#monster week

[dingodoodles]

Time to celebrate Monster Week and this year GinnyDi and Pointy Hat made it about dragons!🐲

So tonight I will be doing a live stream drawing a dragon I CREATED. While chatting with a QnA

Tonight @ 5:30pm PST here on youtube :3

[herrnethar6]

This year's Monster Week theme is Fey, so I painted some new Fey Minis Nightmare Fey Fey Court Knight Dryad in homegrown Combat armor As well as reposting some previous Fey minis Fey Monarch Ginny Di's Fairy OC Fairy Rogue with prosthetic Wing

[nite0304]

Monster Week day 2!

Here is the full base Dragon Class!

As you can see, it is a half-caster focused on big area damage, with decent martial capabilities.

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[cyberkevvideo]

Race/Species Conversion - Killoren (3.5e to 5.5e)

Another year has come and gone, and another Monster Week has arrived (April 20-24). This year, it's everything that has to do with the fey. When I did Kraken Week, I did species options, and when I did Dragon Week, I converted monsters to add to the game. I figured this year I'd go back to converting a playable to race to the newly minted 5.5 (formally 2024) rules.

Reminder that this was originally created and hosted by Point Hat and Ginny Di, for YouTubers to come together and do videos on that year's chosen monster. It’s been encouraged for others to join in as well. I’m not a YouTuber, so I post to this Tumblr blog.

The artist is for the logo is Antonio Demico, aka Pointy Hat himself.

For this entry, we're looking at the killoren from the Races of the Wild 3.5 book that came out in February 2005, over 22 years ago.

Without just copying and pasting everything here, the Forgotten Realms wiki has ecology lore on the killoren. When I mentioned the Races of the Wild book, I linked that to the original 3.5 design so you could compare this version with that one, if you wanted to. Overall, I think I did a pretty good job in keeping it close to the original, while balancing the aspects to each other.

As before with my entries, there’s no real “official” way to judge how powerful a creature is. There are definitely a lot of 3PP supplements and homebrew out there, which I tend to have to use as a guide. For this, I used the updated Detect Balance Plus, which did both 2014 5e and 2024 5.5 breakdowns on the same spreadsheet. This worked out to be around 32 points, which is close to where the elf and gnome sit. I was thinking of doing more, as dragonborn, goliath, and warforged are even more powerful, but ultimately decided against it. You'll notice this species doesn't have darkvision, which is rare in current day D&D, but a lot of fey like the changeling, fairy, and centaur do not.

Now, let's talk stats.

I'd forgotten how bare bones 5.5e design is. You're defaulted to a narrow choice of alignment and age, available languages are determined by DM, and your ability scores are now determined by your Background.

Killoren

Creature Type: Fey Size: Medium (about 5–6 feet tall) Speed: 30 feet

As a Killoren, you have these special traits.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Manifest Nature's Might. After you finish a Long Rest, choose one of the options below. The manifested aspect lasts until you choose a different one with this trait. Here are the aspect options: Aspect of the Ancient. Your hair becomes snow white and your eyes turn sky blue. You have Expertise in the Intelligence (Nature) skill, gain resistance to Psychic damage, and are immune to the Charmed condition. Aspect of the Destroyer. Your hair and eyes turn coal black. When you hit a target with an attack roll and deal damage to it, you can also deal 1d6 Radiant damage to that target. The damage increases by 1d6 if the target is an aberration, construct, fiend, humanoid, ooze, or undead. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. Aspect of the Hunter. Your hair and eyes turn forest green, and your skin color becomes an earthy-tone brown. When you roll Initiative, you can add your Proficiency Bonus to the roll. In addition, you gain proficiency in the Perception and Stealth skills if you don't already have it, and you have Advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Naturalist. You have proficiency in the Animal Handling, Nature, or Survival skill.

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As always, if you like what I do, whether it’s monster conversions, adventure path add-ons, or race builds, I have a Ko-Fi page (linked) for those who would like to support me monetarily. There is no pressure or obligation to do so. A like and/or a share would also be appreciated just as much. It lets people know I exist out there.

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

Cryptomundo » Monster Week returns to Animal Planet Memorial Day Weekend

Rhys Darby appears briefly in the video. Unfortunately the Cryptid Factor host segments for Monster Week in 2018 don’t appear to be on YT.

[sirkendallgirl]

okay so apparently The Cryptid Factor hosted Monster Week on the Animal Planet back in 2018 and there's like ONE clip on the network FB and I can't find anything else 😭

might be a long shot but does anyone know if their stuff is even still up somewhere or where to find it?

[icollectyoursins]

Thank you for so many requests, but I'm gonna close them for now. I have a lot to write! They will be open again soon, gonna see if I can crank out some spicy, spicy monsters for you all!

[unofficialrivermonsters]

S8: Devil of the Deep; River Monsters: Live After Show