[OSSR]Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerun

[Voss]

The dekanter goblin also showed up in the Icewind Dale 2 computer game, but that was 2002, after this book.

The truly sad thing is I know where the half-Glabrezu thing came from. One of the 'Drizzt's shitty childhood' books by Salvatore involved the initiation of one of Drizzt's sisters into the priesthood of Lloth. For no apparent reason, this involved an orgy, specifically fucking a Glabrezu, and a random offer by said sister to fuck Drizzt on the side. You'd think this would be fanfic, but no.

[infected slut princess]

This is not a great monster book, and it doesn't withstand much serious criticism, but damn I used a lot of these monsters in games.

The truly sad thing is I know where the half-Glabrezu thing came from. One of the 'Drizzt's shitty childhood' books by Salvatore involved the initiation of one of Drizzt's sisters into the priesthood of Lloth. For no apparent reason, this involved an orgy, specifically fucking a Glabrezu, and a random offer by said sister to fuck Drizzt on the side. You'd think this would be fanfic, but no.

That was some other slut, and his sister just said he should have shagged her. That aside, I don't know why you would be so uptight about religious sexual orgies. Evil people fucking demons is good subject matter for D&D.

[Dean]

The Draegloth picture is one of those pieces of art that makes 12 year olds start playing this game in the first place. I remember it made quite an impression on me and I wasn't much older than that.

[Starmaker]

Yeah, I don't know how they missed the "Craft Construct" feat either.

No Delorean. It's a 3.5 feat.

It's a bit underpowered at CR 12 since its special powers appear to be sucking and blowing.

There was a Dungeon adventure published around the Book of Vile Body Piercings release that featured a brothel staffed by polymorphed gulguthydras, on account of their high cha score. Because buffing normal prostitutes with eagle's splendor would've made sense. And because someone at WotC [derp] Paizo apparently decided to [have his character] fuck a monster, considered the physical impossibility of it, polymorphed it into a human woman, questioned its attractiveness, made this ruling, and was proud of it to make it the basis of a published adventure. I can think of no other way this plot might have come up, also, my head hurts.

[Insomniac]

I like how this book seemingly started two fuck-broken concepts
that Dungeons and Dragons would inflict on people for the next
10 years or so...

1. "Makeup" classes for monsters that PCs try to take and then
break the world in half because fullcasting is broken already but
fullcasting 100 percent ahead of schedule with abilities
created after GWAR-level crack cocaine binges like "cast 10 spells in a round" is incomprehensibly broken.

2. Monsters that would cast as Arcane or Divine magic users
ahead of schedule for completely inexplicable reason instead of
getting an appropriate amount of several strong and thematically
proper SUs and SLAs. Even into Monster Manual V they were doing
this with crazy stuff like Kuo Toa Exalted Whips and Hobgoblin
Warsouls. Go look at them. No seriously, go look at them.
People thought those were fair encounters for 5th to 7th level
characters in July 2007 or at a minimum that they didn't just make people chuck Wizard and Cleric NPCs in the trash.

[Username17]

The thing that was really weird about that adventure (I mean, aside from the fact that it's a brothel staffed by monsters with randomly high charisma who have been polymorphed into human prostitutes) is that the way polymorph worked at the time, it wouldn't suppress any ability that had anything to do with any part of your body that left your body. So if you cut your hair off and you had a flaming hair ability, that hair would burst into flame. And if you had an especially remarkable body odor, that would be unchanged by the polymorph. No the Gulguthydra's Nauseating Stench power would still incapacitate people out to 80 feet away, whether it was polymorphed into a foxy chick or not.

Also, that came out while Dungeon was being made by Paizo. So that particular bunch of stupid is brought to you by the people who brought you Pathfinder. The Golguthydra itself is all WotC though.

-Username17

[talozin]

But of course, since literally no one gives a second fuck about Ghaunadar, the Drow god of jelly, it's not liable to come up.

This made me laugh, mainly because Mrs. talozin has played a whole series of characters worshiping Ghaunadar, the Drow god of etc. I just nod and smile.

[RobbyPants]

We start with the Ghaunadan, which is almost wholly copypasta from 2nd edition. It's a shape shifter monster that I think was based on Deep Space Nine's Odo, but could easily have been based on Terminator 2 instead. Its natural form is an ooze, and it can form itself into humanoid shapes.

So, back in the 90's someone made a biological version of the "mercury golem" (also, a blatant T2-rip-off) I created as a teenager? Awesome!

