October Monster-a-Day 2023

The Waning Cult Expands

October 1: Waning Drone

October 2: Hagbeetle

October 3: Horned Horror

October 4: Waning Gleaner

October 5: Waning Scribe

October 6: Sidewick

October 7: Waning Spouse

Legendary Dark Fey

October 8: Honeyhair
October 9: Lady Slough
October 10: Manfred Moppet
7 October 11: Ashbraid
October 12: Holloweyes
October 13: Putrid Pete
October 14: Strawberry

Knights of Darkness
October 15: Redleaf the Cheat
October 16: Ser Skythistle
October 17: The Barrow Guest
October 18: Faircrow the Vigilant
October 19: Dame Biitterbreath
October 20: Mockingbird the Humorless
October 21: Lady Blackshield

Universal Antagonists
October 22: Sable Billy
October 23: The Circle
October 24: Sin Pyre
October 25: The Witchgrinder
October 26: The Whisper Witch
October 27: The Star-Crossed
October 28: The Praying Lord

Big Bads
October 29: Madame Guillotine
October 30: The Condemnation of Enuk'Lun
October 31: Sym'bluhns

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