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D&D Homebrew Races - The Gorse Sprite / Briar Fairies

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      The hedges on the misty moors hold a hidden world to us mortals.  Be careful not to poking around the briars, for you might lose your senses upon their thorns...       A fey creature update and player race option Dungeons & Dragons 3e/3.5.   Gorse Sprites originate from issue # 180 of Dragon Magazine , a  TSR Inc supplemental magazine which was for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons/2nd edition at the time of its publication.  The Gorse were eventually included in Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996), a TSR Inc compilation of AD&D creatures found across several supplementals.      The updates allow the gorse fairies to be used in the 3.5 edition rule set.      The configuration for these specific monster classes was created by Aboleth Eye !      As always, though this was made with D&D 3.5 edition in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this ...

D&D Homebrew Races - The Broken Ones / Mad Science Monsters

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       A homebrew collective race of twisted abominations and mad science experiments, for   Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by   Aboleth Eye !        As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye     Abominations of science and profane magics...  Heresies made flesh...  The Created...  The creatures known as Broken Ones are varied in form and origin but they all share a commonality; they are unnatural life, aberrations of flesh from man and beast.  And all are cursed to wander the earth ostracized from the humanity they were shaped by--abhorrent to the eye and frightful to the soul.     Broken Ones are a broad category of sapient creatures made from or augmented by multiple humanoid parts.  They were initially ...

D&D Homebrew Monsters - The Barometz / Darkwood Sheep

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     A homebrew vegetal sheep-like monster for   Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by   Aboleth Eye !        As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye The sound of bleating can be heard from just beyond the treeline.  Following it, past a withered section of forest, you see a lone lamb grazing in the middle of a lavender glade, surrounded by shrubbery.  The lost sheep must have been rolling around--its thick shaggy coat appears green and speckled with purple wildflowers.        The lamb trots away playfully as you approach--to the middle of the glade.  And you notice suddenly, beneath its black hooves, the half-buried remains of a wolf's skull.  Suddenly the encircling bushes all rise up on four legs, revealing th...

D&D Homebrew Monsters - The Guivre / Venomous Serpents

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     A small but venomously wicked subspecies of dragon, inspired by the medieval French folklore creature of the same name .      A homebrew monster for  Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by  Aboleth Eye !        As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      The camp was settling in nicely for the night.  First and second watches were agreed upon, and the fire was crackling nicely as the sun dipped below the treeline.  There was a brief but tense moment when someone claimed a breadroll was stolen, but it didn’t go any further than a few grumbles and a promise of restocking soon.      It was a few minutes into the first watch that a painful shout split the calm night.  Startled, everyone turned ...

D&D Homebrew Monsters - The Bean Sidhe / Banshee

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    A spectral fey tied to the Ethereal Plane, grieving for those of ancient houses and the downfall of great heroic bloodlines.  Inspired by Celtic/Irish mythology and folklore.      A homebrew monster for  Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by  Aboleth Eye !        As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      The sickness has claimed the beloved son and heir of the late lord.  For days the sky has been dark and stormy; the roads muddy and impassable.  The healer requested days ago has been unreachable, and the young lord slips further away with each passing, gloomy day.  And the servants whisper of a haunting voice wailing from the cemetery beyond the hill…     T he lady of the castle was rais...

D&D Homebrew Races - The Mortal Dullahan / Headless Horseman

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        A homebrew race of death-born, headless knights for  Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by  Aboleth Eye !  Inspired by the Dullahan  from Irish folklore , Washington Irving's American folktale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and more modern incarnations of the headless horseman--including the Headless Rider from Japanese urban legends and light novel series  Durarara!!      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye     Known  as “headless riders” and even "headhunters of the gods"; true Dullahans are some of the most terrifying entities to roam the planes!  Veiled in death, riding a vicious steed blacker than night and holding aloft a chain of spines and their own severed head; these dark creatures chase down their vic...

D&D Homebrew Races - The Novisnauts / Possessed Armor and Diving Suits

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A homebrew race for Dungeons & Dragons 3e/3.5 Edition ; created by Aboleth Eye ! These strange hollow creatures are loosely inspired by SCP 1861-B , episode #57 of The Magnus Archives , and the Creepy Old-Fashioned Diving Suit trope…      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      The first time a spacehand ran about crying about a figure floating outside of the spelljammer, their fellow crew and captain laughed at them…      When the lone fisherman came back from the bay ranting about a metal-suited creature rising from the foam to hand them a full net; the locals at the tavern called them deluded with too much salt on the brain…      And when a peasant burst into the tavern about a large dungeon unearthed beneath their farm, patrolled by something u...