[Ancient History]

Yeah, I don't know how they missed the "Craft Construct" feat either.

No Delorean. It's a 3.5 feat.

I stand corrected; I was looking at the wrong version of the MM. Mea culpa. I think this does show how much AD&D baggage was brought into 3e though - and how significant a change 3.5 would be in many ways.

[Dean]

The thing that was really weird about that adventure (I mean, aside from the fact that it's a brothel staffed by monsters with randomly high charisma who have been polymorphed into human prostitutes)

Oh god that's real? I thought Starmaker was making a joke! Holy shit why would you write that?

[Username17]

The thing that was really weird about that adventure (I mean, aside from the fact that it's a brothel staffed by monsters with randomly high charisma who have been polymorphed into human prostitutes)

Oh god that's real? I thought Starmaker was making a joke! Holy shit why would you write that?

Yeeah. It's real. Paizo did a Book of Vile Darkness crossover special with Dungeon Magazine, because Erik Mona can't get an erection unless at least two demon lords are invoked.

There's like a pirate cove, and it has a bunch of "vile" stuff. Which basically means that there are like badgers polymorphed into prostitutes and some tie ins to enough demon lords that Erik Mona can keep a stiffy going and shit. It's more "stupid" and "gross" than "evil."

-Username17

[NineInchNall]

That's the Book of Vile Darkness's m.o., though, as expressed by the thought anyone has (multiple times) while reading the book: "But that's not evil; it's just gross!"

[Insomniac]

Anybody talk about the "Good" liches and Cleric liches? Because everybody was clamoring for those and they've been a staple of the game for a decade.

Or not.

[NineInchNall]

They're in the template section. I assume FrankT and AncientH are leaving the templates until the end.

[Koumei]

I like how the Good lich can cast Animate Dead [Evil] at will.
No, I actually do like it - they even give sensible justification ("why use sentient living allies as minions to be slain? The dead are just objects, put them to use"). It also serves as a reminder of how people don't agree about Necromancy and alignment.

[RobbyPants]

I like how the Good lich can cast Animate Dead [Evil] at will.
No, I actually do like it - they even give sensible justification ("why use sentient living allies as minions to be slain? The dead are just objects, put them to use"). It also serves as a reminder of how people don't agree about Necromancy and alignment.

I did pretty much that exact same thing with a PC in a solo game. I was even tracked down by an over zealous paladin for doing good things the wrong way. Good times.

[RobbyPants]

Oops

[Ancient History]

Monsters A-Z: Most of the Alphabet

• The alphabetical monsters are heavily front loaded, past the letter G there's hardly anything in here, so we'll go pretty fast.

FrankT:

The Helmed Horror, we are assured, is an ancient construct that gives “adventurers reason to be skittish about approaching lone figures dressed in plate armor.” I don't know about you, but I can in fact think of many reasons to be skittish about approaching a lone figure dressed in plate armor. These are constructs, which are animated armor. This might seem to sound suspiciously like a Dreadguard, or indeed absolutely any construct at all, but these ones are written by Ed Greenwood and that makes them totally on topic for this book.

The original Helmed Horror comes from a Forgotten Realms Adventure called Halls of the High King, which came out in 1990. There are two types: Helmed Horrors, and their Pokevolved form Battle Horrors, which are bigger and Lawful Evil for no reason. You can tell they came out for Forgotten Realms early in 2nd edition because their big claim to fame is that they are immune to Magic Missile and each one is also made immune to three other specific evocations. This is an ability which I must remind people was actually really frustrating and powerful back in 2nd edition because back in the day things had many less hit points (a Helmed Horror was still a roughly 10th level encounter, but it had only 50 hit points) and you threw around Magic Missile and Fireball a lot. But moving into 3rd edition, you probably could have just given them some spell resistance and been done with it – but the authors continue to use the arbitrary spell immunities thing even though no one will know or care if a CR 10 monster is immune to fireball or not.

The entry is a bizarre hodge podge of crappy rules and crappy conversions of 2nd edition to 3rd. They are CR 10 and only have 71 hit points because Constructs don't get Con bonuses. Their saves are terribad, and the fact is that's basically just a Fighter in Plate Armor means that its AC of 19 and Heavy Crossbow attack (that it can mysteriously use twice a round) is so chump change that it's hard to really convey. This guy would be a modestly tough encounter at like 4th or 5th level. At 10th level, it's barely a speed bump.

