rooting for the little guys. kobolds are pretty signature D&D filler mobs. throw some in to make newbie fights a little harder, make them get scared and run away when the fight becomes a little too hard for newbies to handle.

Dungeons & Dickishness

Speaking as someone who has been playing a homebrew version of D&D since 1978, I have to say that I only just very recently introduced Drow elves to my campaign. That's 35 years of not using them, ever.

I often read my son, Father Bear Comes Home, which is filled characters like Little Bear, Mama Bear, Father Bear, Cat, and of course, Owl.

If your GM was really evil (or, y'know, me) that Tarrasque would then show up months or years later, in another campaign, materialising out of thin air :P

I was part of a humourous campagain where we ran into Rocky and Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle did the "watch me pull a Tarrasque out of my hat" routine which had a 1% chance of working. Naturally it worked and our low-level characters were suddenly fighting a Tarrasque. In a previously discovered room there were tapestries…

Yup.

You will never have players more alarmed, active and creative than if you put them into an empty room.

It's not subtle. Final Fantasy I took a lot of its monsters straight from the Monster Manual, and then they got translated back to English: so you've got a "Mindflare" who's a dude with tentacles on his face, and "Ocho" the shambling vegetable monster. The evil fishman, in a nice coincidence, became "Sea Hag".

One of the best monster I ever had in the game was an empty treasure box.

It really is spot-on, isn't it?

Sorry. First edition D&D predates Final Fantasy.

"I’m joking, it’s okay to kill anything in D&D"

"...the Forgotten Realms emo version of Wolverine..."

More pics would've been nice for this walk down memory lane :) As somebody mentioned, the Umber Hulk should have made the list. Let us not forget the Ocher Jelly!

I'm skeptical of both the feasibility and desirability of this. There's a lot of risks.

Fucked if I know - you'll have to ask our furry overlords.

Judging by the comments I see on Youtube and Reddit, I think I'm going to put a firewall on my brain, much less linking it up to others on the net.

Based on how 95% of Internet commenters and message board users automatically agree with whatever the majority opinion is on review scores for any given product, I'd say we're damn near the hive mind point already. Closer than this article even realizes.

The sooner the better! Sign me up for human beta trials. But...uhhh, don't blame me if suddenly the rest of y'all in the network cluster suddenly start collecting antique medical equipment and writing weird Lovecraftian music in Middle-Eastern scales.