Thread 96029345

What’s the weirdest most fucked up fauna or flora in your setting

>>96029345 (OP)
One of my first waifus.

>>96029345 (OP)
>MockingVine
>Also called "speaking snare"
Its a creepy ivy plant with red flowers on it that have the unique ability to vibrate at most frequencies that animals (and humans!) make noise in.
It "hears" by picking up vibrations from these flowers, then vibrating it back thus repeating noises that it has "heard" in order to lure in unsuspecting prey.

Its carnivorous, covered in hooked thorns, and can move well enough to grab anyone who steps on it, usually killing the person or animal by bleeding them to death as they struggle more and more the serrated thorns bleed them out.

Some variants have paralytic venoms in their thorns or paralytic fruits that smell delicious.

So basically, if you are in the woods and you hear someone speaking, make sure its actually a person and watch your fucking step.

>>96029345 (OP)
A land based cephalopod that uses skeletons and freshly killed bodies like a hermit crab uses old shells.
adventurers call them 'puppeteers'
They are mostly harmless unless threatened in which case they will puppet the body to lash out at you, and if you damage the body too much they will either scuttle away or try to attack you by strangulation.

>>96029384
Wouldn't this just mean that it would only repeat things like "red rover" and "we're attempting to contact you about your car's extended warranty" though?

>>96029353
Call me basic, but these two were always my picks.

>>96029407
I mean, the vine repeats the noises that get it the most food.
So most of the time they eat animals by mimicking mating calls and such.
If they detect human speech they will repeat human speech they have heard.
So if you are just out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and you hear someone shouting "Help!" or "Hello there!" over and over its probably not human.

If you want to get clever with it sure, you could "train" the vines to say things by shouting something at them then throwing meat at the vines until they do nothing but say that particular phrase.

Also, we got crocodiles, big ones.

>>96029432
fuck you people like to talk about their setting ideas and bounce things off of each other
Don't be a discouraging dickhead.
There is enough negativity floating around in the world without you squirting more into the immaterium.

>>96029563
None of you faggots ever talk to each other, all you do is throw out stupid trivia like 'the crocodiles in my setting eat gold and fart mercury' or 'the giants in my setting sit in clouds and use lightning bolts as toothpicks' for three hundred posts over the course of two months. All of these disconnected facts aren't interesting, especially since none of you even attempt to discuss how the ideas could be used in any game.

>>96029345 (OP)
>the last Christmas armor is Santa Claus themed Custodes
I kneel.

>>96029563
>people like to talk about their setting ideas and bounce things off of each other
So where are the setting ideas in >>96029345 (OP)?

>>96029345 (OP)
>>96029563
We have a wirldbuilding general for nogames like you.

>>96030471
Honestly we need a traditional games general this board has too much shit that needs to be culled
Especially Warhammer

>>96029345 (OP)
Dust Strangler, a bizarre cephalopod analogue that can spend decades in suspended animation in the absence of water. They typically live in underground rivers and aquifers. Possessing no skeleton, they can squeeze to the surface through even tiny cracks to hunt. Their skin is capable of changing colour and texture to hide and its tough leathery nature holds onto moisture well. If cut off from hydration for too long they go dormant until prey is detected. Once disturbed they lash out with their tentacles and inject specialized probosci that line their two largest tentacles once the prey animal is subdued. They then drain the captured food animal of all water and nutrients. This surfeit is then use this to move as far as possible before going into dormancy and repeating the process or they find a body of water. Most of them are fairly small, not much bigger than a dog, but given time they can grow to considerable size. The largest ones are found near the Sea of O’mehs. These leviathans are capable of even bringing down a Magmapanther and are the apex predators of the poisoned sea.

>>96029384
You got that from The Ruins, didn't you?

>>96031228
Adding more generals is just going to make it worse

>>96029556
I would totally make some backwoods butcher shop that was covered in "tamed" vines that constantly shout advertisements at passerbys

>>96029353
>first waifus
>One of
Not how shit works, fagmunch.

>>96029345 (OP)
The player characters

>>96029345 (OP)
I miss Adventure Quest. I really liked Zards when I was a kid.

Well?

You approach a woman sitting on the floor. She has pale skin and appears pregnant, but gaunt, and partly rotted. It soon becomes clear from the stench that she is undead. When you alert her, she rushes toward you, scratching at you with her claws. Once she is dead, a smaller version of her tears her way out of her stomach in a wave of ichor. The horrifying sight forces you to make a saving throw or be shaken. This 4-foot-tall monster attacks until killed; it dies quicker, having half as many hit points. Once it is dead, yet another slightly-smaller monster unfolds from within the belly of this one, to attack further. This continues, the attackers growing smaller and smaller, the space seeming insufficient for how large they are, until a tiny hand reaches from the last one, too weak and pathetic to attack.

It's edgy but it really freaked out my group the first time I used it. Partly because they didn't know if the "nesting doll" effect was ever going to stop.

I had it be the result of when a zombie plague infected a pregnant woman. It had a weird effect. Unironically was going to use it in another campaign, it was even in the dungeon, then my friend who was in that game got his girlfriend pregnant so I removed it because I thought that'd be kinda fucked up.

>>96029345 (OP)
Did anyone read Deltora as a kid? Because it’s got some awesome monsters and plants, like the Gripper flowers, Blood Lilies with numbing pollen that live in symbiosis with beetles that eat flesh, giant lizards with hooves, giant claws, and no visible eyes, etc. the author is Australian, IIRC.

>>96039445
The Glus, retarded name aside, scared the shit out of baby me. Or those clawed creatures in the North, I thought those were badass. Fuck, I wonder if I still have the hardcovers in a drawer somewhere.

>>96029345 (OP)
Pokémon has a lot of weird creatures that might give you some ideas. Has anyone else ever stolen ideas from there?

>>96029345 (OP)
There is a forest by the sea-side region where the leaves rustle.
I met grand total of one (1) player who got it. It's a fixed thing in all settings I ever made or even simply run.

>>96031330
Yeah that’s why you separate them from the board it worked with quests very clearly

>>96029345 (OP)
A giant snake with two heads, one on each end. They always fight you see.

>>96043382
I had a summoner whose eidolon was a fledgling Giratina because I needed a natural attack monster.

We've got cloppers. They're horse-like creatures who have no necks or heads, just the body of a horse, giant hoozes, and gnashing teeth.

>>96029345 (OP)
>Setting is a green hell apocalypse
>All the flora and fauna are fucked up
The Surgeoness Crab is pretty fucked up. It's a roughly hand sized crab that has scaple pincers that secrete a numbing ooze, and it's spit is an antiseptic coagulant.
It hunts by snipping the tendons of large prey, immobilizing them and allowing the colony to systematically strip the creature while keeping it alive and fresh for as long as possible.

>>96029404
Pretty cool idea anon.

>>96029345 (OP)
Liminal Tigers

Created to be terror weapons. They are one eyed, monsterous tigers that have overgrown fangs jutting from their mouths on top of their regular pair of teeth. They are intelligent sadist who stalk and harass their victims until they are driven to paranoid panic before they strike and do this with their ability to "teleport" around corners where their body can fit and appearing around another corner.

If discovered, they will stand and fight to death and refuse to be captured or tamed opting to kill themselves if they cannot escape.

While often solitary, siblings will often live and hunt together until the need to breed pulls them apart to go find mates.

