Announcing the Halloween Zero-to-Thirty Challenge Rating Challenge!
mario September 30th, 2021
I’ve collaborated with @probablybadrpgideas on a thing!
For the 31 days of October leading into Halloween, let’s all make one Dungeons & Dragons monster per day. Challenge rating starts at 0 on day 1, and each next monster is CR+1, culminating with a CR30 nightmare on the 31st, representing the monsters getting spookier and more dangerous as we approach the most sacred day. Post your monsters each day like an advent calendar, try running encounters against monsters posted by others, build one-shot Halloween-themed adventures, make monstrous player races to oppose the growing threat, make fan art of other people’s monsters, or just enjoy and share the community’s creations!
For your consideration, a prompt list:
- Pumpkin Spice
- Undead
- Kaiju
- Fairytale
- Accursed
- Spoopy
- Beast
- Outer Space
- Doppelgänger
- Capitalism
- Insects
- Trick-or-Treat
- Misunderstood Monster
- The Deep
- Prehistoric
- Secretive
- Ooze
- B-Movie Monster
- Expanse
- Parasite
- This is Not a Place of Honor
- Chaos
- Mythology
- Supernatural
- Mecha
- Psychopomp
- Forest
- Abomination
- Caves
- Boss Monster
- End of the World
Feel free to follow the prompts in any order you like for inspiration, skip and replace any you aren’t feeling, use another list, or just follow your heart to make the spoopy spooks of your dreams. Dealer’s choice for D&D edition, or Pathfinder, or Monster of the Week, or whatever TTRPG system you like, just make them scarier and tougher each day.
This is the Halloween Zero-to-Thirty Challenge Rating Challenge. Let’s see what amazing things we can come up with to celebrate the best time of year. Hope your party survives to the end!