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prokopetz:probablyadrpgideas:butterfly-crackers:probablyadrpgideas:probablytabaxirpgideas:probablyadrpgideas:probablyfunrpgideas:Idea: Take a fairly common monster. Say the Rust Monster, or maybe a Chimera. Then imagine what it would be like at CR 20, or some point where it can be the big world-eating menace of a campaign. The Colossal rust monster might have the power to rapidly age any material into dust, or it could spray venom that gives characters Dire Tetanus. Or both! Maybe it even has the backing of an apocalyptic cult that worships it as a living embodiment of entropy.I guess what I’m saying is your campaign needs more Kaiju, and you can find them anywhere.Always have kaiju in your campaign.CR 20 Gelatinous Cube……..Yes. CR 30 owlbear.CR 69 GoblinYou. I like the way you think.The really great thing about this premise is that this is actually where a lot of classic D&D monsters like the rust monster and the owlbear came from.Back in the early days of D&D, fantasy miniatures were tough to come by, so Gary Gygax and his crew used to buy dime-store bags of plastic dinosaurs to use as dragons. One day he found a pack of dinosaurs that had some Japanese kaiju figurines mixed in – claimed by some sources to have been Ultraman bootlegs, though there’s some dispute on the matter – and decided to stat them up and use them.So really, making a CR 30 owlbear is just returning the monster to its roots! -- source link