>people like to talk about their setting ideas and bounce things off of each other
So where are the setting ideas in >>96029345 (OP) (OP)?

>>96051321
Since you're so obviously fucking new here, let me explain it to you in the simplest terms, retard-kun; When you put your ideas in the original post, the thread becomes about your ideas not about everyone sharing theirs.

>>96029428
It's a shame that best girl had such a small role.

>>96051356
So then people don't actually like to talk about their setting ideas or bounce things off of each other, huh?

>>96051356
I really hope you're prepared to be fact-checked, because I'm going to enjoy this.

>>96051685
It doesn't really happen much anymore because joyless cunts like you shit up the thread with your attempts to moderate the board.

>>96051690
You can't prove me wrong.

>>96051685
This is a level of retardation you’d find on Twitter you have to do better here man

>>96039462
>Or those clawed creatures in the North, I thought those were badass
You mean the Vraal? Yeah, they're ferocious. Oh, BTW, look what I found when I Googled them.

>>96050801
>We've got clippers
that's horrifying
>They're horse-like creatures who have no necks or heads, just the body of a horse, giant hoozes, and gnashing teeth.
oh
also horrifying, but for entirely different reasons

>>96054522
>truesight 240 ft.
I love the clear signs of an amateur-level homebrew monster

>>96036704
>You approach a woman sitting on the floor.
I do not.
Especially if there's a zombie plague around.

>>96029345 (OP)
Stinging nettles
a relatively normal name but they would drop your IQ a little if you're stung by them, and some int points of it's a enough. They would crop up near societies and pose problems, so people would try to get rid of them after some kids got turned into retards
However, all the intelligence would go into the core of the stinging nettles and form into a shambler, which is just a big plant creature that would be vastly more intelligent than normal people due to amassing intelligence, and would know spells/secrets that a creature of it's expected power really shouldn't and cause major problems

>>96029345 (OP)
I introduced a faction leader who is a high level druid that can shapeshift into animals freely. He admitted he frequently has sex with animals, he always asks for their consent and they almost invariably say yes, and everyone yelled at me

>>96064194
It is funny the amount of hatred that generates, BG3's Halsin also got a lot of hate too for being like that
Was the faction leader supposed to be a good lad or an evil lad

>>96029353
>>96029428
Ok, what is this? I must know.

>>96065398
I don't actually recognise any of those women because I was in primary school when I played it but if it's related to the zard it's Adventure Quest. Or maybe Dragon Fable, normalfags always played that game instead of the OG

>>96029345 (OP)
>What’s the weirdest most fucked up fauna or flora in your setting
normal animals, Ironically, they are rarer to see in fantasy worlds and magical creatures.

>>96064254
Hes a great guy everyone just told me to stop talking about beastiality. In the same cartoon voice I used for him I began explaining it isn't beastiality if he also becomes a deer. Admittedly they apologized for asking about it, because I only vaguely alluded to the forest creatures being his friends, family, and lovers

>>96065398
As the other anon said it's Adventure Quest.

Adventure Quest was a flash game in the mid 2000s that was fairly popular famous for its one time payment model with a premium currency that could be bought with real money or earned in game.
It competed with Runescape in the earliest days thanks to cheaper buy-in than a paid monthly membership.

It was hosted on a website called Battleon and they would eventually go on to make other games in a sort of shared universe with overlapping characters and ideas. Dragon Fable was mentioned already but there was also Adventure Quest Worlds the mmo, Mech Quest the short lived sci-fi version, and I think another one whose name is escaping me.
There was even an Adventure Quest 3D released just a few years ago.
The company that made it is still around, not sure how they keep the lights on but they still exist.

As for Adventure Quest, it was very primitive and had a lot of early 2000s weeb energy and lol random humor.
Whether this is a positive or a negative is pretty divisive.

That's the longest short version I can give I guess. It's very much a "you had to be there" kind of thing.

>>96066528
It was cringe-plated kino.

>>96065662
Besides horses and farm animals, what are some of the more common IRL animals you see in fantasy settings then?

>>96060741
Why? Genuine question. Is it because 240ft of truesight is just preposterous or what?

>>96060741
Check the wiki, it actually has four eyes hidden in its wrinkles, though the primary set is better than the secondary set.

>>96029353
for a moment I thought you were calling the woman in your pic
>the weirdest most fucked up fauna or flora in your setting

>>96069382
truesight isn't just "good vision." it's "can bypass all illusion, stealth, and trickery, even seeing through divine-level spellcasting." typically reserved for high-level angels & demons & similar things. fancy vision is also almost always 60ft or 120ft.

>>96029345 (OP)
What are some more obscure eldritch creatures like picrel, and what must you consider when designing your own?

>>96075312
Oh wow, that IS a bit OP. What do you mean by “fancy vision”?

>>96075312
My bad, I got it jumbled up with Darksight, and even 240ft of that is a bit silly.

>>96039445
Deltora’s bestiary is truly top tier man.
>Giant eagles magically warped into vulture-like facsimiles of dragons
>Armies of magically generated clone soldiers that fizzle out into muck after seven years
>Albino locust men that attack in the dark, paralyse their prey with their giant-ass stingers, and bring them to their master, a massive carnivorous sauropod
>An ancient knight who’s haunting his own armor, maintaining his existence through sheer seethe
>a collection of 13 mutant abominations that eat flesh and can only loosely be called human
>A king transfigured into a colossal catfish-like beast and forced to guard the flooded ruins of his home
>A titanic three-headed psychic snake that commands millions of rats
>A sentient desert that commands the insects that live within it to shape and remould it as it so wishes
>Berserk reptilian killing machines with claws longer than most swords and clad in scales tough enough to shatter steel
>A giant mutant toad coated in a thick armor of adhered gold and silver that produces an extremely painful neurotoxin/acid
>Wispy shapeshifters that ignore all damage that’s not to their heart and will choke you to death with their grip of ice
>The Glus.
>An ancient gamemaster forced to play his game for all eternity, lest he be devoured by the tumorous “pets” that have been fused to his withered body
>Fields of man-eating grass that’ll tear you to shreds if it gets a proper hold on you
>A man so evil and unbelievably adept with magic that he’s completely transcended this physical existence, having become a truly immortal higher being of absolute malice.
And that’s just the first line of books.

>>96085118
>A titanic three-headed psychic snake that commands millions of rats
They were just a regular snake in the books, if a huge and intelligent one, the anime changed them into a hydra for some reason.

>>96043382
Most, if not all the ghost types are made from killing humans and turning them into more ghost types.

Then you have that one bug type that if you kept an open slot in your roster the shed skin would reanimate as a bug/ghost pokemon

>>96043382
The problem with borrowing from Pokemon is it’s so culturally omnipresent that you’re very likely to be clocked on it. Of course, it’s also so generally accepted there’s a good chance people won’t mind.

>>96066436
>>96064254
>>96064194
Kill yourself, yiffnigger tourist. Do your imaginary group a favor.

Either the Zobirah or the Lustrous Horror.

The Zobirah is a gorilla like plant who is extremely territorial (even against other of its kind) and hunts living creatures just to soak its body in blood, which it needs to sustain itself, as it doesn't have a mouth but just a single multi-faceted eye.
Cannot be controlled by mind effects and it hits like a truck, it can also use crude clubs the size of tree trunks and if he does his attacks have a chance equal to the damage inflicted on a percentile to break your spine, leaving your character helpless and for all intent and purpose dead.

