Creator: Mammoth Factory | From £5.99
What It Is
This meenlock has the kind of posture that makes players sit up a bit straighter. It is all long neck, wiry limbs, and bad intent, crouched low with its legs spread wide like it is skittering sideways into a lunge. The face is properly nasty: a broad, ugly head with a mouth full of teeth, one clawed hand lifted to rake at something soft, and bony growths jutting from the shoulders and chest. There is no armour or kit to hide behind here, just stretched hide, ridged limbs, and the general look of a creature that belongs in a hole nobody should have entered in the first place.
At The Table
For D&D 5e or Pathfinder 2e, this works beautifully as more than just "a meenlock appears." Put it at the edge of a fey-haunted wood where people have been vanishing from a charcoal-burner's camp, or use it as the first survivor of some older, nastier brood lurking below a ruined watchtower. The sculpt looks fast rather than bulky, so I would play it as a thing that circles the back line, drags isolated targets into the dark, and makes the party dread every failed Perception check. If you are running Shadowdark, this is exactly the sort of monster you glimpse in lantern light for one awful second before it is suddenly much closer.
It also suits stranger settings than straight dungeon crawling. In Dolmenwood, this could be one of the malformed court-things left behind where fairy malice has soaked into the roots for too long, half beast and half bad bargain. In Blades in the Dark, I would happily use it as a hull-less spirit predator from the deathlands, all hunger and bone-spurs, loose in an abandoned manufactorum. Even Call of Cthulhu could make use of it if you lean into the folkloric horror angle: not a named mythos beast, but the thing a terrified witness insists stood upright and watched from the treeline before it took the farm dog.
Printed in high-quality resin. Supplied unpainted. 25mm base.
