Imported monsters?

[Scorpion13]

How many other monsters from other D20 compatable sources do you use in your games? Like, do Mind Flayers usually show up in your games? Howabout Yuan-Ti? Ever throw in an Owl-Bear or something like that?

For myself, I use the Fire Lizard from the Tome of Horrors. Its a good cross between the dragon of Conan lore, and an actual fire breathing dragon. And it has a large list of various snakes and their venoms in the back as well.

I dont usually use orcs in my game, seeing as how its kinda pointless since there are 3 different kinda of beast-men in just the Return to the Road of Kings book that fits the orc's schtick just as well.

Dire animals get lots of time in my games, and so do dinosaurs. Really, any kind of animalistic monster with no weird powers gets time in my games.

What sort of monsters does everyone else use?

 

[flatscan]

I've used Dire Monitor Lizards recently from Sword & Sorcery's Creature Collection (can't remember which volume though). I've also used an Otyugh living inside a dragon's corpse that was blocking the PCs path. Beyond that, only Conan critters.

 

[zozotroll]

Was about to make a comment about this then noticed this thread.

At the moment, as i dont have the beastiary yet, I am importing things, but not calling them by DnD names. Just use them as unknown uglys. It has worked so far.

Besides when most opponents are human, it is only a few monsters.

 

[Jeffreywns]

I have found the D20 Call of Cthulhu book as fun source for both monsters and artifacts. The Book of Eibon is being sought by my party in Nordheim and I plan on using a few creatures from it.
Until now all my Lovecraftian critters were out of the Conan books.

 

[David St-Michel]

I haven't used anything non-conan up to now.

Then again, they just crawled their way up to level four after a nice run-in with a group of 30-some rogues in corinthia and their higher-level boss.

...wait, that's not true. The first beasties they encountered were some Deep Ones that were praying to an enormous block of obsidian. And when they finally got off that unnamed island, they saw an enormous shadow looming over the volcano that was the island's center. Like some cyclopean Deep One, only millions of years old.

 

[treeplanter]

I've used monster from DnD before, but now i've the bestiary no more need to do that

David, I sent you a PM.