#generated monster

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Some beasties @moogleface rolled up with Humblebird’s Infinite Monsters!

A wizard created this gal for a freshman project and immediately “put her in storage” in a dungeon. She spends most of her time starving, but when someone enters her room she’ll eat them, and once her stomach is full she gets sad about how she doesn’t have any friends (because she keeps eating them).

Something or other from a different reality that showed up in the bowels of a fortress. Despite being unable to communicate, it seems to have a desire and aptitude for healing the injured and unwell, which is quite convenient for a military installation. Less conveniently, sometimes it disassembles people while they’re unconscious, so the garrison has come to let it do triage while keeping it away from the infirmary and barracks.

Self-aware rotting peppers that want to stave off oblivion as long as possible. To this end, they stun small animals with pepper spray and assimilate them into their own bodies. The Carolina Reaper of Theseus, you might say.

A sullen strider of the hill country that spends most of its time moping. When it sees travelers, it tends to mope aggressively at them, literally stinking up the area for a few hours. It eventually wanders off when it decides the traveler has an adequate appreciation for its suffering. Bandits in fragrant masks sometimes follow it to rob whoever it’s moping at.

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Tried rolling up a monster, ended up with an incredibly bleak (though not hopeless) setting/story hook. A post-apocalyptic society’s desperate survival measures under the fold:

A lizardfolk community was driven underground when their land unexpectedly froze. Rather than starve or resort to cannibalism, they drew lots and the losers submitted to a grim transformation. Their bodies and souls were hollowed out and the shell that remained was immune to the elements, allowing them to forage for fuel and food in the cold. Once it became clear the surface was never going to thaw, it was expected that the firstborn of every family sacrifice themselves to the community in this way.

Occasionally a living ranger would bundle up and brave the cold to perform a great hunt with their mindless former-kin, or less often, to scout further out. The scouts rarely returned. Elders who remembered a time before the cold hoped that the lost scouts hand found temperate lands and retired rather than risking the return journey. Popular opinion held that they simply froze to death, and public pressure put an end to deep scouting missions.

[the generated monster is the mindless, shadow-filled lizardfolk laborer that wanders the surface, btw]

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Well my monster generator monsters had been mostly whimsical and then I got this fucking thing:

A mindless, mass produced industrial machine that attacks with terrifying darkness. Its body is a tree-like mass of branching limbs of human flesh, with fleshy bellows for some reason.

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A couple undead monsters I generated:

1. A ghost that can't rest because there's too much noise, so it wants to exterminate all life in its neighborhood. When people intrude, it manifests by possessing a swarm of rats and other small critters, and demands the interlopers either exterminate for it or leave, and if they refuse it grabs them and carries them off one by one. When it no longer needs its vessel, the ghost euthanizes the rats.

2. The lonely spirit of someone who drowned in a river, who craves companionship. Its body is a jumbled pile of lily-like hands and grape-like clusters of vesicles that can be popped to disorient grabbed victims. When it sees a potential new friend, it looses some of its hands to swim upstream and downstream to call its other friends over to the party.

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It was the sort of scheme you think of when you hear "a wizard did it." Galadur The Green wanted to talk to plants, so he extracted the souls of all the plants in his garden, blended them together, and injected the resulting abomination directly into his psyche. Instead of translating the sublime language of plants for Galadur, the wretched firidian immediately went feral and now manifests in dreams throughout the world.

Know how to identify the firidian! It is a soggy serpent of woody vines, moss, and lichen, with nothing more for a face than two glowing eyes set in a black void. If cornered, it may lash at you with its vines, so it's best instead to dream of deserts to force it to retreat to more hospitable climes.

Should you encounter the firidian, be careful around your houseplants. The firidian wants to free them from their terracotta prisons, and to this end it uplifts them to sapience (like father like son, the firidian doesn't have the best ideas). Very confused by their new existence, your houseplants may start flailing violently when you approach them. Fortunately, they're still rooted in place and cannot harm you if you keep your distance, and can even be persuaded to calm down if you take the time to talk to them.

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Rolled up some monster friends for friends today:

Ghost of a Pliosaurus who inhabits a bronze Pliosaurus sub-mech and patrols Chicxulub crater just off the coast. She can carry passengers and cargo in internal holds, and fires supercavitating torpedoes at smugglers and dolphins. Likes: meat, picking fights | Dislikes: noise, lewdness

A reserved aloe dragon who shrinks from conflict, though if push comes to shove she has an impressive drill slam attack. Normally a healer, she’s in need of healing herself, as villains have captured her and imprisoned her in an industrial waste dump, where the pollution has rendered her too weak to escape.  Likes: healing, comfort | Dislikes: arguments, clutter

A farming commune in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, whose members are large radiation-powered clockwork insects (firefly, cockroach, mantis, weevil, and others). They love sharing the fruits and pickles of their labor with strangers, as well as indulging in crime that nobody can prosecute them for because who’s going to go into the CEZ to arrest bugs. Likes: strangers, crime, religion | Dislikes: games