Monster: Monarch Skeleton

James Introcaso uses MONSTROUS to give 5e Skeletons the royal treatment.

James, lead designer at MCDM Productions, creator of Flee, Mortals!, had this to say about his process for creating this Skeleton:

In terms of design, I wanted to create a Skeleton that would be surprisingly powerful. It seemed thematic to me that the everyday things this Skeleton yearns to do are the same things that the ruling class of folks would think was mundane, but light years away from anything most people ever do with their time. A Skeleton who wears a crown and goes around bopping people with scepters, attending royal balls, and ordering everyone else around as if they were their subjects was both humorous and terrifying to me, so I went with it!

Check out James’s Monarch Skeleton!

What is Monstrous?

MONSTROUS is a system-agnostic tool for fantasy tabletop roleplaying games, the go-to reference for telling better stories through monsters. It brings fear, wonder, & mystery back into monsters while demystifying the process of writing them.

MONSTROUS is a beautiful art book, using lavish paintings, illustrations, prose, and poetry to inspire you to build and explore worlds populated by dark mythic monsters.

MONSTROUS champions the idea that different monsters should lead to different stories. A Dragon & a Lich can both be mastermind archvillains, but the differences between them should be deeper than the type of damage they deal, & they should lead to unique roleplay opportunities. 

MONSTROUS empowers you to seize the creative reins, to craft monsters that uniquely fit your fantasy worlds and stories.