient creature, I mean monster.
To those who have created their own setting and DM in it, what is the most fearsome monster in your world?
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It lives on the ice far to the north, traversing glaciers and seas as it ceaselessly stalks its prey.
the Jotun's name for it is Isbjorn, slayer of Great King Haakon.
the orcs call it Jaakarhu, Certain Death.
to the dwarves, it is Jegesmedve, the White Devourer.
the humans do not have a name for it, as none have ever seen it and lived to tell the tale.
To you, it is your quarry. Will you be the predator, or the prey?
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I have not created any setting and I am not playing any tabletop game because that's for smelly nerds but the most fearsome monster in my head is a big black dragon
Why is nu-/tg/ like this? Everyone just tried to own da OP instead of playing along and being creative.
>hey guys how do you feel about this fantasy concept!?
>FRICKING INCEL NAZI MUSKCHUD SECONDARY TRANSPHOBE NO GAMES E CELEB LOVER BIGOT
Worthless coomer thread about nothing traditional games related appears and it gets 500 replies from you worthless coomer piggies
/tg/ is a dead board. Everyone just retreats into their generals and all other threads are either junk or nogames.
if you can't respect the threat of nature's perfect killing machine, and instead have to resort to "THE BIGGEST BADDEST DRAGON THAT SHOOTS LASERS OUT OF ITS EYEBALLS", then that's a you problem, not a /tg/ problem
notice how he adds nothing to the thread besides complaining about people that don't exist outside his head
anyway, the strongest monster is Godzilla
that not true
godzilla but bigger is better
I don't know, it's annoying anyway.
When did this start anyway, this year?
I don't remember noticing it last year.
I also do not participate in generals or coomer threads
grow up
Fantasy is gay as hell
>Yeah my elves are like vikings and my orcs are Chinese isn’t my setting so different
Biological-Light-Tank or black devils
basicaly if a drake and a PZ-IV H had a baby
sapient as well , their methode of thinking is more close to a monitor but still plenty smart enought to use a maintain guns and vehicles
I've frankly never thought about it. Something like WH40K tyranid bio-titan, I think? If the players will ever meet anything like that, they are either piloting kind of a huge WH40K-like titan-mech-machine, or the thing will not notice them and walk by.
Either way, ever meeting that kind of a power is frankly out of scope of our games so far.
Whales, basically. My setting is an infinite ocean dotted with towering pillars, around which 'small islands' form at varying heights. It might be easier to think of these as mushrooms growing on a tree, like pic related.
From a human's point of view, each of these islands is its own world, complete with their own ecosystems; other pillars are visible in the distance, but these pillars and their islands are basically unreachable, so the people and creatures that live on one island can only theorize that there might be other whole worlds like their own.
The creatures these people face aren't typically too dissimilar from standard fantasy fare, but there are things in the infinite sky and ocean that can eclipse their worlds; these great beasts are typically either feared or revered as gods. Fortunately for the people living on these islands, the giants are wholly unconcerned with their presence, though they may occasionally have to deal with the aftermath of one existing in their vicinity.
The invisible beast who sleeps on the steps of the Tower of Victory, little brother to creation itself, the final judge of the character's worth to remake the world in the image of their choosing.
>I don't mean dark lord/powerful wizard/sapient creature, I mean monster.
Fearsome monsters in my setting typically become sapient somewhere along the line, so this question doesn't go anywhere particularly interesting.
I'm the same too, the biggest scariest, non sapient creature on land
Is probably an animal, likely an elephant
OP's mom
a dragon that ascended to a SpaceJammer who grows endlessly
I made a fantasy setting that was mainly motivated by a player having a warlock that worshiped himself from the future.
I created a monster in the form of a black book that spawned inky tendrils when touched that needed a translation tome to read, as direct contact with it would spell certain death at the hands of the tendrils.
There was a specter that would follow anyone that would make contact with the book too, who would watch and intervene if the player made too much headway in to translating the spooky book. The specter ended up being said player's level 20 warlock from an alternate dimension where he failed to achieve godhood.
Just a dragon. One of the biggest and oldest. In my setting, the level cap is 12, but CRs dont have a cap, and this dragon is 20(ish; it's homebrew). It is gargantuan (which is virtually unheard of for dragons; only ancient gigadragons can get this big) in a world where gargantuan monsters are very rare. When designing this dragon, I just sat down and thought, "What do I really want from a dragon enemy?" and gave it everything.
It's just a fricking dragon (admittedly from space). He's also a Wizard. You're welcome, I guess? This is the least interesting question you could've asked about any setting. Tells you nothing.
why are all you Black folk being so hard on the OP? It's not a bad question; the board is full of absolutely garbage shill threads you should be hating instead.
t. OP
nuh uh
because non sentient threats aren't interesting you're essentially asking
>what's the deadliest natural disaster in your setting
like I guess if your world is some dishonored esque ripoff with void whales you could think of something but most of the time the answer is gonna be something boring or stupid because your question is stupid
You only find the question uninteresting because your homebrew is boring and doesn't have a fun answer.
