For months, I’ve terrorized my Dungeons & Dragons players with an unusual monster – the aboleth, a large three-eyed fish with minor psionic abilities whose existence pre-dates the gods themselves.

Perhaps a bit of a traditional option, but you cannot deny the horror of the Aboleth. A serpent-like creature whose face is mostly mouth with several roles of sharp teeth, ready to rip its prey apart.

Horror is hard to do in a tabletop game ... beholder named Xazax in Out of the Abyss (2015). The multitudinous aboleth saw the beginning of time itself, before the gods, before this world ...

The new volume seemed to take that criticism to heart, as it provides 30 new different items that players can make with the monster parts they pull off of a beholder or aboleth. While not every ...