Dungeons and Dragons is a game that you can take in many directions. If you want a serious, dramatic story for your players to role play their way through, you can do that. The same if you want something more combat-heavy, or even a comical campaign full of whimsy and hilarity. There are no limits to what you can do outside of the rulebooks, and what kinds of monsters you can use.

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There are dozens of manuals packed with old and new monsters, but a fan favorite since the very beginning has been the comedy. The silliest monsters who have ever shown up in Dungeons and Dragons are some funny beasts you can add to any campaign you please.

10 Flumph, Lawful Good Aberration

Flumph by Brian Valeza

The Flumph looks like someone played around with science and magic a little too much. They’re not just funny in name, either, but pretty much every aspect of their existence. Flumphs look like football-shaped jellyfish with mouths everywhere but the correct spot.

These psionic carnivores may seem threatening, but given their tendency to get stuck upside down, unable to move, they’re probably not going to be a problem for your party. That is, as long as you don’t let them go all telepathic on you.

9 Tall-Mouther, Neutral Aberration

Tall Mouther by Chris Hawkes

Forgotten Realms is known for having some bizarre monsters, that’s certain. The Tall-Mouther is the bane of halfling communities everywhere, and for good reason. With their six limbs and massive gaping maws, they’re a threat to just about anyone who’s under 5 feet tall.

RELATED: Dungeons & Dragons: Tropes Everyone Still LovesTo any taller species, though, they’re more just comically hideous to look at and think about. Their primary diet is, you guessed it, halflings, and it’s common for halflings to describe being caught by the monster as “getting mouthed”. It’s hard to keep a straight face when you’re sent off to hunt one.

8 Gelatinous Cube, Unaligned Ooze

Gelatinous Cube by Olivier Bernard 

Sure, you laugh at the slow-moving jiggly cube of gelatin now, but just wait until this snail-paced horror catches up to you. The Gelatinous Cube, despite its very silly name and appearance, dissolves all organic material that it blindly absorbs, including living beings. There’s almost no escape once you’re caught inside the ooze.

It’s just your bones, floating around in magical Jello. As terrifying as running into the cube is, there is zero guarantee that your death won’t still be extremely funny to everyone else.

7 Roving Mauler, Neutral Magical Beast

via Wizards Of The Coast

All the perks of a large carnivorous cat and none of the disadvantages. The Roving Mauler has no time for concepts like “having a whole body” or “walking normally”. Instead, what it’s got is an uncomfortable arrangement of limbs that is as intimidating as it is completely hilarious.

Just be careful not to get near the mouth parts. Or the claw parts. Or get trampled by the whole thing as it rolls towards you like a giant boulder made of fluff and ridiculous legs.

6 Flail Snail, Unaligned Large Elemental

Flail Snail by Cory Trego-Erdner

The Flail Snail is a massive, beautifully colored, poisonous snail monster. The best part about this technicolor beast is that it can have a rider, giving even more opportunity for some silly imagery.

If you’re looking to use the Flail Snail, rest assured that someone has already written up the stat blocks for just about every edition you could possibly want to add this creeping behemoth to. Now, not only is there a snail slowly trying to kill you, but it’s also the size of a building and can light you on fire.

5 Froghemoth, Unaligned Huge Monstrosity

Froghemoth by Brent Hollowell

Huge Monstrosity is right. The Froghemoth isn’t quite as cute as a real frog, but it’s mammoth-sized and ready to get slime all over everything in sight. Just in case the logistics of fighting an oversized monster frog weren’t already complicated enough, this one has tentacles that can all grapple, and a big gross tongue to pull victims in for a bite with.

Bullywugs seem to worship these gargantuan creatures as some sort of deity, so maybe following suit might spare you a particularly slimy and untimely death.

4 Duckbunny, Neutral Animal

Duckbunny by Jeorj

Coming from the very first sheets of Dungeons and Dragons, the Duckbunny may seem like a harmless bashing-together of two small animals. And you’d be right; it’s an absolutely useless enemy. But it sure does look silly.

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3 Spider-Horse, Neutral Monster

Spider-horse by Jeorj

One of the most classic, and also most horrifying, monsters that Dungeons and Dragons has, the Spider-Horse is almost too ridiculous to take seriously. Almost. There’s something about the combination of horse and arachnid that leaves you somewhere in between raucous laughter and mortal terror.

While it’s an awful abomination, the Spider-Horse still deserves its rightful place in the Silly Monsters Hall of Fame. The real question is, does the thing still lay eggs, or something even weirder? Never mind actually — nobody really wants to know the answer to that one.

2 Owlbear, Unaligned Large Monstrosity

Owlbear by Ilse Gort

There have been a few different depictions and variations on the Owlbear throughout time, but one fact remains the same. Mixing an owl and bear together is super funny every single time you do it. Reception of Owlbears ranges somewhere between cute and too comical to be threatened by.

Still, they’re one of the most commonly used basic monsters that you can find in a Dungeons and Dragons setting. If your campaign is taking place anywhere outside or in the woods, you’re likely to run into an Owlbear or few.

1 The Dread Gazebo

The Gazebo from Steve Jackson Games

A heated exchange between players regarding what a gazebo is, and whether it can be attacked, has been immortalized forever as its own monster. The Dread Gazebo, a story that’s been going around Dungeons and Dragons circles for a long time, has been given battle stats so now you, too, can take on the Gazebo by yourself.

The tale of the Gazebo is so famous that even Steve Jackson Games had to recognize it with its very own monster card in the tabletop game Munchkin. And they even gave it a real-life replica.

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