If you have no interesting answer for the question, then come up with one. That's what we're here for.
OP never said anything about non-sentience
oh, I see it now
it's still fine though; he wants to know about your most powerful monster
nothing wrong with that
The Geezer.
He's thirty feet tall and older than your civilization. Teeth as long as swords, antlers like battering rams, black-feathered wings as long as a jet plane and enough magical weight to throw around that it puts him in the league of demigods and demon lords.
He's also the mayor of the next town over (bustling metropolis), fond of wheat lager (by the tanker truck), and a lovable uncle (the beastman race revere him as their Hyperborean ancestor/Dalai Lama figure)
A very old, very clever, Minotaur. It straddles line in that it is sapient, but doesn’t talk much or have goals other than protecting its labyrinth. It has been the end of generations of heroes, and their legendary weapons may still be found deep within its lair. . .
>lore
Basil the Batlord. He's and ancient wight king, who reigned as the most terrible and fearsome king and warlord in days of olde. Legends say he made pact with a dark lord during his eventual defeat, cursing these lands that he will reign terror upon them, so long as they remember his name.
Basil is buried in a tomb somewhere, lost to time. The extent of his empire's reign is even lost, as items and locations belonging to his conquest are discovered around the world. He's the strongest in my world because he cannot die, unless his name is forgotten. But as long as he has consciousness, he will never stop terrorizing people. Several heroes have beaten him, but he always comes back. He's the only mortal-become-immortal, speaking his name gives him power (like Voldy), and he can be taken as a patron of fear in my games.
>mechanic
Basically, every time I run skeletons, they always belong to Basil's legion. I tally in a notebook every skeleton that died over the course of a campaign, and over a long campaign his skeleton army grows. His tomb is pretty much a random location to encounter, though I've only had one group run the tomb. Whatever the total skeletons killed over the course of the campaign is what's encountered in the underground room, along with Basil himself. The one time I ran him was 5e, as a lich, just downscaled, but I'd really like to run him at high power. He stays on the random encounter table, but after his tomb I just plop him into whatever area the party's in, assaulting locals.
My current setting doesn't really extend beyond the immediate area. Within that context, probably the Draco Pike? Though I am open to the idea of a the strongest being something more mundane but terrifying like a giant catfish or a snapping turtle. I also had the idea for shapeshifting mass of fireflies, but that doesn't sound that threatening.
As of right now, The Emperor. Not because he's exactly the strongest, but anything stronger than him is currently under his command.
He's a mix between Elric, the Emperor from Final Fantasy 2 (not 4, the actual 2) and Xerxes from the movie 300, except a bit more deranged.
I haven't made an exact ranking but there are about two dozen great beasts of divine power, and their territory covers most of the earth and sea. They probably aren't all equals, but I haven't decided on what their differences are. They're immortal, but if by chance one of them was to be killed reality would break around them.
This is the kind of threads we used to have all the time, and everyone just used it to either post their thing or plunder ideas.
I don't know why we tolerate asinine template threads, /misc/bait, horny things and generals over this kind of fun time.
>I don't know why we tolerate asinine template threads, /misc/bait, horny things and generals over this kind of fun time.
shills, corporate or ~~*otherwise*~~
There is a very old Red Dragon that is now very active and very dangerous. He is nearly three thousand years old, centuries beyond the regular lifespan of a dragon. Normally, Dragons that die of old age migrate to the Dragonbone grave sites, lay down, sleep and wake no more, forever living on in the Dragon Dream where they can still have limited access to the mortal world.
This Red Dragon will not get that. He committed a sin so grave against Dragonkind that his soul is forever damned and barred entry to the Dragon Dream. He has stayed off death with alchemy, artifacts and spells for nearly a thousand years, but no more. He will die before the end of the current decade.
He is extremely powerful, ancient, intelligent and learned. He has vaults of artifacts collected over millenia, including some rewards for his original sin. He has vast networks of spies, contacts and followers. He has armies he can call on.
And worst of all, he is desperate beyond measure. He is reaching for any means to stave off death, yet too proud to lower himself to simple Vampirism or other, "common," methods. He can't even become a Dracolich, as this method still involves access to the Dragon Dream. If he dies, his soul will face torment in the lower planes for untold eons.
In his final hours, there is no telling how pathetically desperate and vengeful he could become.
This needs to be the sequel to Honor among thiefs
The Golden Storm, a massive winged creature from beyond the stars. Yeah it's basically ghidorah, there's a whole bunch of kaiju-type creatures sleeping in the world, one of which is the patron for the party's Fathomless Warlock.
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