Come on, no need to be ashamed. We all were new to Ravenloft once. There's no need to be embarrassed if your first monster was something COMPLETELY out of whack. Like a Necromancer Lizardman hanging in a dungeon underneath Mordentshire. Or a Half fiend kobold riding a direbat over the skies of Pont-a-Museau.
I'll describe mine, and then you'll see that yours probably wasn't that bad.
So my players were dropped into Ravenloft off the coast of Mordent. Previously I had been looking through the Denizens of Dread, when I noticed the Sea Stalker Lycanthrope. Now, I knew off the bat that the way this monster was currently, I would never get around to using it. However, I was determined that because it was in an official book it should, at some point, be used in my campaign (:?).
At the time, I had been doing a whole Alice in Wonderland theme in my campaign, making my players enter Ravenloft through a mirror. Hoping to kill two birds with one stone, I decided to adapt the Sea Stalker to the side story, The Walrus and the Carpenter. I figured that if I change the type of marine mammal the Sea Stalker turned into, I could make it fit better into the campaign.
Yes, you read correctly: the first monster I ever used as a Ravenloft GM was a Were-Walrus
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And my players ran from it like pansies. Screaming pansies that couldn't figure out why silver wouldn't do damage to it. It took my players three sessions to make weapons about of Whale bones and sea sponge in order to kill it.
Needless to say, my players have never let me down for it.
Now your turn
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