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<blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 3144222" data-attributes="member: 1241"><p>True, but “piranha bats” is just a name. as far as I can tell, they aren’t piranhas crossed with bats. And I agree that the attack as written is basically pointless, so something else needs to be substituted for it. I think a frenzy ability is a good idea. I was thinking Improved Critical at one point, but like you say they can’t score critical hits. What we can do is simply state that they go into a blood frenzy after dealing damage, and leave figuring out the specifics to when/if the critter is accepted.</p><p></p><p>Let’s face it; the fact is that if these things are just way too similar to normal bat swarms, no way are they getting printed. We’ve got to have at least one solid, distinguishing feature to make them interesting. If not a frenzy, then it’s got to be something else.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, me neither. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I just kind of threw that idea out there to see what would happen. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I like Zwergeist the best; that’s perfect. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> we could also say that they are often confused with poltergeists, both because of the name and the things they do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BOZ, post: 3144222, member: 1241"] True, but “piranha bats” is just a name. as far as I can tell, they aren’t piranhas crossed with bats. And I agree that the attack as written is basically pointless, so something else needs to be substituted for it. I think a frenzy ability is a good idea. I was thinking Improved Critical at one point, but like you say they can’t score critical hits. What we can do is simply state that they go into a blood frenzy after dealing damage, and leave figuring out the specifics to when/if the critter is accepted. Let’s face it; the fact is that if these things are just way too similar to normal bat swarms, no way are they getting printed. We’ve got to have at least one solid, distinguishing feature to make them interesting. If not a frenzy, then it’s got to be something else. Yeah, me neither. ;) I just kind of threw that idea out there to see what would happen. ;) I like Zwergeist the best; that’s perfect. :) we could also say that they are often confused with poltergeists, both because of the name and the things they do. :) [/QUOTE]
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