Dr Awkward
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Don't Fear The Roper.
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Love for the Roper?
- Thread starter Garnfellow
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Plane Sailing
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The_Gneech said:
It's funny, but that was my immediate thought too! I could see the roper and piercer together very nicely.
Although not strictly speaking a roper any more, I like the idea of ropers that have been infected with a mind flayer tadpole and become... something else.
Garnfellow
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Plane Sailing said:
I think there was something just like that in 2e -- maybe in the Illithiad? I wonder if you could model this by applyingthe half-illithid template from the Field Folio.
Garnfellow
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Arbiter of Wyrms said:
I don't know if you knew this, but ropers were listed as aquatic monsters in the original Blackmoor supplement for OD&D.
the Jester
Legend
Garnfellow said:
It's actually already converted, in Lords of Madness- the urophion.
...we fought one a couple games ago in the conversion of S4 we're going through. Scary!
heirodule
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One of Larry Niven's aliens might be an interesting match for making the Roper more intruguing. The "Grogs" are completely sessile aliens, but have powerful telepathy and compel food to come to them.
The sessile grogs are also the females, the males being an active dog-like creature (IIRC). Maybe the ropers are the females, and the males are another underdark creature which herds food (maybe telepathically) to the females.
The sessile grogs are also the females, the males being an active dog-like creature (IIRC). Maybe the ropers are the females, and the males are another underdark creature which herds food (maybe telepathically) to the females.
The_Gneech
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I dunno, that looks like your garden-variety shoggoth to me...
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