Shrieking Terror: This D&D Monster KISSES You To Death

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• AJ

  @ajpickett · 4 years ago · pinned

  Carceri is like the wild west of infernal hotel california-esque shitty backwoods where the texas chainsaw massacre farm house is just a delightful local Bed and Breakfast (where the breakfast is Your Ass), any Wizard performing experiments with vicious monsters to make them even worse... is not holding back on their evil inclinations...  best of luck raiding that laboratory for fun and profit.

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• HE

  @heathharris2545 · 4 years ago

  "Mind flayer with a shrieking terror mount." Absolutely amazing. Thank you. My players are going to hate you.

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• MO

  @Mozumin · 4 years ago

  Funny story about this monster.<br>SPOILERS FOR MY PLAYERS AHEAD<br>The final boss of one of my campaigns is an Adult False Hydra, but I realized that the party is very weak to flying creatures since currently 3/4 party members are melee-based. Hence I gave it a second phase where it sprouts wings and starts flying around, cause I want the final fight of the campaign not to just be a big slugfest. Fast forward to a few days ago, I found a video talking about old monsters that should be added to 5e and found out about the Shrieking Terror, so I said &quot;well that kinda does look like a flying False Hydra! Let&apos;s use that art!&quot;. Little did I know that you were gonna cover this creature only a few days later. What a coincidence.

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• SO

  @Soenel7 · 4 years ago

  Dungeon Dad, I do not know who is more evil; the person who thought of this terror, you for converting it to 5e, or me wanting to throw this at my level 10 players.

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• TH

  @TheHauntedMouth · 3 years ago

  Every time I see the price of goods in D&amp;D vs. what an adventuring party makes in even one outing, I wonder why the entire population doesn&apos;t become dungeon-delvers. Then something like this comes along and reminds me why most people in this setting would be perfectly happy playing it safe and farming wheat or blacksmithing.

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• FR

  @frankly_earnest · 4 years ago

  I mean...why stop there? Why not have a shrieking terror that&apos;s undergone ceremorphosis? Or a mindflayer scientist that&apos;s decided to turn its own tentacles into hydra-vargouilles that are still attached to it? Or just a good ol&apos; shrieking terror that can charm the party instead since each head is from a former bard?<br><br>(also, this would be annoying to edit in, but every time you flip your hair, it&apos;d be amazing to have delayed after-images of you doing the same thing for a weird, campy psychadelic dad vibe)

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• HE

  @HenriFaust · 4 years ago

  Imagine a Shrieking Terror corps with Mindflayers riding Shrieking Terror mounts, each commanding a whole wing of Shrieking Terrors for scouting patrols as well as hit-and-run attacks.

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• DI

  @Disappointed_Philosoraptor · 4 years ago

  This entire video sounds to me like:<br>&quot;Hello dear aspiring new DnD DM, do you feel like partywiping your players in one fell swoop? Well, I do have the perfect solution for you!&quot;<br>*The usage of The Shrieking Terror(TM) may or may not result in the end of your career as a DM as well as end one or more friendships you may or may not have. <br>Dungen Dad &nbsp;is not responsible for any of the aforementioned consequences in any way, shape or form.

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• ST

  @Stratplayer05 · 3 years ago

  Vargouilles are to Shrieking Terrors as Magnemite is to Magneton. In my setting this is holy canon.

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• KE

  @KevinVideo · 4 years ago

  Not something you want to meet in a dark alley.<br><br>It&apos;s definitely throwing me that it&apos;s only Medium size. That&apos;s just a baby hydra. Just wrong on so many levels.

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• AA

  @aaronj235 · 4 years ago

  You have to do the 3.5 Fiend Folio monster &quot;the Hullathion&quot;. Anything that has a special ability called &quot;ring of puss&quot; you know you got a great monster

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• SP

  @spookwoop1295 · 4 years ago

  Imagine a version of this with a False Hydra instead of a regular one. People keep mysteriously turning into monsters because of some weird curse or disease of which no one knows where it comes from. Every night people wake up from a terrible shriek somewhere in the city, only for no one to know where it came from or what caused it. They just know that the following morning, another family has been infected, slowly turning into monsters. The city slowly falls into anarchy as the only way to stop the infected from turning into monsters en masse is to execute those who are showing symptoms. Only the few who are deaf speak of a pale, winged monstority which goes around kissing people and infecting them.<br><br>It would probably require some tweaking to merge the starblocks well and come up with some good lore (though evil wizard experiment is always an option), but I think it would make for a truly terrifying and dangerous plot

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