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Have you ever created your own monster?
Have you ever wished you had some art to go with it?
Well, some fellow talented artists and I are looking to have some creative folks share their ideas and we'll do our best to illustrate them.
So give a brief breakdown of what your creature looks like and anything else you see as relevant and we'll do our best!
Have you ever created your own monster?
Have you ever wished you had some art to go with it?
Well, some fellow talented artists and I are looking to have some creative folks share their ideas and we'll do our best to illustrate them.
So give a brief breakdown of what your creature looks like and anything else you see as relevant and we'll do our best!
Well, you asked for it, so here's a fairly challenging one from my homebrew: the Silk Golem.
Silk Golem
In-Character: Silk golems are commonly used in high-magic cities as "entertainment" at high-end brothels, temples of love gods/godesses, and other less than savory entertainment venues, where they are used as dancing entertainment. They take the form of a mass of silken ribbons or streamers fluttering under unfelt wind. As the ribbons swirl, they give the impression of a lithe female form (There's nothing preventing the creation of a male version, but they're practically unheard of). Unlike most other forms of golem, silk golems are animated by fire elemental spirits, manifested in the pair of glowing red orbs that hover where the form's eyes would be. When used for purposes other than entertainment, silk golems are known for their speed, alacrity, and mesmerizing dance.
Out-of-Character: To picture a silk golem, imagine that you have a fairly powerful electric fan, aimed straight upwards. Take some ribbons in fiery colors (red, yellow, brown, etc.) and tie them to the grill of the fan so that they flutter upwards. Now, imagine that rather than just fluttering randomly, they flutter in and out of the form of a dancing woman (or man). Add glowing red eyes hovering in the middle, and you've got the basic idea.
Have you ever created your own monster?
Have you ever wished you had some art to go with it?
Well, some fellow talented artists and I are looking to have some creative folks share their ideas and we'll do our best to illustrate them.
So give a brief breakdown of what your creature looks like and anything else you see as relevant and we'll do our best!
My main villian in the campaign was an epic level necromancer (who was eventually defeated), but here is one of the horrors he created.
Blood of Innocents: One leg big round body and two big clawed arms, and a red water elementalish body. It would move on its arms then fight while standing on the leg. The original idea was a "drop of blood dripping up from the floor with 2 clawed arms."
If I can dig up my original notes I'll post the stats.
Hugo Solis
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
Already done in the other thread
Monsters
N'wah
-Paizo Goblins
-Baby Otyugh
-Big Mama otyugh (colored by Benchak)
Mr. Shiny
-The Beast
-Intellect Devourer
Absinth
Fake Healer
Sweet thread will dig some out.
Edit how about trying this one
Graveborn Legionnaire’s Appear as normally as Mummified versions of who they were in life. Their skin dry and shrunken and their armor dark, pitted and caked in grave dirt that never washes away or falls from there bodies Their eyes seem to glow with a cold light .They carry weapons of pure evil, dark twisted corrupt version of ones that served them so well in life. They smell of fresh dirt and seem to chill the very air around them .
That's really quite good. It so captures the essence of the description.
cool indeed
i had a bit of a different vision... but that might be because i understood it differently :Pi imagined her like the dance of the 7 veils... big veils enveloping a woman... just no woman there :P
but alas my imagination sometomes flies away from what people describe :P
That's really quite good. It so captures the essence of the description.cool indeed
i had a bit of a different vision... but that might be because i understood it differently :Pi imagined her like the dance of the 7 veils... big veils enveloping a woman... just no woman there :P
but alas my imagination sometomes flies away from what people describe :P
Did you do a version of the silk golem as well?
Hugo Solis
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
Okay, here's mine.
The aberrant eye is the head honcho in a little ecosystem called an aberrant flesh colony. These creatures are aberrations drawn to decaying magic in enclosed spaces (i.e., dungeons!).
If you play in any of my PbPs do not read any further.
An enormous eye floats in the center of the room. Three tendrils dangle beneath it. As it turns towards you, a sense of hopelessness begins to take hold and a voice in your head says “Bones are brittle. The flesh is strong”.
Often referred to as Morose Scryers, aberrant eyes are usually medium-sized creatures that strongly resemble a giant eye. The eye appears to float in the air, surrounded by white flames. The flames, in fact, do not give off any heat and are due to the refraction of light around a creature that does not entirely exist in this plane. When an aberrant eye floats through space, its size varies depending on the angle from which it is viewed. Two people viewing an aberrant eye from almost identical angles could have a very different idea of its size.
Aberrant eyes may have tendrils dangling from them, connecting to the walls or floor of the colonized space. When an aberrant eye has been formed through the colonization of the eye of another creature, the dessicated remains of that creature often dangles from the aberrant eye.
Most flesh colony creatures are greyish-green with dark blue veins and yellow to green pustules.
