Lovecraftian Monsters
from 1st edition AD&D Deities and Demigods
converted into 3rd edition D&D

Originally created by the Primordial Ones as servants, the shoggoths eventually rebelled and destroyed the civilization of their masters. Shoggoths resemble huge, intelligent amoebae, able to form almost any shape out of their near-transparent bodies, including legs, eyes, mouths, huge weapons, or whatever is needed. The few remaining shoggoths live in distant, long-deserted areas, sometimes aiding servants of Cthulhu or other Old Ones.

COMBAT

Shoggoths attack by shooting pseudopods out of their body, which strike opponents as a blunt weapon.

• Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the shoggoth must score a hit with a pseudopod.
• Frightful Presence (Ex): See Lovecraftian Monsters note #2. DC 20.
• Engulf (Ex): A shoggoth may attempt to engulf a Large-size or smaller opponent grabbed by any one pseudopod. The opponent must succeed at a Reflex save (DC 18) or fall and be engulfed. On the next round the shoggoth crushes the victim for 2d10 +12 hp damage. An engulfed creature cannot attack the shoggoth from within.

Shoggoth Qualities

• Amorphous (Ex): A shoggoth is not subject to critical hits. It has no clear front or back, so it cannot be flanked.
• Immunities (Ex): Due to their alien strength and intellect, shoggoths are immune to Weakness, Paralysis and Charm
• Skills: Thanks to their multiple eyes and ears, shoggoths gain a racial bonus of +4 to Spot, Listen and Search checks.
• Languages: Shoggoths speak no languages but communicate with other living creatures telepathically.

These red, bat-winged creatures somewhat resemble lobsters in that they have many legs, feelers, and eyestalks, and forearms that end in great pincers. Though they appear to be crustaceans, they are actually fungus creatures. Mi-go are immune to the effects of cold, dark and vacuum, and can fly across interstellar space. They cannot speak, but communicate by clicking their pincers.

COMBAT

Mi-go attack by using their pincers or firing a ray from a techno-weapon.

• Techno-weapon: Mi-go often (50%) carry a techno-weapon, which are unique to their race. This weapon fires a ray (50 foot intervals, 300 feet max) which is considered an energy attack and does 1-10 hp damage.
• Frightful Presence (Ex): See Lovecraftian Monsters note #2. DC 17.

Mi-Go Qualities

• Immunities (Ex): Due to their frequent use of interstellar travel, Mi-go are immune to all effects of Cold, Dark and Vacuum
• Plant: Because Mi-go are fungus creatures they are affected by all spells, etc, that affect plants.
• Skills: Thanks to their nearly immortal lifespans, alien heritage and frequent need to hide amongst other races, Mi-go have a racial bonus of +4 to Knowledge (Arcana), Disguise and Gather Information.
• Languages: Mi-go "speak" their own language (through the use of their pincers), which uses the Lovecraftian alphabet. They also understand the languages of Cthulhoid (cthulhoid alphabet) and Common (common alphabet) but are unable to speak those languages unless equipped with a voice-box (see below).

The Deep Ones are humanoid, amphibious men-fish, cold-blooded creatures of great strength. They can attack with their clawed webbed hands, or wield weapons. They have Darkvision as well as normal sight. They live near the land on ocean shelves and are able to travel to the land at any time and for as long as they wish. They have been known to interact with evil humans and interbreed with them. This results in human-appearing offspring who undergo a gradual transformation after the age of 21 that causes them to become as the Deep Ones who spawned them. The Deep Ones are soulless and apparently immortal. These creatures promote evil in preparation of Cthulhu’s return. They do this by collecting treasures from the sea and using them as funds to spread the cult of Cthulhu and the Old Ones.

COMBAT

Deep Ones attack by using their claws or tridents.

• Frightful Presence (Ex): See Lovecraftian Monsters note #2. DC 14.

Deep One Qualities

• Amphibious (Ex): Although they live in the ocean, Deep Ones are truly amphibious and suffer no penalties for spending any length of time out of water. They are fully able to breathe air or water.
• Immortal (Ex): Deep Ones are immune to the effects of aging. They never die of old age. If they are starved they simply shrink in size (down to 1 hp and about the size of a large frog) and eventually go into a form of stasis. If they are fed well and healthy, they eventually will grow to a full 25 HD size (which seems to be an upper limit).
• Soulless (Ex): Deep Ones are immune to all spells, etc, that affect the soul (Soul Bind, Magic Jar, etc)
• Collossal Deep Ones: Only two such creatures are known to exist, with the names "Father Dagon" and "Mother Hydra". Any Deep One who achieves this size is generally worshipped as a Deity by other Deep Ones.
• Skills: Deep Ones receive racial bonuses of +15 Swim and +10 to Knowledge (arcana) and +10 to Knowledge (religion), due to their long life spans and connection with the Cthulhu cult.
• Languages: Deep Ones speak Cthulhoid (cthulhoid alphabet) and Common (common alphabet).

These creatures are barrel-shaped cylinders with membranous wings. On top of the body is a head covered by 3-inch wiry cilia of many colors. They have 5 red-irised, globed eyes. At the top of their heads are 5 mouthed tentacles, and at the base of their bodies are 5 powerful tentacles used for locomotion. The Primordial Ones are actually an alien race of high intelligence and advanced science. They hate all other types of intelligence, and will destroy them if possible, striking with three of their powerful walking tentacles if no advanced weaponry is available.

COMBAT

Primordial Ones attack by using their walking tentacles, using the Multiattack Feat.

• Frightful Presence (Ex): See Lovecraftian Monsters note #2. DC 17.
• Psionics: To be determined when the 3^rd edition psionics handbook is published.