But it's not just conversion numbers that the authors don't understand. Three quarters of Helmed Horrors have magic swords, which you'd think would be considered laughably pathetic for 10th level but the kind of thing you'd note in the monster's attacks or treasure list. Instead, this book chooses to give them the Supernatural Ability “Weapon Power.” It's all very very dumb.

AncientH:

The Hybsil looks like the bastard child of an elf and a deer, if the resultant critter was centaur-like critter 3 feet tall, and it lost some weird bits in the translation. For example, in the A&D Monstrous Manual it is written:

Hybsil antlers are said to have magical powers, and have fetched as much as 100 gold pieces from certain wizards, sages, and potioners. Since hybsils shed their antlers every year, it is not necessary to injure hybsils to obtain their horns. However, since hybsils do not like people trespassing on their territory, it is often difficult to gain permission to gather shed antlers, or to befriend a male hybsil and convince him to give one away.

Aaaand in Monsters of Faerun:

The Zhents of Zhentil Keep have a long history of paying a bounty of up to 1 gp per point on a hybsil antler, as long as its magical efficacy can be assured by virtue of being attached to a hybsil scalp-molted antlers won't do for the Zhents' alchemists.

Okay, so aside from shooting a "14 point buck" hybsil at 1st level when 14 gp is maybe a lot of money, that's just a weird downgrade. What is the D&D economy coming to?

Now, on the Ibrandlin. Please take a moment to look at this chart:


Size, as we know, is not everything. But it is many things in D&D, and the Ibrandlin is supposedly a Gargantuan-sized dragon. That is, it is about the size of an Old Red Dragon. Except the Ibrandlin has about a third of the hit points and a Challenge Rating of 5 - which is to say, the same as a Very Young Red Dragon. So really, the Ibrandlin is a very sucky dragon who is supposed to be less of a challenge than a red dragon the size of your warhorse.

FrankT:

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The Leucrotta is a monster from the original AD&D Monster Manual. It's basically an evil wolf-like thing with hooves instead of claws. They can mimic human speech, and lure people to their death. It's the kind of thing that is obviously taken from a genuine piece of folklore that Gary Gygax ran into at some point. In case you're wondering, the source material is Ethiopian descriptions of Hyenas. Beasts like this certainly have a place in D&D, you go off into the wilderness and carnivorous beasts try to talk you into going into dangerous places, and fun is had by all. But to be honest, no one really cares much about the Leucrotta, which is why they didn't appear in the 3e Monster Manual. There's nothing especially to connect them to the Forgotten Realms as far as I know, they just happened to be a monster on the slush pile that could be hammered in.

So obviously the main deal with Leucrotta is the mimicry thing. It is undescribed. Sure, it mentions that they have an ability called “mimicry” in their stat line, but they forget to actually mention it in the monster description. Most of the text is taken up with a rant about how they are ugly and also dicks and it's totally OK to kill them, so you'd think they could have found some space to actually talk about their signature ability. But you'd be wrong. This book is not edited very well.

AncientH:

Malaugrym are "perfect shapeshifters" who are very deliberate cases of "a wizard did it" and tie in to some of the Elminister novels. Why doppelgangers and mimics were insufficient for his purposes we will never know. At CR4, their abilities are laughably overpowered, and include:

Alternate Form (Su): Malaugryms can assume the form of any creature less than deity status or a single object, as the shapechange spell cast by a 20th-level sorcerer.

When assuming the form of a humanoid creature, a malaugrym's physical ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution) are the same as its natural form, not the average scores for a member of that race. In any form, a malaugrym's true identity can be guessed by the golden light that shimmers in its eyes. A Spot check (DC 20) is required to notice this telltale gleam.

So. Turning into a giant kind of sucks. Turning into an Elder Dragon, piece o' cake. Granted, these guys aren't quite Pun-Pun when it comes to Assume Supernatural Ability, but the potential for much havoc is there. Malaugrym also explicitly don't have any real gender. Anyway, this entry ends with stats for two specific Malaugrym with character levels. I don't know why. It's a mystery.

FrankT:

The Myrlochar are demon spiders that work for Lolth. I genuinely don't know why they aren't listed in the Demon section of this book. See, there are Yochlols, which are demons that work for Lolth and are in this book and have a spider form, a sexy lady form, and an ooze-roper form (yes, really). And they are 6 hit die demons listed under “Demon” in this book. And just below them on the Lolth-demon totem pole is the “Myrlochar” which is a 6 hit die demon spider. I just... I don't know. I really have no idea why it was necessary to have two different 6 hit die Spider Demons that serve the Drow Goddess. But I really really don't know why one of them is under the super heading “Demon” and the other is not. It makes no sense at all.