The Lustrous Horror is an aquatic monster the size of a small shark with a sharp chitinous proboscis, which it uses to drain blood from creatures nearby.
Their backs are shelled and it is so sturdy it works as a plate mail, its underbelly is exposed but when hit there it automatically retaliates with a tail swipe, its tail adorned with a couple sharp blades that cut through metal like butter, it doesn't use its tail much otherwise.
They aren't aggressive when sated but can drink an elephant's weight in blood, so they usually end up a bit damaging to nearby ecosystems when one is found, they can also migrate when a pond/lake/river is void of prey and move on land to find another place to eat from.

Both are the equivalent of bulettes in terms of strength, maybe a bit more, they are however actual fauna and flora of the setting, rather than being magical monsters.

>>96066528
Aqw is still around and honestly it's more of a dress up game than anything else, same for aq3d

>>96069324
Wolves are pretty much the quintessential fantasy animal

>>96045596
If you think current /tg/ is working I have a list of child abusers to sell you

>>96092081
I’m quite partial to Rheeah’s three-headed design from the anime, sue me.
He’s the one monster design from the anime I genuinely prefer over the original, simply because it gives him a bit more of that otherworldly flare that the rest of the headliner monsters have.

>>96096061
Fair enough. What are some of the monsters you like from the latter two book lines?

>>96101141
Not him, but the guardian of the last Sister is particularly nasty.

>>96029345 (OP)
These things. Recently created by a rogue mage, they have no name yet.

>>96035980

Based meat merchant anon

>>96101141
I personally quite like The Fear from DQ2 and The Grey Tide from DQ3
The Fear is an incredibly basic concept, tentacle monster, but the execution just works, especially as a neat inversion of The Glus, The Fear being a sessile mollusk fused into the stone that hunts with touch, as opposed to a mobile mollusk that hunts with touch that fuses YOU into the stone. Makes me wonder if whatever species The Fear is happens to be the natural predator of The Glus, or potentially vice versa.
As for the Grey Tide, that’s moreso as a final plot twist to the greater Four Sisters plot and as a climax to Deltora Quest as a whole. It’s the closest thing we’ll ever get to Malverlain’s bitch-ass appearing in person (anime nonwithstanding), an all-consuming wave of stagnation and death, and the seven dragons assembling to take it out with our trio upon their backs, all while dueling with the seven Ak-Baba is an amazing setpiece to envision

One monster I made in a more magic hevay game. It is a type of mimic that imitates basic household cloth. Blankets, towels, place/table mats. Anything like that. They strike usually when people least expect it. A whole town was infested by them and the players stayed the night there.

>>96029345 (OP)
Commonly called mutomorphic growths, these organic fleshy blights grow in an uncontrolled and unintelligent way, absorbing organic matter around them.

>>96066528
>Adventure Quest.
>Maplestory
>Ragnarok
>IMVU
>Habbo Hotel
>Trickster Online
>Flyff
>Furcadia

>>96112809
That's an interesting possible connection between the Glus and the Fear, but how the latter would have ended up in the underground oceans is a question.

What about the other book series in the same universe, like Rowan of Rin or the Three Doors? The Ice Creepers from the former are particularly terrifying, as are the Skimmers from the latter.

>>96117951
The Ice Creepers freaked me the fuck out as a youngin. Beasts as large and fearsome as they have absolutely no reason to work in a hive, and yet they do. The mental image of these things swarming, carving through rock and ice as if it were water, yet so cold that even a glancing touch threatens frostbite still lives rent free in my head, and they remain the most iconic creature from RoR to me that’s not the Bukshah.
I don’t remember Three Doors all too well, mostly because I only ever owned The Golden Doors, but the Skimmers didn’t do too much for me. They’re certainly iconic, yes, but they just… didn’t hit for me, for whatever reason.

>>96118934
>Beasts as large and fearsome as they have absolutely no reason to work in a hive, and yet they do.
Why DO you think they work in a hive, maybe a defense against the warm temperatures they can't stand? And what do you think of the Mountain Trees?

>>96060741
Any advice for avoiding mistakes like that please?

>>96029345 (OP)
We've got eusocial squirrels that will strip a body like army ants if you upset them. I dunno how fucked up that is.

>>96128193
By being a player once in a while, and having a modicum of self awareness. Think about what you would find annoying to go up against and why it would annoy you. Then don't do it.
>>96128217
Your game is set in Appalachia?

>>96066528
You can still play them through their client. But it's just... Not the same. It still has that 90/00 feel to it. But it hits different now that I'm old as fuck.

>>96128223
Thanks for the advice.

This thing.

>gpt0g

>>96117951
Maybe during the collision of Deltora abd the land to the north?

>>96085118
Don't forget how Sand Beasts have external stomachs that double as egg pouches for their babies.

>>96095510
I'm a sucker for plant monsters like the zobirah. I like it. Consider that idea stolen.

>>96029345 (OP)
Loitering Orbs of Annihilation that patrol a desert like autonomous drones as the last remnant of an ancient sorcerer kingdom at war that destroyed itself.

>>96029345 (OP)
In my setting the sun the power reactor construct of a lost tier II civilization, it is a sapient machine and interacts with people through those it chooses as a voice, thus giving rise to an entire religion of nudist berserker zealots who have evolved photosynthesis abilities like plants, consume light and garb themselves in a blinding woad.

>>96029345 (OP)
In my setting the sun is a power reactor construct of a lost tier II civilization, it is a sapient machine and interacts with people through those it chooses as a voice, thus giving rise to an entire religion of nudist berserker zealots who have evolved photosynthesis abilities like plants, consume light and garb themselves in a blinding woad.

>>96029345 (OP)
Basically Ergot on steroids. If you eat it, the stuff has some very useful health benefits but at the same time it also makes you hallucinate like the worst trip ever. Imaginary dream eating monsters can visit you and start feasting on your thoughts and if you eat too much, those same creatures can begin to rip themselves out of your mind and manifest into reality using your hallucinations as a portal from their dimension. You die in agony of course and however many your dying mind fixated on then get to run amok in whatever form you hemorrhaged them out.

>>96029345 (OP)
A sleeping Ent was once upon a time used as a reliable hangman's tree. Overtime it soaked up all that rot and woke up insane and necromantic in nature. It then proceeded to raise dead wherever it went but these undead were trees and plants instead of animals and people. Eventually it was slain but the damage was done and now wherever a trace of it wandered, plants and trees will grow gnarled and bent seeping with poisons and death with some gaining a will of their own that is utterly evil.

>>96029345 (OP)
Deliciously sweet sentient honey that's essentially a giant amoeba that mimics actual honey because its life cycle involves being eaten so it can amorphize inside of you which propagates eggs that eventually hatch and use you as food from the inside out.

>>96029345 (OP)
Fractalworms are a family of nematodes that arrange themselves into expanding patterns based on ambient resonant frequencies. Unfortunately, they're decomposers, and the patterns they tend to arrange in with the humming of other insects is what the earliest necromancers based their reanimation glyphs on, because naturally the geometry they form attracts and circulates the Breath of Thanatos and creates the shittiest kind of zombie, the Wild Undead

Heat-seeking snowflakes. In arctic regions there exists a sort of vamperic Eumetazoa which cluster together as they float on cold drift winds by the billions. They look indistinguishable from falling snow at first, until they swarm on anything alive leaving only desiccated husks to be buried in the ice.

