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* With the possible exception of [[{{Narm}} Atropus]] (''possible'', as even with Narm, he's pretty scary), most of ''Elder Evils'' qualify. Pandorym? It's an EldritchAbomination from a reality perpendicular to the game world, and it's going to kill the gods and a fair number of planets too -- and Obligatum VII, one of the representatives of universal law, [[LawfulStupid wants to release it to fulfill]] '''[[LawfulStupid a freaking contract]]'''. [[FluffyTheTerrible Father Llymic]]? He's a monster from the Far Realm who will transform the entire world into [[SingleBiomePlanet ice]], [[TheVirus transforming most of its inhabitants into hybrids of themselves and insects]]. [[BodyHorror Ragnorra]]? She's a giant wormlike sack of flesh that transforms into an ([[UncannyValley arguably even scarier]]) [[OneWingedAngel True Mother form]], and she not only spawns an infinite stream of crimes against nature that make beholders and mind flayers look pleasant, but TheDragon is a maddened ''zenythri'' (for the uninitiated, these are the descendants of humans and beings of ''pure law'') who has cut his lips off and replaced them with wriggling flukelike critters. [[SealedEvilInACan Serthos?]] He's not so bad by himself, but his manifestation [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes flooding the world with serpents]], and he can [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil can never really be defeated]], as he's ''already dead''. Kyuss, TheWormThatWalks? Let's just say you may never look at a worm in the same way again. It's strongly advised you only read this book in dark rooms, so that you don't have to look at some of the pictures. Especially the [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ElderEvils_Gallery/111203.jpg golothoma]], an eyeball-spider-serpent-thing that eats you with its shadow.

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* With the possible exception of [[{{Narm}} Atropus]] (''possible'', as even with Narm, he's pretty scary), most of ''Elder Evils'' qualify. Pandorym? It's an EldritchAbomination from a reality perpendicular to the game world, and it's going to kill the gods and a fair number of planets too -- and Obligatum VII, one of the representatives of universal law, [[LawfulStupid wants to release it to fulfill]] '''[[LawfulStupid a freaking contract]]'''. [[FluffyTheTerrible Father Llymic]]? He's a monster from the Far Realm who will transform the entire world into [[SingleBiomePlanet ice]], [[TheVirus transforming most of its inhabitants into hybrids of themselves and insects]]. [[BodyHorror Ragnorra]]? She's a giant wormlike sack of flesh that transforms into an ([[UncannyValley arguably even scarier]]) [[OneWingedAngel True Mother form]], and she not only spawns an infinite stream of crimes against nature that make beholders and mind flayers look pleasant, but TheDragon is a maddened ''zenythri'' (for the uninitiated, these are the descendants of humans and beings of ''pure law'') who has cut his lips off and replaced them with wriggling flukelike critters. [[SealedEvilInACan Serthos?]] He's not so bad by himself, but his manifestation [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes flooding the world with serpents]], and he can [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil can never really be defeated]], as he's ''already dead''. Kyuss, TheWormThatWalks? Let's just say you may never look at a worm in the same way again. It's strongly advised you only read this book in dark rooms, so that you don't have to look at some of the pictures. And of course let's not forget Zargon, the last member of the devil race before the baatezu.  Not only is he a vile-looking creature, but he creates a pool of poisonous slime wherever he goes.  Plus, he is pretty much unkillable, as in the gods asked Asmodeus to take him down.  Which even he couldn't do in the end, as he couldn't find the pit that you have to pitch Zargon's horn into to actually destroy him for good; I suppose it wouldn't hurt to mention that you have to do this within a DAY of taking him down, or that his horn makes him practically indestructible in its own right.  Especially the [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ElderEvils_Gallery/111203.jpg golothoma]], an eyeball-spider-serpent-thing that eats you with its shadow.

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30th Oct '12 2:04:36 PM Luckyfox

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* ''Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations'' is equally unpleasant. Let's consider: we have the aboleths (horrors from before the beginning of the universe, whose knowledge of the magical and psionic arts will actually drive you insane if you try and learn it), the mind flayers (pretty much the same thing, only from the future and who reproduce by ''sticking a tadpole in your brain, whereupon it eats your entire nervous system''), the beholders (xenophobic and paranoid beings who are not only virtually immune to magic, but whose reproduction is basically vomiting up their children), the neogi (giant wolf-spider people who basically see the entire universe in terms of money, and will sell anything or anyone if they think it'll net them a profit -- oh, and they can control minds), the tsochari (who are basically AlwaysChaoticEvil PodPeople, only they can inhabit people and slowly eat their insides) and the grell (floating tentacled brains who think the entire universe is just a smorgasboard). Oh, and there are about a dozen EldritchAbomination gods like Mak Thuum Ngatha, Tharizdun, and Y'chak, many of which are utterly insane {{Expy}}s of creatures from Creator/HPLovecraft and would gladly crush the universe. These are all supposed to be happening on the same universe.

