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Samb

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List of monsters by terrain type?
« on: December 14, 2010, 05:36:20 AM »
Is there someplace I could find a list of monsters organized by terrain encountered?  And if not would anyone like to help make a handbook of it?  I hate flipping through all 5 of the MMs only to settle for lizardmen in marshes.  Players expect the DM (me) to know this type of stuff off the top of my head and yet I'm always at a lose for something exotic and unexpected.
Any help would be welcomed.

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Re: List of monsters by terrain type?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2010, 11:31:14 PM »
LINK: Monstrous Master Index

You'll have to play around with it a bit to get this to work smoothly, and it is not perfect. For example, say you wanted to find creatures from the desert terrain...

1) Click on the link above
2) At the bottom search window, to the right of "Find", type in the word desert
3) Set the drop down menu for "words in" to "Climate"
4) Set the drop down menu for "sorted by" to "Climate"
5) Click search


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Re: List of monsters by terrain type?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2010, 02:16:03 AM »
much thanks, just what I was looking for.

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Re: List of monsters by terrain type?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2010, 08:48:44 PM »
If if it gets to be too much, maybe you should just pull something out of your backside and rely on the rule of funny to sell it.  For example:

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Re: List of monsters by terrain type?
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2010, 12:08:27 PM »
Also:
http://chet.kindredcircle.org/
Scroll down to the monster section
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Re: List of monsters by terrain type?
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2010, 04:09:14 PM »
My old DM had all of his book with monsters/NPCs encounters numbered, so he'd roll a couple percentile dice for the book and page numer if he didn't have a specific encounter on hand. Led to things like the Desert Kraken.