d20 slake-moths? (Warning! Getting into major Perdido Street Station Spoilers!)

nopantsyet · Sep 17, 2004

Inconsequenti-AL said:
Loved both The Scar and Perdido Street station! Ripe for stealing for RPG plots.

I statted up my take on the probability sword from the Scar, but hasn't been used yet.

I'm reading The Iron Council right now (thank you, public library). Not very far in, though. I really liked The Scar, as well as Perdido Street Station.

I'd be interested in seeing those stats for the probability sword if you're willing to share. I wanted to use something along those lines (but with an alternate flavor) in my current campaign, but haven't had a chance to think about it much.

The avanc--that thing's just incomprehensible.

Olive · Sep 17, 2004

nopantsyet said:
The avanc--that thing's just incomprehensible.

Except there was damage done to it by the Grindy Low, so it must be able to be statted up...

humble minion · Sep 17, 2004

I'd always assumed that to damage the avanc you get a bunch of aquatic mates together and spend three weeks making Profession(miner) checks...

Pielorinho · Sep 17, 2004

Sejs said:
That would kill many, many people in a city with a single night of flying.

Do'h! I didn't realize that the spell caused HP damage. My bad. The idea of making it a low-level wisdom damage is better, anyway--although at the rate of one point a day, it'll have no cumulative effect (people heal 1 ability point every 8 hours rest). And if it's two points a day, then people will start going catatonic by th ethousands within a week.

Instead, maybe make it a cumulative penalty on all will saves, wisdom-based skill and ability checks, and social skills?

Daniel

A2Z · Sep 17, 2004

Joshua Dyal said:
Oh, and does anyone know if the slake-moths have ever been illustrated?

All I could find was this;

http://www.chukw.com/Slake_Moth.html

And I don't think I like it all that much. Not a bad picture, just not how I'd pictured the slake-moths.

Desdichado · Sep 17, 2004

yeah, same here. Not bad, just not what I had in mind. I guess I pictured something much more like H.R. Giger's alien, though. Probably incorrectly.

That's partially why I think I could come up with a good concept miniature based on some tyranid plastics with a lot of green stuff modifications and some crazy-ass wings.

A2Z · Sep 17, 2004

Joshua Dyal said:
yeah, same here. Not bad, just not what I had in mind. I guess I pictured something much more like H.R. Giger's alien, though. Probably incorrectly. That's partially why I think I could come up with a good concept miniature based on some tyranid plastics with a lot of green stuff modifications and some crazy-ass wings.

I've always visualised the wings as being similar to Spawn's cloak. Just this large billowing mass of fabric (or whatever a moth's wings are made of) that moves in unatural ways with folds that appear and disapear from glance to glance. I have no idea how you'd model that though. Tissue paper?

Kelleris · Sep 17, 2004

Instead, maybe make it a cumulative penalty on all will saves, wisdom-based skill and ability checks, and social skills?

That would probably work just as well, but it's a bit more clunky. Maybe we could just add a little fillip to the wis-damaging ability stating that any night in which you suffer Wisdom damage, the nightmares prevent resting well enough to heal any previous night's Wisdom damage.

Desdichado · Sep 17, 2004

A2Z said:
I've always visualised the wings as being similar to Spawn's cloak. Just this large billowing mass of fabric (or whatever a moth's wings are made of) that moves in unatural ways with folds that appear and disapear from glance to glance. I have no idea how you'd model that though. Tissue paper?

It could be done, actually. I've seen a diorama book where the author made clothing from tissue paper soaked in some kind of plastic/epoxy medium that hardened into a thin, plastic layer.

Then again, although I hadn't really thought to do it this way, I was playing Darkstalkers 3 with my kid last night, and he wanted me to play the "fishy guy" and his win pose struck me as something that could be made with some wire and green stuff that might well work as a slake-moth wing.

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