Counter-intuitive monsters

[Nifft]

Choker. It's a stupid niche, and it's a stupid power-up to allow 3.0e haste via 3.5e shapechange.

They will never exist in my worlds.

-- N

 

[hong]

Floating spheres that shoot LASER BEAMS and DEATH RAYS out of their EYES.

 

[glass]

Floating spheres that shoot LASER BEAMS and DEATH RAYS out of their EYES.

Yeah, everyone knows that laser beams and death rays should be mounted on shark's heads...


glass.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

The remorhaz was pretty rediculous. Touching it hurts you more than sticking your arm in lava... and this creature lives on a glacier (though I see now its listed as "cold desert"? Most retardedly, it has no heat or fire immunity.

 

[Fishbone]

Average damage from a monk punching a Remorhaz: 28 damage.
Average damage from a monk being bitten by a Remorhaz: 21 damage.
I was not aware of the rule that you automatically lose grapples when facing a creature two size categories larger than you Cmrscorpio.

 

[ValhallaGH]

I was not aware of the rule that you automatically lose grapples when facing a creature two size categories larger than you Cmrscorpio.

I've always disliked that rule; though, thankfully, it's limited to offensive grappling. It's not enough that the beasties have a +125 grapple check but even if you could beat that, you're not allowed to.

It's dumb.

 

[darkseraphim]

(insert obligatory flumph reference here)

 

[Umbran]

... but even if you could beat that, you're not allowed to.

You would prefer that a human could walk up to an elephant (a huge animal, two sizes above medium), wrap his arms around it, and somehow win the fight?

 

[Piratecat]

If that human was supremely strong? Sure. While I detest the high-lvl-characters-as-superheroes analogy, I can't see Superman losing a grapple to an elephant.

 

[James McMurray]

Curse that H. R. Gigax for starting the trend for horrendous insectoid monsters! Curse him, I say!

I believe it was actually H. R. Puffinstuff that invented insectoid monsters.