Casimir Liber
Adventurer
Weird...I am...clear the cache?
Weird...I am...clear the cache?
Was just musing as pondering including crabfolk (was fond of ad&d crabmen) but search didn't turn up anything until I found this FG wiki page which suggests they are in 5e under another name (Aldani)...but the aldani seem pretty different to me. The srd has crabmen ...surprised they didn't tweak that to 'crabfolk' which delayed me finding the entry....So I guess the srd crabmen are sorta like the 5e inheritors of their 1e namesakes.....pity not in canon but whatevsactually ignore all this, they are in 5e as "crab folk" (fooled by the space)
Well I guess they've made this new canon that they are ogres transformed by a greenhag (and are hence giant class)...which seems really silly to me anyway so I'll be ditching in my world.This Crab Folk credited to Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio I?
Yes, they're clearly meant to be the same creature as the old Fiend Folio version.
It's odd that this 5E version is so fast with Speed 40 ft., swim 40 ft. considering the AD&D version is slower than a human. That's faster than a 5E Giant Crab!
And why is it Giant type?
Wouldn't Monstrosity make more sense, like a Minotaur or Yuan-ti.
Well I guess they've made this new canon that they are ogres transformed by a greenhag (and are hence giant class)...which seems really silly to me anyway so I'll be ditching in my world.
Agreed. Pondering on expanding them a little - as I really love the Yoon-Suin setting. So obviously switch them to Monstrosity. Will cook up a sorceror/druid/shaman-type with water spells/powers and ability to lead-summon a water elemental, and cook up giant nudibranches (ever done them in the CC?)
There is a giant slub on dndbeyond - it's from the Tortle package here
nudibranchs have great colours and some have some chemical defences that could make for good tactical combat...