Apparently, sometimes when a priestess of Lolth tries to summon a Yochlol, Lolth trolls them by sending a Myrlochar instead. I assume onlookers are like “LOL! -th!” Really, I don't know why that is a thing either. Yeah, you thought you were getting a CR five spider demon, but you're being trolled with a CR four spider demon! Ha!

AncientH:

The Nishruu and the Nyth are two of Greenwood's pet magic-draining fuck-your-arcane-spellcasters-in-the-ear-for-a-beer monsters. They're both rather underpowered considering that their abilities are specifically designed to negate "kill it with magic" and "kill it with fire/lightning" respectively.

...actually, on consideration I like Nyth better now because there's some option buried in Lords of Madness that lets aberrant-blooded druids to wildshape into aberrations (sans magical abilities), and while supernatural and spell-like abilities of the Nyth are neat in a low-level kind of way, these floating balls of plasm also have:

Immune to Mental Influence (Ex): The strange minds of the nyths have proven impervious to all charms, compulsions, phantasms, and morale effects.
Silence (Ex): Nyths make no sound unless they speak. They cannot be heard with Listen checks unless they want to be.

Which beats the shit out of rogues and ninjas, really.

FrankT:

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Joining the ranks of things that were in the 1977 AD&D Monster Manual but passed over for the 3e Monster Manual and then poorly converted in Monsters of Faerun is the Peryton. Perytons are chimeric monsters combining stags and eagles. They hunger for human hearts, and in some versions they cast human shadows. They aren't just folkloric, they are historical. Peryton attacks on Roman soldiers is a historical event in official histories from the time period. There is... probably another explanation for those dead soldiers that we might find more believable, but the one the Romans went with at the time was “Perytons.”

The Perytons have a very nasty sounding attack called “Heart Rip” that doesn't do anything. It's a coup de grace, and um... basically that's it. If they successfully kill you with a coup de grace, they also eat your heart and then you can't be brought back with Raise Dead. They don't actually have any special ability to make people helpless, and their coup de grace isn't especially interesting or damaging other than that. Basically, it's just a medium sized flying beast with no special powers. For no reason anyone can determine, this monster is CR 5. Seems like more like a 3.

AncientH:

Next time: Frank handles the Phaerimm, and I rant about Genasi!

[Red_Rob]

Okay, so aside from shooting a "14 point buck" hybsil at 1st level when 14 gp is maybe a lot of money, that's just a weird downgrade. What is the D&D economy coming to?

"Since the big economic downturn due to trading on Sub-Prime Material Planes, the bottom has really dropped out of the Hybsil horn market. You'll be lucky to get 10 gold for that thing down at the Magic Mart! Why don't I give you 14, and I'm doing you a favour."

[Voss]

The Peryton's wacky CR may well be a legacy issue. Perytons in 1e were fucking nasty encounters at low levels, because they were immune to non-magical weapons (because the Romans said they were impervious to swords). I don't know if the 3e version has magic-based DR or not, but the lack of total immunity changes things immensely, but the memories the writers probably had were horrifying near (or total) TPKs. Though once the party had a decent spread of magical weapons, they weren't relevant anymore.

[K]

The thing that was really weird about that adventure (I mean, aside from the fact that it's a brothel staffed by monsters with randomly high charisma who have been polymorphed into human prostitutes)

Oh god that's real? I thought Starmaker was making a joke! Holy shit why would you write that?

It's a pretty decent adventure otherwise. Once you get past the "haha! I make vile material by being gross!" and the "look at how clever I am with goofy mechanicky bullshit like making a bar where people torture a regenning monster," it's a pretty well-developed mini-setting that would make a fine place to base a campaign.

I mean, wouldn't you want to play a few adventures in a pirate town policed by cannibal monks with the major players being a drug-dealing wizard in a intimate relationship with his familiar, a coven of shaved harpies, a yuanti Demongorgon cult running a high-end brothel, and some rando necromancers.

[Ancient History]

Monsters A-Z: P-S

• Epic Rap Battles of History!

