Shoggoth!

[Belabras]

This week to celebrate all things scary and spooky, we take a trip to the Mountains of Madness for an old monster called the Shoggoth!

[CorvusMask]

Huh surprised we don't have shoggoth already in starfinder

[Belabras]

CorvusMask wrote:

Huh surprised we don't have shoggoth already in starfinder

Yeah, I was too. It's a natural fit.

[Metaphysician]

Eh, I've never been a fan of power inflation for Shoggoth ( and other Lovecraft critters ). Like, shoggoth aren't weak, but they are ultimately just a particular big untended servitor ooze, they shouldn't be on the same power scale as top tier fiends. A shoggoth is an unbeatable terrifying OCP for a bunch of relatively normal explorers in a realistic Earth setting, but not for fantasy or sci-fi adventurers where dragons and giant robots are things you don't just expect, but expect to be able to kill and loot.

[Belabras]

Metaphysician wrote:

Eh, I've never been a fan of power inflation for Shoggoth ( and other Lovecraft critters ). Like, shoggoth aren't weak, but they are ultimately just a particular big untended servitor ooze, they shouldn't be on the same power scale as top tier fiends. A shoggoth is an unbeatable terrifying OCP for a bunch of relatively normal explorers in a realistic Earth setting, but not for fantasy or sci-fi adventurers where dragons and giant robots are things you don't just expect, but expect to be able to kill and loot.

Well the Gibbering Mouther already has the lower CR niche, and it's a high CR threat in PF1 and PF2, so I just wanted to maintain consistency.

[Tekeli-li]

CorvusMask wrote:

Huh surprised we don't have shoggoth already in starfinder

Hmm, maybe that's why nobody ever gets the Lovecraft reference that is my kiirinta PC's name... ;)