Needless to say my cold regions are lifeless deathtraps outside creatures that have adapted to not produce heat signatures at all.

>>96029345 (OP)
Night-Trees, they're giant shadow prowlers that only appear at dusk and look to resemble great spindly trees, but in the corner of your eye, they get up and move around like spiders do.

>>96152762
So uhh, how are these things still alive if there's no prey they can detect?

>>96153621
Eumetazoa are some of the smallest, most resilient creatures on the planet, I don't think they can starve. Besides, if they're in almost every snow drift, it would be impossible to avoid them, detection or not.

>>96029345 (OP)
The ocean in my setting is basically bottomless after you get far enough away from any sort of continental shelf. Everything is normal but the ocean itself acts as a portal to the elemental plane of water, so fucking about at the deep end is not advised.

>This thread
I love these fuckers. How do I make them scary without resorting to the crutch of just bumping up their size?

>>96157414
You can bump up the size a bit, but not to normal fantasy levels, since normal-size mantises are a bit unreasonably small to plan an encounter around. Fist-sized would be enough.
Since mantises are very aggressive, there could be a group of these mantises in an area, extremely agitated as they are in their mating season, and the party has to treat them more as an obstacle than an encounter. Maybe they are somewhere with rough, dangerous terrain? Or perhaps there is another enemy that the party would want to avoid, and dealing with the relatively weak mantises would alert that more dangerous enemy?

>>96157414
Make them venomous and give them chameleon blending.

Hairless apes

I have too many to talk about from my own lore but in a friends dungeon crawler home brew there was a rape vine which raped one of the players for like 3 turns straight until he got lucky enough to have it knock a torch over and burn.

>>96029345 (OP)
I have an infectious disease which slowly liquefies its victim ... from the outside. It starts harmless enough, with the victim's skin not being able to hold fur or hair any more, but soon enough it starts to fall off at the lightest touch, at which point unprotected contact with it means very likely getting infected as well. At the end, all that's left of the victim is bones and a large stinking puddle of highly contagious biomatter.
And yes, you should most definitively kill it with fire.

>>96159778
Lil' monkey fellas?

>>96159953
That could be pretty good if done right.

>>96165599
The Mandrill and Baboon megapowers united at last. But also hairless and roided with rage.

>>96165599
>"hairless apes"
>posts ape with hair

>>96165758
I've seen hairless baboons (and now you have too). I just feel sorry for them.

>>96165599
Eliminators from RE were always a cool idea. Monkies and apes can already rip your balls off, why not mutate them?

>>96128223
>Your game is set in Appalachia?
In part

>>96157414
Same size but vorpal claws. They just cleave fucking anything. You can squish em like a normal bug no problem but they're not often easy to spot and will take a swing at you if you startle them, effortlessly inflicting inch-deep cutting wounds.

>>96166747
Nice. For consideration, your same post, but this instead.

>>96166783
That is horrifying. What are some other insects that look a lot more terrifying when you zoom in?

>>96166709
Hot dang, tell me more

>>96152231
Pseudowater from Made in Abyss?

>>96029345 (OP)
Cauldron men probably but I've got a lot

>>96174248
Also gotten some good responses from snail shamans and the turtlenecks

>>96174248
>>96174268

Dude this is wicked you've got the goods.

>>96174385
Thank you. I like to come up with fun stuff.

>>96174248
>>96174268
>>96174392
Nice
>>96173150
Wasps

>>96029345 (OP)
I remember Adventure Quest being so rad when I was a kid, but now when I try and go back it's just preposterously shitty and borderline unplayable.
That being said, the difference between me and my 10-year-old self is that, since I'm 30, I have an adult's determination to succeed.
I went back recently and ground to the XP cap every day every day for about two months straight just so I could fulfill the childish desires of my younger self.
Is being level 150 in Adventure Quest everything it was cracked up to be? Fuck no. The game sucks ass, and there's no real merit in playing it, now, then, or ever again in the future.
It's still really based nostalgia bait.

>>96179972
>preposterously shitty and borderline unplayable.
Your memory isn't playing as many games on you as you might be thinking. Yes, a part of the issue is that expectations were different 20 years ago, but mostly the game is falling apart due to poor upkeep and really bad integration of new content.

>>96077005
In what world are shoggoths obscure?

Formless Spawn MAYBE, Insects of Shaggai perhaps, Gnomph-Keh definitely

>>96069324
I have never played a low level game where wolves weren't the first fucking encounter.

I had one DM who dropped a pack of velociraptors on us. That was kickass.

>>96183946
>In what world are shoggoths obscure?
The real world
Cthulhu is the only entity in the mythos to have any mainstream traction.

>>96184209
If they ever come out with a Mountain of Madness Movie that could change but shoggoths weren't that obscure.

I suppose obscure if you never read Michael Shay who had a lot of lovecraft inspired stories, one of which being a prostitute who was persued by a Shoggoth in a human skin suit.

>>96184301
>If they ever come out with a Mountain of Madness Movie that could change but shoggoths weren't that obscure.
I doubt the evil penguins would even make it in.

>>96186272
I have no patience for a lot of these lovecraft movie adaptions because they decide to take some creative license with the story and events. Besides a Mountain of Madness movie could never work without the fucked up penguins

>>96029345 (OP)
Some wizard created beasts with eyes in the back of their heads as overgrown guard dogs, but they escaped Eve started breeding.

>>96187401
Literally how I explain any beast race in my settings. A fucking sorcerer made some fucked up pets long ago and then bobs your uncle.

>>96157414
the graying mantis; cuts a little time out of your lifespan with each bite

The raper

monsters that are pernicious are way more scary than overgrown bloodthirsty walking cliches

>>96191829
This but mosquitos

>>96066528
>>96095583
>>96135330
I've tried getting into AQW a couple of times in recent years but I just can't get into it like I was all those years ago. Last time I played it regularly was, what, 2013?

>>96175106
thank you

>>96195165
i was thinking about it more, and the effect should age one a small amount. a swarm of mosquitos with that effect could add a few years to a person's age, and aging mechanics may actually kick in (i've never seen them actually used)

>>96029345 (OP)
DM added this retard to the setting after we installed the mod on our server. Honestly, he's fucking fantastic.

>3ft tall
>hides in holes in caves
>sprints at you at 60 ft/s
>dogshit stats but high damage bite and high health
>will chase you forever once eye contact is made
>blows ear-piercingly loud raspberries seemingly at random
>some wizard made a shit ton of them a long time ago and scattered them around the cave network of the region we're in

>>96202357
That sounds horrifying! Is it permanent?

>>96152708
I have tiny undead creatures that are described as vaguely resembling golden centipedes. When really, their true physical nature is warped in time because they're essentially paracausal. They glitter in swarms within the deepest caves, taking shelter from the sun (which kills them instantly) as a remnant of a dead plane that no longer exists, being its last vestige of evidence. Their bite highly corrosive to living matter. Suffused with a venom that is ontological, it wipes its victim from ever being. Scholars think they feed on souls when in reality they feast on your time. Naturally, the older something is, the more succulent the dish.

