New Content Ideas: Monsters you'd like to see

[EyeRekon]

Inspired by a post on Endgame Content Needs more VARIETY.

I wondered, what monsters would I just love to see in DDO?
For reference you might examine Lists of Dungeons & Dragons monsters

Being an AD&D 2E fan

• Displacer Beast
• Lycanthropes
• Basilisk
• Bulette
• Bullywug (Red Fens!)
• Lamia
• Otyugh (All the sewer quests)
• Thri-Kreen
• Githyanki

Psionic Monsters, 2nd Ed Complete Psionics Handbook (ugly link)

[Memnir]

Goblins
Green Dragon
Metallic Dragons in non-Elf guise
Hydra
Shifters (see what I did there? )
Shambling Mounds
Gibbering Mouthers
Slaadi as new Outsiders
The Gith races
Dragon Turtles, Kuo-Toa - make Underwater Combat a bit more... more.
Chain Devils
Carrion Crawlers

The list goes on and on.

[Zzevel]

What a novel idea, to bad it has been brought up... in a couple hundred places like (but not limited to)...

(just did a search for displacer beasts, i'm sure there is more)

Here: Most Wanted Monsters
Here: Top 5 New Monsters You'd Like to see in DDO
Here: What DDO Mobs would you like to see?
Here: Things i would like to see in the game
Here: Dante's Big List of Suggestions
Here: Enough undead. how bout some real monsters
Here: Monster Mesh

[wemery73]

OWLBEARS for the win

[dragonmane]

How about Griffins, cool rides and great at tearing things up

[Modinator0]

Gibbering Mouthers

[Talltale-Storyteller]

OWLBEARS for the win

LOL! +1

Thri-kreen would be cool, they even reference them with the sentinel's bracers.
Sladdi would be cool, but I think a quest with Gith in the Astral Plane would be cooler.

Zaartan! The big turtle islands?! How cool would it be to put an epic quest on one of those out in 3bc?

[sirgog]

Behir

More true dragons (Green, more Blue ones, plus given that it's Eberron where they aren't all good, some metallic ones too)

Mithril Golem

Greensteel Golem (eek)

Displacer Beast

[Lissyl]

Kalashtar Psions.

Oh wait...you said MONSTERS! *ahem*

Gray Renders
Dragonnes
Daelkyr and Dolgaunts(I take a risk with this one, having not done the IQ or much of Amrath yet and they may be there)
Monstrous Centipedes/Carrion Crawlers
Piercers
Cave Fishers
Lurkers
The Carcass Crab (!)
Gibbering Mouthers
Hydra(s)
More specialty creations of House Cannith beyond the 'dogs'

Dinosaurs and Clawfoots

[Symar-FangofLloth]

Lycanthropes
Thri-Kreen

Lycanthropes would pretty much require us going to Lammania... which could be possible, given it's connection into the storyline.

Thri-kreen are a must-have, being native to Xen'drik and part of Stormreach society; they could even be a playable race, although that's harder to balance.

Daelkyr and Dolgaunts(I take a risk with this one, having not done the IQ or much of Amrath yet and they may be there)

The only reference to the Daelkyr at all is the quest Let Sleeping Dust Lie, in which some Raksasha believe they have found the location of one of the Lords of Dust. IQ is the Inspired/Quori, and Amrath is Shavarath, so Devils and Demons (and perhaps Archons, one day).


I'd like to see more "classic" monsters, such as the Manticore, Hydra, Harpy, Displacer Beast, Centaur, etc.

[Vellrad]

When I saw this thread I was striken by an idea of new short lv20 quest.

Go and kill tarrasque

[Talltale-Storyteller]

When I saw this thread I was striken by an idea of new short lv20 quest.

Go and kill tarrasque

I thought about that too, but it definitely could not be the AD&D Tarrasque, as you would need the wish spell IIRC. Maybe implemented as an instance only scroll? Hmmmm.....

[EyeRekon]

When I saw this thread I was striken by an idea of new short lv20 quest.

Go and kill tarrasque

Thought that too. Book Tarrasque hardly compares to a basic Raid Boss in DDO.
Would be an Epic, Epic Raid Boss.

[FrancisP.Fancypants]

Thri-kreen are a must-have, being native to Xen'drik and part of Stormreach society; they could even be a playable race, although that's harder to balance.

Looks like I'll have to read up and see what else I don't know about Eberron; I had no idea Thri-kreen were in there. Dark Sun was my favorite world years ago, mostly because of that race.

[Symar-FangofLloth]

Looks like I'll have to read up and see what else I don't know about Eberron; I had no idea Thri-kreen were in there. Dark Sun was my favorite world years ago, mostly because of that race.

If it exists in D&D, it likely exists in Eberron. Just don't expect it to fill the same role .

If you look up Eberron, most information is going to be about the continent of Khorvaire, which is the default location for the setting. The other continents are less fleshed out (hence why DDO is on Xen'drik, plus it best lends itself to exploration of the mysterious.), although there are books on them.

[Yagi]

****wraiths

[Sparky21]

I would like to see some ultra powerful spellcaster enemies.

so far all the casters in ddo are weak, (save a couple named or raid bosses like abbot) like 2-3 hits from a greataxe and they're toast

the kind that make your barbarians hide behind rocks and you need to use ranged or specific spell debuff strategies before you send a melee in.

they would need to be:

-immune to charms, instakill, stun etc.
-using quicken, heighten, enlarge
-have a killer spell list...mord's disjunction, energy drain, and wail of the banshee would be a fun combo
-also have a very aggressive spellcasting AI. they need to spam a combo and FAST or else the challenge is lost and becomes boring and too easy like most other fights
-oh and have see invisibility, spot skill 100 and spell resistance 40

i want something thats powerful enough that it scares most groups, but maybe only placed in optionals so the quest is still finishable by your average party. maybe make it an elite mindflayer?

[bellasolarys]

darkmantles

[Tazarith]

*Search*

"Nope, No trap here!!"

And just when you thought it was safe to loot....

a MIMIC

- and not just the chest varities either

How about a nice Shrine Mimic just for s&g

[The_Phenx]

Githyanki

TIAMAT!!!

Make underwater combat more like flying PLEASE!!!