That Damn Crab questions

[Tarlek Flamehai]

Greetings all!

1. Does anyone have a working a link or complete stat block for TDC you can spare me?

2. By RAW, am I correct that Revived Fossil will work with TDC?

Thanks in Advance!

[ranagrande]

2. By RAW, am I correct that Revived Fossil will work with TDC?!
No. Revived Fossil requires a creature with a skeleton, and crabs only have exoskeletons.

[nyjastul69]

2. Yes. Revived fossil requires a corporeal creature (other than undead) with a skeletal system. TDC has an exoskeleton which is a type of skeletal system.

[ExLibrisMortis]

The Far Corners of the World: Monsters of the Tides (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fw/20040221a)

Have fun :smallbiggrin:.

[Solaris]

2. Yes. Revived fossil requires a corporeal creature (other than undead) with a skeletal system. TDC has an exoskeleton which is a type of skeletal system.

But not one that readily fossilizes. Typically what you'll find is an imprint filled with sediment, not the fossilized skeleton itself as with endoskeletal creatures.

[nyjastul69]

But not one that readily fossilizes. Typically what you'll find is an imprint filled with sediment, not the fossilized skeleton itself as with endoskeletal creatures.

Readily fossilized isn't a requirement for the template however. Crustaceans can leave fossils. I don't see any reason this template can't be applied to TDC. I recently came across an entry, a spell I think, that distinguishes between an endo and exoskeleton, but I can't find it ATM.

[Darrin]

I recently came across an entry, a spell I think, that distinguishes between an endo and exoskeleton, but I can't find it ATM.

Bonerattle, Ghostwalk p. 49. AKA "magic missile for bards" (with a Fort save for half).

[nyjastul69]

Bonerattle, Ghostwalk p. 49. AKA "magic missile for bards" (with a Fort save for half).

Thanks. That wasn't it actually, but it gave me my answer, Bonefiddle SC pg. 37. The target line is 'one creature with a skeleton or exoskeleton'.

[Solaris]

Readily fossilized isn't a requirement for the template however. Crustaceans can leave fossils. I don't see any reason this template can't be applied to TDC.

Whoops, you're right. I've done some more reading on it, and I was apparently misinformed. I recall reading that invertebrates (specifically mollusks, but crustacean exoskeletons are also made of calcium carbonate) don't tend to leave behind anything more than an impression in the silt a la the Pompeiians with all of their old material dissolving away (as opposed to being replaced through fossilization), but I can't seem to turn up anything to support that on the interwebs. To the contrary, their mineralized exoskeletons make them more likely to remain as fossils.