Bullywugs are the worst

[MadBear]

Who else agrees that the bullywug is the single grossest creature in the Monster Manual. A tribe of moist frogs is just despicable and deserve nothing less then total annihilation.

[Ralanr]

I think slaadi are much worse.

[randomodo]

Bullywugs are at least humanoid, which makes them somewhat relatable; I'd put giant spiders higher on the icky scale, to say nothing of slimes and oozes.

[SharkForce]

spiders in general are pretty awful if you think about it.

i mean, most things are perfectly content to just kill you and eat you, or maybe just kill you and loot you. obviously, i'm not a big fan of being killed, but hey, i was probably gonna try to kill them so fair's fair.

but spiders... no, that's not good enough for spiders. they have to capture you, tie you up in the darkness, inject you with a venom that will dissolve your innards into mush, leave you helpless and in agony as you are dissolved alive from the inside out, and then come back later to suck the juices out of you. that's just uncalled for.

(with that said, critters that implant eggs into people are also pretty awful).

[MadBear]

I feel all of you are underestimating how utterly awful the moistness of a bullywug truly is.

[jazzymantis]

I feel like slimes (black pudding) would be high up there in terms of gross things that are moist in the monster manual.

I think lemures or larva(DMG) are pretty gross though. And dretch...

[Mellack]

I feel all of you are underestimating how utterly awful the moistness of a bullywug truly is.

Balderdash. Moistness is fine. Nothing better for getting BBQ sauce off than a nice moist towellette. Spiders are much more disgusting, with all the eyes and spiky hairs. Eew.

[DireSickFish]

Are Skum still a thing? They're also moist. Taking care of our Aboleth overlords.

[MadBear]

Yes, other moist creatures are awful. Spiders, not so much. To say otherwise makes you irrevocably wrong.

Here's a simple chart:

Evil ///// /////////////////////////////////////// Not evil
moistness ///// ////////////////////////// any not moist creature
Being mottled yellow/green/gray ////// any other non-bullwug color
living in wet areas ////////////////////// living anywhere else
living as lords of muck /////////////////// living any other way
amphibians ////////////////////////////// non-amphibians

[Shining Wrath]

Oozes are much moister than Bullywugs. But for true moist horror, try water elementals, Marids, and water weirds.

[M Placeholder]

Yes, other moist creatures are awful. Spiders, not so much. To say otherwise makes you irrevocably wrong.

Here's a simple chart:

Evil ///// /////////////////////////////////////// Not evil
moistness ///// ////////////////////////// any not moist creature
Being mottled yellow/green/gray ////// any other non-bullwug color
living in wet areas ////////////////////// living anywhere else
living as lords of muck /////////////////// living any other way
amphibians ////////////////////////////// non-amphibians





You have heard of the grippil, haven't you? a race of benevolent amphibians? Also, in Dark Sun, there were the
bvenen, a race that were unusual on Athas for being 1 - amphibians and 2 - not total bastards, unlike almost all other races.

If Im wrong, I dont want to be right.

While the bullywugs may be unpleasant, there are literally a thousand creatures worse than them. For referance, check out Terrors of Athas, Lords of Madness, Planescape Monsterous Compendium, Bestiary of Krynn, etc etc....

[Ralanr]

I still think Slaad are worse...and they're pretty moist. Double for the red and blue ones.

[AvatarVecna]

Ah, what the heck! I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway. Fair warning: there's only two levels of spoilers, and all my notes are contained within the ones with the pictures.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8148/6989418824_576e2c601e_z.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4797623953_5b24d701fa_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5065224365_0cc04ab047_b.jpg

Aren't they just the cutest widdle bundles of fur? Absolutely precious.

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/288/e/1/wet_spider_by_cecilla-d4cw01u.jpg

Fun fact: spiders can't drown (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080724204623AA2zYdv). Technically speaking, most spiders require oxygen, but their size allows them to ride the surface tension, like so:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1351/751400379_03d213fcce.jpg

Hell, some spiders go out of their way to swim: fishing spiders are so named because of what they eat...and how they catch it.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/808/cache/fishing-spider-eating-01_80808_990x742.jpg

Of course, some spiders saw that floating b.s. and thought "screw that!" So they learned how to turn bubbles into submarines:

http://dailynewsdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Creepy-Things-About-Spiders-2.jpg

Finally, because it was the only way to out-do the bubble-magicians, some spiders just went full-on aquatic, as seen below:

http://ak8.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/2332328/preview/stock-footage-sea-spider-nymphon-sp-walking-underwater-in-fiji-islands.jpg

So, not only can spiders not drown, but they're decent swimmers, some can go scuba-diving, and some are freaking aquatic spiders. But on top of all that, there's tiny spiders that live in flowers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_spider), spiders that can jump up to 50 times their body length (http://www.nwf.org/Kids/Ranger-Rick/Animals/Insects-and-Arthropods/Jumping-Spiders.aspx), and spiders that start life as expert paratroopers (http://faculty.ucr.edu/~chappell/INW/Poland/spiders28.jpg). Spiders will give birth to sometimes thousands of baby spiders at a time, and the pregnancy period is two weeks long (for black widows, at least).

And now, thanks to the miracles of D&D physics, we can ramp everything up to the point that creatures that are usually about the size of a dime are the size of a dog. Good night everyone!

I have stared into the abyss...and I think it stared back into me.

