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Post by makofan on Sept 6, 2016 8:41:52 GMT -5
There is an easy trick you can use on jaded players without causing the DM undue stress. Re-skin your humanoids.
In one dungeon, I took hobgoblins and changed them so that they have bird heads, claws and taloned feet. Obviously they can not be understood (unless you know their bird speech) but in every other way they are statted as hobgoblins. My players have no clue what these are, and are a bit scared of them. Also, I re-skinned gnolls as rather fat, 7-feet tall humanoids, vaguely bear shaped, with three arms and three legs. They use two-handed weapons and shield. In all other ways they are statted as gnolls. Again, players do not know what they are facing
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Post by Admin Pete on Sept 6, 2016 12:17:39 GMT -5
That is sweet!
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Sept 6, 2016 14:19:37 GMT -5
Nice and diabolical idea. Always hated it when players saw a monster and shouted "LOOK! A crusted warbling snotboogermonster, page 23,left column, HD 43d1, A/C 17¥, blue toenails, and illustrated by Erol Uvula's second cousin twice removed! Takes double damage from a +2 magic armpit!" But that's not why I called you together today.
It's because Makofan titled this thread in a manner most visual. It reminds me of the time my three youngest grandmonkeys were playing my twisted mash of Castles & Crusades/Tunnels & Trolls. Grandson was 7, and the leader of the party as a ranger type. The granddaughters were 5 and 4, with the youngest playing a hobbit. The ranger had brought down a deer for supper, two brigands met their doom trying to steal the meal, and the Ranger and the Fairy Princess (Don't ask!) were dozing, when they wondered where the hobbit had gotten to.
They found her, a little four-year old hobbit girl, skinning the two brigands.
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Post by Admin Pete on Sept 6, 2016 16:21:31 GMT -5
Nice and diabolical idea. Always hated it when players saw a monster and shouted "LOOK! A crusted warbling snotboogermonster, page 23,left column, HD 43d1, A/C 17¥, blue toenails, and illustrated by Erol Uvula's second cousin twice removed! Takes double damage from a +2 magic armpit!" But that's not why I called you together today. It's because Makofan titled this thread in a manner most visual. It reminds me of the time my three youngest grandmonkeys were playing my twisted mash of Castles & Crusades/Tunnels & Trolls. Grandson was 7, and the leader of the party as a ranger type. The granddaughters were 5 and 4, with the youngest playing a hobbit. The ranger had brought down a deer for supper, two brigands met their doom trying to steal the meal, and the Ranger and the Fairy Princess (Don't ask!) were dozing, when they wondered where the hobbit had gotten to. They found her, a little four-year old hobbit girl, skinning the two brigands. That is a beautiful story! The grandmonkeys must take after you! |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Sept 6, 2016 17:01:24 GMT -5
Sadly, the monkeys are all grown up now - all of 8, 9, and 11.9 respectively - and foolishly consider rolegaming as "not grown up."
True enough, at least when I game (Mensa the dwarf, with INT of 4) but more fun and fatal. ("Monsters, monsters: Come out, come out, wherever you are!")
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Post by scottanderson on Sept 6, 2016 19:50:54 GMT -5
The Dog Men bark and sniff your butt,
the Crab Men walk sideways and mumble to each other,
the Giraffe Men whack you with the little stubby horns on the ends of their long necks,
The Boarmen charge in low and stab at your legs,
The Ostrich Men run quickly and strike with knives in their boots,
The Chef Men use pole arms resembling eating utensils
And all of them, every single one, a 1 HD monster with no special abilities.
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Sept 6, 2016 20:17:09 GMT -5
The Dog Men bark and sniff your butt, the Crab Men walk sideways and mumble to each other, the Giraffe Men whack you with the little stubby horns on the ends of their long necks, The Boarmen charge in low and tab at your legs, The Ostrich Men run quickly and strike with knives in their boots, The Chef Men use pole arms resembling eating utensils And all of them, every single one, a 1 HD monster with no special abilities. This needs to be set to music. |
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