Beasties from the depths of Davy Jones' locker -- how do you use sea monsters?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Creatures of Freeport is also a very cheap but very good book of aquatic monsters. It follows the Monsternomicon/Wanderers Guild model of providing more information about fewer creatures.

And can I just say that 4E needs to have sea serpents in the MM1? Talk about an iconic monster that has NEVER made it into the core monster book of D&D. We get a dozen or more monsters that intentionally play off expectations about sea serpents (Creatures of Freeport has a not-a-sea-serpent, for instance), but I think only Seas of Blood has actually given us the real deal (dragon-typed sea serpents). Exasperating.

 

[Raven Crowking]

And can I just say that 4E needs to have sea serpents in the MM1? Talk about an iconic monster that has NEVER made it into the core monster book of D&D.

Yar! I thought there be sea serpents in the 1st edition Manual O' Monsters!

RC

 

[demiurge1138]

It be Giant Octopi ye scurvy dog!

Nay, that be a common misconception gained by t' mixing of Latin and Greek. Octopuses and octopodes would be more correct, they would.

Where be I? Ah yes.

I rarely get ta use the aquatic boogens, afore me players dislike the water travel, usually. Me favorite encounter I did pull off, though, be in a modified version of "Zenith Trajectory" from Dungeon. In the original, there be a kuo-toa monk who ferries across the PCs over a huge Underdark lake. In my version, he be a were-giant octopus.

T' poor wee halflings ne'er saw it coming.

Demiurge be out.

 

[Shade]

Avast, the sea serpents bein' in a recent Dragon an' treated as true dragons appear quite good for plunder.

The Fiend Folio can shiver ye timbers with the sea drake if a diffr'nt coiled creep ye seek.

 

[taliesin15]

Darr, what the title be sayin'. How be ye usin the beasties -- dragon turtles, kraken, giant octopuses, and others too horrible ta be contemplatin' -- in yer games?

By Criminey, ye poor blighter, except for gars, they are all edible! And for the sauce for such critters, look for a bottle marked with the Jolly Roger (skull and crossbones, for ye retching landlubbers) --that always indicates PIRATE FOOD. And if its in a bottle, its either grog or sauce for pooring on the flesh or freshly flayed and fried guts of the sea!