Guests in your dungeon are so important. Just having mindless minions provides little entertainment. If you really want to hear screams from your delvers you need a better class of monsters.
Dungeons and Dragons has existed now for about five decades. Your players probably already know what to expect from monsters that exist in your games. It is time to dig deeper. Much deeper. There are many great sources for monsters outside of the core books for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons or even for Dungeons and Dragons 5E. That is what this post is about.
There is a very good source of books called the Tome of Horrors from Necromancer Games. Each of these thick books is filled with glorious new friends that could populate your catacombs, temples and tombs. I, myself, prefer undead. Of course….I am undead. So that is kind of expected. But these four books have a lot more than just undead in them. They have monsters to fit just about any occasion.
These books are not written specifically for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1E. In fact, each of these books, is written for a different game system. But all are basically D20 systems are and fairly similar. In any event it is not difficult by any means to modify these monsters for use in your game system. And it is definitely worth it. I guarantee that nerdy rules lawyer sitting to the left of your dungeon master screen will not have memorized all of the details of these babies. They will not know what just hit them when you unleash these creatures into your games. And that is when the real fun begins.
If you want to look at these books or purchase any of them you can find them on Drive Thru RPG using the following links:
Tome of Horrors IV – Not available on Drive Thru RPG
Bringing the right guests to the party makes things more enjoyable for everyone. Well, everyone but your delvers, right? But who cares about them anyway. If you really want to paint the tomb walls red then bring these new friends to the game for proper introductions……