>>96029345 (OP)
I was spitballing ideas one day with my buddy and we came up with this sentinent lake that lures people to drown in it. there is this termite/ant matriarchy in my setting that are aggressively expansionistic and view any males as either food for themselves or their war machinery but they are about three centimeters big so most races don't take them seriously (until a grown man gets stripped to his bone in a matter of minutes). other than that the weirdest thing iny setting is maybe the giant mudskippers the mangrove druids use as mounts

>>96029345 (OP)
Forests full of flesh eating faeries.

>>96029345 (OP)
Fighting that God damn purple fox demon to get a gold lightning katana was my first ever vidya grind, it took HOURS. Which I soon surpassed by spending weeks grinding rep to buy cosmetics for as many extra arms as possible.

>>96029345 (OP)
Haunted forests plagued by the ghosts of all the fauna that used to live there when said forests were once prehistoric inland seas or extensions of the ocean.

>>96183958
I was going to drop wolves on my players as an opening encounter but I played it up so spooky and tense they were terrified and I upped to a pack of irradiated wendigos.

>>96210097
>>96202357
>>96195165
>>96191829
Reminds me of my old school D&D classic combination for maximum evil that I never actually used: Stirge Wights.

>>96128193
>Any advice for avoiding mistakes like that please?
benchmark your shit against what already exists
if even an ancient red dragon's legendary senses only give it 60 feet of blind sight (significantly worse than true sight) and 120 feet of dark vision then 240 feet of wallhack aimbot is obviously suspect.
A Balor has 120 feet of true sight and telepathy as generals of entire demonic legions.

>>96217738
>Stirge Wights.
Okay, I have to know more about this please.

>>96116324
You forgot ZOMG, the Gaia Online native MMO.

>>96142239
Who the FUCK put an Ithilid tadpole in a Hydralisk?

>>96225008
>>Stirge Wights.
>Okay, I have to know more about this please
Well the idea is as simple as it is evil. Stirges are essentially like mosquitos the size of bats. Hard to hit, easy to hit you, but half half a hit point of health.
And Wights are undead that can drain a level from you with a touch.
And the undead traits can be applied to species beyond humans.
So it's reasonably possible to apply the wight trait to stirges.

It's worth noting that stirges swarm from 2-14 and a swarm of 30 isn't unheard of. And since this is an unusual form of undead, it's likely to have been created intentionally. So a larger swarm of them is possible.

I created a dungeon room filled with a hundred wight stirges that didn't need food or air to persist. Set it and forget it.

>>96227840
Wights for ants

>>96226128
>Who the FUCK put an Ithilid tadpole in a Hydralisk?
Do the Zerg have any designs that you like? Also, this gives me an idea, what if we come up with ideas for other creatures and monsters infected by Ithilids like that?

>>96231693
Uuuuh I played Starcraft almost exclusively on the Nintendo 64, back when it was new, so my memory of the units isn't the clearest. But I think my favorite unit were these spiders that the expansion pack let the Hydralisks mutate into. They'd burrow into the ground and then fire rolling waves of spikes through lines of infantry.

>>96029345 (OP)
Crystallions. They're giant crystalline horse constructs you can find roaming the great caverns within the elemental plane of Earth. As usual, some wizard did it.

>>96233310
>As usual, some wizard did it.
Figures. What exactly was he trying to DO?

Sometimes I throw this thing at them

>>96239052
The heck is this? It looks like a mushroom that ate people, please tell me it isn't.

>>96242296
>The heck is this? It looks like a mushroom that ate people, please tell me it isn't.
Ok. *eats people

>>96242326
What exactly is this called and how is it dangerous?

>>96029345 (OP)
Do we count mundane utility like toilet plants?

>>96245671
Do they crave your feces or loathe it?

>>96245671
Made in Abyss reference?
Or does this one go all the way back to Albion?

>>96250460
why would we gift something sentience only to defecate into it?

>>96250996
They make good Volkswagens and Toyotas.

i joined a campaign with some folks several years ago a little after they had started
i was told that our main guide had been inflicted with a fungus related ailment early in the adventure, but had recovered
i never trusted the guy in game because i was convinced he was a spore person that i'd wake up one night to find him perched over the party on a limb, white-eyed, with a stalk protruding out of his forehead snowing spores down on the sleeping party

>>96250996
>porcelain golem

>>96029345 (OP)
> What’s the weirdest
It looks like a softball-sized floating kooshball with razor sharp teeth. And it was the result of some idiot five years ago trying to cure covid with magic.

> most fucked up
I don’t know if it’s “fucked up” per se, or just laughably edgy, but It was for a Black Crusade campaign. And it was a type of daemon that appears like a woman with all her skin above the waist flayed off and her hands cut off at the wrist, gnarly sword blades are nailed onto their arms and they would wear leather armor made from their own flayed skin. Called “The Brides of Khorne” or just “The Brides”. Their lore was that they were created by Khorne to mock Slaanesh’s daemonettes. In actual gameplay they would play as glass cannons, running up to the PCs like deranged blenders, they can be dropped relatively easily for a daemon, but if they can land a hit it would hurt like a motherfucker.

>>96238225
To make durable, tireless mounts for Earth Giants who wanted to go to war with Brass City Jinn in the plane of fire after things got heated between the two. Relations have been rocky ever since

You missed the worldbuilding general

>>96029345 (OP)
>HRONK!

More a group of enemies
>ectoplasmic
>made when you torture someone to death
>a single ectoplasmic enemy is made of the ectoplasma of mutiple people binded together
>a magic soul stone,binds them together to work as one body
>if the stone is destroyed they are just puddles of screaming souls in ooze form.....

>>96029345 (OP)
That's a weird one.

>>96029345 (OP)
I mixed the concept of a Dullahan with a Worm That Walks, so basically it was a swarm of undead spectral cockroaches piloting a suit of armor.

>>96261487
Is it intelligent, or just a puppet to a necromancer?

>>96268309
Captured souls that were turned into a cockroach hivemind WtW as a form of punishment for criminals, like a living jail. Then found centuries later and made into an armored hivemind of ghosts by a necromancer who wanted a new toy but couldn't fully control it. The necromancer fled and it has been wandering, tirelessly looking to kill him ever since and causing a giant problem for anyone else that encounters it. But it hates undead especially and craves the spectral essence of ghosts like a vampire does blood.

>>96157414
>just bump up their size
A cat sized mantis is a fucking terrifying prospect if you remember they are ambush predators with utterly delusional opinion of their fighting prowess. God forbid they are larger
Claws designed to ensnare and crush through heavy chitin with eyes that can track(relative to them), small, fast and agile targets with reflexes to match. Imagine the, whatever mundane object you walked by, jumps out to grab your arm into a death grip a ST maxed PC would struggle to match; you feel the spines on both sides of its arms pierce through your cheap iron armor like slowmo crossbow bolts as you thank the gods it didn't understand that wasn't your head.
Making them dragon sized looks ridiculous because it is, a mantis is not defined by being bigger than its prey.
It is a, self defined, perfected death machine willing to fight incomprehensibly hopeless odds because it empirically knows it is death incarnate to everything because it hasn't lost a single fight yet and ate everything it fancied. To it your swords and magic are fucking nothing because it can't understand it any more than a pitfall trap can. pic rel
>It will have retarded strength bonus for grapple and piercing armor.
>It will have evolved the most ridiculous hyper-specialized camo.
>It will keep crushing whatever it grabbed onto until fully dead.
>It will be armored all around more then your average grunt.
>It will make use of its wings only after you forgot it flies.
>It will keep flailing about well after cutting of its head.
>It will still not let go of body parts after that either.
>It will wait for fucking hours for you to be alone.
>It will go for whatever looks like it your head.
>It will move faster than you can process.
>It will not retreat if found out in hiding.

