Vote Up a Monster (3.X) #10: Votement Day (Monster Complete, PEACH)

[Zeta Kai]

Vote Up a Monster (3.X) #10: Votement Day

So, seeing as this is our tenth VUAM contest, I thought we should take a look back, & see what has been voted upon before:

1. A benevolent worm from the Far Realm that could turn into a church.
2. A robot angel.
3. A swarm of ghostly goo.
4. An evil shape-shifting elemental.
5. An epic semi-undead dragon.
6. A race of baby-stealing faeries.
7. A ethereal shrieking space-whale
8. An epic ur-giant.
9. A host of fallen angels.

All in all, not a bad group so far. I'm more proud of some than others, but I think we've done a good job so far. For this one, let's see if we can out-do ourselves.

Here are the official VUAM Rules for Voting™. Please read these, as a violation may result in your vote not being counted:

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1. Please only vote for the options provided. Write-in options are largely discouraged. In exchange, I will offer a wide variety of options, including a few that would normally be impossible, given the previously-chosen aspects. The only exception to this would be for Special Abilities. I do encourage people to write in any Special Abilities that they find appropriate (either from published monsters or homebrewed), & people are free to vote for those, if they so choose.
2. Please do not criticize or disparage the votes of other forum members. Let the votes fall where they may. A later VUAM may go your way instead, so just be patient, & allow other voters to voice their own opinions.
3. Please do not offer suggestions on the monster’s concept, behavior, appearance, etc. That is all part of my creative process, & it is stifling to consider write-ins. It is also unfair to other voters, as many do not make suggestions, & suggestions are not voted upon anyway.
4. If you must change your vote, please let me know that you are doing so, & what your original vote was. I tally votes often, to keep post #1 up to date, & it’s hard enough to keep track of which posts haven’t been tallied yet.
5. If your vote cannot be tallied due to violation of any of these rules, I will post to inform you of that before voting ends. I will also ask you to modify your vote, so that it may be changed.

I am, again, soliciting votes on a number of aspects on this next creature. Here are the aspects, in order:

1. Type: Monstrous Humanoid
   
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   {table=head]Type|Votes
   Aberration|1
   Animal|0
   Construct|0
   Dragon|0
   Elemental|0
   Fey|0
   Giant|0
   Humanoid|0
   Magical Beast|2
   Monstrous Humanoid|6
   Ooze|0
   Outsider|0
   Plant|4
   Undead|0
   Vermin|0
   [/table]
2. Subtype: Aquatic & Cold
   
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   {table=head]Subtype|Votes
   Air|0
   Angel|0
   Aquatic|6
   Archon|0
   Augmented|0
   Chaotic|0
   Cold|6
   Earth|0
   Evil|0
   Extraplanar|0
   Fire|1
   Goblinoid|0
   Good|0
   Incorporeal|0
   Lawful|1
   Native|0
   Reptilian|0
   Shapechanger|0
   Swarm|2
   Water|1
   NONE|0
   [/table]
3. Size: Small
   
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   {table=head]Size|Votes
   Fine|0
   Diminutive|0
   Tiny|0
   Small|8
   Medium|6
   Large|2
   Huge|0
   Gargantuan|0
   Colossal|0[/table]
4. Alignment: Lawful Evil
   
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   {table=head]Alignment|Votes|Alignment|Votes|Alignment|Votes
   Lawful Good|1|Neutral Good||Chaotic Good|
   Lawful Neutral|2|True Neutral||Chaotic Neutral|4
   Lawful Evil|8|Neutral Evil|1|Chaotic Evil|1
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5. Challenge Rating: 1
   
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   {table=head]CR|Votes
   ¼|1
   ⅓|0
   ½|0
   1|8
   2|0
   3|0
   4|0
   5|0
   6|0
   7|0
   8|1
   9|0
   10|7
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6. Special Abilities: Natural Weapons, Psionics
   
