Thread 95900679

Post art of monsters you can encounter in your campaigns!

>>95900692
It's aways bothered me when I see giant spiders because shouldn't they have different jaws than a traditional web-weaving spider? The spider depicted had chelicerae designed for injecting venom and then siphoning the organs out of exoskeletal creatures because they have an open circulatory system. On a vertebrate they'd only maybe be able to eat the gutbag and leave all the remaining muscle because they lack the ability to chew, which would make them very unlikely to pursue prey with a high meat:organ ratio. Someone with more knowledge please tell me what jaws would allow a spider to eat large prey that would be mostly vertebrates

Sentient plants are definitely an underrated creature type.

Also;
>>95900809
>>95900804
>>95900680
Is it possible to include dryads as anything other than coombait?

>>95903201
I'm sure tarantulas eat vertebrates.

>>95903333
They do but I can't find much about what makes their mouth different. They still lack jaws and their chelicerae are hollow and can't be used for crushing like teeth can be.
> Prey with large amounts of solid parts, such as mice, must be crushed and ground up or predigested, which is accomplished by coating the prey with digestive juices secreted from openings in the chelicerae.
It would be cool to see a spider monster that pounds creatures into a digestible paste

>>95903522
Some spiders have modified pedipalp segments that can be utilized the same way mandibular arthropods chew things apart. So it's perfectly reasonable that a monstrous spider could portion out their food, even if partial pre-digestion is still involved.

>>95903574
Do you have examples of any? Looking into it does turn up this cursed bit of info
> In sexually-mature male spiders, the final segment of the pedipalp, the tarsus, develops a complicated structure (sometimes called the palpal bulb or palpal organ) that is used to transfer sperm to the female
So now the possibility of combat capable sperm turkey baster hands is within the realm of possibility and that is awful.
I really would like to find more art of spiders with big club-like appendages, something that looks more capable of pummeling an enemy to death rather than the spindly, articulate legs. But I'm also just biased towards thick and stocky monsters that look like they could punch through a brick wall. Perhaps a spider that acts like a herbivore where it feeds on such readily available sources that it develops a physicality build to defend and trample threats rather than kill and eat large prey

>>95903697
I think it's actually common to most araneomorphs (spiders with pinching/scissoring fangs) and most also can use their chelicerae to aid in the same process. It's not like they're chewing it, more like what you'd do to make pulled pork. Honestly I probably learned it from a text book like Biology of Spiders or something. Regardless, the point was that their feeding is significantly more complex than most people think of it, even if the Capri Sun imagery is a fun visual. Though, speaking multi-limbed creatures with weird mating habits, male octopuses also use the "grab sperm packets, place in/on female" patterning, but usually it's on of their from arms, and you can tell it is for that purpose because it will have an end that has fewer or no suckers on it. In some species the behavior is that the male tears the arm off and gives it to the female rather than depositing the packets himself. Nature is bonkers.

>>95904192
> Detaches penis
> Here my love, a symbol of our eternal union
I swear once we start going over 5 limbs shit gets wack. The mental imagery of spiders shredding predigested meat is visceral, but very cool. I've always loved how mechanically unnerving they look. No other predator looks and operates so robotically, and the method with spinning a web is so alien. An animal that comes with its own tools and trap making kit is so outlandish that it feels like it is more machine than creature. Add in how their eyes just look like surveillance equipment, and you can't convince me these things are not simply biocomputers dedicated to killing in the least energy expensive way to the point of actual sadism for its victims

>>95903201
This is why my giant spiders come with a pasta grinder mouth

>>95900801
Looks like Jason Gagnon.

>>95903242
They can give information

>95900688
Uh-oh, puckee! KYS my dude.

>>95904987
The first three pictures are all cuckee. We're both getting banned for pointing this out since he's sucking off a mod or something.

>>95904700
kek

>>95905017
>whine against spamfag to the point of being more annoying than the actual spamfag
>nooo why would jannies ban me, they must be tranny faggots getting headgibs! surely it's not because of my spamming!

>>95904286
The fact that they only have a one-way musculature for their limbs and you get that mechanical, skittery movement from their limbs because in order to stretch their legs out they do it with hydraulics, which also means when a jumping spider jumps it's fluid-powered. I actually like to treat giant spiders as "contents under pressure" to add to the unsettling nature of their size as a monster

>>95906946
So they would be terrifying?

>>95900679 (OP)
>>95900680
>>95900688
I hope you encounter an HIV positive rapist in your life, puckee.

>>95904700
Absolutely based and digestively practical
>>95906946
This is kind of terrifying, an extra thick carapace that when cut open spews out boiling blood like a radiator cap opened too early. Turns an already gangly, imposing creature into a boiler explosion on death

Kill yourself puckee

>>95909895
this is a very cool concept

>>95900753
>>95900768

This is great stuff

>>95910933
Lions are terrifying

>>95912895
Yes, but a lion on steroids is more terrifying.

It's funny that normal animals are considered monsters in most games.

>>95913655

I kinda hate it.

>>95913655
Read about the Tsavo man-eaters and you’ll see why

>>95915361
Yeah, well, I don't think it's fair to face a jaguar if your character has super strength, magic, and superhuman reflexes.

Tzukur: At first glance, they look like normal, cute, and adorable ducks.
But their clothes are actually made of human skin. Their main victims are children who drown in the lake trying to reach them because "they're adorable and they want to hug them." And feather artists who drown trying to obtain their feathers to make headdresses and other accessories.

>>95917960
nice

20-30 of these charge at your party when they're idle and unawares. What do?

>>95918065
I give them toof brushes for all dem teefs.

>>95918065
Shit pant and climb a tree

>>95918193
This

>>95917970
imagine getting rid of its teeth and making your mom sit there.

>>95900777
This one's very cool, although I don't quite understand how the jawline works.

>>95921687
I guess that's the lizard part, but it has elements of mammal there too

>>95918868
spoopy

Sorry for getting off topic, but I have to ask a question. Can I post threads in Spanish on /tg/??
I know there are International and International/Random boards, but I doubt there are anyone interested there. In fact, I did some research, and the only thread I found in Spanish is 10 years old.

>>95932665
This is an English imageboard, I think it's actually against the rules on any board as per the rules.

>>95932690
You could just, you know, check the rules. Which don't say anything of the sort

>>95917976
Jeez!

>>95900680
>>95900679 (OP)
"Monsters"

>>95900809
Now that's what I mean

>>95932665
I think you can. Sometimes I do that for giggles
Never got banned

>>95938841
Just puckee spamming his commissions weekly