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Monster Adventurers

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Monster Adventurers	comment	Life is tough for a wandering monster. Not only do you have to live in a dungeon with no new energy entering the ecosystem, but you're in constant danger of being killed by treasure hunters or perhaps other monsters. Can't be a fun existence. But wait! The adventurers are in an environment just as dangerous, and they live a lot longer! They get all those nifty healing potions and shiny swords and glamorous quests! Their goodness feels good! People respect them... well, usually! They're at the top of the world! Well, to the thinking monster, a course of action suggests itself... This trope is not for Mons, Pet Monstrosities, or Monster Allies. This is when a lone adventurer, an entire party, or at the very least a core party member are of a 'monsternote "Monster" here meaning "normally Always Chaotic Evil in this Verse".' species. By definition either a Reluctant Monster or a Defector from Decadence, a Monster Adventurer might also be a Horrifying Hero depending on how monstrous they are. The civilian version is a Benevolent Monster. Note that this trope only applies when there's an Always Chaotic Evil (or Always Neutral Hungry) morality for the monster adventurers to break free from, otherwise they're just normal adventurers of an unusual species. The Monster Adventurer's natural habitat is the RPG Mechanics 'Verse, though they're also frequently found in settings with Loads and Loads of Races. See also Breakout Mook Character, My Species Doth Protest Too Much, Perspective Flip and Player Character. Examples
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Monster Adventurers / int_14a837ea	comment	Awful Hospital: Everyone who joins up with Fern as companions.
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Monster Adventurers / int_1af341a1	comment	Disgaea offers your entire cast as demons or angels, and you can get every single monster species you find and equip them with weapons AND armor. Then again, it's Hell.
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Monster Adventurers / int_1d59c00b	comment	Your entire party in Last Armageddon is a team of demonic monsters, as the remnants of Earth after humanity had gone extinct.
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Monster Adventurers / int_206d2e21	comment	Gobli's Adventure, the sample game that came with the original PlayStation RPG Maker tool starts with an A.I. controlled party slaughtering goblins. After respawning, Gobli decides that he'd rather be an adventurer than XP fodder, and sets out on a quest to do so. He is joined by a literal hole in the wall that wants to become an NPC and a kitten that wants to be a Final Boss.
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Monster Adventurers / int_2759b269	comment	Monsters Can Be Heroes Too!: which centers on Coal the Kobold trying to become a hero... and not being 100% as to how. She ends up recruiting a slime named Lime (Coal was sent to go kill a slime but ended up bringing it back with her) and a White Mage skeleton named Shelley (who worked for an evil skeleton gang before accidentally killing one of them with healing magic).
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Monster Adventurers / int_2cfdf18e	comment	In the second game of the SaGa series, your entire party (Main character included) can be monsters. The third game starts all of your characters off as human, but allows them to become monsters.
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Monster Adventurers / int_2ddf611	comment	The Dark Sun setting includes the Thri-Kreen — anthropophagous mantis warriors — as player characters from the get-go, with further expansions providing at least six different Kreen sub-species. In its Revised edition, it added the Pterrans, a sort of neo-Lizard Folk race of pterosaur people.
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Monster Adventurers / int_3209fad1	comment	Several NPCs in Mabinogi are monstrous humanoids, like Elatha the incubus. There's also the option of playing as one of your pets, so Pet Monstrosities like spiders or vipers might count.
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Monster Adventurers / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: The setting provides multiple options for this, fitting every definition of "monster". The goblin nation of Darguun is the easiest, as goblinoids are at the same power level as the standard races; Darguun is a mercenary nation that is still young and fragile, but other than an uncomfortable amount of slavery and some Fantastic Racism from their neighbors, the place is normal enough. The nation of Droaam is the MONSTER nation, formed when three ancient hags stepped right out of myth and conquered a region for the uncivilized and dispossessed. If you want to be a minotaur or a gnoll, this is where you most likely come from. Droaam doesn't get as much attention as most of the other nations, but much thought has been put into how a nation full of extremely powerful creatures would work in a world where level 3 is considered exceptional. The gristle mills turn trolls into infinite meat, medusas petrify the dying in emergencies, many couriers can fly under their own power, and the nation's primary export is overpowered mercenaries. The individual cultures that have united under the hags also get some attention; the gnolls were slaves created by demons who now refuse to worship any higher power, the minotaurs are still mostly worshiping demons but at least one clan is actually worshiping the god of Honor and Light while thinking she's a demon, and a significant percentage of the monsters are escaped Daelkyr experiments. And then of course, if you're just talking about being morally a monster, the campaign is set up to allow for Villain Protagonists too.
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Monster Adventurers / int_42e71a9c	comment	Everybody Loves Large Chests revolves around a Mimic and its band of summoned demons, Plant People, and other monsters.