It doesn't have to be huge or one shot that player you don't like. Its murder machine and should be treated as one

>>96270219
Does it have any weaknesses besides positive energy/holy effects?

>>96275389
I don't know about modern systems, I used Ghostwalk to build it as a thematic hazard. That ways years ago.

I always liked the Garthim from the Dark Crystal so I went full circle and made them a playable offshoot race of Umberhulk in my Underdark campaign. But everyone decided to play as Drow anyway...

Altered Humans refers to a class of individuals who have been transformed through advanced medical science and psi-tech.

The ease of their creation has lead to a classification system and many still exist post war and are still being made and refined.

Lv. 1 types retain their human shap with extensive mental and physical alterations to turn them into living weapons.

Lv. 2 types are similar to Lv. 1 but retain the ability to use their psychic powers.

Lv. 3 types deviate from humanoid forms and are considered the most dangerous with a wide range of abilities and levels of intelligence.

>>96281326
Reminds me of something. Maybe the aliens in GANTZ for some reason? You could also apply the same sort of thing with arcane abominations.

>>96281326
>>96281629
It was the Boomers from OG Bubblegum Crisis.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an_0IIRDlc4&list=RDan_0IIRDlc4&start_radio=1

>>96029345 (OP)
Thought this was the yee dinosaur when scrolling past.

>>96282033
Ugly thing. Why would someone make this?

>>96157414
nah, make em bigger. a human sized mantis is rad. You go from cool bug to Scyther. A lot of bugs stand to gain (no pun intended) from resizing.

>>96287730
forgot to attach this vintage meme. anyways, don't sleep on big bugs. those raptorial claws on mantises are super

>>96287737
At that point Thri-kreen should just be added and playable.

>>96289561
Has anyone done a decent homebrew for them yet?

>>96294269
As in a setting of nothing but Kreen on a Kreen planet solving Kreen problems? That actually sounds cool, if it's different from Dark Sun.

>>96294746
Same here. Hope someone actually makes it

As someone that grew up on dragonquest I love this.


Still i was unable to find a single mosnter from thsi setting to use. besides the chickencow.

>>96289561
apparently they are but considering I didn't know that til right now that speaks to the effort they put in to add (and advertise) them

>>96294746
>>96298827
would be cool but modern players can hardly see another human perspective, a non-human personality that is a bridge too far I fear

>>96300818
Humans with devil horns, tails in all the colors of the rainbow
>Cool
Furries and Scailies
>Cool
Bug dudes
>A bridge too far
I dunno about this mentality but a bunch of raw Kamen Riders running around seems based.

>>96255031
That is horrifying. What wizard created this monstrosity? Because they need to suffer for it.

Here is an example I just drew this week.

>>96306120
You drew this? Impressive! Have you done more like this?

>>96306183
Yup

>>96128193
A lot of monster building is "does this feel right for this creature I'm making", oh and don't optimise the shit out of them, things should have flaws.

>>96029345 (OP)
I ripped off the Piasa. It vomits concrete.

>>96281265
Playing Garthim was over their heads!

>>96306120
>>96306332
Boo-Urns!
>>96307059
Just boo

>>96306120
Cockatrice is an undervalued monster. I love the concept. Ran a desert-themed dungeon once with nothing but stone turner monsters. Even had a bait and switch Medusa as what the players thought was the apex threat. But instead it actually turned out to be a Cockatrice, the design of which I ripped off wholesale from the first Dragons Dogma.

>>96307031
>It vomits concrete.
Wait, seriously?

Came here to yell at bumpfags but you nerds actually post cool stuff. Good job anons.

>>96029404
That is horrifying. Do they have any weaknesses?

>>96064194
The druid doing that is fine. You bringing it up magical realm.

>>96310184
I added that part. In truth the Piasa may not even have been a Native American legend but some wall graffiti someone painted on a rock beside the Mississippi and passing French explorers made bullshit about.

The concrete thing was a mechanic that you would get increasingly weighed down and disabled as it would wharf on players. The idea being that it was crowd control to manage the superior numbers players would have.

>>96316823
Ah yeah, now I remember. I got the idea of it using liquids to petrify things because I saw a documentary about a waterfall in England that covers things in so much minerals that it encases them.

>>96306332
>>96306120
Very cool, I love that kind of setting where monster are based in trve biological stuff pluss idiosincracies proper of the said setting, like the Sawyer lee stuff.

>>96029345 (OP)
Ever heard of that parasitic louse that eats fish tongues and replaces them? Imagine a version that does so for sea monsters, and can actually take control of said monsters.

>>96320768
Yikes. What does it control said monsters to actually do?

>>96287737
>>96270386
Fuck yeah

>>96112809
I'm fairly certain the fear is supposed to be one of the numerous sea monsters that inhabit the seas around Deltora, but got stuck in the cavern and grew into it. Also I didn't know there were more books in this setting or about the Star of Deltora series. Time to reread and binge literally everything.

>>96307031
How did you even learn of this thing? And what else have you ripped off?

>>96327470
Those education-entertainment shows on basic cable on Sundays. One of those shows that threw clips and random facts at you.
and
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>>96029345 (OP)
This thing just showed up one day. Everyone is 'very' happy that there's only one so far.

>>96327470
I looked up American monsters either cryptids or folklore. A lot of them are clearly the product of loggers shooting the shit.

I also ripped of the medieval blemmyes. Basically I wrote about a race of clones with reconfigurable limbs and they would become a sort of blemmy based on the function needed and their rank. The biggest was the 'etin' which was two of these clones fusing together to get big.

>>96029404
dang, that's good

The main setting has pretty standard monsters, with some creative liberties. I was having trouble figuring out how to differentiate the different slimes from each other, so I mixed them with Native American myths. For example, I mixed the Yellow Mold with the Nightdancers:

>Yellow Mold ("Huakaipo"): A glowing fungal monster native to a remote island. It is similar to a slime in appearance and behavior. It normally lives underground, but colonies occasionally grow so large that they break through to the surface. They feed on organic material such as wood, but will also eat flesh. They can only be destroyed by fire. They do not feed on bones, often resulting in the grotesque sight of a mold-covered glowing skeleton, or even a more Human-like shape if the colony is large enough. The natives fear these colonies, believing them to be the vengeful spirits of their ancestors. And who can say for certain? Perhaps the fungus devours the mind as well as the body.

There's also another dimension (based on Mars with a sort of Mayan aesthetic) whose ecology is based almost entirely on the blood of an injured god. There are bloodmen (monkeys with hallucinogenic spines that feed on bloodcorn, congealed blood that grows out of capillaries in the ground), softbloods (harmless, kindly small apes based on pottos), blood dogs (otter-like scavengers that live in blood pools and feed on corpses and small animals -- one should never leave an infant unattended near a blood pool), and bloodlords (a mix of a bear and an orca with human-like heads -- as their brains are actually located in their backs, the "heads" are really infant bloodlords, who only fall off and grow new bodies when their mother dies after a century of gestation -- who live in a giant blood pool under the capital city; they are worshiped as divine messengers).

