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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8495432" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>Here are a few I've come up with in my recent 3.5 campaigns:</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Cutlery Golem: </em></strong>Just the thing for a wizard to guard his kitchen or dining room; the various pots, pans, and utensils all fly together to create a vaguely humanoid construct to not only fight off intruders but make a hell of a racket while doing so, invariably serving as an impromptu alarm as well.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>Grave Medusa: </strong></em>Take a skeleton and embed earthworms in the skull in the same manner as a medusa has snakes for hair. Then give it a "slow petrification" gaze attack that turns a victim to stone over the course of three rounds (during which time the victim's movement rate decreases as it's <em>slowed). </em>These are undead specifically crafted by evil necromancers; they do not occur on their own (and have no link to the standard medusa in any way but general appearance).</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Impaler</em></strong><em><strong>: </strong></em>This is a metal construct looking very much like a stick figure with no head, but rather a metal spike sticking straight up from its neck. When a decapitated head is impaled upon the neck spike, the whole thing animates as an undead creature with the full memories and abilities of the creature whose head is impaled on the spike. They provide a different way to bring slain enemies back into the campaign to stir up more mischief (and seek revenge for their original deaths).</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Nagasaurs: </em></strong>I designed over a dozen of these creatures, all based on a bunch of drawings I found on the Internet in which the artist had taken a variety of snakes and turned them into legged reptiles. I made them extraplanar creatures but there's no reason they couldn't be terrestrial. Also, I kept them at animal-level intelligence, although there's nothing stopping me (or anyone else) from giving them the intellect (and spellcasting power) of a true naga.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Necrospheres: </em></strong>Built in sets of two, these small spheres (each about the size of a fist) fly through the air like those flying spheres from the <em>Phantasm </em>movies. When activated, a bolt of black lightning reaches between the two of them; they attack by flying on either side of their target, causing the black lightning (a necromantic effect) to damage everyone they pass through. On the one hand they can do a lot of damage to a lot of people each round; on the other, destroying one makes the other one useless (as there's no longer a second anchor point to generate the black lightning).</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Spider-Shark: </em></strong>As might be expected, this is an air-breathing mutant shark with eight spidery legs, built for an excursion into the Gamma World. Spider-sharks have a stun ray beam they shoot from their eyes to immobilize prey.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8495432, member: 508"] Here are a few I've come up with in my recent 3.5 campaigns: [B][I]Cutlery Golem: [/I][/B]Just the thing for a wizard to guard his kitchen or dining room; the various pots, pans, and utensils all fly together to create a vaguely humanoid construct to not only fight off intruders but make a hell of a racket while doing so, invariably serving as an impromptu alarm as well. [I][B]Grave Medusa: [/B][/I]Take a skeleton and embed earthworms in the skull in the same manner as a medusa has snakes for hair. Then give it a "slow petrification" gaze attack that turns a victim to stone over the course of three rounds (during which time the victim's movement rate decreases as it's [I]slowed). [/I]These are undead specifically crafted by evil necromancers; they do not occur on their own (and have no link to the standard medusa in any way but general appearance). [B][I]Impaler[/I][/B][I][B]: [/B][/I]This is a metal construct looking very much like a stick figure with no head, but rather a metal spike sticking straight up from its neck. When a decapitated head is impaled upon the neck spike, the whole thing animates as an undead creature with the full memories and abilities of the creature whose head is impaled on the spike. They provide a different way to bring slain enemies back into the campaign to stir up more mischief (and seek revenge for their original deaths). [B][I]Nagasaurs: [/I][/B]I designed over a dozen of these creatures, all based on a bunch of drawings I found on the Internet in which the artist had taken a variety of snakes and turned them into legged reptiles. I made them extraplanar creatures but there's no reason they couldn't be terrestrial. Also, I kept them at animal-level intelligence, although there's nothing stopping me (or anyone else) from giving them the intellect (and spellcasting power) of a true naga. [B][I]Necrospheres: [/I][/B]Built in sets of two, these small spheres (each about the size of a fist) fly through the air like those flying spheres from the [I]Phantasm [/I]movies. When activated, a bolt of black lightning reaches between the two of them; they attack by flying on either side of their target, causing the black lightning (a necromantic effect) to damage everyone they pass through. On the one hand they can do a lot of damage to a lot of people each round; on the other, destroying one makes the other one useless (as there's no longer a second anchor point to generate the black lightning). [B][I]Spider-Shark: [/I][/B]As might be expected, this is an air-breathing mutant shark with eight spidery legs, built for an excursion into the Gamma World. Spider-sharks have a stun ray beam they shoot from their eyes to immobilize prey. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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