The pseudonatural creature recurred in several D&D publications, representing creatures unmistakably foreign to the nature of our reality. They are the spawn or servitors of Great Old Ones, elder gods, and other sanity-blasting entities whose existence mortals can barely comprehend. They leak into this world from the Far Realm, an unknowable space beyond even the Outer Planes
The pseudonatural template presented in this document provides a means of representing such eldritch horrors, as well as a simple way to increase the menace or general creep factor of existing monsters. It does not merely adapt one particular previous version of this creature, but combines them and leverages new mechanics from the 5th Edition D&D rules to make them even more horrifying and memorable when encountered.
UPDATE: Ver.3.0 - This major update to the Pseudonatural Creature nearly triples the amount of content, adding two new examples of creatures with the template-- the rat-thing and the black dog-- and also includes a new cantrip and optional rules for pseudonatural familiars.
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