duckbill platerpuss?

[kirstar]

The platerpuss was created with a bad random monster generator. You can tell.

BTW, anyone have stats for a dire platerpuss?

 

[IamTheTest]

I think the platypus should garner its wizard/sorcerer a +3 on Perform(comedy) checks.

 

[Brimshack]

Also a rough draft...

Dire Platypus
(2/26/05)
Daniel S. Wall

Type: Medium Animal
Hit Dice: 3d8+6
Initiative: +0.
Speed: 10’ (25’ in the water).
Armor Class: 15 (+5 Natural) Touch 10, Flat-Footed 15.
Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+4.
Attack: Bite +4 Melee (1d6+2).
Full Attack: Bite +4 Melee (1d6+2) and 2 or 4 Claws +2 Melee (1d4+1 + Poison on 2 of these).
Space/Reach: 5’/5’
Special Attacks: Poison Hind Claws.
Special Qualities: Blindsense Under Water up to 60’, Damage Reduction 5/-.
Saves: Fort +5, Ref +3, Will +2.
Abilities: STR 14, DEX 10, CON 16, INT 2, WIS 12, CHR 10.
Skills: Listen +2 , Search +4, Spot +2, Swim +5.
Feats: Multi-Attack, Ability Focus - Poison.
Environment: Freshwater Bodies in Temperate Forests and Deserts.
Organization: Single, or Female with 1-3 babies.
Challenge Rating: 2.
Treasure: -
Alignment: Always Neutral.
Advancement: 4-6 Medium, 7-9 Large.
Level Adjustment: -

A Dire Platypus is a rather frightening site, especially if one happens upon one in the water. It’s thick fur makes it difficult to harm, and its natural weapons are sufficiently deadly to make it a formidable force, especially in the water.

Outside the water, a Dire PLatypus is unable to take advantage of its poisonous claws, but in the water it may attack with all 4 claws.

Blindsense: Under water a Platypus is able to sense and locate creatures up to 30’ away. They still count as concealed to the Platypus.

Damage Reduction: The Fur of a Dire Platypus is sufficiently thick to provide not only a solid Natural Armor bonus, but also a damage reduction which is not negated by any known attack form.

Skills: A Platypus has a racial bonus of +4 to Swim checks. If searching through mud, it has a +4 racial bonus on Spot and Search checks.

Poison: Unlike the its smaller cousins, both male and female Platypuses retain their poison spures throughout their lives. Those struck by the hind feet must make a Fortitude save (DC 14) or suffer intense pain for 1-6 hours, during which time the victim will get only a standard action on each round and operate at a penalty of -2 on all die 20 rolls. Anyone who fails a save versus the poison a second time adds 1 to the penalty for each subsequent failure to a maximum penalty of -6. Anyone failing a save after first reaching the -6 penalty dies instantly of a heart attack. The DC for the save is strength based.

 

[Nail]

plyaterpuss

Tell you what: You spell it right in the title of this thread (plural or singular), and I'll think about it.

 

[interwyrm]

Kiwi - flightless, no attacks - I'd use the stats for a rat, but with no attacks and no climb speed. What benefit it would give as a familiar I have no idea. (bonus to Hide checks?)

Uh...
Are you serious?

Kiwi are incredibly territorial and have two powerful legs with nasty claws.


Give it two claw attacks doing 1d4-2 each.

I went to New Zealand last summer. (Where Kiwis are from, ya know?) I saw some on a guided tour through a Kiwi breeding building. The tour guide said she had a large scar on one of her legs from a kiwi.

Another thing... Kiwis are nocturnal. Boring familiar if you're adventuring during the day.

 

[Tonguez]

Uh...
Are you serious?

Kiwi are incredibly territorial and have two powerful legs with nasty claws.


Give it two claw attacks doing 1d4-2 each.

I went to New Zealand last summer. (Where Kiwis are from, ya know?) I saw some on a guided tour through a Kiwi breeding building. The tour guide said she had a large scar on one of her legs from a kiwi.

Another thing... Kiwis are nocturnal. Boring familiar if you're adventuring during the day.

Yes Kiwi do have big sharp claws quite capable of giving a nasty kick

More interesting facts about Kiwi
1. They have poor eyesight but a brilliant sense of smell. The Kiwi is the only known bird to have external nostrils at the end of its beak, and one of the few birds to have a good sence of smell (ie scent ability)
2.Kiwi have loose, hair-like feathers and long whiskers which are more mammal-like than bird-like (the whiskers are sense organs just as in rats and cats)
3. Kiwi are the smallest of the Ratites (which includes Emu, Ostrich, Rhea, the Giant Moa of New Zealand and the Elephant Bird of Madagascar)

 

[Cheiromancer]

Should it count as an abberation or an abomination for purposes of special attacks?

Abomination traits would be a little much for a familiar, wouldn't you think?

I like calling them a platerpuss, though. To distinguish the fantasy monster from the real world animal.

 

[cthulhu_duck]

For the kiwi fruit, it costs 1cp where it is common and 3cp where it's uncommon. It's very acidic, so eating a large quantity of it might make someone mildly nauseated for 2 hours. If it's smeared against someone's eyes, the victim is blinded for 1 minute or until he washes his eyes with water (a full-round action).

Where it's common (like my backyard) it could cost as little as 1cp per pound. And I don't know where you get the very acidic from - I wouldn't say that kiwifruit is that acidic.

 

[interwyrm]

Yes Kiwi do have big sharp claws quite capable of giving a nasty kick

More interesting facts about Kiwi
1. They have poor eyesight but a brilliant sense of smell. The Kiwi is the only known bird to have external nostrils at the end of its beak, and one of the few birds to have a good sence of smell (ie scent ability)
2.Kiwi have loose, hair-like feathers and long whiskers which are more mammal-like than bird-like (the whiskers are sense organs just as in rats and cats)
3. Kiwi are the smallest of the Ratites (which includes Emu, Ostrich, Rhea, the Giant Moa of New Zealand and the Elephant Bird of Madagascar)

I stood under a scale model of the Moa. I'm 6'6 and it's beak was well above my head. I wish I could have seen one. (They are extinct).

Other kiwi information...

The males are the ones who guard the nest. They aren't very good at it though. At night, they wake up, get hungry, and go out to get something to eat. Then some kind of rodent.. weasel, stoat, ferret, whatever, comes in, and starts feasting. The male kiwi smells the rodent and figures that the eggs are screwed anyways and just leaves.

Kiwi eggs are about 1/4 the size of the female. Yes ladies, imagine giving birth to that. Ouch!

Also, kiwi do not have hard tipped beaks. This is a problem for breaking out of the shell. It takes a long time for them to do it. Basically, it has to kick out a little hole. Then it sticks its nose out and sleeps for a day or two. The whole process takes about three days.

 

[Nerfwright]

Also a rough draft...

Dire Platypus
(2/26/05)
Daniel S. Wall

Brimshack, you are amazingly prepared for this thread; did you happen to stat up Dire Kiwi Fruit ?

I'd bet they're highly acidic.

NW

Edited for grammar.