[Yenek]

Ah, what the heck! I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway. Fair warning: there's only two levels of spoilers, and all my notes are contained within the ones with the pictures.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8148/6989418824_576e2c601e_z.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4797623953_5b24d701fa_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5065224365_0cc04ab047_b.jpg

Aren't they just the cutest widdle bundles of fur? Absolutely precious.

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/288/e/1/wet_spider_by_cecilla-d4cw01u.jpg

Fun fact: spiders can't drown (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080724204623AA2zYdv). Technically speaking, most spiders require oxygen, but their size allows them to ride the surface tension, like so:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1351/751400379_03d213fcce.jpg

Hell, some spiders go out of their way to swim: fishing spiders are so named because of what they eat...and how they catch it.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/808/cache/fishing-spider-eating-01_80808_990x742.jpg

Of course, some spiders saw that floating b.s. and thought "screw that!" So they learned how to turn bubbles into submarines:

http://dailynewsdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Creepy-Things-About-Spiders-2.jpg

Finally, because it was the only way to out-do the bubble-magicians, some spiders just went full-on aquatic, as seen below:

http://ak8.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/2332328/preview/stock-footage-sea-spider-nymphon-sp-walking-underwater-in-fiji-islands.jpg

So, not only can spiders not drown, but they're decent swimmers, some can go scuba-diving, and some are freaking aquatic spiders. But on top of all that, there's tiny spiders that live in flowers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_spider), spiders that can jump up to 50 times their body length (http://www.nwf.org/Kids/Ranger-Rick/Animals/Insects-and-Arthropods/Jumping-Spiders.aspx), and spiders that start life as expert paratroopers (http://faculty.ucr.edu/~chappell/INW/Poland/spiders28.jpg). Spiders will give birth to sometimes thousands of baby spiders at a time, and the pregnancy period is two weeks long (for black widows, at least).

And now, thanks to the miracles of D&D physics, we can ramp everything up to the point that creatures that are usually about the size of a dime are the size of a dog. Good night everyone!

I have stared into the abyss...and I think it stared back into me.

5/7 are cute.
1/7 is meh
1/7 not cute.
More on topic:
More cuteness. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7b4spjXhw)

More cute (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O69d38GeR6o)

For that matter... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMji-Sw30dE)

[Lonely Tylenol]

Kuo'toa are so moist, I hear they actually worship a God of moistness. Even attempting to speak its name requires gargling some form of thick fluid.

[Rowan Wolf]

This thread reminds me of "Dead Like Me" all this dicussion of moist.

[Drakefall]

I dunno, I'm quite a fan of Moist.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Making_Money_Lipwig.JPG

Those spiders though... :smalleek: *shudders*

[AvatarVecna]

5/7 are cute.
1/7 is meh
1/7 not cute.
More on topic:
More cuteness. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7b4spjXhw)

More cute (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O69d38GeR6o)

For that matter... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMji-Sw30dE)

I liked the coyote pups and the hyena cubs; the toad was less cute, IMO (although the babies were kinda cute, I suppose).

Also, which ones are the two you didn't like?


Those spiders though... :smalleek: *shudders*

You didn't like the cuteness? :smallfrown:

[Yenek]

Also, which ones are the two you didn't like?


The last one is indeciferable, really.
And the second-to-last is cool, but not cute.

[CrusaderJoe]

In 4e I believe you was healed if you scored a critical hit (or killed) a Bullywug, the universe/multiverse hated them so damn much that it healed you for helping to get rid of the stain on the multiverse.

They might not be the most evil creatures but they have a history of being the most hated. I don't think any other creature comes close.

I haven't seen the bullwug yet in 5e, does anything like this happen?

[mephnick]

In 4e I believe you was healed if you scored a critical hit (or killed) a Bullywug, the universe/multiverse hated them so damn much that it healed you for helping to get rid of the stain on the multiverse.

They might not be the most evil creatures but they have a history of being the most hated. I don't think any other creature comes close.

I haven't seen the bullwug yet in 5e, does anything like this happen?

Nah, but they're definitely written up to be deluded jerkholes.

[RedMage125]

First time I nearly TPK'd my (Level 2 at the time) party was with a group of Bullywugs.

They now hate them.

'Course the Giant Toad didn't help matters.

[MadBear]

Kuo'toa are so moist, I hear they actually worship a God of moistness. Even attempting to speak its name requires gargling some form of thick fluid.

You sir may have found the counter to the bullywugs. Can you imagine an alliance between them? (*shudder*)




Oozes are much moister than Bullywugs. But for true moist horror, try water elementals, Marids, and water weirds.


nah, elementals, marids, and Oozes are wet, not moist. There's a huge difference.

[dancrilis]

I don't know about Bullywugs being that bad really - there is always the Otyugh to compare them to.

A creature that lives in the waste of others and wipes their fecal matter on you during your fight with it - after that any majesty that a character might later have can be instantly wiped away by reminding them of when the Otyugh hit them in the face.

[Ralanr]

I don't know about Bullywugs being that bad really - there is always the Otyugh to compare them to.

A creature that lives in the waste of others and wipes their fecal matter on you during your fight with it - after that any majesty that a character might later have can be instantly wiped away by reminding them of when the Otyugh hit them in the face.

Can't be worse than being infected by a disease that can only be removed by a curse and will transform your character in a matter of days (depending on their total health) into the thing that hit you.