Dire Animals

[Wicht]

i am surprised no one has mentioned pigs yet.

I thought everyone knew that when farms go bad it is the pigs who are to blame. I bet an evil farm would be run by communistic fiendish dire pigs.

 

[Seule]

I actually ran an adventure similar to this: the adventurers were asked by a farmer they knew to investigate what was killing all the clickens in the area, breaking down chicken coops and mauling and partially eating the chickens. They staked a place out, and observed a chicken break down a coop wall with one peck, and proceed to start killing the other chickens. They jumped in, and found it was doing atound 10 damage with a peck. Turns out it was a fire giant that got on the wrong side of Polymorph Other spell, and was power attacking for 15 to make up for its -5 Str bonus. The 100+ HPs didn't hurt it either. It was a very memorable encounter, and they have never taken farm animals for granted again. It was particularly amusing when the (unconscious) chicken was being held by a fighter while the wizard dispelled the unknown enchantment on it. Squish.

--Seule

 

[Mr Fidgit]

well, this thread started out with stats on penguins:
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27364

and later in the thread, i added the Dire Squirrel!

Medium-Size Animal
Hit Dice: 4d8+12 (28)
Initiative: +5 (Dex)
Speed: 30 ft., climb 15 ft., glide 50 ft. (clumsy)
AC: 19 (+5 Dex, +4 natural)
Attacks: 2 claws +6 melee, bite +1 melee
Damage: claw 1d4+3, bite 1d6+1
Face/Reach: 5 ft. by 5 ft./ 5 ft.
Special Attacks: Rend 3d6+3
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +7, Ref +9, Will +2
Abilities: Str 16, Dex 21, Con 17, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 11
Skills: Climb +14, Listen +6, Spot +6

Rend (Ex): If a dire squirrel hits with both claw attacks, it latches onto the opponent's body and tears the flesh. This attack automatically deals an additional 3d6+3 points of damage.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Well, I have written up an illithid dire bear, if that's any help...

 

[CRGreathouse]

Chicken
Tiny animal
HD 1/2 d8 (2)
Init: +4 (hey how do you think we have a hard time catching them?)
speed: 30
AC 16 (+2 size, +4 dex)
Attack peck +4
Damage 1d2-4
face/reach: 2.5x2.5/0
saves: Fort +2, Ref +6, Will +1
stats: str 3, dx 18, con 10, int 2, wis 12, ch 7
feats: weapon finese(beak)
Balance +4, Hide +15, Listen +4, Move Silently +7, Spot +4
CR 1/4

Drop that CR! It's much less powerful than the CR 1/6 kobold...

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I actually ran an adventure similar to this: the adventurers were asked by a farmer they knew to investigate what was killing all the clickens in the area, breaking down chicken coops and mauling and partially eating the chickens. They staked a place out, and observed a chicken break down a coop wall with one peck, and proceed to start killing the other chickens. They jumped in, and found it was doing atound 10 damage with a peck. Turns out it was a fire giant that got on the wrong side of Polymorph Other spell, and was power attacking for 15 to make up for its -5 Str bonus. The 100+ HPs didn't hurt it either. It was a very memorable encounter, and they have never taken farm animals for granted again. It was particularly amusing when the (unconscious) chicken was being held by a fighter while the wizard dispelled the unknown enchantment on it. Squish.

--Seule

LOL!

And what about the dire hampster? Would you be prepared to face a half-fiend dire hampster with levels of barbarian? Would you? WOULD YOU? Mwahahahahahahaha!

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

And what about the dire hampster? Would you be prepared to face a half-fiend dire hampster with levels of barbarian? Would you? WOULD YOU? Mwahahahahahahaha!

Trust someone who works with them. All hamsters are Barbarians. It's the Rogue hamsters with their sneak attack damage and uncanny rodential intelligence that you have to worry about.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

*sudden thought*

High level dire hampster druids. It sits there on your hand, lookin' all cute and then suddenly WHAM! it wild shapes into a dire bear and mauls you to death. Scary.

But there's an evil DM lan if ever I've heard one...awakened animals that take levels in druid and just hide out waiting for adventurers so they can eat them...

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

That's a LOT of size category changes. A VERY high level hamster druid indeed.

Hamster druids... I think whatever disease has been beating on the server is starting to effect some of us. I've never participated in such mass weirdness on these boards all at the same time.

 

[Dragongirl]

That's a LOT of size category changes. A VERY high level hamster druid indeed.

Hamster druids... I think whatever disease has been beating on the server is starting to effect some of us. I've never participated in such mass weirdness on these boards all at the same time.

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