Are there STats on a Platypus?
- Thread starter Leopold
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None that I could find but you could use stats for a small dog adjusting for poor eye sight and dex (on land) and adding poison spurs.
Tonguez said:
I was thinking more small dog stats in the back of MM as they can get up to 5 pounds and have a body of 15 inches...mmmmm now that I thing about that size maybe a rat is the way to go.
Plane Sailing
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There land speed is a good 10 at least though - they don't like being on land, but they can really run like greased lightning if they want to!
seasong
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Duck-billed platypus quick facts:
- About the size of a housecat (2-5 lbs)
- Swimming rate should be about 10 ft (real world movement ranges 1.5 - 2 ft per second).
- Land movement should be about 5 ft, with sprints up to 20 ft.
- The duckbill is fleshy and very sensitive; the platypus uses it to find food in muck, and to help guide itself through murky waters.
- Digging rate should be about 1 ft, which is really impressive in the real world, but in D&D might be altered to 5 ft. It's a magical platypus
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"The venom is potent enough to kill dogs, but in a human it causes severe pain, which is not alleviated by analgesics. The pain can last for at least 36 hours and the limbs may swell up like balloons. Following this, a rash can last for several months. A potential gamma-globulin antibody has been found for the venom, which could lead to an antivenene to treat a person who has been spurred. " - http://www.platypus.org.uk/det-descrip.html
D&D's poisons are not realistic, so the above can probably be ignored in favor of a weak DEX poison.
- About the size of a housecat (2-5 lbs)
- Swimming rate should be about 10 ft (real world movement ranges 1.5 - 2 ft per second).
- Land movement should be about 5 ft, with sprints up to 20 ft.
- The duckbill is fleshy and very sensitive; the platypus uses it to find food in muck, and to help guide itself through murky waters.
- Digging rate should be about 1 ft, which is really impressive in the real world, but in D&D might be altered to 5 ft. It's a magical platypus
."The venom is potent enough to kill dogs, but in a human it causes severe pain, which is not alleviated by analgesics. The pain can last for at least 36 hours and the limbs may swell up like balloons. Following this, a rash can last for several months. A potential gamma-globulin antibody has been found for the venom, which could lead to an antivenene to treat a person who has been spurred. " - http://www.platypus.org.uk/det-descrip.html
D&D's poisons are not realistic, so the above can probably be ignored in favor of a weak DEX poison.
seasong
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The platypus' tail is not poisonous. Their hind legs have a poisoned spur (fed by a gland). A few of the proteins in the poison are understood, but mostly it's a mystery how it works on mammal biology.
The platypus' tail is essentially a big lump of shaped fat, covered in spiny fur, that it uses as a rudder.
The platypus' tail is essentially a big lump of shaped fat, covered in spiny fur, that it uses as a rudder.
the Jester
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Carnifex said:DIRE PLATYPUS!
Count on it. I'm working on a monster book right now.
