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Catoblepas (plural):

I am a big fan of the basic Catoblepas found in Volo's Guide to Monsters, as well as the (slightly) revised version in Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse. It is delightfully weird, but I could never find a reason to include it in an encounter. It just never really fit. 

And now that I finally found a place for it, my players are too high level for these weird swamp death cows to give them any sort of challenge. Unless I had them fight a horde of 12 of them, or something. But that's just... A bit boring.

So, I decided to upgrade the classic catoblepas, turning it into two separate variations: the Stinkeye and the Foulmouth. Where the Stinkeye is basically just a souped up base catoblepas, the Foulmouth instead deviates from the original. With a disease laden bite replacing the tail attack of the original, and some AOE -capability coming from the breath weapon serving as its recharge attack, the Foulmouth is a slightly more versatile (and threatening) swamp cow, while staying true to the (stinky) theme and flavour of the original.

Both of them pack a bit more punch than the original, with flexible multiattacks that take into account the recharge abilities of each version. It's just always more fun when you don't have to choose between a multiattack and the cool *special* attack. With these catoblepas, you can do both! 

Sight Rot

The Sight Rot carried by the foulmouth's bite attack is not detailed here, as it is a part of the 5e Basic Rules, and can be easily found on the internet for free.

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Grabbinator 0704

Now this thing here is a, uhhhh. Well it's certainly something? 

A tiny metallic construct with 4 flexible & prehensile legs, this thing is can either stab your enemies with the dagger taped taped to one of its leg or to its front, you decide; or it can terrify the shit out of, honestly, everyone, as it skitters across the field with its 45ft movement, jumping at its victim's face, grabbing onto it, and then finishing the nightmarish show on its next turn by dumping *whatever* is in its storage directly onto the screaming face of its victim.

Thanks a lot to one of my players, who, after reading the basic description of this thing, immediately asked if they could turn it into a facehugger...

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Glass Elemental: Force of Glass

A composite elemental of fire and earth, capable of fluidly swapping between a sharpened glass shard form and a molten liquid glass form. 

The force of glass works best if found in a desert, a beach, or another sandy area, mostly because of its Melt Sand -bonus action. But you can easily swap the bonus action to be the elemental just letting some of its body melt and spill on the ground, forming the pool of molten glass that way. 

 This was originally designed to work together with the elemental creatures found in "Flee, Mortals! The MCDM Monster Book", but really, it works just as well by itself or alongside any elementals from any source (probably).

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Just a variation on the classic DND chimera, intended to give a slightly bigger challenge, while also being just, kind of weird. I mean, a shark head, a bear head, an ostrich head, AND an additional head where its tail should be, which is a beaver head? The evil wizard or mad scientist responsible for the existence of this fucked up thing must have been scraping the bottom of their severed monster head barrel.