Rime Worm Massive, crystal encrusted slugs with a mass of tendrils pouring out of their mouth full of serrated teeth, rime worms are fierce hunters of northern tundras. Infused with elemental energy, they can spray skewers of void infused ice to bring down prey, and are on occasion kept as guard…

Rift Swine A breach in the walls of reality, a wash of energy from an alien dimension, and things change irrevocably. Living creatures undergo unnatural mutations, environments warp and become unrecognizable, and things come through that are not supposed to be here. Rift swine represent one…

Ravenfolk Ravenfolk are tricksters, scoundrels, and schemers who trade in secrets and information. Some greater power oversees them, using them as spies and agents, and granting blessings in return to ensure their easier success. Warriors and divine leaders for the ravenfolk carry rune carved…

Ravenala Ravenala are a tropical branch of treants, living in much warmer, equatorial climates and protecting those natural environments. They are also a bit lighter than more boreal treants, and focus on some more magical powers when confronted with threats. This magic is usually meant to…

Ratfolk Ratfolk are even lighter and quicker than halflings, and much be much more cunning to survive. While halflings have fairly pastoral lives, ratfolk must dig out their lives in the slums and least loved of places, seen as barely above the rodents they visually resemble. In their desperation…

Ratatosk While first glance may mistake a ratatosk for the superficially similar squirrels, though such a mistake usually doesn't last long. Significantly larger, ratatosks also have fur that shimmers in a way that defies the surrounding light, and have a pair of (for their size) tusks. Also, they…

Rat King When dozens of rats twist their tails together and they fuse together into a mass of bone and cartilage this creates what is known as a rat king. This happens exceptionally rarely naturally, and in most cases the rats forming the king either die shortly after in panic biting each other…

Ramag In past ages, these beings were pure human, but generations of interaction with planar magic in particular caused strange mutations to occur that became more apparent generation after generation. Ramag are now oddly proportioned compared to most humans, limbs far longer, hair impossibly…

Well, It’s Finished After 7 years of regular sessions, with generally probably a month or two off each year for missed sessions and holidays, my Age of Worms campaign has come to a conclusion. Level 1 to 20, with a homebrew legendary boost to take the characters above and beyond, the final fight…

Qwyllion The name comes from "polluter" in one version of Old Elvish. Qwyllions were once nymphs who were twisted by corrupted magic and severely polluted environments into horrific abominations. Their bodies twist into truly unnatural forms that affect the minds and bodies of those surrounding…

Putrid Haunt Putrid haunts are walking corpses who died while lost in swamps, and become infused with their own resentful fury and merge with the swamp. Mud and moss fuse to the body, filling its blood vessels and undead leeches rapidly replicate along the skin and within the systems. Where one…

Possessed Pillar Possessed pillars are an ancient creation. The original ones look like animal headed humanoids, representatives of ancient gods or demonic figures. The most common ones from these older civilizations have jackal or ibis heads, though baboons, crocodiles, elephants, and hawks were…

Pombero Pomberos are squat fey figures who dwell in shadowy wildernesses. With long limbs and thick hair on the back of their hands and tops of their feet, and a face too wide for their head, they look just unusual enough that they tend to stand out on the rare occasion they're seen. They are…

Ostinato A living piece of music, ostinatos are born from extreme emotions and live by implanting themselves in a person's mind and feeding off of the energy and personality of other creatures. When they inhabit a host they manifest as a bit of repetitive music stuck in the host's mind, constantly…

Corrupting Ooze A festering slime bubbling with rank marsh gas and acidic secretions, corrupting oozes dwell in out of the way corners feeding on whatever flesh they can get. Despite being functionally mindless, they are drawn toward certain unholy creatures, easily directed by fiends, in…

Oozasis Also known as mockmires, oozasis are massive oozes that are far more intelligent than is usually associated with such creatures. Crystal clear, they mimic a safe watering hole, creating an illusion of a healthy and safe place to rest while the oozasis decides if they are well suited for…

Oculo Swarm How does a floating swarm of independent eyes come about? Obviously forbidden magical experimentation, this is no natural evolution. Or even an unnatural evolution. Attempts to create a living scrying sensor did not work as intended, the eyes becoming self-aware and fiercely dedicated…

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Noctiny Once other humanoids, noctiny are corrupted by fell power and transformed. While they superficially resemble the people they were before, the transformation they submit to for power washes away much of their previous identity, leaving them a much more homogeneous group. Sallow and gaunt,…

Nkosi Nkosi are a type of bestial humanoids, with aspects of lions to their form. Eyes, tail, fur, and teeth. They do not merely have lion aspects however, being born with the innate ability to shapeshift into a lion's form, though most do not have the strength or size of a true lion. Their scouts…

Nightgarm Nightgarm are unholy creatures created by a foul ritual performed over a pregnant warg. The cubs from such a ritual are nearly always stillborn, but rarely the ritual instead sticks and the newly born is a nightgarm. Always female, they are dedicated to harassing and destroying the…

Nichny Nichny are deeply xenophobic and aggressively carnivorous fey beings that live in primeval forests and dispense luck, both good and bad. Despite their intense desire to be left alone, they are often sought out for the luck they can provide and for their oracular powers. Legend holds that a…

Naina These almost universally female faerie drakes are extremely elegant and majestic, plumed with feather-like hairs and glittering, multicolored scales. They are capable of taking on a humanoid form, which is consistent and specific to each naina, and will often be either an elderly human woman…

Myling The myling was first made a while back as a backer request, but now that I've reached this point in the book itself I've gone back and edited those stat blocks with more experience and under my belt. The differences aren't too extreme, mostly just formatting and adjustments. Myling are…