>>96029384
Isn't this just that plant from Undertale?

>>96029404
Cool. I made a creature just like that, except it kills its way up the food chain, keeping individual monster parts and using their abilities until it turns into a horrible amalgamation of superpowers. It's extremely dangerous, because it will often attack adventuring parties to steal their kills after they've offed a particularly powerful monster. I call it the nerve hermit.

>>96334510
>What if John Carpenter's the Thing was also a Monster Hunter Midgame Boss
God DAMN.

>>96334510
Yikes. You really paint a ferocious picture.

>>96334123
How did the god get injured? Also, if bloodlord "heads" are actually infants, does that mean that they only ever have one offspring? And I'd love to hear more on your slimes.

A god of nonexistence.

Its fragments are scattered across thw world, are quite spooky, drain life and whatnot, and all want to unite, too.

But in a twist, if the god is reborn, it immediately implodes because it literally cannot exist, which just scatters new frsgments around.

You HAVE to seal them away or this crap keeps happening. There's no apocalypse or bad end, just endless agony.

>>96051239
Sounds like a displacer beast that is slightly more edgy

>>96342484
That's the idea. I want to make a series of monsters based around the theme/gimmick of the displacer beast and blink dog.

The Liminal Tiger is meant to be a terror weapon that now roams and breeds free in the Fey Wild and occasional can be contracted to be a mercenary if all you need is something to go and cause trouble while you do whatever you are doing.

>>96342484
I'm reminded of the hounds of Tindalos.

>>96344086
Where did Lovecraft even get the idea for that?

>>96306332
You are amazing anon.

>>96346940
He didn't

>>96186272
>>96186468
Could one of you refresh my memory on the penguins?
My MoM memory:
>arctic expedition to a bug ice wall
>there's a couple dissipated barrel guys, maybe found in an ice cave
>protag isn't at the forward ice wall base, he's grabbing supplies
>soon-2-b-dead scientist starts trying to disect barrel boy
>can't
>freaks the dogs out
>protag returning to forward base w supplies
>sitting outside of cave give barrels life
>barrels fuck up forward base
>protag sees this, then flies over ice wall and see destroyed old one civilization over ice wall
>probably goes insane idk

Are the barrels the penguins?

>>96353153
*big ice wall
*dessicated barrel guys
Fuck I'm dumb. But I still never got a penguin vibe from them, more like a mobile coral, or like a tardigrade or other microscopic life scaled up
Also mantis are bros, had a pseudo-ranger in a game that had a cat sized mantis

>>96339761
>He was wounded in a fight with the gods of the "main" dimension (Earth).
>They only ever have one baby. They're long-lived, so they reproduce slowly.
>The Yellow Mold is the most unique slime, the others are a bit more standard so far. The Ochre Jelly ("Maneto") can dissolve flesh, so they're used as torture devices by some tribes. Green Slimes ("Shoggoths") can never be removed from flesh except by healing magic; they also slowly replace the flesh after dissolving it, so you're just stuck with this slowly-growing mass of slime dangling off of you until you can get healed. I'm still trying to think of gimmicks for the others.

>>96353373
>>96353153

No, the penguins are just fucked up probably from being in and around the GOO's city and possibly being around the Shaggoth(s) that live around the area.

The GOO has a freak out because some bipedal thing woke it up so it killed the scientist and the dogs and partially dissects them to figure out what the fuck the thing is then gets attacked by the Shoggoth who still holds a grudge as it shouts "tekelele!" or "OBEY" while mocking it.

>>96353709
So I suppose a male bloodlord may fertilize any number of females, but the females are limited to a singular birth of a single offspring that terminates their lives.

What would that population growth seem like? I imagine the ratio would have to be very female heavy to just withhold eventual extinction.

Or do they all get pregnant? We're doubling the amount of potential births and even then there can't really be positive population growth due to other factors.

>>96029345 (OP)
What is that?

I found this online and was thinking of using it in my setting.

>>96036018
Yes it is.

>>96060741
Yes, the sign of an amateur is that his discernment is on your level.

>>96075312
So you don't actually have a reason that it's bad?

>>96079247
it's not overpowered at all.>>96128193

>>96128223
Losing hit points is annoying, guess i have to remove all monsters

>>96367133
What would your players DO then?

Carnivorous kudzu/mint hybrid, resistant to nonmagical fire damage.

Haven't messed with a statblock yet, but I'm probably gonna be stealing a lot from mimics.

>>96371503
Made me nostalgic for a classic thread

>>96116172
You playing a fleshscape game or something?

>>96029345 (OP)
Those man-eating horses from Greek myth with some additional monstrous features.

Giant semi-aquatic snakes that drown their prey and shoot water jets.

>>96173157
Innawoods crossovers into the Otherworld where fae creatures like skinwalkers come from. Hidden geometries and redneck hell. That sort of thing.

>>96202238
UNGGGH
THICC

>>96382372
That guy looks familiar.

>>96029345 (OP)
What are some ways to biologically justify huge arthropod monsters?

ENTER

>>96029345 (OP)
Ticoa, small spiderlike pests that like lining their nests with interesting things. While physically harmless and nonhostile, they will generally attempt to drag off anything that seems inanimate and unattended, the weirder the better.
Consequently if small objects routinely go missing, a ticoa infestation is often suspected.

>>96029345 (OP)
Butter Golems

>>96029345 (OP)
A hermaphroditic, parasitoid horntail wasp that lays its eggs by stinging a victim. Then, not unlike botflies combined with the Chest-burster from the Alien franchise, the fully-formed horntail bursts out of the dying victim. I used it for a Sinbad-inspired setting where the heroes had to fight off said wasps with flintlocks and scimitars.

>>96397032
Is there any effective treatment after being stung?

>>96092356
I used Regigigas as a base template some years back. First few rounds it's kinda puzzle-like in figuring out what the shamble of golem parts are but after a couple rounds of it putting itself together the size and imminent threat kicks in. Bulky torso, plated core deep inside with stabbing fingers on thick, strong arms. Needly legs act as ice skates on the floor and blades for slicing, chopping and stabbing foes at surprising speed. It worked, the players opted to flee because they couldn't find a solution besides brute force where they were outmatched.

Probably the most fucked up thing in my setting is the orcs because of how racist they are

>>96400659
Nope. Even the natives of the island (sapient salamander-like amphibians with a culture otherwise similar to the Moriori or the Amish, pacifistic to a fault) that the adventuring party was on have a custom of exiling to die deep in the jungle those who have been stung by one. I've even thought about recycling and sharing the concept for the devs to use for Blasters + Intrigue, Dicey Tales, and other pulp sci-fi games in the vein of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. I'll never forget the setting, either. That homebrew for a game that never sold was my baby.

>>96401401
That’s it? Is the racism biologically encoded or something?

>>96029384
spbp?

>>96029556
That would be nice, I'd say something like, "I'm really a vine", lol.

