The telesthetic hounds of Gnydrion are a domestic animal of obscure origins. As their name suggests, they are superficially similar to the c...

The Phlegethon is a river of blood, formed from the runoff from infernal slaughterhouses and soul-rendering plants. Where it snakes throu...

When the hordes of the Abyss surged toward the very borders of Hell, one of the mightest of that host was only brought down on the plains of...

The original version of this post appeared in 2011... Bored with the standard monsters? Tired of the same old thing? Here’s a couple of mech...

This alternate, sci-fi origins of Mind Flayers and Gith-folk first appeared in 2016...   There was a colony ship, sent out from Earth or...

An orphaned Secret Santicore request in 2013 was for “better draculas.” This cryptic request I interpret in as referring to D&D’s pro...

In dark places where nightmares thicken and curdle, bugbears are born. They're gangling things with burning coal eyes that stare out...

Over at at Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque , Jack points out that it would be trivially easy to have Strahd meet Dracula given the ...

The original version of this post appeared in October of 2013... Zombie apocalypses have been done to death with films, books, and tv shows....

This comes from a productive accidental brainstorming with Richard and Mateo  on the late G+ back in its glory days of 2015. Chromatic ...

The original version of this post appeared in 2010... "Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his hom...

A goblin made with Hero Forge, colors accurate to the AD&D Monster Manual , except the hair where I had to guess. And here's a H...

If your looking for some alien monsters for any traditional science fiction game you could do a lot worse than starting with the original Fi...

This post was originally presented in October of 2010, part of a series on the Universal Monsters. The gill-man and the werewolf. Both are...

After yesterday's podcast, I had the Universal Monsters on the brain. Probably got another, less frivolous, post on a monster topic.

This post originally appeared in October 2013, but it's always a good time for 'squatch. In a post- Harry and the Hendersons ...

The original version of this post appeared in 2013. The tomb is reopened... MUMMY, BOG These mummies were naturally created but are in...

This is a follow-up to this post . D&D suggests that tribe  Hominini is much like Canini and has species, even genera, close enough g...

A comment by Gus L of the now-dormant Dungeon of Sighs (though he recently started a new blog, I don't have the link at hand), led me t...

Moon Goons get their name from their heads or masks, large, round, and faintly luminous like the Moon, and their vile behavior. The Moon ...