What I'd really like to see is an aberrant eye formed from a kobold. It would have the dessicated remains of a kobold hanging from it in shreds.
Okay, here's mine.
The aberrant eye is the head honcho in a little ecosystem called an aberrant flesh colony. These creatures are aberrations drawn to decaying magic in enclosed spaces (i.e., dungeons!).
If you play in any of my PbPs do not read any further.
** spoiler omitted **
I'll give this one a whack. Prepare to be underwhelmed...
So much win and awesome going on around here! Thanks CJack!
I proposed the Silk Golem precisely because I think there's a lot of different ways to visualize it (and because I just think it's a cool monster). I was interested to see what other people would do with it.
I'll give this one a whack. Prepare to be underwhelmed...Okay, here's mine.
The aberrant eye is the head honcho in a little ecosystem called an aberrant flesh colony. These creatures are aberrations drawn to decaying magic in enclosed spaces (i.e., dungeons!).
If you play in any of my PbPs do not read any further.
** spoiler omitted **
Lol... THAT'S the SPIRIT!
That's really quite good. It so captures the essence of the description.cool indeed
i had a bit of a different vision... but that might be because i understood it differently :Pi imagined her like the dance of the 7 veils... big veils enveloping a woman... just no woman there :P
but alas my imagination sometomes flies away from what people describe :P
While that's not exactly what I described, it would totally be an equally awesome alternative vision of the Silk Golem.
Blood of Innocents: One leg big round body and two big clawed arms, and a red water elementalish body. It would move on its arms then fight while standing on the leg. The original idea was a "drop of blood dripping up from the floor with 2 clawed arms."
I may have the sketch up tonight, we'll see. It's fairly simple so it didn't really take too long to work out.
ok... for some time already... about 10 years i have been planning tomake my setting in a world were the 4 elements where predominant and where humanity was not native but arrived after a Cataclysm destroyed their world (Earth actually), when they arrived they discovered that the world addapted to their desires... and fears (yes i took this from bot Magic Knight Rayearth and the Coldfire Trilogy) giving them something akin to magic and molding the creatures of the world in something humans would recognice, and at the same time... they would not.
One of the races the races,
Even when living in the desert they tendt to wear metal armor, preferably black and scorshed so its shine would not reveal them to their enemies in the distance. Their weapons of choice are big, but swift swords or spears of the same black tone of their armors, seeing the use of ranegd weapons below them, unless hunting big air based creatures.
They are a nomad people, traditionally moving in small tribes and hunting in packs in the dessert, they eat meat and need very little water, which they substitutte with 'wine' made with the fermented milk of their female mounts, the Raksa.
The Sheddim always travel lightly, sleeping under the stars or inside the sand caves done for the nigth by the Raksa, they mostly bring their armor and weapons and both males and females are in charge of huting and taking care of the children. Individuals have some few properties, mostly mementos from ancient battles or hunts, the more a hunter have of this means he or she is more experienced in battle and usually heard when giving advice, is quite dishonorable to steal them.
The Sheddim are honorable creatures, who try to solve their problems through ritual battle to the first blood, and easily forgotten, but when the tempers flare it is not unknow for one or both combatants to end dead. Sheddim try to solve their difference by age and rank, which is measured by hunting memmentos and memorable scars.
The sheddim have no formal writing language, buttheir mystics ritually scar and burn themselvesto bring mystical sights and magic power to them, and heal by burning the wounds so they will seal themselves
Starpeople, humans, think the Sheddim and the Raksa, or Desert Lion, came from the common ancestry.
both are a bit similar, so if anyone can draw any of them i would be too happy :)
Snorter
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber; GameMastery Superscriber)
Okay; I dug up some old stuff from the attic, including this fan-art of Nemesis the Warlock from the late 80s.
Nothing to do with D&D, but what the hell, I was happy enough with it to keep it around for 20 years, when most stuff went in the bin!
Broke my deviantART virginity! I'm an artist!
I may have the sketch up tonight, we'll see. It's fairly simple so it didn't really take too long to work out.Blood of Innocents: One leg big round body and two big clawed arms, and a red water elementalish body. It would move on its arms then fight while standing on the leg. The original idea was a "drop of blood dripping up from the floor with 2 clawed arms."
Thanks!! :-)
Okay; I dug up some old stuff from the attic, including this fan-art of Nemesis the Warlock from the late 80s.
Nothing to do with D&D, but what the hell, I was happy enough with it to keep it around for 20 years, when most stuff went in the bin!
Broke my deviantART virginity! I'm an artist!
cool!
very interesting picture indeed
Snorter
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber; GameMastery Superscriber)
The Fungi from Yuggoth
damn damn
and i say damni would hate to find that thing in anywhere!
definitively good interpretation!