FrankT:

So we begin with the Phaerimm. They are bad. They were apparently a big bad in the before time and made the Netherilese Empire fall. Much like all the other various things that supposedly caused the fall of Lost Netheril. But these guys have a better claim to it than Shades or any of those other fuckers. The Phaerimm are epic douche bags who want to destroy all life, hampered only by the fact that actually doing that would result in them not having anyone to talk to or torment.

It's actually super hard to take them seriously as a threat to much of anything. They look like ten foot windsocks, and they poop out of their mouths. Their body ends in a stinger, not an anus. They have a lamprey mouth and four spindly arms. Their big deal is that they are “evil magicians” but their writeup doesn't even give them a suggested spellcaster level. [Ancient's note: "Elder" Phaerimm are suggested to be 15th-20th level Sorcerers, but they have no innate spellcasting ability] They are blessed with a reasonably effective and insultingly bizarre poison that incapacitates and makes the target levitate a few feet off the ground. I honestly have no fucking idea why that happened.

The description of their spellcasting strategies (remember: these assholes are not given any spells by default) is to mostly stick to charms and dominates and other Save or Lose effects while eschewing low level monster summonings and direct damage. I have no idea if the writer understood that in 3rd edition this mostly boils down to “casts good spells and not shitty spells” but I'm guessing they did not. The next part of their tactics description is that they like to use Charm spells to force creatures to kill their friends, which is something I would like to do as well, hampered only by the fact that Charm spells don't fucking do that in 3rd edition.

AncientH:

The Genasi started out as a moderately obscure character option in the Planeswalker's Handbook circa 1996, which was written by Monte Cook and is mainly forgotten today. So it was really a surprise when they showed up in the 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and even more surprising that they weren't crammed in there sidewise but some effort was made to work them into the setting.



Of course, the main problem with that is:

Kee Nang: She's over 300 years old.
Chandler Jarrell: How do you manage something like that?
Kee Nang: One of her ancestors was raped by a dragon.
Chandler Jarrell: Does that happen a lot where you come from?

Yeah. Not a lot of loving marriages, at least not that you can admit to. One night you go to the thoqqua brothel, and six weeks later there's something on fire with your face on it...

Anyway, genasi have level adjustment although of course this is not mentioned in their entries, and their primary racial characteristic is "being a douchebag:"

Though they vary widely, one thing that almost all genasi have in common is an arrogant nature that makes them disliked by most other races.

I can just picture the lizardmen lurking in the swamp as the party marches by in single file, and as the earth genasi fighter comes into view one lizardman hisses to the other "Dark gods dammit, there goes the neighborhood."

FrankT:

The bad touched section isn't just the fucking Genasi. It also contains a bunch of Tiefling variants. want to point out that the Fey'ri and Tanarukk get separate entries from the previously mentioned Draegloth. Considering that the Fey'ri is basically exactly the same fucking thing (elf + demon), I genuinely don't know why all the demon bad touched monsters couldn't have been combined into a single entry. But I guess that would be way too much to ask from a book where some but not all of the spider shaped demons that serve Lolth are listed under “Demon.”

AncientH:

The Pterafolk are vaguely humanoid folk based off pteradactyls pteradons Sauron (Marvel Comics type).


Pterafolk

Sauron

Like Sauron (Marvel-type), they are shapeshifters (okay, so that's like Tolkien-type too), although I think that's cheating because their shapeshifting mostly involves 1) turning their arms into wings, and 2) turning into small pteradons. This ability is so meager it was not deemed worthy of an actual entry, so we have no idea if this is a supernatural, spell-like, or extraordinary ability. Pterafolk have no relation to the other dinosaur-based humanoid critters walking around the Realms, or to the dinosaurs wandering around the jungles, or...well, you get the drift. I've never seen them used for anything.

The mighty Quaggoth is a giant psychic teddy bear from the Underdark organized in rough pseudo-Viking society when not enslaved. The writer for this entry seems to have missed this entirely, so the quaggoth presented here inexplicably bark, have no psychic powers, and a quarter of them have barbarian rage and refuse to use weapons even when they're available. That's just weird.

FrankT:

The Sharn are... those big black goo monsters. They are avatars of chaos and resist having their forms changed in the same way Chaos Beasts do. This is why they are the leaders of a vast and powerful conspiracy that has lasted for thousands of years with the sole purpose of thwarting the Phaerimm every time they get too close to
destroying the world. If that sounds like it makes even less sense than most law vs. chaos discussions make in D&D... well, it really does make considerably less sense even than normal Law & Chaos diatribes in D&D. It's quite a feat.

