Question: are medusas immune to the gaze of other medusas?
I don't have my handy-dandy Monster Manual with me but, I think unless it specifies that they are either immunr to gaze attacks or immune to petrification, they are vulnerable.
Ultradan
"Creatures are immune to the gaze attacks of others of their kind unless otherwise noted." That's paraphrasing the section on gaze attacks on pages 309-310 of the MM.
In 2nd Ed. male medusas were called maedars, and mated with medusas to create offspring. In 3rd Ed. male and female medusas have the same powers (just different genders).
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...where do baby medusas come from?
Well Aubrey, when a papa medusa and a mama medusa get together and love each other very much, the papa medusa inserts one of his snakes into the mama medusa's "snake pit" and tells the mama medusa's eggs that it's ok for them to come out. Now, some of the papa medusas have "quiet snakes" so the mama medusa's eggs don't know when it's time to come out, so they have to adopt other baby medusas that don't have any mama medusas or papa medusas.
Dr. Ultradan
Question: are medusas immune to the gaze of other medusas? Not just a game-related questions, as such. I also wondered: if they can't gaze into eachother's eyes, where do baby medusas come from?
I don't have my book in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that in the description of a gaze attack in the MM, it says that creatures are immune to the gaze of their own kind or something along those lines.
Edit---Do'oh, too slow on the reply!
M@
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...where do baby medusas come from?Well Aubrey, when a papa medusa and a mama medusa get together and love each other very much, the papa medusa inserts one of his snakes into the mama medusa's "snake pit" and tells the mama medusa's eggs that it's ok for them to come out. Now, some of the papa medusas have "quiet snakes" so the mama medusa's eggs don't know when it's time to come out, so they have to adopt other baby medusas that don't have any mama medusas or papa medusas.
Hey, thanks Ultradan, that's cleared up a lot. And not just on medusas.
Dr. Ultradan
Question: are medusas immune to the gaze of other medusas? Not just a game-related questions, as such. I also wondered: if they can't gaze into eachother's eyes, where do baby medusas come from?I don't have my book in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that in the description of a gaze attack in the MM, it says that creatures are immune to the gaze of their own kind or something along those lines.
Edit---Do'oh, too slow on the reply!
M@
AHA!
...where do baby medusas come from?Well Aubrey, when a papa medusa and a mama medusa get together and love each other very much, the papa medusa inserts one of his snakes into the mama medusa's "snake pit" and tells the mama medusa's eggs that it's ok for them to come out. Now, some of the papa medusas have "quiet snakes" so the mama medusa's eggs don't know when it's time to come out, so they have to adopt other baby medusas that don't have any mama medusas or papa medusas.
Dr. Ultradan
Not bad Dr. U.
Now for a real challenge, explain a half gold dragon kraken. Named Douglas
Now for a real challenge, explain a half gold dragon kraken. Named Douglas
They adopted.
Dr. U.
Now for a real challenge, explain a half gold dragon kraken. Named DouglasThey adopted.
Dr. U.
oooooohh he's good
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Well from time to time creatures from different species get together, despite their different backgrounds they love each other. Facing all the odds and the bitter hate together they do make it and have nice children. These children themselves face a life of prejudice and as a result they seclude themselves from the known world. In these frontiers where they live they find love in different species. Hence our Half Dragon friends find themselves attracted to Kraken, very much like japanese schoolgirls find themselves attracted to creatures with multiple appendages.
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Medusa was the name of one famous Gorgon, and I think that they (Gorgons) where all female. From memory they where sisters that had a curse from the gods, the most famous of the three being Medusa ..... and so the name stuck.
The three sister gorgons were Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa. Of the three only Medusa was mortal,which is why Perseus killed her.
It just goes to show, unless you're immortal, you run the risk of having some toga-wearing hero with an invisibility helmet and really sharp blade come and cut your head off. It sucks, but what can you do about it?
Now for a real challenge, explain a half gold dragon kraken. Named DouglasThey adopted.
Dr. U.
Its hard to get the details but by all reports the worlds biggest bottle of tequila was involved (and the Kraken ate the wyrm).
I also wondered: if they can't gaze into eachother's eyes, where do baby medusas come from?Love with the torches out?
Or like with Planescape, it could be accomplished with something that obstructs vision to the eyes like a Vail.
Bad Medusa ( Offspring and petrification, due to medusa being a bad girl and removing bag after consumation).
;-)
You don't want a medusa to want to keep you around. "Mmmm... that's nice. I think I'll keep you." *pulls off the blindfold*
And thus arose the myth of Lascivia, the Lusty Medusa, whose statue garden was populated by men* (and male* creatures) in decidedly erotic poses.
*There were initially some females too, but they were less fun once turned to stone so they usually got to walk away afterward.
(OK, I've put too much thought into this now.)
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"Creatures are immune to the gaze attacks of others of their kind unless otherwise noted." That's paraphrasing the section on gaze attacks on pages 309-310 of the MM.
In 2nd Ed. male medusas were called maedars, and mated with medusas to create offspring. In 3rd Ed. male and female medusas have the same powers (just different genders).
I recall seeing an updated (3.5) version of the maedar in one of the Dragon Magazine issues.
Pretty nasty buggers, they had adamantine-like fists, able to smash petrified victims and then transmute them back to flesh for feeding and redecoration purposes.