Hugo Solis
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
Monster Summary fro the other Drawing thread
N'wah
-Paizo Goblins
-Baby Otyugh
-Big Mama otyugh (colored by Benchak)
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny
-The Beast
-Intellect Devourer
Absinth
-Mummy
Fake Healer
-Griffon
Callous Jack
-Silk Golem (this one its from this thread and its already on the summary!
Hugo Solís
Aboleth Savant
Hmm, sorry guys, this next request is a little of topic BUT:
I have an indoor soccer team, and we have decided to call ourselves "the Mongooses" *inside joke* I was looking around for a cool cartoon mongoose on Google, before I realized there were my good old Paizo buddies! If anyone is struggling with the fact that a mongoose isn't a "monster" just add dire in front of it, and wait for 4.5E
ANYWAY. What I'm looking for is someone to do a cartoony mongoose design. He should look scary (not too scary, though, there will be kids around)
*inside joke explained* Our coach for our normal soccer season was an absolute a#% h@*$, who we made fun of behind his back (that's probably why i didn't play much...) One day he told us that we had to be "cleva like a mongoose" (He's british) if we wanted to win the game.
Pretty simple, I tried to make it look like he was heaving itself forward like an ape on it's forearms. I added the tooty mouth and eyes so hopefully that's not too far off.
Pretty simple, I tried to make it look like he was heaving itself forward like an ape on it's forearms. I added the tooty mouth and eyes so hopefully that's not too far off.
well don't know the commisioner, but i like it pretty much :D
I'll give this one a whack. Prepare to be underwhelmed...Okay, here's mine.
The aberrant eye is the head honcho in a little ecosystem called an aberrant flesh colony. These creatures are aberrations drawn to decaying magic in enclosed spaces (i.e., dungeons!).
If you play in any of my PbPs do not read any further.
** spoiler omitted **
Hah. I'm sure I'll like it. As long as it has got a giant eyeball, it can't be too far off.
Pretty simple, I tried to make it look like he was heaving itself forward like an ape on it's forearms. I added the tooty mouth and eyes so hopefully that's not too far off.
Thanks Callous Jack! Looks awesome, with a mouth like that I might have to give him a bite attack too. :-)
Mist Wraith
A figure looms out of the mist. It is humanoid in appearance, tall and thin, with pale, almost translucent skin, long, pointed ears, and flowing white hair. Its eyes glow with an eerie blue light, and wisps and curls of mist spill from its open mouth. The creature wears a long, high collared coat, the tails of which seem to trail off into jags of mist. Its fingers end in thin, sharp and improbably long talons. Perhaps strangest of all, the creature seems to glide across the ground rather than walk, levitating just above the earth.
Snorter
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber; GameMastery Superscriber)
ANYWAY. What I'm looking for is someone to do a cartoony mongoose design. He should look scary (not too scary, though, there will be kids around)
How about looking up Mongoose Publishing?
They have a mongoose mascot, strangely enough.
Thanks Tamec! If the mouth really bugged you I could always Photoshop it out.
Okay, here's mine.
The aberrant eye is the head honcho in a little ecosystem called an aberrant flesh colony. These creatures are aberrations drawn to decaying magic in enclosed spaces (i.e., dungeons!).
Cool idea, I may illustrate this as well (given the time).
Thanks Tamec! If the mouth really bugged you I could always Photoshop it out.
Cool idea, I may illustrate this as well (given the time).Okay, here's mine.
The aberrant eye is the head honcho in a little ecosystem called an aberrant flesh colony. These creatures are aberrations drawn to decaying magic in enclosed spaces (i.e., dungeons!).
The mouth is cool. Don't change it!
I was looking for the mongoose for Joey when I saw the paranoia page. That eye has a bit of an aberrant eye look to it but the one I'm thinking of is a kobold eye that has been colonized by the aberrant flesh colony and grown to ridiculous proportions, sucking the marrow out of the bones of the kobold to feed its growth.
Hugo Solis
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
Blood of Innocents.
Awesome CJack! The single leg gives it a very creepy!
Cool!EDIT: I'm quite eager to take on monster commision...gotta clean up the agenda... argh!
Hmm, sorry guys, this next request is a little of topic BUT:
I have an indoor soccer team, and we have decided to call ourselves "the Mongooses" *inside joke* I was looking around for a cool cartoon mongoose on Google, before I realized there were my good old Paizo buddies! If anyone is struggling with the fact that a mongoose isn't a "monster" just add dire in front of it, and wait for 4.5E
ANYWAY. What I'm looking for is someone to do a cartoony mongoose design. He should look scary (not too scary, though, there will be kids around)
*inside joke explained* Our coach for our normal soccer season was an absolute a~# h@*!, who we made fun of behind his back (that's probably why i didn't play much...) One day he told us that we had to be "cleva like a mongoose" (He's british) if we wanted to win the game.
Here's an image I dug up off the net
And some more of a more cartoonish variety.I could whip up something based on one of the images if you'd like, tell me what you want and I'll see what I can come up with.