| Giants and the earth |
The first batch of the new year arrives, bringing six undead giants, the massive gigantes, and the rocklike bi-nou.
The undead giants include the barrowe, cairn, firegaunt, frostmourn, spectral cloud, and temperament.
The bi-nou bring with them two relatives, the feral rockworms and the mighty rocklords.
The gigantes entry is "cafeteria style", somewhere between a monster and a template. It includes the sample gigantes Alcyoneus, as well as new versions of Antaeus and Enceladus. |
| Posted by Shade on 20-Jan-2010 at 00:00 |
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| The Twelve Age Categories of Christmas |
On the twelfth day of Christmas the CC gave to thee:
12 Demon Drakes besmirching
Eleven Phase Dragons phasing
Ten Shadow Drakes shadow jumping
Nine Space Drakes not decompressing
Eight Crystal Drakes gem consuming
Seven Sea Wyrms a swimming
Six Faerie Drakes a playing
Fafnir’s Golden things
Four True Drakes
Three New Spells
Two Linnorms
And Nidhogg gnawing on the World Tree.
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| Posted by Shade on 23-Dec-2009 at 00:00 |
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| Life-challenged |
Ten more undead manifest within the Creature Catalogue.
A number of incorporeal terrors, including the rage-inducing ekimmu, the almost-harmless kada, the badly-in-need-of-a-restraining-order resident, the collective swarm of tymher-haid, and the paradoxical temporal stalker.
The bath also includes the vampiric tyerkow, the demonic vrykolakas and greater vrykolakas, the shadowy umbra, and mighty Maramet the Undead King.
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| Posted by Shade on 03-Dec-2009 at 00:00 |
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| Kreen, Sheen, and the Spaces Between |
This latest batch finishes off the sheens, including the animal-mimicking propagator, the mighty spellcasting arcanosheen, and the humongous walking battery known as the power tree. The manikin template creates half-sheen servants of the machine cyst.
This batch also includes the relatives of the thri-kreen, the tohr-kreen. Included are the warlike j'ez, the crystal-crafting j'hol, the workmanlike t’keech, and the naturalistic tondi.
Rounding out the batch are two creatures from the planes between planes, the Astral-dwelling thendar, and the Ethereal-jaunting horg. |
| Posted by Shade on 19-Nov-2009 at 00:00 |
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| The dead rise for Halloween |
It's that time of year again, time for the undead to rise from their graves.
This batch includes a few variant zombies, the Netherese zombie and its greater templated version and the peculiar beholder zombie (not to be confused with the doomsphere).
We've also got the aquatic, vampiric amiq rasol, the extraplanar scythe-wielding ankou, and the martial dark vartha.
From the sylvan realm come the undead army known as the saugh, with its constituents the ghoulish dearg-due and the wraithlike gossamer. The dead fey also gather into the warlike sluagh swarm.
Finally, we have a 3.5 update of the blazing bones. |
| Posted by Shade on 30-Oct-2009 at 00:00 |
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| Wisps! |
The will-o'-wisp has spawned a number of variants over the years, including the benevolent will-o'-dawn, the subterranean will-o'-deep, the mysterious will-o'-mist, the life-draining will-o'-shadow, and the massive will-o'-sea. Their extended family tree also includes the fire-absorbing firestar, the extraplanar ghostlight, and the chosen servant of the Wind Dukes, the hound of law.
To get a full batch of 10, we've thrown in a couple of templates. The caveling template transforms humanoids into subterranean mutants, while the master naga template creates a multiheaded exemplar of a naga subspecies. |
| Posted by Shade on 23-Oct-2009 at 00:00 |
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| Animalia agglomeration |
This batch includes apes of various sizes, from the common chimpanzee and gorilla, to the prehistoric gigantopithecus, to the massive giant ape.
Also making their debut are two prehistoric ancestors of modern mammals: the metridiochoerus (giant warthog) and the pelorovis (long-horned buffalo).
Rounding out this batch are four aquatic animals: the electric agnath, the dire lamprey, and a couple of swarms: the pirahna-like cheirolepis and the oozing hagfish. |
| Posted by Shade on 12-Oct-2009 at 00:00 |
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| Spirits and the Spirit World |
The Creature Catologue gets spritual with this latest batch.
Up first is the dreaded "Dead Spirit King", the Opawang, and his soul-sucking samurai servants the Air, Earth, Fire, and Water ochimo. Also included are the only spirits known to resist the Opawang's dread charms, the island serpents.
A pair of creature's with ties to the Spirit World and the Celestial Bureaucracy, the riotous Bauh-Yin and disruptive Yau-Mor, make an appearance.
Rounding out the batch are the soothing, somnastic
Ethereal Dreamweaver and the champions of purity known as Dawnspirits.
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| Posted by Shade on 29-Sep-2009 at 00:00 |
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