Like the Phaerimm, the Sharn are not really all that impressive. Again, it's just a couple of hit dice of Aberration plus some spellcasting. They are all supposed to be Sorcerer/Clerics, which means that since this is before the invention of “Non-Associated Levels” or the Mystic Theurge, their nominal level was way out of line with their actual abilities. The “typical sharn” is supposedly CR 18 and casts 3rd level spells. That sounds like a joke, but it's not.

They have a weird bullshit haste power that allows them to cast one spell from each of their spell lists each turn. That sounds way more impressive than it actually was at the time, since back then all high level casters hasted up and could cast two spells off the same list each turn. Also, it's really poorly worded to the point that I don't even know how edge cases are supposed to work.

A spell available to both clerics and sorcerers counts as belonging to either class.

Until that sentence was written, I wasn't confused at all. Now I am. Anyway, Sharn also have the ability to make little window portals that they can use to do stuff. I have literally no idea how these work. There are six paragraphs and it goes on at extreme length about the modifiers for stabbing a Sharn in the hand when it sticks a hand through a portal and no mention at all as to what points in space can actually be connected or why it's in any way important that there are up to three of these things at a time. Fuck, I literally cannot tell you how these fucking hex portals are supposed to work. A generous reading gives a Sharn pretty much total command over time and space, while a more restrictive reading says that a Sharn has an extremely shitty version of etherealness. There is absolutely no way to tell what was intended from this long and rambling yet horribly uninformative description.

In any case, these guys look like muppets and are master manipulators who are made of pure chaos but everything is going according to plan.

AncientH:

The Siv are the other frog-race of Faerun.


Like the bullywugs, they too are descendants of the mighty race that became the Slaad. Unlike the bullywugs, no one even pretends to care. If this has been released sometimes after the 2003 they might have worked some connection in with the gormeel (lawful mutation of slaadi), but as it is they're kung-fu frogs.


I honestly would have milked that for more when Oriental Adventures came out.

FrankT:

The Stinger is one of those creatures which was basically rewritten in the Monster Manual 2. Here's a Stinger:

And here's a Scorpionfolk:


In either case, it's a large monstrous humanoid who is basically a centaur scorpion who carries a polearm. Both came out well after The Mummy Returns was a thing, in case you're wondering. In any case, both are conversions of the 2nd edition monster: the Manscorpion. By the way: Tlincallis is their Maztica name, if you give a shit.

For no reason at all, the Monsters of Faerun version has a minor power where it can take damage to phase through earth. I don't know where that comes from, it's very definitely not a thing that happens in the 2nd
edition writeup. In any case, the Monster Manual 2 version is a lot more solid, and is a decent level 7 bruiser. There's essentially no reason to use the MoF version for anything.

AncientH:

The Tall Mouther (no relation to the Gibbering Mouther) is a giant six-limbed furry ape creature that eats halflings. It's an aberration because, um, no one knows. It preys on halflings because, um, no one knows. It actually speaks Halfling, with an "obscene" accent. Their special abilities consist entirely of Arrow Evasion (Ex) and a reiteration of attacks of opportunity rules:

Tall mouthers attempt to stand out of their prey's melee range and slam them. If the prey rushes in to fight, and moves more than 5 feet into or through the mouther's threatened area, the mouther gets an opportunity attack (or multiple opportunity attack if rushed by multiple opponents, thanks to its Combat Reflexes).

Next up, the last critters and the templates!

[Voss]

From what I vaguely remember from the Undermountain boxed set (where Sharn were first introduced during 2nd edition, completely independent of the phaerimm), the weird portal thing was for stabbing people from different locations and weird angles. I don't remember exactly how it worked, but I mostly remember it as some form of handwavium. But the 2e version didn't cast spells, but had eyes all over their bodies and hands so they could attack people through their portals.

[Koumei]

It preys on halflings because, um, no one knows.

There's a lot of fat on those tubby little fucks, so if you're Large or larger, they're pretty good eating without really leaving much to waste. Obviously if you're Medium, you couldn't eat a whole one, and if you're Colossal, you'd want packets of halflings. But overall, for creatures in the Large-Huge range, I'd definitely recommend halflings as a solid meal. I imagine all the apples they eat helps sweeten the meat as well.

[OgreBattle]

Bulettes also eat halflings, a wizard ought to make a bulette mouther