#dndmonster

[dndnekomon]

Fire Sprite concept

[sagaofanewworld]

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A massive apex predator whose potential relatives lived on Earth in prehistoric times.

Tyrannosaurus Novus. The tyrannosaurus hatches from a long, dark, egg about the length of a human torso. Once hatched after 4 months of gestation, a little tyrannosaurus reaches full maturity after 20 years and usually lives for about 30 years. They care quite little about their young.

With its powerful nose, the tyrannosaurus tracks and with its superior, infrared based vision it finds prey day and night. There is no pattern to when it hunts. Some tyrannosaurs prefer to stalk during the day, while others kill at night.

Tyrant of Tyrants. This colossal predator is an apex predator. Smart, fast and equipped with a bone crushing bite, it can hunt and kill almost anything. Its usual prey is huge and the tyrannosaurus will spend most of its time stalking herbivorous dinosaurs. Carrion is also on the tyrannosaurus' menu, but not its preferred food. Unless exceptionally hungry or provoked, it's not a danger to medium and smaller creatures. This means that living in the territory of a tyrannosaurus can often be beneficial to humans and similar humanoids. As long as a farmer keeps only small livestock, the tyrannosaurus will care nothing for them. It will, however, hunt down herbivores that would devour the farmer's crops and also scares off, or devours, many dangerous predators like owlbears.

[ravenhive555]

Basalt caesilian

I hate this.

[lilgreenfox]

🪽📃❄️ [pmd acoustic commission]

[lateniteradio]

This is a 50XP monster, it’s going to sound pretty normal

Comment a monster you would like to hear!

(not attached to WoC or Hasbro)

[paperforge]

The Forgework Bull is out! You can get the paper mini and #VTT Tokens plus some extra Patreon goodies HERE!

[sapphhyra]

Biomagic is the peak of the technological innovations reached by the tamirid empire, but also one of the reason of its downfall. Biomagic combines organic matter with magical pieces of engineering, which results in devices and constructs able to process thoughts and information in ways similar to living creatures.

From Records of Eashes: Tamiri

[artsoccasionally]

So I noticed my work on here is ANCIENT and needed to put up a few of my few of my new(er) pieces.  Cross-Posted on my DA.

[goldmountaingames]

What's our favorite Enfield cub up to this week? Find out at Patreon.com/goldmountaingames

[ordo-scriptus]

It's been almost a full calender month since the Agrax Incident, and I've finally gotten my hands on the new formulation. Tried it out on this Ember Rage Kobold Cavaleer, that's been sat on my desk lamenting it's unfinished nature. I'm obviously going to do some more testing, but right now I'm liking the new Agrax Earthshade. The price is difficult to stomach when it's 18ml for the same price as a 24ml, but at least it isn't a horrible thick gloopy glossy mess! #paintingminiatures #kobold #dndminiatures #dndmonster #dndkobold #dndcharacter #dnd #dndminis #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #epicencounters #shrineofthekoboldqueen #firebrandkobold #emberragefiresnake #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday260 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnOfUStFCi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dragonfangart]

A jumping spider #ettercap in a bowler hat :3 #spider #spidermonster #jumpingspider #dndmonster #dungeonsanddragonsmonster #bowlerhat #monstrosity #abberation #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #art #sketch #penandink #fantasy #fantasycreature #fantasymonster #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CYZ-n6XvpUJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sagaofanewworld]

Read the full book on Wattpad, download an Epub on my website saga-of-a-new-world.com or read it on Amazon.

Elf

Tall. Fast. Resolute.

The forest is bright. The fog is gone, but somehow the world looks a bit strange. A red, barely visible haze hangs over everything, but what catches her attention is the hair that is scattered among the decaying leaves and branches on the floor. The smooth threads are so blonde that they shine white in the sun. Astrid narrows her eyes. Her hair isn't white. At least it shouldn’t be. She wants to touch one of the strands and raises her right hand. The limb feels stiff but moves much faster and with more force than Astrid wanted. Her stiff fingers slam into the forest floor. They are thin and long and part of a pale hand that sits on the end of a thin upper arm. The hairless skin covers thin and well-developed muscles like vacuum-packed foil and emits a red glow.

— Astrid's awakening in the New World

Fast and Slender

Elves possess a slender physique that is accentuated by their triangular faces and pointed ears. Through their thin skin, tight strands of muscles can be seen bulge and contract with every movement. Long and strong legs stride with large and fast steps that makes it as though they are flying over the soil beneath. Split-second reflexes and limbs that move just as fast more than compensate for the innate lack of toughness that comes from having a body made from nothing but muscle and bone.

Most elves are just below or over 2 meters in size and weigh anywhere between 80 and 150 kilograms. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier and stronger than females. Their skin coloration goes from the pinkish ivory of the High Elves to the smooth gold of the Common Elves and the ebony black of the Dark Elves.

