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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 2922070" data-attributes="member: 2">Sure, that sounds great. The neat thing about D&D that a lot of people forget is that it's really easy to change a monster's appearance while using "out of the box" stats. It's isn't going to be her stat block that your players remember, it's going to be the cool stylish things she does. For instance, lets say we stat her out with a lot of hide ranks and multiple arms and spidery powers, and you roll peoples' spot checks in secret --The PCs enter a room. There's an ancient throne ahead of them, carved from stone and bone, looking like a crouching beast with huge spider arms arcing over it. You describe the room as wet and misty, smelling like sulphur, with water dripping from the ceiling. The group speads out to search, and one of them feels something drip onto his arm from the ceiling."Fortitude save," you say. "You failed? 4 points of con damage.""WHAT?" he says. "Where did that come from? I look up!""You do," you say, "and clinging to the ceiling not ten feet above your head is a shriveled abomination with spider arms and a gaping, fanged mouth. She smiles wickedly at you, and a black and pointed tongue darts out to lick her thin lips. Then she drops onto you with all her spider legs, and tries to bite you.""How'd I miss seeing that?"You shrug knowlingly."GUYS, HELP!"Heck, she may be nothing more than a simple demon with spiderclimb and a poison attack, but the players don't know that - and that's what makes this sort of thing fun!</blockquote>

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