Deathcap Myconid Each version of these games has a different sentient mushroom people, so each game will therefore need distinct fluff on how the deathcap shows up in that game's setting. Generically, deathcaps are mostly peaceful despite their extremely toxic spores they produce. They will use…

Venomous Mummy These mummies are created with wrappings soaked in strong venom, infused with magic and divine power to ensure it never loses its potency no matter how much time passes, and charged with acting as agents of vengeance for their patron. This poison carries a divine curse with it,…

Moss Lurker Moss lurkers look like a troll the size of a gnome, with a personality more toward brutal bullies. Despite their small size, they are often fans of large, heavy weapons, often wielding blades that seem too large for their bodies rather than their natural claws or something more…

Morphoi Morphoi are shape-shifting plant creatures that can take the form of nearly any creature. In their natural form, they appear as 5 to 6 foot tall androgynous beings with blue skin, and two eyes on each the front and back of their head, and no other features. They have a dark red sap in…

Starting a reaction thread on 13th Age 2E. First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

I've just had certain battles where 0 hp was the point NPCs retreated, rather than died. Still mechanically identical to a regular battle, but works for when the players don't necessarily want to kill these specific foes.

Mordant Snare A gigantic, dark gray, 11 armed starfish, the mordant snare is an artificially created bioweapon designed to eliminate entire villages at a time. They use spiked filaments within their many arms to inject acid within the bodies of living creatures, dissolving the internal structures…

Monolith Constructs Beautiful and elaborate suits of armor animated with shadow magic and fueled by a flickering blue flame that is both freezing cold and burning hot to the touch, these constructs are more decoration that guardian, being fairly fragile for their cost. They are inordinately…

Mngwa Mngwa are elusive cat-like creatures with high intelligence and the ability to speak with other felines. They are strong and cunning, picking hunting grounds among rocky and terrain and foggy weather to better suit their hunting skills. The strongest mngwa will recruit other great cats into…

Mirager and Miremal A pair of fey beings for this update. Mirager Fey creatures of deserts and oasis, miragers in their natural form appear to be roughly humanoid sand figures, though few see them in this form. They typically remain disguised as humanoids, taking on attractive appearances clad in…

Map Mimic and Mindrot Thrall Map Mimic Stunted or young mimics, these aren't truly separate creatures from regular mimics. These are simply noted distinctly for surviving in a territory outside of usual mimics, infiltrating libraries and other regions of civilization and feeding off of small pests…

Dragotha For the finale of my villain special month, I have one of the most highly recognized foes from a D&D adventure. Dragotha is the foe for the second last part of the Age of Worms adventure path, second only to the demigod Kyuss in power, and has proved an insurmountable roadblock for many…

Azgarrak, Breaker of Worlds The final villain from 13th Age, Azgarrak comes from the Book of Demons and is one of the most dangerous non-Icon enemies in the setting. His abilities strike at parts of the mechanics that aren't normally targeted, including the ability to force players to choose…

The Whispering Tyrant The last update for villain month from Pathfinder, we have one of the greatest threats in the setting. In 1e he came out to a clean CR 26, not the absolute highest but not a lot of figures outside demon lords outstrip him (and he even poses a greater threat than some of the…

The Council of Slave Lords Happy Halloween Wordpress! For this post, I decided to go back to AD&D and find a major villain who, to my knowledge, has never actually been updated to any later edition of the game. That was actually somewhat of a challenge, as pretty much all the iconic villains have…

The Maker of Many Another 13th Age free adventure villain, the Maker of Many comes from a high level one shot adventure called Swords Against Owlbears. The premise of this involves the party being prisoners of the creator of the owlbear and many other mutated and warped creatures, the Maker of…

Belcorra Haruvex The final villain for the Abomination Vaults adventure path in Pathfinder 2e, Belcorra doesn't need a PF2e conversion. Even with the remaster, her stats are pretty close to the same, just with some renamed spells and abilities, and dropping the alignment tag. A ghostly sorcerer…

Zithiruun, the Broken General This particular villain might be the most obscure of all the ones I pick for this month, at least within his own system. This is mostly because he's from 4th edition, the version with the fewest well recognized adventures released for it. Checking popular…

Master Throatslitter The Eyes of the Stone Thief adventure is the big adventure for 13th Age. As far as I've been able to tell, no other premade adventure is as large, with this one spanning levels 4-8, with dozens of encounters you're meant to mix and match into the story based on the decisions…

Nualia Nualia was the final boss of the very first Pathfinder Adventure Path book, and one that Paizo would probably make differently now so many years later. Her story has some of the more edgy aspects that early Pathfinder leaned into. The story of a young woman miscarrying a demon child and…

The Lord of Blades Giving a little love to the Ebberon campaign setting with the Lord of Blades. For those not in the know, Ebberon originated the warforged player option, a very mechanically powerful race with a lot of resistances and immunities to various conditions, and which have remained a…

Owlbeard the Pogonomancer 13th Age provides a slight complication for villain month (maybe I should have planned this out more fully ahead of time), in that it has a lot fewer iconic villains (who are also within range of combating a party, the Icons themselves don't count for this purpose). It's…

Barzillai Thrune Pathfinder has fewer iconic villains than D&D, partly due to its much shorter lifespan (around 20 years compared to around 50 years), but also because the living setting of Golarion kills quite a few of its villains. The rapid pace of adventure paths for much of Pathfinder's…

Count Strahd von Zarovich Our first classic villain for Halloween, Strahd von Zarovich is one of the major iconic enemies of D&D's history. Originating all the way back in AD&D's adventure module I7, he has had stats in every edition of the game since and two additional full adventure books…

Mi-Go and Millitaur Mi-Go Mi-go are a fungal, space faring species of great scientific curiosity and malevolence. They travel to new worlds in large groups, folding space to cover distance at incredible speeds. When they find a world they proceed to experiment and research into it, starting with…