Medieval-Man's Monster Thread (Retired)

[SmootRK]

Do something different with them (but still rather WoW)... give them the secret of Magical/Alchemical Black Powder, and thus an arsenal of clay pot bombs, flash bombs (blinding), or other incendiaries. Flintlocks possibly if you want to have the potential for such in your game.

[LibraryLass]

I dunno, the minute you introduce black powder and other incendiaries, PCs immediately start to want their own. Which can be fun too, don't get me wrong...

[Solomoriah]

My dwarves have guns, and nobody else really wants them. Reload is too slow, and why mess with that when you have a trusty Longbow +1 or a quiver full of magic arrows?

[Joe the Rat]

Assuming muzzle-loaders, they'd be in the light-heavy crossbow range for reloads, plus needing to stop and clear the barrel every so many, plus the high rate of misfire, plus you have to keep the powder dry, plus the need to invent a slow match or some sort of spring-loaded flint-and-steel arrangement, plus accuracy is rubbish.

Great psychological/shock effect though, and they generate their own concealment, and they scale up nicely.

The real problem is once you get gunpowder, you get grenadiers.

[MedievalMan]

I honestly can't believe no one has yet to write up nymphs. If anyone spots any grammatical errors let me know. I am also considering upping their Hit Dice to 5.

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[MedievalMan]

And the classic Serpent-man. Again, please tell me if you see any grammar errors or misspellings.

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[MedievalMan]

So looking at the pony races I got to thinking, not everyone (or even most people) are into having intelligent candy-colored equines running around their campaign settings. I can agree with that sentiment, I probably will never use them in my own settings. However, the thought occurred to me that their may be a grain worth pursuing in the concept, IE intelligent animal races. They are a staple of many fantasy settings, so who is to say that they don't deserve some sort of representation? Maybe it would be worth writing a few as optional races.

[LibraryLass]

Dammit, Medieval Man, I was going to do those two.

So looking at the pony races I got to thinking, not everyone (or even most people) are into having intelligent candy-colored equines running around their campaign settings. I can agree with that sentiment, I probably will never use them in my own settings. However, the thought occurred to me that their may be a grain worth pursuing in the concept, IE intelligent animal races. They are a staple of many fantasy settings, so who is to say that they don't deserve some sort of representation? Maybe it would be worth writing a few as optional races.

Yesyesyesyesyes.

But then I'm that one weird chick who WILL let people play My Little Ponies if they want.

[MedievalMan]

Dammit, Medieval Man, I was going to do those two.

I wrote them both spur of the moment this morning, funny how we were thinking about the same thing.

Yesyesyesyesyes.

But then I'm that one weird chick who WILL let people play My Little Ponies if they want.

I would love to write up an animal race supplement. You want to maybe colab on it?

[MedievalMan]

Another one down and done. Tried something different to emulate the derro being led by spell-casters.

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