Thumbs at the Sorcerors of the Beach! Save the Beasts!!

[Daxton808]

In playing the Abomination Vaults with my group, we encountered an absolute classic, the Roper.

It was awesome to feel the nostalgia as our GM tried to describe the thing we all KNEW was a Roper, but no one said it. We all THOUGHT it, but no one said it.

Then, it happened: "I feel like someone missed an opportunity to call it a 'stalagbite'." And now I have a new crusade:

To hell with the OGL, let's christen our favorite monsters with a revamp and a name change.

Sound off with monsters we want to see in future bestiaries! Save the Beasts!!

[TheCowardlyLion]

I don't think lawyers and pinkertons work like that.

(Rename to use in your own games all the power to ya, still thinking on what to do with Lamia)

[Perpdepog]

The lamia is a mythological creature. I think them being lion-bodied is a D&D-ism, but them being snaky shouldn't be off the table.

[TheCowardlyLion]

Perpdepog wrote:

The lamia is a mythological creature. I think them being lion-bodied is a D&D-ism, but them being snaky shouldn't be off the table.

But I love my kitty Lamia ;_;

[The Raven Black]

TheCowardlyLion wrote:

Perpdepog wrote:

The lamia is a mythological creature. I think them being lion-bodied is a D&D-ism, but them being snaky shouldn't be off the table.

But I love my kitty Lamia ;_;

Just make them a kind of sphinx.

[TheCowardlyLion]

The Raven Black wrote:

TheCowardlyLion wrote:

Perpdepog wrote:

The lamia is a mythological creature. I think them being lion-bodied is a D&D-ism, but them being snaky shouldn't be off the table.

But I love my kitty Lamia ;_;

Just make them a kind of sphinx.

Hmmm...

[Sanityfaerie]

Perpdepog wrote:

The lamia is a mythological creature. I think them being lion-bodied is a D&D-ism, but them being snaky shouldn't be off the table.

The snake-bodied lamia appeared (with that name) in a mildly pornographic painting from 1890. It's clean.

The lion-bodied lamia showed up in a mildly pornographic woodcut in Edward Topsell's “The History of four-footed beasts and serpents”, back in 1658. Also clean.

[Lucas Yew]

Snake Lamias FTW!!! (no, I mean it really)

[TheCowardlyLion]

Sanityfaerie wrote:

Perpdepog wrote:

The lamia is a mythological creature. I think them being lion-bodied is a D&D-ism, but them being snaky shouldn't be off the table.

The snake-bodied lamia appeared (with that name) in a mildly pornographic painting from 1890. It's clean.

The lion-bodied lamia showed up in a mildly pornographic woodcut in Edward Topsell's “The History of four-footed beasts and serpents”, back in 1658. Also clean.

I've seen the Edward Topsell woodcut, unfortunately it's more sphinx than kittytaur.

[Dancing Wind]

Edward Topsell lamia woodcut.

Edward Topsell serpent woodcut.

Edward Topsell lion woodcut.

Edward Topsell sphinx woodcut.

[Leahcim]

Notes from our session in which we christened the Stalag-Bites! :D lol
https://thezengm.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/abomination-vaults-session-38-sta lag-bites/

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[Ched Greyfell]

They're still called Grippli's, believe it or not.

And I thank you for the opportunity to use that joke again.

[Perpdepog]

Ched Greyfell wrote:

They're still called Grippli's, believe it or not.

And I thank you for the opportunity to use that joke again.

Are they? I was under the impression they were going to be renamed to tripki from the new Player Core 2, though I'm not seeing them mentioned there anymore.

Curiously I'm also seeing gnoll rather than kolo in the descriptions of the new ancestries, odd.

[Lucas Yew]

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