Monsters/Racial Templates: Unapproachable East Races

Monsters/Racial Templates: Unapproachable East Races

And here's the races from Unapproachable East, plus some extra ones from Oriental Adventures to finish the spirit folk cycle. Neat.

Monsters: Unapproachable East Hags

Monsters: Unapproachable East Hags

I've never been a fan of hags in D&D, they just didn't feel that interesting to me. But nevertheless, let's convert some Faerunian hags from Unapproachable East. The hagspawn also works well as a racial template for the PCs.

Monsters/Racial Templates: Faerunian Planetouched

Monsters/Racial Templates: Faerunian Planetouched

I have converted these before, but this is an update, plus now you have sample statblocks.

Monsters: Stormwrack Monsters II

Monsters: Stormwrack Monsters II

More aquatic monsters from Stormwrack.

Monsters: Assorted Faerun Monsters II

Monsters: Assorted Faerun Monsters II

Some more monsters from Monsters of Faerun.

Monsters: Shining South Monsters

Monsters: Shining South Monsters

Let's convert some monsters from the Shining South - a Forgotten Realms supplement. Why them? Because there's not many of them, and because there's some that are updated versions of 3.0 monsters from other books. The rattelyr dragon is omitted - dragons deserve their own posts.

Monsters: Assorted Faerun Monsters

Monsters: Assorted Faerun Monsters

Let's convert some creatures from the Monsters of Faerun. Alaghi, firenewts, and bullywugs could also work as a player character races.

Monster/Racial Template: Forestfolk

Monster/Racial Template: Forestfolk

We all know that Wizards of the Coast is a very reasonable company that would never do something stupid like delete a huge collection of D&D articles from their own website and force people to rely on fans who archived all that stuff. Right? I believe that if you really like something, then you should download and archive it. (Despite that, some of my blog posts only exist on the blog.)

But jokes aside, one of the Fey Feature articles described an interesting fey creature - the forestfolk. These arboreal humanoid creatures have skin membranes that allow them to glide in the air, and can emit stunning sonic cries. They are even called sonic elementals in the description despite being fey. Their template is cheap enough to be used for PCs.

Monsters: Crab People

Monsters: Crab People

There's several humanoid crab races in D&D and Pathfinder. Yurian (also known as aldani in the Forgotten Realms setting) from Fiend Folio seems to be an update of the crabman from 1e Fiend Folio, judging by the almost identical descriptions. Crucian is a more humanlike crabfolk species that appears in Sandstorm and Miniatures Handbook. Karkinoi is a brutish crab monster from Bestiary 4 for Pathfinder. Karkanaks are interesting crab people from the third-party Cerulean Seas setting for Pathfinder (that setting is great, I highly recommend checking it out - I'm going to steal a lot of content from it). And there's also Sartani from the Al-Qadim setting. Karkanaks and crucians can be used as expensive racial templates for PCs.

Monster/Racial Template: Xakhun

Monster/Racial Template: Xakhun

Finally, Dragon Magazine #244 gives us a new elven subrace (there's never enough, isn't it?). The xakhun are drow-wood elf hybrids that live on the surface and raid others on their windships. Their lore is actually pretty interesting, I suggest reading their article.

Monster/Racial Template: Masgai

Monster/Racial Template: Masgai

The fourth aerial race from that article is the masgai. These insectile humanoids are distantly related to air elementals, surprisingly. In terms of mechanics, this template is nothing interesting, but the lore is intriguing.

Monster/Racial Template: Ashiera

Monster/Racial Template: Ashiera

The third flying race from Dragon Magazine #244 is the ashiera. They are aquatic fishmen who have gained wings and some spell-like abilities due to wild magic effects. Honeslty, this is an interesting race.

Monster/Racial Template: Telvar

Monster/Racial Template: Telvar

Another winged race from the Dragon Magazine #244, the aforementioned winged allies of the grey elves. The telvar are reclusive barbarians. They are very tall, but not strong at all. Probably the least interesting race out of that issue.

Monster/Racial Template: Fainil (Night Flyer)

Monster/Racial Template: Fainil (Night Flyer)

Dragon Magazine #244 is a very interesting issue devoted to all things aerial. One of the new races described in that book is the fainil. The fainil are the result of drow-tanar'ri crossbreeding by a drow clan that was in need for warriors to fight the surface elves' winged allies. Thus, we get semi-demonic winged drow. Interestingly enough, the point cost ended up being suitable for player characters.

Monsters/Lenses: Strange Bedfellows

Monsters/Lenses: Strange Bedfellows

Dragon Magazine #313 has an article that details several half-[monster] templates. Some of them were later updated and reprinted in the main product line (half-ogre in the Savage Species and then Races of Destiny, half-janni in Sandstorm), but the rest were left in the magazine. Let's convert them for those who want to play a real special snowflake.

Monster/Racial Template: Xvart

Monster/Racial Template: Xvart

Xvarts are small humanoids, akin to goblins. They can speak with rats and bats. Despite their insignificance, they have a racial deity - Raxivort.

Monster/Racial Template: Asherati

Monster/Racial Template: Asherati

The asherati from Sandstorm are an interesting race, something like sand merfolk. They should be cheap enough to be a valid PC racial template. Also, I provide a statblock for the deity that they worship.

Monster: Feytouched

Monster: Feytouched

Feytouched are quarter-fey or less. Probably should be a lens instead of a template. I've decided to replace their charm person ability simply with Charisma 2, that should be charming enough.

Racial Templates: Hengeyokai

Racial Templates: Hengeyokai

Oh boy, do I hate statting up shapeshifters! Oriental Adventures for D&D 3.0 has a race of hengeyokai - sentient animals that can turn into humans or a humanoid hybrid form. And 13 subraces of them, and as far as I know, there are many more in the previous editions. Good lord, I wanted to tear my hair out. Big props to Anon's Animal Album and GURPS Animalia.

Monster/Racial Template: Tibbit

Monster/Racial Template: Tibbit

Shapeshifting is second only to Insubstantiality in complexity in GURPS. Let's convert a shapeshifting
race from D&D - tibbits, also known as catweres.