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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8456492" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>A few incidental comments.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's twice an AD&D Vodyanoi's Number Appearing of 1-3, so it made me curious enough to look them up in the adventure to see if there's any explanation for the high number.</p><p></p><p>Okay, <em>DTR1 New Tales - The Land Reborn</em> (1993) offers no reason why there's six of them. The encounter takes place three days into a sea voyage and the listed stats are identical to the standard Vodyanoi, which is a freshwater species. Shouldn't they be Marine Vodyanoi with higher Hit Dice and damage?</p><p></p><p>I'll hereby introduce a headcanon that it's a gang of juvenile delinquent Marine Vodyanoi who gathered in a larger group for mutual protection since they're smaller and weaker than their full-sized adult rivals. They bicker a lot because umber hulks and vodyanoi are natural loners, and the reason the encounter has them attack in two teams of three (one on deck, one smashing through the hull) is that they've far more comfortable in a group of three than when all six are together - the two teams might barely tolerate each other and only work together out of necessity.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well that seems awful convenient. Saves a lot of butchery and magic item enchantment.</p><p></p><p>It leads me to suspect that the original Psi-Hulk was a magical creation, possibly formed by or around some kind of <em>skull of the psi-hulk</em> magic item. Maybe if it's left alone long enough it regrows a new Psi-Hulk, or curses its user to slowly transform into one? It should have a reason beyond making it easier for the PCs to gather a loot item!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've got one of these in my collection - the <a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/0XnudYmtQ_-1Xi549lips_wuPPTA3n-TyQd9gc5G0y3MSDIm69nY5DQqYHXBfi_NBkZi4e-E0s_s3IK3HnBjeBVbu7kaHkwJkV2JotphvHgquH0GT3hA4jg93s0Bi5ff868frvoO=s0" target="_blank"><strong>one on the left</strong></a> with the protruding mouth. Speaking of which, as far as I know no official source says Umber Hulks have extendable inner mouthparts, so I wonder why the sculptor modelled it that way? Maybe he'd just seen <em>Alien</em> or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8456492, member: 57383"] A few incidental comments. That's twice an AD&D Vodyanoi's Number Appearing of 1-3, so it made me curious enough to look them up in the adventure to see if there's any explanation for the high number. Okay, [I]DTR1 New Tales - The Land Reborn[/I] (1993) offers no reason why there's six of them. The encounter takes place three days into a sea voyage and the listed stats are identical to the standard Vodyanoi, which is a freshwater species. Shouldn't they be Marine Vodyanoi with higher Hit Dice and damage? I'll hereby introduce a headcanon that it's a gang of juvenile delinquent Marine Vodyanoi who gathered in a larger group for mutual protection since they're smaller and weaker than their full-sized adult rivals. They bicker a lot because umber hulks and vodyanoi are natural loners, and the reason the encounter has them attack in two teams of three (one on deck, one smashing through the hull) is that they've far more comfortable in a group of three than when all six are together - the two teams might barely tolerate each other and only work together out of necessity. Well that seems awful convenient. Saves a lot of butchery and magic item enchantment. It leads me to suspect that the original Psi-Hulk was a magical creation, possibly formed by or around some kind of [I]skull of the psi-hulk[/I] magic item. Maybe if it's left alone long enough it regrows a new Psi-Hulk, or curses its user to slowly transform into one? It should have a reason beyond making it easier for the PCs to gather a loot item! I've got one of these in my collection - the [URL='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/0XnudYmtQ_-1Xi549lips_wuPPTA3n-TyQd9gc5G0y3MSDIm69nY5DQqYHXBfi_NBkZi4e-E0s_s3IK3HnBjeBVbu7kaHkwJkV2JotphvHgquH0GT3hA4jg93s0Bi5ff868frvoO=s0'][B]one on the left[/B][/URL] with the protruding mouth. Speaking of which, as far as I know no official source says Umber Hulks have extendable inner mouthparts, so I wonder why the sculptor modelled it that way? Maybe he'd just seen [I]Alien[/I] or something. [/QUOTE]
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