Isaac Minarik

January Whirlwind Rewards

• Individual Links (Nice, Color-Coded, Has Art)

• Comically Big Master Doc (Clunky,...

  2026-01-01 21:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Master List 1.48

The celestial renewal is upon us! What are we at now, 2026? Too high, start over. New year, new world, you know? Let's get weird this year.

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Many Mephits Make More Memorable Mischief

Closing out December's elemental rush, we've got mephits! My old mephits had a lot of character, but not enough attention paid to what it's like to run twenty little guys at once. These new mephits...

Ageless Armored Aegis-Bearers

Do you need something guy-shaped in your ancient temple, but it doesn't really make sense for a guy to be there? We got stuff for that!

Allow me to introduce you to the relic-knight, a celes...

Forget Monkey, Return to the Sea

Wet genies; lorewise they're some of the most powerful individual warriors of elemental chaos, though they don't do as much warring as the dao and efreets. Marid wishes are all about conforming to ...

A Breath of Fresh Air

Continuing on with our elemental/genie theme, we've got a spread of the lampdwelling OGs today. I just ran a few of these djinn in one of my favorite encounters ever, and now your players can beat ...

Hotfolk

Elemental chaos often gets portrayed as basically soup, since it's so hard to actually adventure there, but it's worth remembering that it's a whole place full of stuff and more importantly people;...

Master List 1.47

Bit by bit, goodness and light are devoured from the world as we approach our yearly nadir, by which of course I mean that getting tabletop groups together this month is always a struggle. I have t...

December Whirlwind Rewards

• Individual Links (Nice, Color-Coded, Has Art)

• Comically Big Master Doc (Clunky,...

  2025-12-02 04:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Horns Up, Goat Gang

Mythic satyrs have some minor troubles adapting to a chill fantasy world (calm down, Priapus), so most of the DNA of these comes from maenads and Greek mystery cults, but I think they still feel pr...

Blob Falls, Everybody Dies

The '24 MM introduced some new top-level threats, among them the blob of annihilation, an ooze for the ages: this thing is basically a monsterfied natural disaster with a built in loot-delivery mec...

The Anglerwisp - A collaboration with Elven Tower

Wow, a third original monster in one year! That's gotta be some kind of record for me. This deep-sea hunter represents a symbiotic bond between a sunken spirit and an extradimensional predator, whi...

A Colossus Rises

Check it out, the giantest giant robot I've ever made a stat block for. Too big to be moved by mere magic, the colossus is a piece of monumental architecture that takes decades or centuries to cons...

Great googly moogly, its a Genius Loci!

It took me four false starts over five years, but I think I've finally figured out how to make a monster feel big well enough to do 3.5's genius loci justice. The core concept is you're fighting th...

Master List 1.46

Hope everyone had a properly spooky Halloween; I've got some too-late spookygame recommendations for you in case you haven't had your fill yet. Also in the broad games department, I played through ...

November Whirlwind Rewards

• Individual Links (Nice, Color-coded, Has Art)

• Comically Big Master Doc (Clunky,...

  2025-11-03 05:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Loot Drop

I HAVE DONE A NUMBER OF THINGS. BEHOLD.

1. I went through the 2024 DMG and priced every item based on its relative usefulness to player characters. Included in here is a set of index pri...

   2025-10-28 21:08:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Can't keep a good knight down

First off, if any of y'all are on the California Central Coast and interested in armored combat, get at me. It's the off-season for knight-fighting and I'd love to have more people to whack.

Fell Omens

I feel like my older death knight wasn't awful, but it's an important monster and deserved to be as good as it could be, so here's a refinement and expansion of what we had before; also, I needed t...

Eldritch terrors, low and high

John Tedrick making grimlocks look cool was not on my 2025 bingo card, but it definitely deserved some proper stat blocks to go along with it, along with some new big-ol-brain-boys to boss them aro...

Master List 1.45

Spooky season done snuck up on me this year; I full forgot to save up any Halloween monsters for release, but I've contacted an Etsy witch so hopefully the spirits will manifest a Samhain miracle.<...

October Whirlwind Rewards

• Individual Links (Nice, Color-coded, Has Art)

• Comically Big Master Doc (Clunky,...

  2025-10-02 02:27:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Library Monsters!

Arcane libraries come up a bunch, and it's often hard to populate them with things that fit in comfortably; here we got a Tome Golem, which can just be a stack of books when not in use, and an arch...

A new contender appears!

Miska the Wolf Spider is an interesting Prince of Demons, in that he doesn't really have a gimmick or a plan; he's just the best demon, and other demons know that the party is wherever he happens t...

Bloodsuckers of the Northern Kingdoms

Got some shapeshifting vampiric bat-monsters for your viewing pleasure today; they're emphatically not undead, which can make for some fun uncertainty and investigation potential when something is ...

Chardalyn - It's what's for dinner

Evil ice-metal is a hell of a drug, as evidenced by this handsome Xardorok Sunblight fella and his frosty robo-dragon.

I've included two phase stat blocks for king grump representing his as...

Live, Vecna! Live!

All right, folks have been asking for this for years and years now and I finally got this punk together with two stat blocks; one for presenting a mild challenge to a level 20 party and one for if ...

Master List 1.44

The devil-cults are complete! Finally, I can rest, and by rest I mean making things that aren't cultists. All that remains on the devil book is art now! I've been working on a set of maps for each ...

September Whirlwind Rewards

• Individual Links (Nice, Color-coded, Has Art)

• Comically Big Master Doc (Clunky,...

  2025-09-02 02:12:28 +0000 UTC View Post

September Warg Rider Rewards

• Early Access Individual Links

• 2025-09-02 02:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post