Mother of Monsters
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Is that ALL you know about her? What if she had all of the traits of all of the monsters in MM? She could be like some sort of living monster generator, like in Gauntlet.
I know that's a gross oversimplification, but without more of an idea as to what you want to do with her, it's hard to make any good suggestions.
What place is she going to occupy in the campaign? Is she the BBEG?
I know that's a gross oversimplification, but without more of an idea as to what you want to do with her, it's hard to make any good suggestions.
What place is she going to occupy in the campaign? Is she the BBEG?
She will be a living monster generator. I know I want her to be bipedal. I want her head to monstrous. I do not want her to look like Pathfinder's Lamashtu. She would be a BBEG. I would like to have a mate. She has gone by the name Echinda and she is also know as Hauathon.Is that ALL you know about her? What if she had all of the traits of all of the monsters in MM? She could be like some sort of living monster generator, like in Gauntlet.
I know that's a gross oversimplification, but without more of an idea as to what you want to do with her, it's hard to make any good suggestions.
What place is she going to occupy in the campaign? Is she the BBEG?
I know she will have at least the following:
1) Massive segmented horns start at the front of where her hairline stars and move over hers head, to the back of her skull where they extend outward, curl, and come to a point.
2) Monstrous black bat wings flare from her back. The joints of the wings are laced with razorlike claws and adorned with jewelry. The wings crest three and-half feet higher than the shoulders and have a wingspan of twenty-one feet.
3) Her thick semi-prehensile ten feet long tail tapers to a thin whip that end in a barbed stinger.
4) The legs end in large splayed feet with three clawed toes.
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RUMBLETiGER
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I have no idea if this is what you are looking for, because your OP appears pretty vague, so I'll toss out an idea in mind anyway.
Edit: It appears you gave your second response while I was typing mine. Do with my post what you will.
I created for a piece of fiction, not involving D&D, a creature called the Spore Queen. I will try to describe her in D&D terms.
In D&D terms, she is an intelligent Ooze-like Aberration. She releases spores and by a complicated process, retrieves DNA of creatures which she adds to her "Library" of creatures. She can then use her body as a womb to create a replicate of that creature, or mix and match characteristics of two or three creatures to make a new monster. Everything she pumps out is loyal to Mother. She communicates telepathically within a range of 100', and is generally stationary, often attached to some large Tree or some creature that she parasitically leeches for nutrition.
She releases spores into the air that travel in the wind, and infect organisms. animals, plants, anything living, risks becoming infected by the spores upon contact, ingestion or inhalation.
-First a Fort save to resist being infected. Once infected, the spores grow and gain a sentience, figure an intelligence score of 4-6ish. If you succeed on the save you continue life as normal.
-If infected, lets say three days later if the disease has not been purged by medicine or magic, the target would then have to make a Will save to fight the intellegence of the disease, succeeding on that save results in resisting possession, losing that save results in death of the mind.
-Finally, if you make the Will safe, make another Fort safe to defeat the disease. Success in this third and final save means you're immune from the spores for the rest of your life, failure means death of your body and you fall down, decompose, and release spores into the air.
If you fail the Will save, you die and become an intelligent undead. In this case, the now undead monster becomes a contagious carrier of the spores, and releases spores into the air and by touch attacks.
This undead will try to infect others for a few days, and then try to return to the Spore Queen, for which it has an instinctive understanding of what direction she is in, but otherwise does not know distance or cannot communicate with her. Within a weeks time, the Undead decays so far that it can no longer move, and it rots, the body decaying into more spores that get released into the air.
These second generation spores land within a warm, moist, dark environment. Given a length of time (Week, month, vary according to DM preference) these spores grow into miniature, mutated versions of the host creature, one size category smaller than the original host. These gremlins run around, eating whatever they can find and wreaking general havoc. Consider them Aberrations. After a week's time, the Spore Gremlins have fed enough and then turn on each other, and by survival of the fittest one, two or three of the brood that grow into adulthood, growing to the size category of the original host. They have the abilities of the original host. They then start to emit spores into the air and by touch attacks and gradually decay. These also try to return to the Spore Queen.
When these Spore Gremlins emit spores, these third generation spores then land on a new host. Same Fort, Will, Fort save. The spores carry the DNA of the first host, merging it into the current host. When this host emits spores, the next generation Gremlins are a blend of traits of the previous hosts. A Bird/Tree, an Elf/Dog, a Shark/Beholder, and so on, and so on. Each generation that has mixed DNA has less Gremlins live due to the mutations, and therefore those that do survive are the most effective mix of the DNA.
