Making a Cool Monster

If you are reading a monster manual, fiend folio, creature compendium or similarly alliterative literature, invariably organized alphabetically, monsters will start to blur together the deeper into the alphabet you get. I understand that a marrow isn’t a mermaid, but honestly is there enough of a difference to justify a separate page or should we just use the stats of a sea-bear for both? However, two monsters toward the end of any alphabetical almanac of abominations are so different that even the most distracted, brainrotten reader could not mistake them for one another. V is for Vampire, and Y is for Yeti. The yeti is juiceless. As I was getting into the Halloween spirit, I watched The Abominable Snowman (1957), one of the Hammer horror films that is not at all about Dracula despite the presence of Peter Cushing in a lead role. I was struck by an undeniable fact: the titular abominable snowman is a boring monster. It is basically just a snowy bigfoot and there isn’t much more to…