The 5 Types of Monsters and How to Use Them
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- To use monsters as a storytelling element in your campaign, you need to understand the fundamentals of how monsters work in stories. So let's discuss the foundations of monsters, why they are important, the types of monsters and how to use them in your campaign! Here we go!
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Had a campaign with an npc (city official and guild leader) that was sending the characters on quests and jobs of all kinds. He would support them with decent pay and information, as well as occasional bits of gear or loot they needed. After many months of gaming and working for this man, the players were noticing the numbers of "bandits" and "evil cults" were increasing, but the npc never sent them on those quests. After nearly a year of gaming, they learned their benefactor was a doppelganger, and was leading the people into a cult of Orcus. All of the other people they had helped and rescued from various tragedies were other agents. Now, the players had to save themselves from those they saved.
Excellent example! Thank you! 👏
Great stuff. I feel like this video could have a follow up video with these ideas applied to an example one shot or campaign. Maybe to show the narrative flow or other use of these monster categories. Just a thought. Keep up the great work. 👍
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Great idea! That sounds fun! Monster Course 102 😉
Excellent content as always
Thank you!
One of my all time favorite locations in all of D&D lore is Droamm. A entire nation of monsters founded by three hags. During a huge war, they just said enough is enough and they set up their own nation so they could stop being hunted and killed and the world was too fractured to do anything about it.
Basically, you name it and you could can find it, and they have a population of half a million, except of course for humans and elves and the like.
OooOoooOo!! Super cool!
@@HalflingHobbies I just love the idea of half a million "Monsters" but like 90% of them have exceedingly mundane lives.
The entire nation is split amongst three warlords, but the hags desperately want to be recognized as an official, peaceful sovereign nation, so they don't tolerate any bullshit. The warlords are like mayors, any petty crime is basically overlooked but anything violent or major and the hags themselves will intervene and HARD. As a result, everyone more or less self governs and it's actually a pretty chill place to be. Lots of monstrous races and outcasts try to move there. You could have a Lamia bartender or a Chimera barber.
In a lot of ways, it's actually the most progressive spot in all of Eberron because it's the one place where truly you won't be judged for your race. Even humans can visit as long as they don't bring their prejudice with them.
My favorite is the skulking stalker
It gives me clues and cues to drop whenever it gets slow
Very insightful video on monsters. Love the examples...Frankenstein is my favorite book...
One example. Frankenstein's monster made great storytelling. ^_^ TY for the Vid keep up the great vids!
you articulate things very well, thank you for the content
Once again I'm "angry" (I'm totally not) at you, for so eloquently wording nebulous thoughts I've had in my head, for years. Well done. Great video
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😂 high praise! Thank you!
Good stuff!
I generally use all types. Like to see players challenged and thinking. I've made a series of counter-partys, that the PCs may meet individually or as party groups. They are also usually intelligent enough to escape when they see the odds have turned against them. They have plans of their own in the world, even if the players don't. These guys become the epic villains and will use the other monster types to their needs to corrupt or demoralize the PCs, and even when the PCs defeat them, their evil, like water, seeks a level through any crack to escape to further harry the PCs and the world around them in their future adventures.
@@danmccann8813 Nice!!
Currently, I have zombie versions of the three players stalking them and making their lives terrible, loosely an allegory to murder hoboism haha. But they were revived from an emergent antagonist they made by ruining a priest's life (i mean, he was addicted to a drug but was a good guy), and scaring a demon by finding out it was possessing the alchemist. So now it possesses the priest, and he's out for revenge hehehe.
Otherwise i like just monster-monsters, and the looks-like-monster-but not
Thank you!!
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Lol! Thank you!
"You better ask my mama how to make a monster!" --The Cramps, "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon"
Gygax said that the worst monsters were humans, and really nothing is more dangerous to a group of pc's than a group of similar-level npc's, or one npc of much higher level.
Gotta say, I have to disagree with your take on Snape. He is a monster - a fedora-wearing, child-abusing monster. A few “good” deeds (as “justice” for Lily, who he called a racial slur) does not erase the absolute abuse he hurled at 3/4 of the students.
I can buy “Oh, Harry was a trigger because James tortured him,” but what about Neville? Frank and Alice were never mentioned as torturing Snape, but Snape was so cruel to Neville that Snape was his boggart. Not Bellatrix, who tortured his parents into insanity; Snape, his teacher.
Also, while I’m at it? Dumbledore out here with the “doesn’t look the part,” because he really raised Harry to be a sacrifice. And you can say “He knew Harry wouldn’t die,” but, like, he kept sending him back to the Dursleys (who are revealed to be even worse than expected if you read Cursed Child) to be abused. So Harry was ABUSED and TRAUMATIZED for ten years with no glimmer of hope for escape because Dumbledore wanted to raise him like a lamb for slaughter to save the rest of the wizarding world. And, sure, maybe Harry agrees at 17, but between the Dursleys and his teenage years having to be the savior of wizards and save them from Adolf Voldemort, what else was he going to say? He has been conditioned into believing he is only worthy of love when he’s their savior.
That makes them both monsters. Like, yes, Umbridge was lawful evil and Quirrell was working for Voldy, but just because they were more overt with their monstrous acts doesn’t mean Snape and Dumbledore aren’t monstrous as well.
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