Forgotten Beasts

Forgotten Beasts are a class of monsters from Dwarf Fortress. They are procedurally generated, thus they can come in many different shapes and forms. One might be a humanoid made from metal, another might be a giant spider that emits poisonous gas an yet another might be a giant bird with deadly secretions. There are also Titans, which are similar except where Forgotten Beasts are subterranean, Titans dwell on the land and in the sea. I am thinking about how to integrate such creatures into a D&D setting.

While there's no need for a specific origin for random esoteric creatures (yes, that's a reference to THE RANDOM ESOTERIC CREATURE GENERATOR FOR CLASSIC FANTASY GAMES AND THEIR MODERN SIMULACRA, by James Raggi, a most useful resource...), for "Forgotten Beasts" I'm thinking that they would be creatures created/warped by the weird radiations and extraplanar energies found in the underworld (or Underdark, Darklands, Khyber, etc). Perhaps these creatures are servants or creations of an evil or merely primal, elemental deity who has been lost to the annals of history, hence their name of Forgotten Beasts.

Continue to observe this post and I may post a few sample Forgotten Beasts.

A Different Take on Gargoyles

 This post has been sitting in the back burner for a while now, but I think I can just post it in it's current form.

In my campaigns, gargoyles are not evil creatures. They are in fact a form of benign fey with ties to the good gods and celestials, though they're forms are similar to demons and devils. They inhabit places also inhabited by men, protecting them from evil. They may have once been demons that were converted to good somehow, but this theory is unverified.

However, there are creatures similar to the traditional D&D gargoyles. They are constructs, created by demons in mockery of real gargoyles. Perhaps Demogorgon, infamous for his for his use of various constructs such as the Retriever commissioned the first of these, but that is not known for sure.