>>96029345 (OP)
Living labyrinths. Hundreds of years before the plot a geomancer was trying to research how to unpetrify people, ended up learning how to convert soil and rock to his own flesh. Realized he had a crude sorcerers stone to achieve eternity and started making little pockets of himself around the world in a way to escape death. Like cysts, these little pockets of flesh lay dormant, occasionally reaching out to devour nearby organic material that got to close. Many just withered and some lucky souls managed to kill them before/while being devoured but some protected them and cultivated them. The more they fed, the larger and more advanced they became eventually developing and maintaining advanced neural tissue. Some nations/warlords/warlocks and the like realized they had captive supercomputers that they just needed to feed in order to get smart answers to hard questions. Some even built their strongholds in such labyrinths near major organs to hold greater sway over the sentient landmasses and enjoy the defenses of a maze that can spew stomach acid from the ceiling, produce teeth from the walls and hold down invaders with sinuous tendrils can offer. As the labyrinth followed the hierarchy of needs, the labyrinth would sometimes get the urge to have sex and take prisoners, preferably female captive, and use them as sex toys and breading material to produce the geomancers children, most inviable or horrible mutations as the genome had been so damaged by age and mutagen exposure.

>>96408035
So, the cultivating forces had a steady supply of low-skill workers and cannon fodder in the form of the labyrinth-born and, in times of hardship, could negotiate with the maze to extract flesh from it to supply their population.

>>96408035
What happened to the original geomancer’s consciousness? And what are the viable/non-mutated (or at least less grotesque) offspring like?

>>96029556
I would teach them to yell NIGGER on repeat.

>>96029345 (OP)
>Weirdest
Probably what I call "Djinn" in my setting, they're basically manta rays or skates that live in deserts. They have razor sharp fins and float on the updraft from the heat rising from the sand. They kill their prey (and any unlucky humans) by going as fast as they can and cutting them up with their fins.

>Most fucked up
I want to say either my Kappa or Sphinx. Kappa are big turtles that function like Resident Evil lickers and Sphinx have a diet that nearly exclusively consists of semi-truck sized lions that spew poison that rots your flesh near instantly. To which they can only regenerate and have no immunity to the poison, so their lips are constantly rotting off their face.

>>96064194
*yawn* furshit, come back after you introduce an ageshifter who has sex with children.

>>96029345 (OP)
I'm just doing Ice Age Fauna for the most part, so I guess the flying Scorpion thing?

>>96411014
>flying Scorpion thing?
A flying scorpion sounds horrifying.

>>96410742
Lost, he embedded his flesh but not his memories or talents. The advanced mazes were basically AI's that could only problem solve from presented data with limited ability to improvise, the advanced ones did develop personalities but they had little in common with the OGeomanceer.
The less damaged labyrinth born would have afflictions like extra toes, elongated or shortened appendages/facial features, patches of hair that were missing or different colored than the rest, cataracts, benign tumors of different sizes, and some could even pass for just ugly people if you didn't give them a full body examination. These ones would try and infiltrate the nearby populations and bring back information to the maze or just try to live life and live amongst freaks.

I like the picrelated medieval half flora half faun.

It is a shame it never got a second life in modern fantasy.

Only delicious in dungeon referenced it.

>>96029345 (OP)
It depends on whether purpose-made fleshcrafted abominations are allowed or not.
>no
A creature from outer space called the Celestial once crashed into the world, and started shitting its innumerable children everywhere; they killed it, but many different little shits survived to become invasive species. The worst surviving species is a sheep-sized, muscular ambush predator, which resembles a skinned frog with too many eyes and too many fucking teeth - but what makes it fucked up is its ability to cast lightning, because a lot of natural fauna (be it native or Celestial) can use magic. It's too weak to kill you outright, but it's definitely enough to tase you, and leave you open to a bite that'll make you wish you got stuck in a blender instead.
>yes
Every fleshcrafted abomination is made by welding corpses (or parts) together, which obviously lends itself to being really fucked up, but I think that what takes the cake is the mobile refinery they use to convert corpses into usable gasoline. It's got a gigantic distended belly pointing upwards, an "intake tube" made out of six heads joined together, four legs (made out of conjoined human legs) that allow it to move slowly, and it shits gasoline out of a corpse's original anus.

>>96418462
>Only delicious in dungeon referenced it.
How do you feel about how Dungeon Meshi handled it?

>>96411014
>Ice Age Fauna for the most part
Why specifically Ice Age fauna?

>>96426189
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>>96429177
kill yourself bumpfag

>>96429177
I wanted a Hyborian Age/Pre-History Pulp kinda vibe for my setting, so I'm doing Bronze Age with some more interesting critters.

The Atmospheric Jelly can grow to be 15ft across, trailing around 60ft of long tangled ropey threads behind them as they float 20 to 40ft off the ground. Their balloon like body keeping themselves afloat as their hunting tendrils wrap and stun any creature unlucky enough to be caught inside, entangling more and more as they struggle. Slowly th caught prey will be dragged up to the main body to be absorbed in the gaseous stomach. The jellies movement is almost entirely based off of the winds, using the tentacles as anchors to adjust their speed and distance while the wind changes.

I was thinking some weird monster horses.

>>96401012
>I used Regigigas as a base template some years back.
My FVARKING nigga.

>>96437478
NTA, but is that a good thing or…

>>96436965
Okay, the one with multiple heads is particularly horrifying.

>>96440468
>Okay, the one with multiple heads is particularly horrifying.
Thanks!

>>96430459
Wasn’t there a movie with a monster like this? Can’t remember the name though.

>>96447991
I'm guessing that it was Nope?

>>96029345 (OP)
Anyone ever read Mistborn? Imagine boneless monsters that scavenge corpses to build skeletons for themselves. That’s a mistwraith. I plan on taking the idea and tweaking it, maybe making them pseudo-undead.

>>96250996
idk ask the guy who made Skibidi toilet

>>96455121
I've read it, and I approve this message.

>>96054522
>INT 22
>WIS 18
>doesn't want allies
>just wants to fight everything
>senseless rage
>doesn't care about self preservation
>master tactician
>attacks directly only
>doesn't think about tactics until it's getting its ass kicked
So intelligent

>>96029345 (OP)
Imagine a cross between a snake, centipede, and dragon. Oh, and they live in hives like ants.

>>96425594
The sheep had literally no purpose there for the plant to have.
In that pic related it has some mobility and eats away other encroaching plants. DM was missing that.

>>96430324
But the Hyborian age isn't "prehistory" or "bronze age" in any way
Why don't you retards actually read the conan stories instead of spouting bullshit?

>>96466164
Okay, are there any other settings that are more fitting places to look for prehistoric creatures or monsters based on them? Not that anon, BTW.

>>96466164
>But the Hyborian age isn't "prehistory" or "bronze age" in any way
Yes it was and I'll take it from the guy himself.
>https://ia801605.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/33/items/GutenbergENzip/16.zip&file=Hyborian%20Age%2C%20The%20-%20Robert%20E.%20Howard%2C%202013%20%2814p%29.pdf

>>96462778
Just because something is intelligent, that doesn't mean that it can overcome biological burgers to rage. Pump an intelligent person full of steroids and they'll eventually rage out and only act intelligent if they have to.
Most creatures only act as intelligent as they have to.

>>96470682
>Most creatures only act as intelligent as they have to.
Basically, intellect is the biological drive of meat eating species, because if you're an ambush predator for example, the requirement for your continued existence by default is having enough juice in your head to develop tactics, otherwise you starve. That's where animal cunning comes in, the dumb ones either don't survive or they exist within the safety of a herd maxim.