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* ''Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations'' is equally unpleasant. Let's consider: we have the aboleths (horrors from before the beginning of the universe, whose knowledge of the magical and psionic arts will actually drive you insane if you try and learn it), the mind flayers (pretty much the same thing, only from the future and who reproduce by ''sticking a tadpole in your brain, whereupon it eats your entire nervous system''), the beholders (xenophobic and paranoid beings who are not only virtually immune to magic, but whose reproduction is basically vomiting up their children), the neogi (giant wolf-spider people who basically see the entire universe in terms of money, and will sell anything or anyone if they think it'll net them a profit -- oh, and they can control minds), the tsochari (who are basically AlwaysChaoticEvil PodPeople, only they can inhabit people and slowly eat their insides), and the grell (floating tentacled brains who think the entire universe is just a smorgasboard). Oh, and there are about a dozen EldritchAbomination gods like Mak Thuum Ngatha, Tharizdun, and Y'chak, many of which are utterly insane {{Expy}}s of creatures from Creator/HPLovecraft and would gladly crush the universe. These are all supposed to be happening on the same universe.

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* With the possible exception of [[{{Narm}} Atropus]] (''possible'', as even with Narm, he's pretty scary), most of ''Elder Evils'' qualifies. Pandorym? It's an EldritchAbomination from a reality perpendicular to the game world, and it's going to kill the gods and a fair number of planets too -- and Obligatum VII, one of the representatives of universal law, [[LawfulStupid wants to release it to fulfill]] '''[[LawfulStupid a freaking contract]]'''. [[FluffyTheTerrible Father Llymic]]? He's a monster from the Far Realm who will transform the entire world into [[SingleBiomePlanet ice]], [[TheVirus transforming most of its inhabitants into hybrids of themselves and insects]]. [[BodyHorror Ragnorra]]? She's a giant wormlike sack of flesh that transforms into an ([[UncannyValley arguably even scarier]]) [[OneWingedAngel True Mother form]], and she not only spawns an infinite stream of crimes against nature that make beholders and mind flayers look pleasant, but TheDragon is a maddened ''zenythri'' (for the uninitiated, these are the descendants of humans and beings of ''pure law'') who has cut his lips off and replaced them with wriggling flukelike critters. [[SealedEvilInACan Serthos?]] He's not so bad by himself, but his manifestation [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes flooding the world with serpents]], and he can [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil can never really be defeated]], as he's ''already dead''. Kyuss, TheWormThatWalks? Let's just say you may never look at a worm in the same way again. It's strongly advised you only read this book in dark rooms, so that you don't have to look at some of the pictures. Especially the [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ElderEvils_Gallery/111203.jpg golothoma]], an eyeball-spider that eats you with its shadow.

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* The d20 sourcebook ''{{Dragonmech}}''. A D&D type world where the moon has been moved closer and almost all life lives either deep underground or within truly HumongousMecha , the City-Mechs up to 2000 feet tall, powered by magic, steam, clockwork...slavery or necromancy. One of the undead 'mechs' is described as being thousands of bodies melded together... but some of the smaller ones are creepier. A meatrack is a metal skeleton with sharpened fingers as its weapons, that is powered by bare muscles attached to the frame. But even the undead ones aren't the worst... one of the character classes is a steampunk cyborg... that modified himself. Break a leg, why wait for it to heal? Hack it off and replace it with some metal... well, now you're lopsided, so you might as well do the other side too... Man, this would be easier if I could change out my hands, why not replace the arms too? Until you're left with a head on a robot body... and the steampunk cyborg did all of the work himself, aside from the implantation of the original small steam engine, was forgotten. The amputation of limbs and replacement with metal, with no mention of any sort of anaesthetic.
** The self mutilation mentioned above was added as an Artificer feat in 3.5 Eberron, aptly named "Self-forged". As in, a Warforged that {{LogicBomb forged itself}}. You keep your original race for a while, but eventually your self modification will cause your character to become almost entirely {{Magitek}}.

