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Having trouble writing up hard stat blocks but I'm doing a lot of sharing ideas and soft mechanics lately.
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On the Snakes Appendix
While technically an appendix, this is all the attention I'll give to Appendix C. It's a big list of changed damages for the venomous snake based on specific snake species ranging from the Rinkhal's cobra and death adder to the taipan (both coastal and western) and copperhead. There are also different conditions besides ability score damage, including tissue necrosis and suffocation. It's very useful if you don't like having set venom damage for all venomous snakes, but isn't exactly useful otherwise. I like it personally, though. There are a total of 47 snake species in the list.
Anyway, enough of that, let's get into Appendix D: Animals.
Barracuda
Erm...hm. While some of the creatures in this chapter are fantasy-based, a fair dose are real creatures. So...hm. How best to do this...okay. I guess I can give a brief description of the animal for those unfamiliar with it before going into their d20 stats and comparing them with any WoTC version if those exist. So...
Barracudas, for those of you unfamiliar with them, are long, toothy fish that somewhat resemble the freshwater pike, ranging in size from the 2-foot yellowtail to the 6+-foot great barracuda. Stats are provided for a Small, Medium-size, and Large barracuda, which are CR 1/4, 1, and 2, respectively. By comparison, the barracuda in Stormwrack is Medium-size, but only CR 1/2, and deals 1d4 bite damage rather than 1d6 like the one in ToH.
Caribe, Giant
If you couldn't guess by the name, our first fantasy monster is a human-sized version of the piranha. They gain extra attacks when blood is in the water, keen scent, and have a 1d6 bite. They are stated to be saltwater piranhas, but that seems somewhat suspect, as that would mean that these giant piranhas are pretty much just sharks with another name....oh wait!
Deer
Deer are antlered mammals that live in various parts of the Northern (and some of the Southern) hemisphere, in case you didn't know that...please tell me you did know that. Anyway, deer are CR 1/4 and have 1d4 damage hoof attacks and a 1d6 gore attack. All deer have bonuses to Hide, Listen, Move Silently, and Swim checks, and black-tailed deer get a bonus to Jump checks as well; why only black-tailed deer, I'm not sure, as I've seen white-tailed deer with some pretty springing steps.LGBTitP
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Eel, Electric
In case you didn't know, electric eels are vaguely eel-like fish that are actually from the family known as the "naked-backed" knifefishes and can produce a hefty electric shock. In game terms, this is 3d8 electricity damage against targets within 5 feet, and 2d8 for targets from 6 to 10 feet away. They are CR 2 and size Large; rather odd, considering that real electric eels are only about 6 feet long.
Fox
The swift and agile fox is a rather unimpressive CR 1/3 Animal, most likely only in the ToH as a baseline for the foxwere.
Hamster, Giant
Oh, yes, I can already hear the references for this one coming, and the answer is: no. There is not a miniature giant space hamster as well, although you could always apply the Miniature template from Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary and the Space Creature template from d20 Future if you were really so inclined. Standard giant hamsters are CR 3 and size Large. They're immune to disease and have a pseudo-swallow whole "cheek pouch" ability.Last edited by Rappy; 2010-09-19 at 10:01 PM.
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I never got the whole hamster thing, even with Spelljammer. Seems like some sort of April fools' editing joke that made it to print.
There sure are a lot of giant fish in the animals section...My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
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Hippopotamus
Hippopotami are large, amphibious herbivores from Africa; two extant species exist, the stats here replicating the larger common hippo. What's interesting to note is that while the hippo in this book has a lower Challenge Rating than the one in Sandstorm (CR 4 as opposed to 6), msotly due to lower ability scores, the ToH hippo is arguably more dangerous as it has the Trample and Capsize special qualities, while the Sandstorm hippo has neither.
Lizard, Giant Rock-Horned
Like its real-life relative, the horned lizard or "horny toad" as some call it, this CR 3 Medium Animal can fire a stream of blood from its eyes. Unlike real horned lizards, however, this version deals 2d8 points of acid damage with its blood...huh.
Marmoset, Giant
Hey, another giant version of a real creature! The CR 1 Medium-size giant marmoset is, ironically, a giant version of the smallest species of monkey, the pygmy marmoset. Worthy of note is that it is stated that jungle halflings capture giant marmosets and use them as mounts, which is such a silly mental image that it wheels around into being glorious.LGBTitP
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2010-09-26, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Moose
Ah, the moose, the largest of the extant deer. To you not from North America, you may know this creature as the elk...or you may not, it's not for me to judge what linguistic definition you are using. In any case, by the d20 definition here, moose are a CR 3 Animal with 1d8 damage from its head butt/antler slam/whatever you wish to call it attack and 1d6 from its hooves.
Quipper
A piranha. A cold-water piranha. Does the random cold-water-dwelling note actually affect anything? Nope. Not even some cold resistance to differentiate them from being just a piranha.
Sheep
Good for your farmery, I guess. Stats are given for a CR 1/4 standard ewe and a CR 1 ram. Neither are that impressive,, but really, they're sheep. What did you expect?Last edited by Rappy; 2010-09-26 at 02:29 AM.
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What is this obsession with giving stats to completely mundane animals? I mean when is the last time a GM was desperately needing the stats for a sheep or a moose?
Also i believe that all non-native English speakers know moose by that name and not as elk. At least i have only ever heard it called moose in English, though elk is clearly related to the Danish word for it.
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The thing is, the Moose is the same as the European Elk. The North American Elk is a different animal. As are the Indian Elk and the Irish Elk (which actually isn't an Elk. Go figure).
