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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8213200" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Updating <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/converting-monsters-from-dragon-magazine.290367/post-7882532" target="_blank"><strong>Worry-Wart Working Draft</strong></a>.</p><p></p><p>So I think we're done mechanically then, so it's just the "fluffy bit". Did I ever mention that I dislike the term "fluff" for the non-mechanical elements of a monster design? They're often some of my favourite elements of a creature, and calling it fluff just seems too… dismissive.</p><p></p><p>So how's this for a start:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Floating in the air in a miniscule lump of flesh surrounded by a disc of skin. It appears to move with purpose, tilting from side to side as if aware of its surroundings. The thing is the color of human skin and as wide as a finger tip</em>.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">As a symbiont, add the following to the host's descriptive text:</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>One of the many warts covering the creature bulges and opens to reveal a disturbingly humanoid eye, complete with lashes. The eye blinks and glances around itself, then pops out of the wart on a stalk of sinewy tendril. This eyestalk flexes and coils to scan its surroundings, pausing occasionally to stare with obvious curiosity.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Background.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">A worry-wart is roughly a quarter of an inch across with a negligible weight. <em>Nibish-riule</em> are incapable of speech but can communicate telepathically with the worry-wart's host (and take every opportunity to do so!).</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>COMBAT</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Worry-warts are incapable of inflicting damage and have no offensive abilities, their sole "special attack" being their ability to infest a host (see Infestation ability for details).</p><p></p><p>In theory, a worry-wart could try to distract another creature by flying into them (if unattached to a host) or slapping them with an eyestalk (after completing a symbiotic network), but this seems unlikely to succeed.</p><p></p><p>Come to think of it, could they wrap their eyestalks around enemies like a tentacle? It is a two-foot length of sinewy muscle, and they do have a Grapple Modifier…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8213200, member: 57383"] Updating [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/converting-monsters-from-dragon-magazine.290367/post-7882532'][B]Worry-Wart Working Draft[/B][/URL]. So I think we're done mechanically then, so it's just the "fluffy bit". Did I ever mention that I dislike the term "fluff" for the non-mechanical elements of a monster design? They're often some of my favourite elements of a creature, and calling it fluff just seems too… dismissive. So how's this for a start: [INDENT][I]Floating in the air in a miniscule lump of flesh surrounded by a disc of skin. It appears to move with purpose, tilting from side to side as if aware of its surroundings. The thing is the color of human skin and as wide as a finger tip[/I]. As a symbiont, add the following to the host's descriptive text: [I]One of the many warts covering the creature bulges and opens to reveal a disturbingly humanoid eye, complete with lashes. The eye blinks and glances around itself, then pops out of the wart on a stalk of sinewy tendril. This eyestalk flexes and coils to scan its surroundings, pausing occasionally to stare with obvious curiosity.[/I] Background. A worry-wart is roughly a quarter of an inch across with a negligible weight. [I]Nibish-riule[/I] are incapable of speech but can communicate telepathically with the worry-wart's host (and take every opportunity to do so!). [B]COMBAT[/B] Worry-warts are incapable of inflicting damage and have no offensive abilities, their sole "special attack" being their ability to infest a host (see Infestation ability for details).[/INDENT] In theory, a worry-wart could try to distract another creature by flying into them (if unattached to a host) or slapping them with an eyestalk (after completing a symbiotic network), but this seems unlikely to succeed. Come to think of it, could they wrap their eyestalks around enemies like a tentacle? It is a two-foot length of sinewy muscle, and they do have a Grapple Modifier… [/QUOTE]
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