Geeknative has a post called: D&D: Wizards of the Coast release a first edition post-apocalyptic Gamma World bundle. He suggests its a D&D setting but its not really, it's a game of its own and somewhat different than D&D but it doesn't have to be. I like the idea of them releasing older stuff to check the interest, but they should follow this up with a 5E version of Gamma World. Treat the game as a setting for D&D. Follow that up with Dark Sun and really expand D&D beyond the Vanilla Fantasy. Release a new Monster Manual dedicated to mutant future and more psionic oriented beasts and I think they might really have something. Then again maybe it's just me and Vanilla Fantasy is where the big bucks are, what do I know.
Remixes and Revelations has a post called OSR: Chaos Beasts in which he stats up a Chaos Beast along with (and this is the best part) a bunch of tables to customize the beast. Anything with Chaos in the name should be unique.
I'll take a moment to outline my own 'chaos ooze' of sorts, creating a bit of a life cycle of different monsters. See whenever you fumble while casting a spell it creates a spray of 'chaos snot' which is a bunch of tiny molecules that cover everything. It's mostly harmless at first and not worth mentioning except as part of the life cycle. If left alone the chaos snot turns into a grey ooze, if the grey ooze is left to grow it becomes a gelatinous cube (shaped that way because of traveling through square shaped corridors all the time, if the thing travelled through a corridor with a triangular shape they'd be gelatinous triangles. The next phase of life is a gibbering mouther and then a shibboleth (which would mostly be too large to easily leave whatever room they'd ended up in). Of course this is all GM nonsense characters are unlikely to ever know about unless they captured and studied one. Also it creates a dynamic that Adventurers (or at least magic users) are at fault for the potential chaos destruction, and if ignored the chaos will grow and get horribly worse. I find it strangely satisfying to have a lifespan for certain things (like dragons with their young, elder).
Another thought was that chaos snot, or grey ooze, if consumed will create beastmen. So if chaos snot covered grass and a cow ate it, anyone that ate that cow would mutate into a minotaur type beast man. If a goat ate the snot, eating that goat would create a satyr-like beast man. You could create almost any combo-with the same justification. This helps satisfy my own brand of Gygaxian naturalism (and I don't particularly like the Greek myths as is, they are just too well known).
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