Ahh yeah, I got into DnD after DM as well (seeing how I was about five or six when I first played DM, I think), and found things like Purple Worms and such (the DnD ones are sliiiightly bigger, though
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The Shrieker/Screamer is in DnD 2nd Edition, at least - I've played the computer games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, which use ADnD 2nd Edition rules and there is a point in Icewind Dale where you go to the Underdark and there is some guy's mansion house thing, which has Shriekers in the grounds to sound the alarm if intruders approach. You can exploit it to get endless exp as long as you don't kill them, because every time you trigger the alarm a bunch of blade-armed skeletons ("Serrated Skeletons", I think) spawn around you
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Some of the old DnD monsters are very silly - there's at least one website I've been on which has a compiled list of really silly monsters. Like, most people have heard of the Mimic, which tends to take the shape of a treasure chest to lure in unsuspecting adventurers, revealing that lifting its "lid" actually reveals a mouth with very sharp teeth. But there were also monsters that could mimc doors. And walls. And floors. And ceilings. You could literally create a "death room" in which absolutely everything in it, as well as the room itself, was a creature wanting to eat you
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There was another silly creature that resembled a tree stump with a rabbit on it. But the "rabbit" was actually a lure not unlike that used by an angler fish, and the "tree stump" was a creature, once again with a big mouth of sharp teeth it wanted to use to nom you
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I've been running a tabletop DnD campaign but it's been on hold since March - hopefully we'll get back to it at some point. The party consists of a Satyr Warden, Thri-Kreen Ranger, and Genasi Elementalist. Definitely not 2nd Edition though - no THAC0 for me, thanks!
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