GITP Monster Competition Voting Thread (Fear Itself)

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Voting For Fear Itself
http://ndn.newsweek.com/media/41/071214_SO02fear_vl-vertical.jpg (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126929)

The contest has ended and voting begun. See the entries below to vote for your choice.
(Note: As the poll option is still down just post your choice in this thread.)

Like all the GITP Monster Competitions, voting is open to any and all.

Voting will end at Midnight (EST) of Halloween night.

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Host of Horrors

Ankou (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7055600&postcount=13)
Autumnal Avenger (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7041399&postcount=6)
Caterwaul (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7144100&postcount=23)
Dread Colossus (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7082963&postcount=19)
Fear Archon (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7054070&postcount=12)
Gothad (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7041537&postcount=7)
Haurla (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7038380&postcount=3)
Hordeling (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7154487&postcount=25)
Jack-o'-Ripper (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7038547&postcount=4)
Jump-At-A-Body (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7161227&postcount=26)
Panic Shade (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7043096&postcount=9)
Phobus Beast (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7069973&postcount=18)
Precious Little Thing *WINNER* (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7042651&postcount=8)
Somesclaustrum (Whining Head) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7049961&postcount=11)
Somniletum (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7152904&postcount=24)
The Harvest King (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7046421&postcount=10)
The Terror (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7056517&postcount=14)
Vertigo Swarm (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7063945&postcount=16)

[Mulletmanalive]

Difficult choice this time:

I really liked

The Whining Head
Dread Colossus
and Gothad

But my vote goes to:

Precious Little Things

[BisectedBrioche]

I'm voting for the Hordling. I have a soft spot for creatures that form swarms with each other.

[Sir Shadow]

I vote for Caterwaul. It's a very nice low CR monster with mystique and a good effect.

[Crafty Cultist]

Its a tough choice but I find the Ankou the creepiest

[industrious]

I'm going to go with The Harvest King.

[Tobi_goodboy]

I'm voting for the Precious Little Thing, but i very much like The Terror as well.

[Admiral Squish]

Am I allowed to vote for myself? A little self-serving, but I really like my concept.

[Dragon Elite]

I like this, just because i like it.
Autumnal Avenger

[Debihuman]

There were a lot of good entries. I enjoyed them all, even the ones that weren't perfect. In the end, I have to say that the Precious Little Thing won me over.

Debby

[waterpenguin43]

I have to say that Caterwaul was awesome, and I'm voting for it.

[BritishBill]

I think the one that embodied fear the best was the Somniletum. So thats what im voting for.

[Jergmo]

The Harvest King.

[Lord Loss]

It's tough to decide between the Caterwaul, The Harvest King and the Dread Collossus, but i'll go with... Hmm...


The Dread Colossus.

[Djinn_in_Tonic]

No opinion (as the artist in question), but just looking to see what I may be drawing...:smallbiggrin:

[Caen'ir]

I really liked a lot of the entries, but I'm going to have to cast my vote for the Precious Little Things.

[FlyingWhale]

My vote goes to the Ankou. I think you did a wonderful job on it, I love the idea of causing mistrust and paranoia... Definitely a good job done.

[DarkCloud]

How was my entry incomplete?

[The Mute Bard]

My vote goes to the Somniletum. A truly horrifying creature.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

How was my entry incomplete?
Check out this link (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7162010&postcount=825)

[DarkCloud]

Hm. Thank you for the link...

>>DarkCloud (Disqualifiable)
Missing attacks, saves, and average hit points.

-But it has attacks. I clearly wrote Base Attack +4. and Full Attack +4. I do not see what was missing there?

-I did not realize that I needed to write average hp; that can sort of be implied by HD I would think- it's not something that needs to be written out. (That seems beyond nitpicky- average hp is just simply half of whatever hit dice I used. It is intuitive.) [Incidentally I just learned from your comment that average hit dice is used in monster stat blocks., so at least some benefit came out of this.]

-As for saves- yes, I missed that, bad oversight- If you are going to be a hardass then I understand why you disqualified me based on that.

But is that really something worth disqualifying for? It is three numbers, a good save, a bad save and a mediocre save.

It seems very extremely nitpicky- if people do not like the fact that I missed writing in the saves (one line- three numbers) they can just not vote for me. To be kicked out of the voting because I forgot one line of my creation seems asinine.

It is not as though I intentionally left out the numbers because I did not have time to calculate them. It's clearly something that was overlooked.

I suppose you will retort with if you let in a person who missed one category, the next time someone will complain that they were only missing two or three categories... but it's not as though I submitted this on the day of the deadline- I had my submission up 3 or 4 days before the deadline and no one mentioned saves were missing until 3 hours before closing-- not three days- not one day, but three hours.

I proofread my entry and did not see saves were missing (likely because I had the + signs in place.)

My Submission: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7141086&postcount=22

[The Tygre]

I cast my vote for the Ankou. Changeling crossover for the win. :smallcool: It was tempting to type in Gothad or the Harvest King, though.

EDIT: And Vorpal, if you don't mind me saying, I think this has been one of our best contests yet. At least in my memory.

[Bhu]

As much as I yearn to vote for the Caterwaul, teh Gothad was just damn funny

[The Vorpal Tribble]

I apologize that I wasn't able to look over your entry before that darkCloud. I wrote those up as soon as I was able.


-But it has attacks. I clearly wrote Base Attack +4. and Full Attack +4. I do not see what was missing there?
"Combat The Tic is patient. It hides, and then strikes at an isolated being."
What does it strike them with? What is the attack for it? Is there any additional damage?

From how you described many things there, it would have some kind of physical attack.

However, I only mentioned the blatant things. I let pass a good few other things. I do not wish to spam our voting here, so I will message you with them later.

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EDIT: And Vorpal, if you don't mind me saying, I think this has been one of our best contests yet. At least in my memory.
Oh yeah, this'un is a keeper! Last time we had one like this was Holly Jolly 2-3 years ago. Had even more entries than this I think.

[Stycotl]

caterwaul all the way.

[SlaadLord]

I vote for the Precious Little Thing.

[Sir Shadow]

-But it has attacks. I clearly wrote Base Attack +4. and Full Attack +4. I do not see what was missing there?...

we need what kind of attack they are and the damage for them, not just the bonuses for them.

as in

Attack: Claw +4 (1d4+2)
Full attack: 2 Claws +4 (1d4+2)

or if it uses a weapon, what kind of weapon it would typically wield along with the attack bonus and damage.

[DarkCloud]

Ah, thank you Shadow- that makes sense; I did not think about that.
And to VT; I will not post anything else in regards to that in this thread so that the voting may be done cleanly. I look forward to the messaging.

And so I may be on-topic: I vote for the Precious Little Thing.

[Mulletmanalive]

Bump!

Come on people, these critters should at least be looked at once!

[HereticNox]

My vote goes to caterwaul

[dentrag2]

D'oh. At least i can use my creature in my campaign.

I vote for the Harvest King.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

The nightmare is over but who has left us forever with an uneasy feeling that we feel to the marrow?

It is not a beast of claws and horn, nor the dead left forlorn. It's but the Precious Little Thing of the strawberryman.


What though piques the Tribble's fancy? Lord of ripening souls and scything swing, Admiral Squish's Harvest King!


Each of you will receive an avatar of your winning entry, if the looks of terror on your reader's face's is not enough. Congrats!