I hate to be a nitpicky nitpicker, but the Triopses evolved during the Carboniferous, 300 million years ago, more or less. The first terrestrial creatures set foot on the land in the late Silurian, over a hundred million years earlier.
Now I have this song in my head from They Might Be Giants
Now I know what my first eidolon will look like. <shudder>
Clearly, triops are the missing link between aboleths and "sea monkeys"
Now I know what my first eidolon will look like. <shudder>
...Creepy! You'll have to share the stats once you've done it. :D
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Blast it, James, I'm at work and slacking enough reading the forums and now you have me downloading my copy of the bestiary to look at what you are talking about.
Edit: Well that just cuts out the missing link part. Though now I am somewhat tempted to scale(Ha!) one down to diminutive and have an NPC keep it in a fishbowl where it swims around malevolently.
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Blast it, James, I'm at work and slacking enough reading the forums and now you have me downloading my copy of the bestiary to look at what you are talking about.
Edit: Well that just cuts out the missing link part. Though now I am somewhat tempted to scale(Ha!) one down to diminutive and have an NPC keep it in a fishbowl where it swims around malevolently.
What if the mini-aboleth is still the BBEG, being just as smart or perhaps even smarter than normal, despite being Diminutive? (The Savant template from Advanced Bestiary?) Maybe the NPC is a golem with an illusion effect or something.
OK, I'll say it... He's pining for the fjords.
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So I just lost an hour of my life reading about the care and feeding of triops.
Gosh, after reading about the experiments where they hyperoxygenated some tanks and grew some fourteen inch long cockroaches, I wonder if you could do that with a triops, by growing it in oxygen-enriched water? A foot long triops would look pretty nightmarish...
So I just lost an hour of my life reading about the care and feeding of triops.
Gosh, after reading about the experiments where they hyperoxygenated some tanks and grew some fourteen inch long cockroaches, I wonder if you could do that with a triops, by growing it in oxygen-enriched water? A foot long triops would look pretty nightmarish...
Would love to read that. Where did you find it?
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Would love to read that. Where did you find it?So I just lost an hour of my life reading about the care and feeding of triops.
Gosh, after reading about the experiments where they hyperoxygenated some tanks and grew some fourteen inch long cockroaches, I wonder if you could do that with a triops, by growing it in oxygen-enriched water? A foot long triops would look pretty nightmarish...
In Arizona they have Dire Dragonflies
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In Arizona they have Dire Dragonflies
1. As a player: Look a new type of Familiar.
2. As a member of the human race: YIKES !
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Would love to read that. Where did you find it?Gosh, after reading about the experiments where they hyperoxygenated some tanks and grew some fourteen inch long cockroaches, I wonder if you could do that with a triops, by growing it in oxygen-enriched water? A foot long triops would look pretty nightmarish...
This is probably the article I read, although I totally misremembered, and the roaches were the bugs that *don't* get larger in high-oxygen environments. (Small comfort, the largest roaches that ever existed are the ones today...)
That dragonfly pic in the other article is creeptacular. I want one!
(Or, in true mad scientist fashion, to see if high oxygen has any effect on the size of scorpions and spiders! A luna moth the size of a kite? Yes, please!)
Question: If, as the caption to the photo suggests, the corpse wasn't found...
Why are we assuming that Blinky is dead?
Wouldn't it be equally possible that he's escaped his aquatic prison to carry on his nefarious schemes?
Doubt not the mighty will of the living fossil!
Question: If, as the caption to the photo suggests, the corpse wasn't found...
Why are we assuming that Blinky is dead?
Wouldn't it be equally possible that he's escaped his aquatic prison to carry on his nefarious schemes?
Doubt not the mighty will of the living fossil!
Or...zombie triops?