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Monster Adventurers / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: Iron Fist Alexander is a warrior jar who's left his home of Jarburg for good to go on an adventure to become a mighty warrior. He travels the Lands Between to train and hone his body and searches for the remains of great fallen warriors to absorb into his body. He's a jolly fellow who can be summoned for bosses and has a unique Ground Punch move unlike other enemy living jars. His quest ends with a Duel to the Death against you, and on his defeat tragically laments that he could never surpass you, but is happy to die a warrior's death and entrusts you with his remains. One of the friendly NPCs you can summon to aid you on your quest is a serpent man who, unlike the rest of his brethren, is actually on your side. As it turns out, Rya is actually a Serpent Man herself, and serves as a scout for her adoptive mother by wandering the Lands Between.
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Monster Adventurers / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, the Gnath splinter faction are lowly and are willing to get by from scavenging scraps. You're given a quest to locate a missing Gnath, who you later find has gotten himself in trouble for eating all the Gyshal Greens the nearby settlement was using for hunting. You convince them to have the Gnath run a favor for compensation, and the Gnath ended up doing such a good job he gets rewarded with extra greens to take home. That's when the Gnath discovers how much more rewarding it would be to work as an adventurer, and ends up opening an Adventurer's Guild for Gnaths willing to offer their services, which ends up being the basis of the Gnath Beast Tribe quests.
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Monster Adventurers / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Horde player characters are all about this, with the Horde representing a goodish-neutral version of the usually Always Chaotic Evil orcs, trolls, undead, "minotaurs" (Tauren). The expansions mix up this pattern when adding new races to both sides, with for example werewolves (Worgen) going on the Alliance side.
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Monster Adventurers / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape had quite a bit of this and was a bit more open to it than most other D&D settings since it subverted the typical good vs evil dynamic in favor of a more political approach to everything. Initial rules allowed players to select tieflings (humans with some fiendish ancestry) and baurier (centaur-like humanoids with the lower bodies of bighorn sheep instead of horses) while later supplements added races like bladelings (tall humanoids who were covered in spikes), aasimar (humans with celestial ancestors), and rogue modrons (cube-shaped beings from the plane of Law who either had wings or an extra pair of arms).
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Monster Adventurers / int_50024843	comment	While Vainqueur The Dragon is already near the top of the food chain, he becomes one as a means of further expanding his hoard.
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Monster Adventurers / int_561c6e35	comment	In Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, when Sinbad and his crew finally reach the Lost World of Hyperborea, they are joined on the last leg of their journey by a "Troglodyte", a sort of gigantic Frazetta Man they befriend.
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Monster Adventurers / int_5755b96a	comment	There's a passing mention in The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness. Later Malack turns out to be a vampire, which has a punishing level adjustment of eight, was previously part of an adventuring party, and notes that the level adjustment suffered in a Dungeons & Dragons world does make it difficult to find "appropriate" challenges to level up on. Xykon, as a lich, has a level adjustment of four, although it doesn't seem to impede him nearly as much as the one above despite being into epic levels even before the adjustment is calculated. As the primary villain of the comic he may benefit from accelerated XP growth to keep him outmatching the heroes though.
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Monster Adventurers / int_5908ee91	comment	The Dragonborn in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a downplayed example, being a Dragon in human/oid form. Dragons in this setting are innately driven to destroy and dominate others, something that even the reformed dragon Paarthurnax admits he struggles with. He notes that with their kinship, those same urges are present in the Dragonborn as well. The Dragonborn can take this trope to ridiculous levels. S/he can be a cat/lizard man who can transform into a daedric (read: demonic) created vampire/werewolf. The Companions in the same game as well, due to being essentially an adventurer's guild of werewolves.
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Monster Adventurers / int_5b8abe25	comment	The core cast of Rusty and Co. consists of a fast-talking mimic, a rust monster, and the silent-but-deadly Gelatinous Cube, plus usually an Action Girl from a rotating Guest-Star Party Member roster.
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Monster Adventurers / int_5ef424cf	comment	Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic plays with it. Just look at its article's page picture. It started with beholders, kobolds and harpies, continued with a lich and drow, and most of the time retains at least a token mongrelman even when it mainly involves more traditional PC races. Sometimes Always Chaotic Evil aren't very chaotic or evil, sometimes they very much are, and sometimes they have a reason to team up with "good" guys.
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Monster Adventurers / int_67cdde7d	comment	In 4e, with the NPC stats at the back of the first two Monster Manuals, playing a monster PC is more mechanically viable than ever. Many of these races were subsequently expanded upon and made stronger with articles in Dragon or appearing in sourcebooks. Notably, minotaurs became a playable race in the 3rd Player's Handbook, goblins and kobolds made the jump in the Dungeon Survival Handbook, revenants, shades and vrylokas (a kind of living vampire) appeared in Heroes of the Shadowfell, and Dragon was home to playable stats for gnolls, shadar-kai, kenku, draconians, hobgoblins and bladelings, amongst others.
