What do you consider to be the most interesting kind of Monster / Creatures / Xeno
I'm gonna kick off with Aboleths. These baby HP lovecraft horrors are ageless, immortal, scary smart, scary strong, infection to land dwellers. Create three types of their own minion. Are basically a much scary version of Mind Flayers- Eat Brains, Eat Thoughts, Psychic. And depending on who you believe they made everything.
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Shadows
Incorporeal stealthy undead whose touch steals your strength and who can spawn multiples of themselves.
The fact that they can be literally anywhere and touch your feet from inside the floor is seriously fucked up.
I always find it humorous that they were ever considered one of the weaker forms of undead.
I'm actually going to go to the other end and pick Mind Flayers. Hyper-intelligent, every single one is working in perfect concert with every single other one, can infect and transform a ton of different creatures, their tadpoles if left alone will become entities that are just as smart but utterly alien in mindset, and it freaks out even Mind Flayers themselves.
Best of all, Aboleths DON'T REMEMBER THEM. Whatever Mind Flayers are, they are so alien that even the guys who remember what elves and dwarves and humans and dragons and even the gods used to be in the primordial past, can't recognize or reconcile Mind Flayers. This is because their most consistant lore has Mind Flayers coming from so far in the future that even the Aboleth's genetic memory can't piece together what they come from.
Aboleths and Mind Flayers basically serve as cosmic bookends; one a horror from the deep past; the other a nightmare from the far future.
Damn, you stole my idea. Aboleths are the most terrifying things I can think of, especially because I have an incredible fear of water and the thing in it.
It's Aboleths for me too, so nothing else to say, your honor.
I like Gibbering Mouthers, a lot. There's something about not truly dying to a monster and existing as your consciousness consumed by a swelling cacophony of lost voices and hungry mouths. It makes me wonder about whether or not someone with a truly god-like willpower could overpower the sea of voices and assume control of the entity itself.
Fought an aboleth in a Super Hero campaign once.
It was nearly a tpk.
Fighting underwater + Mind Control sucks.
Depends on setting.
Anything that eats souls both fucks me up and makes me mad right proper. Pretty much all of my characters, even some of the more morally loose ones, draw the line at that sort of shenanigans, mostly because I don't have it in me to actually mess with souls, even in fiction.
I want to come at this from the other end and point out that very few GM/DMs actually give enough credit to "mundane" enemies. Giant rats, wolves, simple animals.. they can all be terrifying and deadly within the right story and setting.
I hate that "we fight some wolves" is give such a trite treatment in most games I've ever played in, when they can be enemies that could represent a threat that takes up an entire session.
In other words.. most interesting enemies are the ones you bother to respect.