The generations rarely make it beyond 3 host DNA mixes, but those that do, are very powerful.
Meanwhile, any spores that carry the DNA of previous hosts that return to the Spore Queen deposit the DNA within her body. She than can intentionally select traits of different creatures and then intentionally create new Aberrations that are her children and defenders. She cannot make Spore versions of these creatures that then decay quickly, these are sterile, stable creatures that live ordinary lifespans, if they didn't fight to the death in defense and at the requests of the Spore Queen Mother.
The Spore Queen's motives are her own. She works to create a small army, collect samples of all living organisms, and store them within her library banks. Perhaps she then leaves to populate entire other worlds. She is not known to ever breed, but it's believed that if she did, it would be by dividing into a separate bud queen, the new queen possessing none of the library of the parent, thus needing to start a new colony.
The Spore Queen herself lacks the ability to move and lacks many offensive capabilities, instead relaying upon her children for her defense. She can be killed with relative ease and would have a very low CR, however her children my be very, very powerful.
Because I've never considered using her in a D&D setting, I don't have stats for her or mechanical details for the spores and Gremlins, but I'm sure I could put together something.
Edit: It appears you gave your second response while I was typing mine. Do with my post what you will.
I created for a piece of fiction, not involving D&D, a creature called the Spore Queen. I will try to describe her in D&D terms.
In D&D terms, she is an intelligent Ooze-like Aberration. She releases spores and by a complicated process, retrieves DNA of creatures which she adds to her "Library" of creatures. She can then use her body as a womb to create a replicate of that creature, or mix and match characteristics of two or three creatures to make a new monster. Everything she pumps out is loyal to Mother. She communicates telepathically within a range of 100', and is generally stationary, often attached to some large Tree or some creature that she parasitically leeches for nutrition.
She releases spores into the air that travel in the wind, and infect organisms. animals, plants, anything living, risks becoming infected by the spores upon contact, ingestion or inhalation.
-First a Fort save to resist being infected. Once infected, the spores grow and gain a sentience, figure an intelligence score of 4-6ish. If you succeed on the save you continue life as normal.
-If infected, lets say three days later if the disease has not been purged by medicine or magic, the target would then have to make a Will save to fight the intellegence of the disease, succeeding on that save results in resisting possession, losing that save results in death of the mind.
-Finally, if you make the Will safe, make another Fort safe to defeat the disease. Success in this third and final save means you're immune from the spores for the rest of your life, failure means death of your body and you fall down, decompose, and release spores into the air.
If you fail the Will save, you die and become an intelligent undead. In this case, the now undead monster becomes a contagious carrier of the spores, and releases spores into the air and by touch attacks.
This undead will try to infect others for a few days, and then try to return to the Spore Queen, for which it has an instinctive understanding of what direction she is in, but otherwise does not know distance or cannot communicate with her. Within a weeks time, the Undead decays so far that it can no longer move, and it rots, the body decaying into more spores that get released into the air.
These second generation spores land within a warm, moist, dark environment. Given a length of time (Week, month, vary according to DM preference) these spores grow into miniature, mutated versions of the host creature, one size category smaller than the original host. These gremlins run around, eating whatever they can find and wreaking general havoc. Consider them Aberrations. After a week's time, the Spore Gremlins have fed enough and then turn on each other, and by survival of the fittest one, two or three of the brood that grow into adulthood, growing to the size category of the original host. They have the abilities of the original host. They then start to emit spores into the air and by touch attacks and gradually decay. These also try to return to the Spore Queen.
When these Spore Gremlins emit spores, these third generation spores then land on a new host. Same Fort, Will, Fort save. The spores carry the DNA of the first host, merging it into the current host. When this host emits spores, the next generation Gremlins are a blend of traits of the previous hosts. A Bird/Tree, an Elf/Dog, a Shark/Beholder, and so on, and so on. Each generation that has mixed DNA has less Gremlins live due to the mutations, and therefore those that do survive are the most effective mix of the DNA.
The generations rarely make it beyond 3 host DNA mixes, but those that do, are very powerful.
Meanwhile, any spores that carry the DNA of previous hosts that return to the Spore Queen deposit the DNA within her body. She than can intentionally select traits of different creatures and then intentionally create new Aberrations that are her children and defenders. She cannot make Spore versions of these creatures that then decay quickly, these are sterile, stable creatures that live ordinary lifespans, if they didn't fight to the death in defense and at the requests of the Spore Queen Mother.
