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<blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 9333947" data-attributes="member: 7030100"><p>I often "re-lore" monsters. I don't typically hew to any specific lore in the first place, since I've mostly always hopped between homebrew settings. A few off the top of my head:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Owlbears, chimeras, and select other animal "hybrids" are not arcane experiments, but minor divine beings. Each is unique and enlightened.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Goblins and their ilk are the same species. They just grow bigger and bigger, from goblins to hobgobs to bugbears to ogres to hill giants and eventually grow so big they go to sleep, become nondescript hills, and slowly decompose back into a pile of fresh baby goblins to be dug out by other goblins when the time is right.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Doppelgangers are the first people made by the Creator. But after forming them of clay, the Creator left them unbaked, which is how they came to be imbued with their divine gift. As the precursors of Men and the other formed races, the Doppelgangers believe they are the rightful owners of the World.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Beholders are the result of a magical disease that swells the head and one eye, multiplies the other eye, and shrinks the body. They are swollen misshapen abominations, with small drooling mouths and the tiny twitchy vestigial body that hangs off the great head.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Each oni is the son of all night hags, all of whom can always feel his heartbeat no matter where he is. To kill an oni is to call down the wrath of all his night hag mothers.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J.Quondam, post: 9333947, member: 7030100"] I often "re-lore" monsters. I don't typically hew to any specific lore in the first place, since I've mostly always hopped between homebrew settings. A few off the top of my head: [LIST] [*]Owlbears, chimeras, and select other animal "hybrids" are not arcane experiments, but minor divine beings. Each is unique and enlightened. [*]Goblins and their ilk are the same species. They just grow bigger and bigger, from goblins to hobgobs to bugbears to ogres to hill giants and eventually grow so big they go to sleep, become nondescript hills, and slowly decompose back into a pile of fresh baby goblins to be dug out by other goblins when the time is right. [*]Doppelgangers are the first people made by the Creator. But after forming them of clay, the Creator left them unbaked, which is how they came to be imbued with their divine gift. As the precursors of Men and the other formed races, the Doppelgangers believe they are the rightful owners of the World. [*]Beholders are the result of a magical disease that swells the head and one eye, multiplies the other eye, and shrinks the body. They are swollen misshapen abominations, with small drooling mouths and the tiny twitchy vestigial body that hangs off the great head. [*]Each oni is the son of all night hags, all of whom can always feel his heartbeat no matter where he is. To kill an oni is to call down the wrath of all his night hag mothers. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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