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2019-01-29, 09:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
-0. This thing is just a steaming pile of unoptimised corpses.
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2019-01-29, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Easy -0. Also, this thing's Strength is less than a large air elemental's (14). That's kind of incredible, in the sense that it's not credible that a large, physically tangible melee-attacker would have a Strength of only 13. Not even in the 2e or 5e eras of bounded values.
You know what large creature I'd give Strength 13? A pillow golem. A feather elemental.Last edited by maruahm; 2019-01-29 at 09:27 AM.
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2019-01-29, 09:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
No. Just... no. LA -0.
What CR were these again? Although my character would probably be crapping their pants more about the look - I mean yeah, it IS pretty scary - regardless of that.Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
Editor/co-writer of Magicae Est Potestas, a crossover between Artemis Fowl and Undertale. Ao3 FanFiction.net DeviantArt
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2019-01-29, 09:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
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2019-01-29, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
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2019-01-29, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
Editor/co-writer of Magicae Est Potestas, a crossover between Artemis Fowl and Undertale. Ao3 FanFiction.net DeviantArt
We also have a TvTropes page!
Currently playing: Red Hand of Doom(campaign journal)Campaign still going on, but journal discontinued until further notice.
Extended sig here.
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2019-01-29, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-29, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
I admit that I don’t want to run into one of these in a dark alley, but I also don’t want to be in a party where one is my dark ally.
-0.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2019-01-29, 01:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
LA -0 for both versions of the Shrieking Terror. For investing that much Aberration RHD, you ought to be able to punt a True Dragon across a gorge; instead, you get net abilities appropriate to something with 2 and 5 RHD with no LA, respectively. No thank you, and numerous unkind and anatomically improbable expletives to follow if provoked into deeper analysis.
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2019-01-29, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Nice.
Concur, LA -0, and LA -Hells No.
Kiss is really more "useful" as a monster ability than a PC ability. Specifically, it's for when the PCs have effed up, and the DM is whacking them for it. Or the DM's being an asshat.
Alternatively, the Kiss is for screwing with the PCs while they're on an Escort-type mission.
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2019-01-29, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Creator of the LA-assignment thread.
Entries have been posted for the newest round of Junkyard Wars. Are YOU the judge we need? And while you're there, vote for the next round!
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2019-01-29, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
No disagreements with LA -0.
So when you "magically crossbreed" an Outsider and a Magical Beast, you get an...Aberration? Is it just me, or does that feel a little like crossbreeding an owl and a bear, and getting a unicorn? OK, I can kinda see the logic. Kinda.
As a DM, at CR 10 this thing feels like it could either be a TPK for an unprepared/unoptimised party; or a cake walk for an optimised/prepared party. Am I wrong?My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
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2019-01-29, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
To be honest, Outs+MaBe=Abbe isn't that odd, given that abberations are meant to be the "this is weird and doesn't fit better anywhere else" box.
Obviously -0, mind.
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2019-01-29, 10:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Agree with others on the rating.
I also welcome back the Dire Stirge avatar for our dear creator!Last edited by Remuko; 2019-01-29 at 10:39 PM.
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2019-01-29, 10:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
I remember a third-party 3e book about creating your own magical crossbreeds, which included a handy table of what creature type would result from mashing two other types together. Most of them were aberrations, because apparently mashing two things together tends to be "unnatural" or something.
Another fun note: While mashing together two creatures of the same type was usually easier than mashing together creatures of wildly different types, aberrations were harder to mash with each other. Multi-step fusions were...difficult, to say the least.
A noisy, human-sized tangle of carnivorous spaghetti. That still sounds pretty frightening.
What were the designers thinking when they designed the vargouille, anyways?
...Wait, that was probably the Tomb of Horrors era. Never mind.
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2019-01-29, 11:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
Torn-City - Massively multiplayer online browser based crime RPG
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2019-01-29, 11:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Sounds like you might be thinking of Encyclopedia Arcane: Crossbreeding. That included rules for magically combining creatures in a lab/ritual.
Unless you're talking more literal crossbreeding, in which case it would have been Encyclopedia Arcane: Nymphology or Book of Erotic Deeds.
I think Savage Species had a table or chart or something about template and type stacking, and something about some types having priority and not being able to be changed to certain other types.
A noisy, human-sized tangle of carnivorous spaghetti. That still sounds pretty frightening.
What were the designers thinking when they designed the vargouille, anyways?
...Wait, that was probably the Tomb of Horrors era. Never mind.
Could have been early Ravenloft, too.
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2019-01-30, 12:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-30, 12:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
Torn-City - Massively multiplayer online browser based crime RPG
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2019-01-30, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
Editor/co-writer of Magicae Est Potestas, a crossover between Artemis Fowl and Undertale. Ao3 FanFiction.net DeviantArt
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Currently playing: Red Hand of Doom(campaign journal)Campaign still going on, but journal discontinued until further notice.
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2019-01-30, 12:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
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2019-01-30, 03:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-01-30, 03:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Well, I've got a new reading list of 3rd party books to check out! Thanks everyone.
My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
Torn-City - Massively multiplayer online browser based crime RPG
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2019-01-30, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
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2019-01-30, 11:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Recalls familiar titles, checks 3rd Party folder in D&D documents, sees RoR: Bastards & Bloodlines, Advanced Bestiary and EA: Crossbreeds, feels smug and well read
Feels less smug and starts pondering purpose of life when he remembers he still has copies of both BoEF and EA: Nymphology Blue MagicLast edited by ViperMagnum357; 2019-01-30 at 11:18 AM.
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2019-01-30, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Crossbreeding flesh and blood was a fun read. What developer was that by? Might go check out their catalogue.
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2019-01-30, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
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2019-01-30, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
You haven't gotten rid of them because as digital copies, there's no point in getting rid of them.
And by keeping them, you can have them available in the event of a game that allows wide third party sourcebook access, as there a few things that can get broken, and so that you can be forewarned in the event another player or the DM draws on them.
You got them in the first place for the sake of a more complete collection, and maybe to look at the once just to see what people were talking about.
Mongoose.
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2019-01-30, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-02-01, 03:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The LA-assignment thread V: Escape from LA
Skindancer
The skindancer: a horrible monster whose ever-shifting defenses provide protection against everything, with the notable exception of an airborne Wand Of Magic Missile-owner.
The bad first: fifteen monstrous humanoid RHD, and only 22 strength and Large size to show for it. Great constitution, terrible intelligence and charisma, reasonable dexterity and wisdom. +7 natural armor, as well as a natural ability that grants another +6 deflection. Finally, two 2d6 slam attacks which nobody cares about because these things can use weapons.
The skindancer's special abilities are unique, if nothing else (notable exception: Trip, which requires using its slams and is very bland and weak). Adaptive Energy Resistance gives it resistance 20 to whatever was the last energy attack to damage it (per the rules compendium, this covers acid/cold/electric/fire/sonic), and Damage Reduction gives it DR 15 to the damage types of the last weapon attack that hit it (so DR 15/slashing if the attack was with a morningstar, DR 15/bludgeoning and piercing if it was with a greatsword, and so on).
I'm not sure how strong those abilities are, but they do seem to have some utility. That said, the few CR 15 foes I sampled did usually have ways to get past those resistances, and there's still the issue of a defensive ability just not being very strong without offensive pressure or a means of drawing attacks.
I think that in the end I'll go with -0 for the skindancer, but it's a neat concept that could definitely be viable if it had a few less HD. Do discuss.Creator of the LA-assignment thread.
Entries have been posted for the newest round of Junkyard Wars. Are YOU the judge we need? And while you're there, vote for the next round!
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