The Spore Queen's motives are her own. She works to create a small army, collect samples of all living organisms, and store them within her library banks. Perhaps she then leaves to populate entire other worlds. She is not known to ever breed, but it's believed that if she did, it would be by dividing into a separate bud queen, the new queen possessing none of the library of the parent, thus needing to start a new colony.
The Spore Queen herself lacks the ability to move and lacks many offensive capabilities, instead relaying upon her children for her defense. She can be killed with relative ease and would have a very low CR, however her children my be very, very powerful.
Because I've never considered using her in a D&D setting, I don't have stats for her or mechanical details for the spores and Gremlins, but I'm sure I could put together something.
She will have the ability to create any monster she wants to.
The description below is the star of her true form. I would like the description to be more monstrous in appearance. I got the idea for the description from looking at the Mindwitness.
An Ancarotaur resembles a gigantic, extremely horrific looking starfish. Its smooth rubbery skin is oily and dark as the darkest night in color. Instead of the starfish arms, it has twelve symmetrically spaced incredibly flexible appendages. Two of its appendages are tentacles, measuring forty feet in length. Both of these tentacles have small but strong white sucker-like disks that are aligned in four rows. Each of its suckers is ringed with sharp teeth. These two tentacles are the most flexible of all its appendages. Four of the appendages split at the end, into three radial “fingers.” Another four of the appendages are nightmarish looking tentacles. A single vicious looking barbed claw is found at the end of these tentacles. Another two of its appendage are tentacles. At the end of these two tentacles is a vicious looking mouth. Each mouth is lined with a double row of eight inches long razor sharp pointed teeth. In its central disk, it has three round glaring red eyes that measure two feet in diameter set in an upside down triangle pattern. Above each of those eyes is a thick brow ridge. On both of each side of those eyes is a glaring red that measures six feet in diameter. All the eyes have a large rectangular shaped pupil. Below all of its eyes is a large powerful round mouth lined with sharp, serrated, triangular teeth. Instead of a normal tongue their mouth has five black tentacle-like tongues that when fully extended, are about a third the length of their body.
The description below is the star of her true form. I would like the description to be more monstrous in appearance. I got the idea for the description from looking at the Mindwitness.
An Ancarotaur resembles a gigantic, extremely horrific looking starfish. Its smooth rubbery skin is oily and dark as the darkest night in color. Instead of the starfish arms, it has twelve symmetrically spaced incredibly flexible appendages. Two of its appendages are tentacles, measuring forty feet in length. Both of these tentacles have small but strong white sucker-like disks that are aligned in four rows. Each of its suckers is ringed with sharp teeth. These two tentacles are the most flexible of all its appendages. Four of the appendages split at the end, into three radial “fingers.” Another four of the appendages are nightmarish looking tentacles. A single vicious looking barbed claw is found at the end of these tentacles. Another two of its appendage are tentacles. At the end of these two tentacles is a vicious looking mouth. Each mouth is lined with a double row of eight inches long razor sharp pointed teeth. In its central disk, it has three round glaring red eyes that measure two feet in diameter set in an upside down triangle pattern. Above each of those eyes is a thick brow ridge. On both of each side of those eyes is a glaring red that measures six feet in diameter. All the eyes have a large rectangular shaped pupil. Below all of its eyes is a large powerful round mouth lined with sharp, serrated, triangular teeth. Instead of a normal tongue their mouth has five black tentacle-like tongues that when fully extended, are about a third the length of their body.
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RUMBLETiGER
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Sounds like an Aberration from the Far Realm.
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The Deepspawn is a monster quite similar to what you want, although the outward appearance is drastically different (but that is just fluff, so change as you like). Deepspawn are very intelligent aberrations that can reproduce any corporeal creature they have previously eaten - including ALL abilities, be they derived from class, type, race, whatever, and also including funtional masterwork equipment. Yes, that's right, a Deepspawn can create a horde of Elminsters under its control once it gets to eat Elminster once. And all of those Elminsters would have Elminsters full memory, spellcasting prowess etc.
They first appeared in Monsters of Faerûn, but they're bound to have been reprinted at some point.
They first appeared in Monsters of Faerûn, but they're bound to have been reprinted at some point.
I have like the Deepspawn since I first saw them In 2nd edition D&D.
I really would like the description of her true form to be more monstrous looking. Should she be hermaphroditic?
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