Inescapable Gaze

Piercing orange-yellow irises surround their pupils. Elves see in full color. However, the cones that provide most other species with the ability to see red are instead tuned to the deep infrared. While elves cannot perceive the normal color, they instead see the heat radiated by all things in different shades of red. This infrared vision not only means that an elf can see in absolute darkness, but also that there is no hiding from those yellow eyes. To an elf, a living creature is a shining red beacon that is hard to miss, as long as they are not too far away. A downside of their infravision is that the unique way their brains process visual information makes it hard for elves to understand small two-dimensional images. As a result, all elves suffer from a form of dyslexia that prevents them from reading many languages properly. Only their own, specially formatted script circumvents these limitations.

Elves’ pointed ears perceive high-pitched sounds slightly better than low ones, and a bit better from the front than from behind. In general, their hearing and sense of smell are decent.

Long Lives of Violence

Elves have an extremely skewed gender ratio where seven out of eight children are female. Both male and female elves are attracted to physical fitness, speed, and combat prowess. Female elves heavily favor males more proficient in combat than themselves, something they test in mock fights against potential partners.

Unlike those of most races, female elves don't have a monthly menstruation cycle. Instead, only an orgasm will cause an egg to be released and immediately fertilized. A pregnancy takes at least 16 months. If the mother enters a state of intense stress and/or hunger, and no more than 11 months have passed since inception, the fetus enters a sort of hibernation, during which it stops growing. It remains this way until the woman spends a week in a calm, well-nourished state.

Elves are born gaunt and vulnerable and grow slower than humans. For at least the first two years they rely entirely on their mother for sustenance, before they can start eating solid food. Most elven children learn to walk at the age of three. At this stage of their lives, they share their parent's vulnerability to starvation but lack their resistance to infection until they reach full maturity.

As children, elves can have a wide variety of hair colors, ranging from pitch black to dirty blonde. However, when they mature neither gender gains more or new hair. Instead what they already have turns a white, grey, or pale blonde. Most elves start off with only a few white strands in puberty and finally receive entirely white hair by the time they reach full physical maturity at the age of 30.

After reaching full physical maturity elves age at a very slow rate, a fact they owe to their bodies' exceptional regenerative abilities. Coupled with their resistance to disease, elves that survive their childhood can look forward to lifespans of up to 300 years.

Built for Performance

Elves benefit and suffer from a body built for performance. They only need 4 hours of sleep a day and their aggressive immune system makes them all but immune to mundane infections. While their bodies are relatively fragile, their aggressive immune system is too much for most diseases to overcome. Instead of growing fur or insulating layers of fat, the elven body adapts to changing environments by aggressively regulating its body temperature. This makes them highly resistant to environmental effects. All of these features require a lot of energy and because of them, elves are ravenous creatures that require massive amounts of food to sustain their insatiable metabolism. Especially because their slender forms can't contain much in the way of energy reserves, they need a constant supply of protein and calorie-rich food. Fruits and vegetables can stave off starvation but only meat will properly fill them.

Should an elf not fully sate their body's needs, they will find that all those wonderful benefits their bodies provide them disappear and leave them as stumbling skeletons. Starvation is an elf's greatest enemy and it is indeed a formidable foe. It is the reason that, despite their long lives, few elves make it past their first century, as they either die of starvation or in battle trying to secure their survival.

Flexible Adventurers

Like the branches of a young tree, elves tend to be flexible. They bend easily and snap back into form just as quickly. They are restless and in constant search of something to do, however, few things can retain their attention for long before they move on to the next distraction. By nature elves value their freedom highly and are naturally drawn to things that guarantee it. Magic or martial arts are prime examples of such things. As predators, elves have no natural sense of empathy towards non-elves (though most elves do emphasize with other creatures by choice). This, coupled with their natural individualism, causes many elves to adopt a careless, selfish, and arrogant demeanor. Some speculate that it is because of this lack of empathy and natural individualism that elves, despite being very emotional creatures, are so resistant to magic that manipulates emotions.

[missmonstermel]

Fat bottomed baby Owlbears have landed! I will have a batch of ready to ship blanks in the shop THIS WEDNESDAY at 2pm PST! These are raw cast kits and will need seam clean up and some patching before painting. #missmonstermel #missmonster #owlbear #dndmonster #owl #bear #fatbottomedowlbear #dnd https://www.instagram.com/p/CRhmFrvhZxR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lateniteradio]

These seemed way less scary in game.

Comment what monster you want to hear next!

(not attached to WoC or Hasbro. Not for personal use)

[paperforge]

The Dragonborn Warrior [Variant] is out too! You can get the Paper mini and #VTT Tokens plus some extra Patreon goodies HERE!

[marikmizuki]

Want to use the shifter cat in your own game? Now you can!

Thanks to Simone for letting me use her idea.

Need the cats stats close up? See here: