Now theres one I havent seen in ages. I dont remember seeing this critter since my AD&D days in Junior High.
After a quick google search wikipedia says:
"The catoblepas appeared in the third edition in Dragon #299 (September 2002), and then the Monster Manual II (2002).[5]"
Now theres one I havent seen in ages. I dont remember seeing this critter since my AD&D days in Junior High.
After a quick google search wikipedia says:
"The catoblepas appeared in the third edition in Dragon #299 (September 2002), and then the Monster Manual II (2002).[5]"
Not to mention in most of the Final Fantasy games.
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I'm not aware of an OGC version. If I were to make one, I'd probably use the Bison as a base creature, replace the gore/stampede/trample with a variable poisonous aura (always active in a cloud around the beast, damage based on what poisonous plants are local for the beast to eat--could be black lotus, striped toadstool, etc.), and add a gaze attack that works like the Basilisk, but is a 1-Round Action (Full-Round Action; comes into effect just before the beginning of it's next turn) to use due to the effort in lifting it's head. I'd peg the thing around a CR 5-7, depending on what poisonous plant(s) it's eaten. Shift the feats to Toughness, Endurance, and Diehard.
That should be a pretty good representation of the classical creature.
I'm pretty sure that the Catoblepas will be featured in the upcoming, Forgotten Foes by Tricky Owlbear... I'm also pretty sure that I commissioned art for the big fellow! :)
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I'm pretty sure that the Catoblepas will be featured in the upcoming, Forgotten Foes by Tricky Owlbear... I'm also pretty sure that I commissioned art for the big fellow! :)
That due out anytime soon? I have an upcoming project I'm thinking of using one in, and I'd rather support someone else's OGL take on it than create a competing one.
Don't know about catoblepas... BUT Jimmy J. did mention that Charybdis and Scylla will both be in BESTIARY II. Here are some direct quote's from last week's PF Chat.
07/09/2010 21:08:21 ‹James Jacobs› Lilith: The monster I was working on when I left work was Scylla. ALAS: the art doesn't quite match the design, so I need to do a bit of rebuilding of the stats.
07/09/2010 21:08:57 ‹Hill Giant› James Jacobs: As in Scylla and Charibdys?
07/09/2010 21:09:17 ‹James Jacobs› Hill Giant: Yup. Whcih means there's a charibdys in Bestiary 2 as well, of course.
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I recall one in Dragon at or about the time the MMII came out. I presume the Dragon version was a preview (and protected content, I expect?).
I recall that we created a model for this monster for NWN which we never released (we used ref art from the Dragon article as I recall) but as we were sheltering under BioWare's license, we never paid much heed to OGC issues.
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I found it, but sadly it is in the monster manual II, but it isn't be hard to convert.
While those stats aren't OGC, the catoblepas is a creature from real-world myth (Ethiopia), so there's nothing stopping it from being included in a Pathfinder book in the future. Whether that's the Bestiary II or a later volume, dunno.
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There's also a Bestiary 2 shipping in the not-too-distant future. Perhaps a Paizonian would care to comment on the Catoblep-enation of that volume?
There will be a catoblepas in Bestiary 2.
It never ended up in the Tome of Horror books because it ended up in Monster Manual 2. When Necromancer Games put out the Tome of Horrors, they didn't duplicate anything that was already in print, basically. As a result, there are quite a few monsters in both "Monster Manual 2" and "Monsters of Faerun" that live in a weird and annoying ghetto where no one really can use them, since they're closed content for 3.0.
I'm pretty sure that the Catoblepas will be featured in the upcoming, Forgotten Foes by Tricky Owlbear... I'm also pretty sure that I commissioned art for the big fellow! :)That due out anytime soon? I have an upcoming project I'm thinking of using one in, and I'd rather support someone else's OGL take on it than create a competing one.
It's due out next month (we hope!). I've sent you an email if you'd like those stats sooner though. ;)
It is. You will be.As long as it's buttugly, I'll be happy.There's also a Bestiary 2 shipping in the not-too-distant future. Perhaps a Paizonian would care to comment on the Catoblep-enation of that volume?There will be a catoblepas in Bestiary 2.
I always loved Flaubert's soliloquy from the catoblepas in his Temptation of Saint Anthony:
Obese, downhearted, wary, I do nothing but feel under my belly warm mud. My head is so heavy that I cannot bear its weight. It wind it slowly around my body; with half-open jaws, I pull up with my tongue poisonous plants dampened by my breath. Once, I ate my forelegs unawares.
No one, Anthony, has ever seen my eyes; or else, those who have seen them have died. If I were to lift my eyelids -- my pink and swollen eyelids -- you would die on the spot.
Such a wonderful pathetic chatty monster.
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As a result, there are quite a few monsters in both "Monster Manual 2" and "Monsters of Faerun" that live in a weird and annoying ghetto where no one really can use them, since they're closed content for 3.0.
These are all quite cool beasties from Monsters of Faerun.
abalincrawling claw
curst
gibberling
green warder
helmed horror
hybsil
leucrotta
peryton
quaggoth
wemic
The crawling claw is a horror trope, might need a new name but you can still have it. Hybsils and Wemics are variant centaurs and the green warder is a variant ent. The leucrotta and peryton are from myth. The rest are out, I won't really mourn any of them.
Monster Manual 2
banshee
bogun
breath drinker
crimson death
effigy
firbolg
fomorian
galeb duhr
glimmerskin
grell
grimalkin
jahi
megalodon
mooncalf
myconids
neogi
nimblewright
phoenix
sirine
spriggan
sylph
thri-keen
Off the top of my head - banshee, mooncalf, firbolg, formorian, grimalkin, jahi, megalodon, phoenix, sirine, spriggan and sylph are all mythic.
Grell and neogi are older words but the monsters are definitely dnd (which is a shame, great monsters). Obviously the ones we'll miss are thri-keen and... no, just grell, neogi and thri-keen.
Doing a speedy golem won't get anyone in any trouble, neither will flaming-templates added to skeletons.
Obviously this is just my opinion but compared to the MM1 stuff excluded from the OGL these are small beer.
It is. You will be.As long as it's buttugly, I'll be happy.There's also a Bestiary 2 shipping in the not-too-distant future. Perhaps a Paizonian would care to comment on the Catoblep-enation of that volume?There will be a catoblepas in Bestiary 2.
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As a result, there are quite a few monsters in both "Monster Manual 2" and "Monsters of Faerun" that live in a weird and annoying ghetto where no one really can use them, since they're closed content for 3.0.The crawling claw is a horror trope, might need a new name but you can still have it.
Actually, this ISN'T one of them. The Crawling Claw was released through the d20 Modern SDR. Here's a link to the RTF FILE you want: Menace Creatures A-I.
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...wrote a list of mosnters...
Of the mosnters you've listed, quite a few of them are actually from mythology, from the public domain, or open content. I'm re-listing them below. If there's an asterisk after them, that means we've done stats for them already in an Adventure Path and that they're going to end up reprinted in Bestiary 2.
crawling claw*
leucrotta*
peryton*
banshee*
firbolg
fomorian
grimalkin
jahi
megalodon (already in the Bestiary)
mooncalf (a real word for a deformed animal)
phoenix (already in the Bestiary)
sirine*
spriggan*
sylph*
::Summon Preview Art II::That's a delayed burst summon art preview, yes? The one with a two day casting time? I think you'll find your caster level check sufficient.
A-go-ny!
