Monster Menagerie: Gruesome Foes

Gruesome is Good

The most popular fantasy monsters are well understood by players — and that very familiarity robs encounters of suspense. Dragons fly and breathe. Giants hurl rocks. Undead paralyze and drain. Once players have faced the classics a few times, their cousins stop being frightening.

That's when a GM needs to get gruesome.

Monster Menagerie: Gruesome Foes offers templates to make well-known monsters unpredictable and terrifying again. Rather than face yet another color-coded dragon, players find themselves up against a plague dragon capable of ending civilizations or skittering draconic ambush predators obsessed with building the perfect trap. Gruesome foes have uncanny appearances, smells, and sounds that unsettle even veteran characters.

What's Inside

• New templates built around specific fearsome ideas — massive foes wrapped in rotting limbs, insane walking vivisections glimpsing alien worlds
• New feats and alternative class feature options applicable to almost any monster
• Shock Value — a new mechanic explained in full, designed to inject real horror into key encounters
• Templates inspired by classic horror fiction and environmental themes
• Each template includes complete game rules and descriptive material for easy drop-in use
• Includes standard PDF, less-gruesome cover PDF, and printer-friendly PDF

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