D&D (2024) What old monsters should return to 5e?

NN · Mar 3, 2025

Gibberlings and Qullans. Let the mindless slaughter commence.

TiQuinn · Mar 3, 2025

There also used to be a lot more oozes as I recall - stuff like Olive Slimes, Mustard Jelly, Brown Pudding, White Pudding.

Corinnguard · Mar 3, 2025

Spelljammer's Bionoids. Someone back then took the Guyvers from the anime series of the same name and made them into a D&D monster for 2e.

Demetrios1453 · Mar 3, 2025

the Jester said:
As a huge monster fan... all of them.

Yes, horrifying creatures like the dharculus; the scalamagdrion; the penanggalan; the gibberling (and its offshoot, the brood gibberling); but also things like the bunyip; the odopi; the corpse collector; and even sillier monsters, like the the adherer. The spanner. Even the tirapheg.

All monsters can be rehabilitated; the tirapheg in my game is a horrible fusion of torture victims created by agents of Torog, the god of torture. It just takes a little thought to come up with how a given monster can work. And there is so much potential for all the monsters we haven't seen in years or decades. There are very few monsters that I think don't deserve a second (or third, or fifth) chance.

Gibberlings (and a swarm of gibberlings) appeared in Tales from the Infinite Staircase.

Demetrios1453 · Mar 3, 2025

Corinnguard said:
Guardinals, Celestial Eladrin, Archons, Lung Dragons, Planar Dragons, Para-Genasi.

Lantern, Hound, and Tome Archons, and Musteval, Equinal, and Avorial Guardinals appeared in the Planescape set.

Chaltab · Mar 3, 2025

Corinnguard said:
Hehe. The trouble would be which ones. Among the archons, my favorites were the Hound, Stag and Warden archons. As for the Guardinals, it was the Lupinal and PF1's Draconals.

I was referring to the ones in Morte's Planar Parade: Mustival, Equinal, Avoral, Warden, Lantern, Hound.

Edit: Oops beaten to the punch.

Corinnguard · Mar 3, 2025

Chaltab said:
I was referring to the ones in Morte's Planar Parade: Mustival, Equinal, Avoral, Warden, Lantern, Hound.

Edit: Oops beaten to the punch.

In the upcoming 3pp book Caliya's Chronicle of Runes, you can play one of the Unbound Archon subspecies as a PC.

The archons are an elite race of holy warriors and guardians from the Upper Planes who fight unyieldingly to protect their home and the innocent of the multiverse. On rare occasion, these celestial champions may become burdened by their duties or feel they are no longer mentally, physically, or spiritually fit, and may choose to relinquish their divinity and immortal life of service.

There are seven subspecies of Unbound Archon in this 3pp. Axiom, Hammer, Hound, Soothsayer, Stag, Trumpet and Ursa (formerly Warden).

Levistus's_Leviathan · Mar 3, 2025

Sacrosanct said:
Like the werebat (and various types of werebat)

There are werebats in Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Just of one variety, though.

ECMO3 · Mar 3, 2025

Gully Dwarves!

Dragonlance without gully dwarves just feels like something is missing.

TheSword · Mar 3, 2025

I’ll throw in the Dark Sun monsters - Gith, Baazrag, Tembo, Kirre, Beasthead Giants, Cistern Fiends, Belgoi and many many more.

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