Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Yeah - like #4 - the cold modifier is a logical add. Let's go with that.
Yeah - like #4 - the cold modifier is a logical add. Let's go with that.
Volcano pigs (also known as magma boars) are beings from the Plane of Magma (the border plane between the Elemental Planes of Fire and Earth). They resemble sturdy giant boars with a thick, crusty dark brown-black rocklike hide. Their eyes, veins and sinews glow red from internal magma-like material.
Ok sounds good - I have adopted first para...
Read a few monsters - trying this for paras 2 and 3 (pondering on which noun in header of para 3 to use....):
Elemental Beasts. How they came to be is unknown. Volcano pigs have been summoned to the Material Plane by conjuration magic, though some have come through gates by their own accord in such places as volcanoes or lava flows.
Agents of Mayhem/Destruction/Combustion. Volcano pigs are highly destructive, relishing in setting flammable objects alight and inhaling the fumes. Any material is fair game as long as it burns in some way. Timber, thatched houses and wooden fences are particular favourites. Whether they merely savour the fumes or gain some form of sustenance from them is unknown. Malevolent wizards have been known to summon them in places to cause the most mayhem, such as forests or crowded cities.
Good point re "unknown" - yeah I like the description and will put in the dndbeyond version. Also you have "they prefers" above...Volcano pigs, also known as magma boars, are beings from the Plane of Magma (the border plane between the Elemental Planes of Fire and Earth). They resemble sturdy giant boars with a crusty brown-black rocklike hide. These creatures have magma-like fluid for blood and their vital organs are incandescently hot. However, their stony exterior is so thick and insulating their skin only feels uncomfortably hot to the touch. The pigs' eyes, nostrils, mouth and veins glow orange-red from their internal heat, and their fiery lungs continuously breathe out smoke, hot ashes and cinders. If a volcano pig's skin is cracked by disease or injury its wounds spurt scorching fluids or gases, then angrily glow redly until they heal. Gluttonous Arsonists. Outside their native plane, a volcano pig's nature is highly destructive to its surroundings. They eat almost any material that will burn, with timber and thatch cottages being particular favorites. Volcano pigs also consume heat, inhaling flames and drinking molten lava. They relish setting objects alight and savoring the fumes. A volcano pig can live in places cool enough for normal humanoids to inhabit, but it finds them uncomfortably cold and must eat vast quantities of flammable materials to fuel its internal fires (keeping a pet magma boar is as costly as continuously running a forge). They prefers to sustain their heat using external sources such as magma pools or forest fires. Elemental Beasts. Volcano pigs can be summoned to the Material Plane by conjuration magic, though some wander through natural gates of their own accord in such places as volcanoes or lava flows. Malevolent wizards have been known to summon them in forests or crowded cities to spread burning mayhem.
Good point re "unknown" - yeah I like the description and will put in the dndbeyond version. Also you have "they prefers" above...