Converting "Real World" Animals and Vermin
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Cleon
Legend
Huzzah!
Cleon
Legend
The X13 Giant Sand Crab?
Shade
Monster Junkie
Sure! Do you have the stats handy?
Cleon
Legend
I'll try to post 'em tomorrow.
Hold on, it is tomorrow - make that I'll probably post them this evening.
Shade
Monster Junkie
I'll try to post 'em tomorrow.
Hold on, it is tomorrow - make that I'll probably post them this evening.
It is now many tomorrows later...
Cleon
Legend
It is now many tomorrows later...
Most days are many tomorrows later from sometime.
Here you go...
Giant Crab
Armor Class: 2
Hit Dice: 9
Move: 160’ (60’)
Attacks: 3
Damage: 1-8, 1-8, 1-10
No. Appearing: 1
Save As: F9
Morale: 10
Alignment: N
XP Value: 500
The giant crab resembles a normal sand crab except that its body is huge (10 feet in diameter). The creature has four legs, two claws, and crushing mandibles. Its normal fighting sequence involves a claw, claw, bite routine.
Although fierce, the giant crab will normally fight only to protect its lair, usually a sea cave just at the water line. Because of its quickness, the crab will enjoy +1 on all its initiatives to attack.
These creatures rarely appear in the day. They are more likely to forage for food at night on lonely beaches at low tide.
Originally from X13 - Crown of Ancient Glory (1987).
Cleon
Legend
A few points to bear in mind.
The +1 on its initiative obviously suggests a high Dexterity.
All crabs have 10 legs (the first 2 are claws, the rest usually for walking), but it says this chap has 4 legs.
The explanation is simple - it's a hermit crab.
Hermit crabs have claws on their first pair of legs, walk on their second and third pair, and the next two pairs of legs are very small and used either to hold the shell they hide in or clean their gills. So, only four of its legs are "legs" in the walking sense.
What's more, the World's largest living species of land arthropod is a hermit crab, the Coconut Crab.
I suspect this "Giant Sand Crab" has similar habits, and probably has young that hide their soft bodies in stolen shells or coconuts, but the vermin's chitin grows thick and hard when it reaches a certain size.
Oh, and it has 2 claw attacks AND a bite, obviously.
The +1 on its initiative obviously suggests a high Dexterity.
All crabs have 10 legs (the first 2 are claws, the rest usually for walking), but it says this chap has 4 legs.
The explanation is simple - it's a hermit crab.
Hermit crabs have claws on their first pair of legs, walk on their second and third pair, and the next two pairs of legs are very small and used either to hold the shell they hide in or clean their gills. So, only four of its legs are "legs" in the walking sense.
What's more, the World's largest living species of land arthropod is a hermit crab, the Coconut Crab.
I suspect this "Giant Sand Crab" has similar habits, and probably has young that hide their soft bodies in stolen shells or coconuts, but the vermin's chitin grows thick and hard when it reaches a certain size.
Oh, and it has 2 claw attacks AND a bite, obviously.
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