r/bettermonsters

I've got a low-tier dungeon (party is level 4) that I'm wanting to populate with skeletons and skeleton-adjacent monsters. The dungeon setting is an ancient ossuary that contains a long-forgotten shrine to Jergal (God of the Dead), so I'm hoping to avoid "fleshy" undead, but anything fun would be a big help.

I'd also be interested to see any interesting oozes or fungus as well. I love me a black pudding or a gelatinous cube but they do get boring.

Really, anything that would live in an ossuary that hasn't seen any real activity, or access from the outside world, in centuries.

Thank you!!!

Hey Mark I’m looking for more bestial tropical sea creatures to populate the archipelago my campaign takes place in. Just cause their beast like doesn’t mean they can’t be unintelligent I’m just looking for something non humanoid.
Thanks

TW: there might be some bad grammar cause english isn't my first language

So I'm writing a story and the characters are humanoids based off of ghouls from different country's folklore and I have this idea of a character that seems to have multiple personalities but in reality they're just a hivemind, like a swarm of bugs, parasites or anything that came together and formed a human body, sorta taking inspo from dnds worm that walks

I would just like to ask if anyone knows some kind of ghoul or folklore similar to this that I can use as reference?

Hi Mark, do you have a list of monsters you’ve given the mythic trait? I’m looking for references to make my own and I really like how you make the monsters statblock actually change up a bit compared to most of the official ones that just reset its health and give it one new legendary action.

This is every category in fantasy media (please tell me if I missed any)

however don’t tell me something like hydra, when dragons are part of their group, anything that doesn’t include other races

(hobbits are not humans, at least I think, they’re like foxes to wolves, both canines but are not the same, cousins so to speak)

I’m currently trying to make my own comic, and I need to know all lot of creatures to do it, and I just want to talk about it

These are them;

Humans, hobbits, elves, pigmen, dwarfs, trolls, goblins, dragons, spirits, vampires, mermaids, sirens, angels, demons, undead, golems, gods, Demi-gods, slimes, mutants, mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, living machines

Hey Mark, was wondering if you had a better version of Storm Herald, or if you had an idea how to improve it.

Thank for your hard work, as always!

So here's the thing: in my homebrew setting, the Beasts are, like, a third faction of primordial power, on par with Dragons and Giants! And while I can figure it out from lore standpoint, I don't think I ever seen any animals (or their fantastical versions) with CR above 10 that weren't dinos...

And, since my players are about to get tangled in the affairs of Therilords, someone's gonna have to kick their teeth in! Happen to have any big bad wolves and/or such?

Hey Mark! I've been running my current DND campaign and there's a leader of a hyper advanced country that is the BBEG and he abandoned his humanity to advance the world continuously. In order to keep moving forward he created a phylactery so that way he could infinitely push humanity forward. You wouldn't happen to have any stat blocks or would be willing to create a new one, would you?

My BBEG's companion is an ancient deep crow and want to do it justice. They're really cool creatures but their statblocks are pretty dated.