Assuming a D&D 5e game, I load Kobold Fight Club and click until I find monsters I can build a little story around.

A while back (including enemies from Tome of Beasts) I got Spawn of Akyishigal and Giant Ants, and after a few overland battles they found a beleaguered anthill.

By the next session I had my dungeon made and some lore surrounding it.

The giant anthill had carved its way into an ancient tomb of an orcish warlord who had managed to seal the Demon Lord of Cockroaches with her in an attempt at everlasting life. The actions the players take can result in her rising as a Mummy Lord or in Akyishigal being freed.

All from going “Hey, these enemies work well together.”

Here’s a link to it:

The Mirrored Tomb of Yeskarra

My fighter against an assassin who we suspected killed an NPC in the first session.

We are down in the mud, grappling. I fumbled my sword and he got me good (crit), leaving me quite vulnerable. The other party members were nearby but not in range.

I pulled out a dagger and got a crit of my own, ending his life with less than 5 hp left of my own.

Later that night I realized that dagger I’d killed him with was looted from the NPC’s pack. I’d gotten revenge on her behalf, using her own knife against her murderer.

I was playing on a MUD (early mmorpg thing by telnet) in 1994 and the creator wanted some of the core players to make characters as part of the plot. The game never went anywhere after that (it was called Kaspelheim) but the character I made was Pronell Mordini, perrin (otterlike humanoids) trademaster.

I just kept using the name online since then. It’s never taken. But someone else did get pronell@gmail.com.

Good to know. Success!

Either you’re insane, or I’ve succeeded in blocking the shitposting communities.

Haven’t seen it.

Thank you. That site is horrible. Here’s another site that discusses the topic in a favorable way. Not taking sides here, was just looking for another source.

With a little more ridiculous imagery, that could’ve been a Shel Silverstein poem.

Well, except he didn’t write it…

I agree with your friend.

Unless they are non-organic because they were deliberately built that way, mechanoid doesn’t make much sense. Where would mecha- as a prefix come from to them?

They’d be mystified by ‘the flesh’ and wonder how it manages to operate. (see the story They’re Made of Meat.)

I have no good insight at the moment how they might refer to themselves except maybe by chemical composition.

I’ve really wanted to learn Delta Green so I can run a SCP story I love (What Happened to Site 13?) and at the end the site teleports out of the world.

Then I’d run a fantasy campaign that is cleaning up the mess they left in the Delta Green one.

My friends are metalheads but I’m not. Popped this over to our discord to see what comes up.

First response: “Greenland is a country. What the fuck?”

That’s all fair.

But it’s also heavily down voted and refuted.

Some people are gonna be shills and some are gonna be naive. But I’m not going to be a part of any platform Meta is trying to subvert.

Or ‘I can’t shit’ posters.

Well there was the story of the three million toothbrushes being used in a DDOS attack but in googling for a link to the story it turned out to be a hoax, so there’s at least that good news to back you up.

Keeping it strictly in D&D terms, I’d give it a Legendary Resistance that can be used each round as a reaction. Each time it’s used it also consumes one of the multi attacks.

In this way the enemy avoids being crippled but is still weakened for the round and the players get less bruised for it. It feels they’ve earned it rather than wasted a resource.

Narratively it’s rearing back to avoid a blow so it can’t bite this turn, or a claw parries. Maybe the spell that was supposed to entangle instead damages a wing, halving flight speed.

Turn those resistances into opportunities to strike back.

I thought that just made you invisible to security cameras…

That’s pretty hilariously bad, especially as the only reason I read the review was out of disbelief that it might be a sequel to the 1992 game.