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It does make sense though. Elk is clearly related to the Scandinavian word for the animal, elg (pronounced with the G almost counted as a second syllable of "yuh" in Danish at least). I find it more interesting that they dropped that name in North America, probably because the settler didn't really know much about an animal living in Sweden, Finland and Russia and just grabbed the local name for it.
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The scandinavian moose is also called Elch in German. The North American Elk is simply wrong.
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Which is why it's also called wapiti. I've also heard it called a deer by some people. That lecture got confusing fast
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Well, it is a kind of deer. Just like a moose or a caribou is. Quite a few kinds of deer out there, actually.
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Yes, but I meant specific deer names. Large Red Deer, or something like that. That was a year or so ago.
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Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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Wow, I didn't expect an off-hand joke about the strange idiosyncrasies of non-binominal nomenclature animal naming to spark this much discussion.
TheMeMan: Yes, I know the difference between the moose/elk and the elk/wapiti, as well as between those and Megaloceros/Irish elk. I am a woman of many talents; while biology is one of those, wording is not. Sorry if it sounded like I was stating the elk and moose were the same creature.
Terraoblivion: There are a surprising number of animal-only templates. And hey, at least they're in a brief appendix, rather than taking up hefty amounts of space.
The Dark Fiddler: Give the halfling a blowpipe while you're at it, just to go all-out.
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Skunk
Skunks are most well-known for their odious musk, which is of course a special quality here. In spite of said musk, however, skunks are one of the weakest creatures in the book at a measly CR 1/8.
Tiger Barb, Giant
...Really? For those that don't know, tiger barbs are popular aquarium stock fish with striped patterning (hence the name) that are in the same family as carp and "true minnows". While they are known for being rather nippy and forming little gangs to harass other tank fish, inflating one from 2 inches long to a 15-foot long CR 2 Animal doesn't make me feel intimidated. If anything, they've just given stats for a very weak shark, since I doubt I'd ever try to tell players they are being assaulted by a giant minnow with a straight face.
Turtle, Giant Snapping
This, on the other hand, I could see being frightening. Snapping turtles are rather unpleasant to be around, and the idea of one that is 40 feet is frightening. You could probably use these for a swamp version of the "island that isn't an island" trope, or have the giant snapping turtle as a legendary lake monster a la the Beast of 'Busco (look it up if you aren't familiar with it).
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And with that, the Animals appendix is done! Next time, we start on the demons and devils so we can finally finish up this tome.Last edited by Rappy; 2010-09-27 at 02:26 AM.
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So this book gives you the tools to make a dire skunk?
Awesome.
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Yeah, you'll have to excuse me. I just switched from entomology to game animals this semester, so I'm a little invested in the subject
Anyway. Tiger Barbs are a strange idea. I mean, I can see giant versions of small critters, i.e. Hamsters or Marmosets being funny, but Tiger Barb? That's just boring.Resident Vancian Apologist
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Probably not, since it's a recording orb, not a creature capturing orb.
But then, a magical item that cast Forcecage followed by a cheesed up Reduce Monster effect and an extradimensional storage...
Excuse me, I need to go write something up.Resident Vancian Apologist
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Yeah, but... who ever thought Tiger Barbs were exciting monsters? There's so many more interesting aquatic critters. Giant Pistol Shrimp? Gulper eel? Goblin Shark (come on, after so many sea-creature related puns, that one is obvious)?
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There actually is a gulper eel in Tome of Horrors III. But that's still a few threads into the future.
And since this thread has been so bustling in the past day, I'm gonna reward y'all with the first demons post!
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Demon, Aeshma
The vicious CR 11 aeshma (or rage) demon is a winged giant of basalt and bottled fury, a demonic warrior whose anger bubbles beneath its skin, just waiting to be released. They are also demons that can quite easily hound you. It can teleport, see through invisibility, dispel magic, and impale with its spear (which happens to cause copious bleeding). They can also summon entire droves of dretch demons (4-40 individuals!); add this to the fact that the aeshma tend to travel in squads with vrock demons anyway, and it means that you will be bull rushed into oblivion if you aren't careful.
Demon, Alu
The CR 5 alu-demons are the results of a succubus-human union. They're more or less succubus-lite when it comes to powers. Meh.
Demon, Baphomet (Demon Lord of Minotaurs)
Here we meet the first of the demon lords, the horned menace known as Baphomet. He holds claim to a massive labyrinthine castle in the deepest stony caverns of the Abyss, a place few return from alive, and populates it with both normal and demonic-blooded minotaurs (his chosen "children" that worship him as a god). He is an omniscient being who rightfully earns his Challenge Rating of 25, with the ability to send shivers of fear with his mighty voice, rend apart armor, and skewer his foes with his supernaturally powerful halberd. He can also summon demons and minotaurs of many sorts. And if that doesn't scare you enough, he casts spells as a 20th level Wizard.
When it comes to interactions with other beings, Baphomet is not the most subtle of beings. He will break opponents with glee in combat, unless he's bored; in that case, you have fiendish minotaurs to deal with. He also cultivates fanatical worshipers from the minotaur and giantkind (as well as crazy humanoids) into honed cultists known as the Horned Ones, who spread his iron-hoofed will onto the mortal plane as well. Just don't mention gnolls if you know what's best for you. Let's just say....Baphomet and the gnoll demon-god, Yeenoghu? Not the best of friends. Of course, neither of them can say exactly why they're fighting anymore, but both are too bloodthirsty and prideful to really care.LGBTitP
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