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Monster Adventurers / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder contains a wide variety of races specifically designed to be viable characters, with no racial Hit Dice, and (usually) power comparable to a core race. Playing a monster with inherent racial Hit Dice is something with much less rules support. The book Advanced Race Guide attempts to split the difference with a point-based race creator that lets players create zero-Hit Die races that mimic classic monsters. High-point-value races do get an equivalent to D&D 3.5's level adjustment, but the book emphasizes that more levels will ultimately outweigh the front-loaded initial benefits of monster-hood and recommends slowly moving the player's level into sync with the rest of the party's over time. The third party Roll for Combat supplements - the Battlezoo books - are another excellent source of monstrous adventurers, with the added bonus of being designed by a lead designer for Pathfinder 2e. Possible options include true dragons, slimes, sentient weapons, and an April Fools joke option that was expanded into a real choice, the dungeon. So, yes, it's now possible to play as dungeons and dragons in Pathfinder (or Dungeons and Dragons, as the Battlezoo books have versions that are compatible with both).
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Monster Adventurers / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Later Malack turns out to be a vampire, which has a punishing level adjustment of eight, was previously part of an adventuring party, and notes that the level adjustment suffered in a Dungeons & Dragons world does make it difficult to find "appropriate" challenges to level up on.
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Monster Adventurers / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress, with a bit of modding, allows any creature to become controllable in the RPG single-player Adventure Mode. This includes Metal Colossi all the way down to cats.
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Monster Adventurers / int_6ceabc	comment	The Iron Teeth web serial features Blacknail the goblin as its protagonist. He is a goblin who is part of a group of human bandits. Together they attempt to survive in the hostile frontier of the Iron Teeth mountains.
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Monster Adventurers / int_708ae58b	comment	Dan from Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures is an incubus and retired adventurer; however, he was never both at the same time. His cubi-based powers didn't manifest until after he quit adventuring, so during that time, he was just an adventurer with wings; and is now an incubus with adventuring skills.
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Monster Adventurers / int_7369fa6	comment	The War of the Spider Queen series is mostly about a bunch of drow on a quest to find out why their boss doesn't answer calls. They even took a Draegloth with them, and later sort of picked up an Alu-fiend. Of course, unlike Salvatore's most famous Drow protagonist, they're all evil.
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Monster Adventurers / int_747f61fd	comment	Fangface was a '70s cartoon series about a bunch of teens who drive around solving mysteries, and one of them (the title character, in fact) was a werewolf.
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Monster Adventurers / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms, from AD&D1e times had the Mindulgulph mercenary company, which was mostly non-humanoid. Named after a ruined castle that one warrior lady turned into her base mainly through use of telepathic communication first on everything moving during a dungeon crawl.
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Monster Adventurers / int_79bf0b84	comment	The party in Slightly Damned includes the fire demon Buwaro — who, by the way, is an incredibly nice guy unless he takes off his necklace.
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Monster Adventurers / int_7fcbd3e	comment	Mystara had its 10th "Known World Gazetteer" be "The Orcs of Thar", which was all about both a kingdom of traditional "monstrous humanoids" (orcs, goblinoids, gnolls, trolls, ogres, kobolds) and rules for creating and playing such beings.
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Monster Adventurers / int_a2c37f38	comment	Planescape: Torment, as can be expected from its setting, indulges in this trope. Morte, Fall-From-Grace and Nordom are all adventurers from 'monster' species that traditionally function as foes and NPCs: Morte is a sentient Mimir (a flying Oracular Head shaped as a skull that functions as a lexicon) and is later revealed to be the head of a dead liar from the Pillar of Skulls, Fall-From-Grace is an Ascended Demon Succubus who is trying to experience all aspects of The Multiverse, and Nordom is a Rogue Drone Modron (beings of pure law and order who resemble geometrical shapes) and is trying to come to grips with this 'individuality' thing. The Nameless One, Ignus and Vhailor were normal humans at some point, while Dak'kon and Annah are from other sentient humanoid species and therefore merely 'exotic adventurers'.
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Monster Adventurers / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights. The Badlands servers allow you to choose from more than 60 monster types to use as your character's race.
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Monster Adventurers / int_ba30aab4	comment	In Krull, one of the key members of Colwyn's party is Rell, a brave and noble cyclops.
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Monster Adventurers / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: Duane may have been blackmailed into guarding Sette as they trek across the continent at first, but he seems to be genuinely enjoying it.
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Monster Adventurers / int_bfb4c62c	comment	By the Book is about a party consisting of a goblin, an orc, and a kobold. Later they're joined by some humans and a tiefling. And their "former" employer sent a group consisting of a couple goblins, a hobgoblin, a half-orc-half-ogre, and a gnoll to retrieve them, who have gotten somewhat sidetracked by a series of unstable portals.