Primordial One Qualities

• Immunities (Ex): Due to their frequent use of interstellar travel, Primordial Ones are immune to all effects of Cold and Heat
• Skills: Thanks to their alien heritage and advanced scientific civilization, Primordial Ones have a racial bonus of +10 to Knowledge (arcana) and Knowledge (architecture and engineering).
• Languages: Primordial Ones speak the languages of Cthulhoid (cthulhoid alphabet) and Common (common alphabet).

These creatures populated the world eons ago and their cities still exist buried in deserts or other out of the way places. They had a highly advanced scientific civilization, with psionics rather than magic. When their civilization was destroyed, some of them were frozen in time, and these are occasionally discovered. (The Great Race of Yith are actually a race of bodiless creatures that leap forward through time, occupying the bodies of other creatures for a few centuries to gather historical information before abandoning those bodies and leaping forward, en masse, into another civilization. This version represents a very old civilization that was inhabited by the Great Race of Yith. Different statistics would exist for the bodiless Great Race, the Great Race in other bodies than these, or these conical bodies without the inhabitation of the Great Race. For now, this combination of Great Race and this body will just be called "The Great Race".) The Great Race are tall cones, ten feet wide at the base, with 4 ten foot long tentacles at the top. Two tentacles end in lobster-like claws, one in a trumpet-like ears, and one in a globe with 3 eyes along its circumference with a set of manipulating tentacles depending from it. The relationship, if any , between the Great Race, the Old Ones, and the elder gods is unclear. Humans discovering and freeing them are sometimes rewarded with gifts of knowledge.

COMBAT

Great Race attack using their two claws as well as psionics.

• Frightful Presence (Ex): See Lovecraftian Monsters note #2. DC 14.
• Psionics: To be determined when the 3^rd edition psionics handbook is published.

Great Race of Yith Qualities

• Immunities (Ex): Due to their highly trained minds, the Great Race are completely immune to all forms of magical control (Charm, Hold, Magic Jar, etc).
• Skills: The Great Race are, if nothing else, historians. This society-wide focus grants them a +10 to Gather Information, and a +15 to Know (history) skills.
• Languages: The Great Race speak the languages of Cthulhoid (cthulhoid alphabet) and Common (common alphabet).

These giant furry bat-like creatures have humanoid legs that enable them to stand like men. They can be summoned by clerics of Hastur through use of a gate spell (1-4 Byakhee will appear). They are able to teleport throughout the Prime Material Plane at will, carrying human beings with them on their backs or in their talons. They are intelligent, telepathic, and will obey those whore carry the Elder Sign or who appeal successfully to Hastur.

COMBAT
Byakhee attack using their two claws combined with frequent use of the Power Attack feat.

• Frightful Presence (Ex): See Lovecraftian Monsters note #2. DC 19.
• Psionics: To be determined when the 3^rd edition psionics handbook is published.

Byakhee Qualities

• Teleport at Will (Su): As servants of Hastur, Byakhee can teleport at will, without error, carrying up to 3 medium sized creatures anywhere in the Prime Material Plane.
• Telepathic (Ex): Byakhee are able to communicate with all intelligent creatures telepathically.
• Skills: As servants of Hastur, Byakhee gain a racial bonus of +5 to Know (arcana) and +5 to Know (religion)
• Languages: See above (Telepathic)

These creatures appear to be smaller versions of their master. Their bodies radiate 10 points of heat damage to all who come within 60 feet of them, and they can cast a single heat ray from their body every melee round that does 2-20 points of damage if it hits. One of their functions is to appear when the god is suppposed to appear but is too busy or chooses not to come.

COMBAT
Cthugha’s flame creatures use their heat ray combined with a Power Attack, often wiping out whole groups in a single round with their Cleave/Great Cleave follow-up attacks.

• Frightful Presence (Ex): See Lovecraftian Monsters note #2. DC 19.
• Heat Radiation (Ex): All creatures take 10 hit points of heat damage every round if within 60 feet of a flame creature.
• Psionics: To be determined when the 3^rd edition psionics handbook is published.

Cthugha’s Flame Creature Qualities

• Immunities(Ex): Cthugha’s Flame Creatures are immune to heat and have a special protection against all cold attacks as well.
• Languages: Abyssal, Ignan, Cthulhoid

1. A new sub-class of monsters, "Lovecraftian", is established.
2. All Lovecraftian monsters have Frightful Presence as a special attack. The following is common to all such monsters:

Frightful Presence (Ex): The hideousness of Lovecraftian Monsters tends to unnerve opponents. This takes effect upon first spotting the Lovecraftian Monster. Creatures able to see the Lovecraftian Monster are subject to the effect if they have fewer HD than the Lovecraftian Monster.

A potentially affected creature that succeeds at a Will save (varying DC, depending on the type of Lovecraftian Monster) remains immune to any frightful presence of the same race of Lovecraftian Monster for one week. On a failure, creatures with 4 or fewer HD become panicked for 4d6 rounds and those with 5 or more HD become shaken for 4d6 rounds. All Lovecraftian creatures are immune to the frightful presence of other Lovecraftian creatures.

3. A new language, Cthulhoid, which uses a new alphabet, Cthulhoid, is established.
4. I disagree that Mi-go are "low" intelligence. In fact, I think that is a serious flaw in Deities and Demigods. In HPL’s tales, Mi-go were highly intelligent, and I have given them a 21 Int to reflect this.
5. I have reversed the speeds of walking/flying for the Primordial Ones. It seemed to make more sense that they fly faster than they walk.
6. Because Cthugha’s Flame Creature comes from another plane (Elemental Fire), it is an outsider, and thus the only non-Aberration on this list.