Fairly recently I joined a D&D 3.5 campaign as a Gnoll; dumb as a brick, ugly as sin. Our party had just gone their separate ways in the city we were occupied in. An elf druid, an elf roge, and me as a gnoll scout went to the theater district to watch a play. Though as luck would have it, the theater district was the HQ of a notorious gang of pranksters know as the Red Ravens. My group circled the theater until we saw one of the gang members enter a secret entrance. We immediately tried to gain entrance to the secret door and as soon as we did, we were jumped (big surprise) by performers in skeleton costumes with scimitars. The leader…
After almost ten years without D&D, I got the gang back together to start a new campaign. I wanted to use all the monsters from the Monster Manual that we never encountered before - the first that caught my eye was the Giant Owl.
To fit it in the story, I fixed it so the evil goblin shaman in the encounter would polymorph into a giant owl when attacking his foes. Normally, I like to keep the game fair, but I knew immediately that the PCs would be outmatched and tried to convince them that escape would be the best plan. They caught on and ran to the battlewagon in hopes of getting some cover from the dive attacks of the owl. However,…
Everyone wants to ride a dragon, right? Well, if a dragon is hard to come by in your neck of the woods, don’t lose hope - there’s always the Wyvern!
Thought to be of the same bloodline as dragons, Wyverns are aggressive and efficient, but lack the intelligence and majesty of their distant cousins. These large reptilian beasts are natural hunters and are a deadly foe to come up against. With poisonous tail stings and extremely strong jaws, you will want to think twice about trying to capture one as a mount. If you do - make sure to have lots of antidotes to their venom on hand!