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Monster Adventurers / int_d6423831	comment	One of the signatures of the John Carter of Mars novels - and what saves the series from a lot of undeniable Values Dissonance - is that there's really no such thing as Always Chaotic Evil. To emphasize this, members of races that are normally considered monsters in-universe usually end up travelling with the heroes and proving that peace and harmony are possible even on the planet of war. Throughout the series, one of Carter's most stalwart allies and best friends is Tars Tarkas, a sixteen-foot tall, four-armed Green Martian, and eventual jeddak (high chief) of the nation of Thark. It should be noted that even on Mars, Green Martians are considered monstrous, being nomadic raiders, and relations between them and the more humanlike, city-dwelling Red Martians pretty overtly echo the relationship between white American settlers and the Plains Nations in the days of the Wild West. As Carter rises in political influence, he's able to improve these relations, forging a lasting alliance between Thark and the Red city-state of Helium. In the first book, A Princess of Mars, Carter and Dejah Thoris (the eponymous princess) are joined for much of their adventure by Tars Tarkas' daughter Sola, another Green Martian, though she gets out of the adventuring life and becomes one of Dejah Thoris' handmaidens by the end of the book. The second book in the series, The Gods of Mars, starts off as another adventure with Tars Tarkas, before he and Carter get separated, and for the second half of the story Carter's main ally is Xodar, a Defector from Decadence from the piratical, subterranean First Born of Mars, or Black Martians. To other Martians, Xodar and the First Born are equivalent to the boogieman, but the Black Martians are another race of Human Aliens, so to Carter, Xodar just looks like a black guy. By the next book in the series, the Black Martians are beginning to integrate fully into mainstream Martian society. The First Born are also the direct inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons' drow elves, dark skin and all, which makes Xodar the original Drizzt. In Thuvia, Maid of Mars, the title character is captured by the wicked Lotharians, who decide to feed her to their god, Komal. However, Komal turns out to be nothing but an unusually large banth - a type of lion-like creature found on Mars, and Thuvia is already established as having an uncanny ability to get along with banths. Komal helps her escape, and accompanies her and the other heroes for the rest of the book before dying heroically in the climactic battle. In The Chessmen of Mars, Ghek is a defector from the Kaldanes, a race of Puppeteer Parasite beings who consider emotion a weakness and prefer logic and rationalism. He joins the heroes on their quest and becomes a key member of the party, gradually learning to understand unquantifiable concepts like beauty and friendship.
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Monster Adventurers / int_d930a4c7	comment	Spelljammer, aside from its vast array of Intelligent Gerbil races, has one such race: the Scro, a sort of Nazi-esque "super orc" species normally painted in the hostile role in the setting. It also has a classic NPC illithid who hires the party in one adventure and is a major character of the Cloakmaster cycle. Estriss had nothing against other mindflayers in general, it just didn't allow their boring universal domination plans to interfere with more important things, such as its own quest for an ancient mystery.
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Monster Adventurers / int_e527a9c1	comment	The eponymous anti-hero party of anti-HEROES is composed of a vampire, a ghost, a tiefling, and a half-demonic (or is it half-divine?) mysterious cloaked figure. They are also much more sympathetic than the nominally "hero" party including more standard races.
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Monster Adventurers / int_e75c6d45	comment	Goblins: The party is made up of goblins whose village was destroyed but realized they could better defend their tribe by leveling up. The Hero Antagonists now also travel with a yuan-ti, and there's a deuteragonist dungeon party made up of three goblins, a lizardfolk/ogre hybrid, and a weird flying, shapeshifting metal thing called Klik. The lizardfolk was horrified when he learned one of the goblins only beat him because she took adventurer levels, something he considers to be cheating.
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Monster Adventurers / int_f349915b	comment	Dragonlance is mostly remembered for its Tinker Gnomes and Kender, but it actually featured Minotaurs as a playable race literally from the start, with the release of "Dragonlance Adventures" for AD&D 1st edition. In 3rd edition, its iconic Draconian race also joined the playable race list.
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Monster Adventurers / int_fe6dcd31	comment	Paul Kidd's three contributions to the "Greyhawk Classics" — a set of seven Dungeons & Dragons novels based on famous adventure modules — all make use of this trope. Whilst the adventuring party is led by a human ranger called the Justicar and contains another human fighter, Henry, the rest of the party consists of: Escalla, a flamboyant pixie sorceress (the Justicar's lover, no less); Enid, a sheepish gynosphinx; Cinders, the soul of a redeemed hellhound bound into its own flayed pelt-turned-cloak; and Polk, a human merchant who died in one adventure and was reincarnated as a talking badger.
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