New Monster Group: Fiends!

Happy spooky month everybody! 🎃 🎃

I've got an extra spooky monster group for you this week, FIENDS!

From the deepest pits of the Horrible Beyond come the Horrible and Tyrannical Fiends: evil, black-hearted beings of fathomless hunger. They intrude upon the mundane world when the walls between realms are strained. Some arrive, heralded by the rattle of endless chains, in iron cages that grind upward from below. Some are summoned by cult forces, while others tear their way through reality in black fissures that bleed smoke and flame.

This release is actually TWO monster groups in one. Fiends come in two main categories (chaotic evil and lawful evil, in standard d20 terms): the FIENDISH HORRORS are Brutal & Chaotic, the FIENDISH TYRANTS are Cunning & Lawful.

Some of the New Mechanics:

• The Cowardly Imp, hits hard when allies are nearby, but can hardly fight at all when singled out.
• The Lacerating Hookspawn. Turns tactical movement into a painful puzzle, and larger creatures who can shove heroes around are made even more deadly.
• The Screeching Vrock, with its powerful AoE ability that ignores armor and can even Daze heroes who come too close.
• The Consuming Hezrou, who very well may just EAT you!
• The Spell-Thieving Nalfeshnee, who can copy any spell it has seen cast, or can use its own terrifying Ichorbolt!
• The Tormenting Executor who places heroes in a painful catch-22, should they be Courageous or Cowardly? Heroes can save themselves or doom their entire party!
• The Blackmailing Grumbulus who, when faced with death will sell out his own allies at another chance to live.
• And many more!

Layout

I'm also trying out a new layout for the monster lore and advice. Rather than having it on separate pages (which, if you're like me, you'll skip right over the lore to get to the juicy statblocks) I'm including the lore bits and GM advice right on the same spread for easier use.

Also I'm testing out arranging the statblocks in order of strongest to weakest so that the coolest monsters are front and center. I feel like this makes a much stronger first impression (but as ever, I'm open to your thoughts!).

Vorgrath, the Insatiable

Also included is possibly the COOLEST Legendary Monster I've ever made: Vorgrath, the Insatiable. He offers the heroes cruel ultimatums, and quickly takes advantage of any who would think to escape his torment. Also, instead of choosing one of a few different abilities the GM simply uses each ability in order, allowing the heroes to get a sense of his attack cycle and adapt—and it frees the GM to role-play reeeallly nastily 😏. LOTS of cool stuff going on with this guy, really excited for you all to check him out!

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