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Gransoley
2021-06-14, 08:24 PM
I just found out a symbiont on DuM 148, besides the ones of FF, MoE and ECS which other ones are there?

tokyooo25
2021-06-14, 10:23 PM
Mayhaps I am having a brainfart, but what source book is DuM?

Thurbane
2021-06-14, 11:16 PM
Dungeon Magazine, I assume.

This is a really great resource for symbionts: Fleshwarping: A List of Grafts, Symbionts, and Related Goodies (https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?190350)

Gransoley
2021-06-15, 12:27 AM
Dungeon Magazine, I assume.

This is a really great resource for symbionts: Fleshwarping: A List of Grafts, Symbionts, and Related Goodies (https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?190350)

Ye i knew of it and it still doesn't includes everything but...
BUT it includes the life shaping handbook that is technically not 3rd party. Athas.org had the same rights to print given by wotc as ravenloft, DL and the likes. So it's official product by the dictionary definition of official or at worst 2nd party by the definition used wrongly in 3e discussions.
Having said that it still, for example, misses the DuM i quoted before, therefore is incomplete, therefore I hope there are more symbionts out there.

Gruftzwerg
2021-06-15, 02:49 AM
The sole one not on the list that comes to my mind is the "symbiotic" template. With this template almost anything small enough can become a guest for anything big enough (the racial restriction allows for many combinations). Should be in SS iirc.

Gransoley
2021-06-15, 02:51 AM
Yeah i know of that and it's from SS indeed, even though I wouldn't call it a symbiont, at least rules wise.

ShurikVch
2021-06-15, 07:38 AM
Airgill (Dungeon #105, p. 59)

Handlinger (Dragon #352, p. 55) grants +6 Str, acid+fire breath weapon, and even fly speed; but it's Lawful Evil, and tend to mind control its hosts...

"Armed to the Tentacle" article (Dragon #308) have about as many symbionts as Fiend Folio (all symbionts there are Illithid-themed)

If you're OK with homebrew stuff:
Bestiary of the Realms, Volume 2 (http://web.archive.org/web/20111011065036/http://www.ericlboyd.com/dnd/realms_bestiary_v2.pdf.zip) have Kyuss Bloodworm
Shadow Symbionts (http://www.pandius.com/shsymbnt.html) (were also printed in Denizens of the Transitive Planes (https://mimir.planewalker.com/sites/default/files/DTPv1.1.zip))

Gransoley
2021-06-15, 07:46 AM
Airgill (Dungeon #105, p. 59)

Handlinger (Dragon #352, p. 55) grants +6 Str, acid+fire breath weapon, and even fly speed; but it's Lawful Evil, and tend to mind control its hosts...

"Armed to the Tentacle" article (Dragon #308) have about as many symbionts as Fiend Folio (all symbionts there are Illithid-themed)

If you're OK with homebrew stuff:
Bestiary of the Realms, Volume 2 (http://web.archive.org/web/20111011065036/http://www.ericlboyd.com/dnd/realms_bestiary_v2.pdf.zip) have Kyuss Bloodworm
Shadow Symbionts (http://www.pandius.com/shsymbnt.html) (were also printed in Denizens of the Transitive Planes (https://mimir.planewalker.com/sites/default/files/DTPv1.1.zip))

Actually the sigil planescape stuff may not be homebrew at all.
The websites it comes from was appointed as the official plenscape website and it had the rights to publish official material, with official meaning official licensed product, like DL (besides DLCS), ravenloft, some kalamar, rokugan and so on. I'm sure that at least the big handbook they were (maybe still are) working on is official licensed product, it's very well possible for this to be too if they already had the rights at the time of pubblishing it.
Also thanks for the DuM symbionts, really appreciated

Gransoley
2021-06-20, 09:07 PM
The sole one not on the list that comes to my mind is the "symbiotic" template. With this template almost anything small enough can become a guest for anything big enough (the racial restriction allows for many combinations). Should be in SS iirc.

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