Mammy has a very similar resemblance of Jabba the Hutt and that crossed my mind immediately when I first saw her, however I didn't even realize that the Tendriculos is very similar to the Sarlacc, and all the Ogrekin are kind of like those Pig faced minions.
reminded me of some neighbors we had living in the country when i was 10 or so, the Mom was crazy fat and their diet consisted of corn, potatoes and raw red meat. they were a messed up family! my dad had to call the cops on them a few times because the sons would hunt Racoons in our yard and they would hog tie our barn cats and leave them like that.
It was one of my favorite moments in the AP.
The cleric started going "No! No no no no no!" and refused to enter the kitchen (she had Door Sight and caught a glimpse of the horrors within).
She eventually entered through the living room (with some good trap disarms by the NPC thief) and promptly lost her cookies when they entered the dining room (which the NPC thief failed to detect and got scythed. Twice.) and fled outdoors once more.
She didn't even really care about possible hostages within. She wanted to burn the house down without looting it (sacrilege according to the crafter PC). ^^
So yeah. Never thought of the Star Wars angle. Definitely thought of the X-Files angle. And I played it as such.
The Hook Mountain Massacre takes much if its inspiration from The Hills Have Eyes, so she is likely based on the character Mama from that movie. The ogrekin are definately inspired by the other deformed characters.
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I wish I could remember the show but there was one of those Twilight Zone like shows in the 90's that had an episode where a traveling salesman scammed people into buying life insurance and a burial plot that he didn't even have the right to sell. I think Tim Curry played the father of this deformed redneck family the salesman ran into.
The family was all ugly, and they enjoyed killing door to door salesman in ways that reflects the item they conned onto customers. There was a head in a cheap microwave and other grisly corpses.
Anyway, that show came to mind when I read this. That and the time I spent in Kentucky.
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No. Mammy Graul is far more evil, disgusting, and disturbing than Jabba the Hutt.
Hah, I faintly recall the one time where my group actually managed to come that far into RotR. I say faintly because I am still trying to suppress the memories of the events that followed. Those undead baby creatures were especially worrying. As an alchemist, I vouched to burn the homestead and kill everything that tried to escape the flames.
Been through Runelords twice. Both times the Graul place was burnt to the ground by unanimous party decision.
As for the Star Wars connection...? I guess? If you're comfortable with the idea of Jabba being the pig-faced minions' mother and having relations with them?