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* The d20 sourcebook ''{{Dragonmech}}''. A D&D type world where the moon has been moved closer and almost all life lives either deep underground or within truly HumongousMecha , the City-Mechs up to 2000 feet tall, powered by magic, steam, clockwork... slavery, or necromancy. One of the undead 'mechs' is described as being thousands of bodies melded together... but some of the smaller ones are creepier. A meatrack is a metal skeleton with sharpened fingers as its weapons, that is powered by bare muscles attached to the frame. But even the undead ones aren't the worst... one of the character classes is a steampunk cyborg... that modified himself. Break a leg, why wait for it to heal? Hack it off and replace it with some metal... well, now you're lopsided, so you might as well do the other side too... Man, this would be easier if I could change out my hands, why not replace the arms too? Until you're left with a head on a robot body... and the steampunk cyborg did all of the work himself, aside from the implantation of the original small steam engine, was forgotten. The amputation of limbs and replacement with metal, with no mention of any sort of anaesthetic.
** The self-mutilation mentioned above was added as an Artificer feat in 3.5 Eberron, aptly named "Self-forged". As in, a Warforged that [[LogicBomb forged itself]]. You keep your original race for a while, but eventually your self-modification will cause your character to become almost entirely {{Magitek}}.

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** So your players are engaged in a diplomatic endevour. They are very lucky, 'cause they have one of their nation's best diplomats on their side. With Errol Flynnish good looks, he's the life of the party, and all the while he steers the debates in your favor. But something seems off, he has a weird accent, or odd syntax, or he steps just a little into UncannyValley. The PC's investigate. It turns out that this guy just popped up recently, and just in time, as a mysterious plague is sweeping the nation, and the cure lies in the hands of enemies. So this guy comes in to save the day. And then the PC's learn the awful truth: this "friend" is actually a DefectorFromDecadence, and his enemies are hunting him down. Won't the PC's please protect him? The plague intensifies, and kills a friendly diplomat. The other nation is struck, and refuses the to share the cure. The two nations go to war, while the dead mount. A whole continent is dragged into despair, and as the heroes look on, helpless, a purple star rises in the sky. What happened? Well, the nice diplomat was an alien monster all along. That's an Emissary of Caiphon, one of the more powerful of the star spawn. And Caiphon is revealed in a ''Dragon'' article to be the nicest of these things. He is implied to not hate you, he is just curious as to what happens when you remove part of the social foundation. Sometimes he eradicates horrors like, say, slavery, and other times he eradicates entire sentient species.
** The Serpents of Nihal, whose origin reads like an Creator/HPLovecraft short story. Once there was a jungle nation, devoted to the [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes evil god of Snakes, assassins, darkness and poisons]]. Now, this nation of Aztec [[{{Expy}} Expies]] searched for more power. So, they opened a gate to Nihal, a ''a star made of snakes'', and the SpiritualSuccessor to [[TheWormThatWalks Kyuss]] up there. What came out? An army of glowing, evil snakes.

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** So your players are engaged in a diplomatic endeavor. They are very lucky, 'cause they have one of their nation's best diplomats on their side. With Errol Flynnish good looks, he's the life of the party, and all the while he steers the debates in your favor. But something seems off, he has a weird accent, or odd syntax, or he steps just a little into UncannyValley. The PC's investigate. It turns out that this guy just popped up recently, and just in time, as a mysterious plague is sweeping the nation, and the cure lies in the hands of enemies. So this guy comes in to save the day. And then the PC's learn the awful truth: this "friend" is actually a DefectorFromDecadence, and his enemies are hunting him down. Won't the [=PCs=] please protect him? The plague intensifies, and kills a friendly diplomat. The other nation is struck, and refuses the to share the cure. The two nations go to war, while the dead mount. A whole continent is dragged into despair, and as the heroes look on, helpless, a purple star rises in the sky. What happened? Well, the nice diplomat was an alien monster all along. That's an Emissary of Caiphon, one of the more powerful of the star spawn. And Caiphon is revealed in a ''Dragon'' article to be the nicest of these things. He is implied to not hate you, he is just curious as to what happens when you remove part of the social foundation. Sometimes he eradicates horrors like, say, slavery, and other times he eradicates entire sentient species.
** The Serpents of Nihal, whose origin reads like an Creator/HPLovecraft short story. Once there was a jungle nation, devoted to the [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes evil god of Snakes, assassins, darkness, and poisons]]. Now, this nation of Aztec [[{{Expy}} Expies]] searched for more power. So, they opened a gate to Nihal, a ''a star made of snakes'', and the SpiritualSuccessor to [[TheWormThatWalks Kyuss]] up there. What came out? An army of glowing, evil snakes.

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