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   {table=head]Special Ability|Votes
   Ability Damage|0
   Ability Drain|0
   Alternate Form|0
   Antimagic|2
   Blindsight/Blindsense|0
   Breath Weapon|1
   Change Shape|0
   Charm/Compulsion|0
   Cold Immunity|1
   Constrict|0
   Damage Reduction|0
   Darkvision|0
   Death Attacks|0
   Disease|0
   Energy Drain/Negative Levels|0
   Etherealness|0
   Evasion/Improved Evasion|0
   Fast Healing|1
   Fear Aura (Su)|2
   Fear Cones (Sp)/Rays (Su)|0
   Frightful Presence (Ex)|0
   Fire Immunity|0
   Gaseous Form|0
   Gaze Attacks|0
   Improved Grab|0
   Incorporeality|0
   Invisibility|0
   Level Loss|0
   Low-Light Vision|0
   Manufactured Weapons|0
   Movement Modes (Burrow/Climb/Fly/Swim)|1
   Natural Weapons (Bite/Claw/Gore/etc)|7
   Nonabilities|0
   Paralysis|0
   Poison|3
   Polymorph|0
   Pounce|0
   Powerful Charge|0
   Psionics|6
   Rake|0
   Rays|1
   Regeneration|0
   Resistance To Energy|0
   Scent|0
   Sonic Attacks|0
   Spell Immunity|0
   Spell Resistance|0
   Spells/SLAs|0
   Summon|0
   Swallow Whole|1
   Telepathy|2
   Trample|0
   Tremorsense|1
   Turn Resistance|0
   Vulnerability to Energy|1[/table]

All votes have been tallied. Voting is concluded at this point. The resultant creature, the Ice Fang, has been posted. Thanks to everyone who voted.

[Saint Nil]

How about a Magical Beast?

[Malfunctioned]

I vote for Monstrous Humanoid!

[Owrtho]

Well, if we want to out-do past VUAM creatures, then I'd say we'll need to go with Aberration.

Owrtho

[Rhiannon87]

Magical Beast! They're magical!

[afroakuma]

Do I sense a wee bit of homage to a certain other VUA's tenth iteration?

[kopout]

Enough of the epic, otherworldly and unfathomable, lets have a Monstrous Humanoid!

[Debihuman]

I vote for Monstrous Humanoid . At least, it is something that hasn't been done already.

The first one was an aberration; the second was a construct; the third was an ooze; the fourth was an elemental; the fifth was a dragon; the sixth was fey; seventh was a magical beast; eighth was a magical beast and the ninth was also an aberration.

Debby

[UnChosenOne]

Î vötë für Monstrous Humanoid.

Êdït. I did forgot bold my vote.

[Alteran]

I will also vote for Monstrous Humanoid.

Bandwagons FTW, apparently?

[Pramxnim]

I vote for Plant, because a quick glance at older entries saw Monstrous Humanoid being done before (the Changelings).

[vegetalss4]

yeah bandwagons for the win
Monstrous Humanoid

[Pronounceable]

There's already millions of monstrous humanoids out there (homebrew or otherwise). Plants however...

[Zeta Kai]

All votes are currently tallied.

[The Mentalist]

That Plant idea sounds like a good one.

[Ellye]

Plant for this one.

[Zeta Kai]

Alright, the votes are in, & the winning Type is: Monstrous Humanoid!

So next, I need you guys (& girls) to vote on the creature's Subtype. Votes will be tallied regularly. As always, please only vote for 1 subtype, & please peruse the voting rules. Thank you for voting.

[Malfunctioned]

I think Aquatic sounds good

[Alteran]

I like the sound of a shapechanger.

Never mind, I see we've had several of these. My vote goes to Cold.

[Ellye]

I want to see it with the Cold subtype.

[erikun]

Don't mind me randomly commenting here, but I love the Polymental. Thanks for listing them all; I would've missed it otherwise.

[unosarta]

hey, bandwagons are fun!

Cold

[Pronounceable]

Alignment subtypes never got picked (except evil I think). So lawful.

[UnChosenOne]

Î vötë für Swarm.

[Faulty]

I vote Aquatic!

[Zincorium]

Swarm!

If only because it has never been done before! (that I'm aware of)

[paddyfool]

Another vote for the life aquatic

[Rhiannon87]

I'm gonna vote fire.

[Zeta Kai]

All votes are cur- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Sorry, the Aberrations were speaking through me. All votes are currently tallied.

[LordShotGun]

Cold Subtype seems interesting. Also, whats up with all the vote up a monster contests going back and putting down thier previous monsters?

If anyone here has ever seen a DnD version 1.0 monster manual they would not feel so bad. I mean they had floors and ceilings that could eat you !! Also we had really wierd monsters like "sheep in wolf's clothing" (seriously look it up, it was in durokan's dungeon)