Th Yuan Ti are a race of snake-like people that appear as part serpent, part human. I didn’t really see them in action until the video game Icewind Dale which was pretty good, but no Baldur’s Gate.

I’ve played D&D since I was a teen and I’ve never, ever, encountered a xorn. I don’t think I’ve even seen one in a D&D video game. I think this is my favourite drawing of the alphabet.

I picture the wraith have smokey embers floating a midst the shadowy vapours of its corrupted essence.

I like how the V Vampire looks like two fangs. V V

Umber Hulks will mess you up because they have two sets of eyes and you don’t know which to focus on so you get confused. They are huge burrowing monsters that are related to insects.

The Ents from Lord of the Rings might have been a copyright name I guess. Maybe that’s why the D&D writers put a tree on the beginning to make them into treants. This one’s a cedar. I don’t think I’ve seen a cedar treant. I was tempted to go with fir or pine, but I’ve seen those sentient trees at Christmas time.

There were some good S monsters, like the sahuagin, but I ended up going with the mindless fungus that warns of approaching predators. Then bigger predators come know to come and eat whatever’s bothering them. If you saw a shrieker you might expect a bunch of bubgears or organization of ogres would be coming to thump you with clubs.

Have you ever seen that Monty Python skit where Mr. Smoketoomuch has a joke made about his name and he is pleasantly surprised by it? It’s a sarcastic way to portray the way that some people all make the same joke upon encountering the same person. I wonder if Eric Idle or John Cheese (who took the name John Cleese as a stage name) were the one who wrote that skit. They must have had tons of people meeting them and making the same joke, thinking they were the first. Anyway, everyone in my general age range, who sees there’s a monster called the Roper, thinks of the landlords from the early seasons of Three’s Company, a classic 70’s sitcom.

Quasits are little helpers for warlocks, like how witches sometimes have black cats. Except they can carry things a little better. Little things anyway.

A peryton is a giant eagle with the head of a stag. Okay, kind of weird. But then it goes to another level. It casts the shadow of a man. I don’t get it. Like if it’s flying through the air, there will be a shadow of man sliding across the landscape? I don’t see how it will help anything other than how weird it is.