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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4540784" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Since things seem to be dreadfully slow on Homebrews at the moment, I'll try to liven things up a little by posting some D&D monster versions of some of the fabulous creatures of Lumberjack's tall tales.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The main source of information I've used is William T Cox's <em><strong><a href="http://www.fearsomecreaturesofthelumberwoods.com/cover.htm" target="_blank">Fearsome Critters of the Lumberwood</a></strong></em>, but I've also took bits of info from the GURPS Bestiary, a Paul Bunyan book, assorted websites and even a science fiction novel, plus a few ideas of my own.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It's quite bizarre that GURPS Bestiary is the only RPG I know of which features any of these beasties. There are loads of games with stats for Japanese monsters such as tengu but so few with North American monsters?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I've come across few d20 versions of these beasties on Enworld and elsewhere, but didn't pay much heed to them since I prefer to take my own shot at them. They're formatted according to the late 3.0/early 3.5 D&D template á la the reissued Fiend Folio, partially because I statted some of these creatures up according to the 3.0 format a few years ago and it made them easier to convert, and partially because I don't think the latest monster-format offers much of an improvement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The focus is on such Lumberjack Critters as will serve DMs as actual monsters, I'm not planning to write up stats for those creatures pose scant threat to mankind, such as the Squonk, which have no attacks and a propensity for dissolving into tears. Monsters will probably appear rather slowly, and I may post some of them in an incomplete version in an effort to turn this thread into a cooperative venture. We'll just have to wait and see how things turn out, since I don't have much of an plan for how things will go.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p>EDIT: I've added <strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4543481-post116.html" target="_blank">a post to the Ultimate Homebrew Index</a></strong> containing links to all the Lumberwoods Monsters on this thread.</p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">So, without any further preamble, here's the first Fearsome Critter:</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 4540784, member: 57383"] [FONT=Arial]Since things seem to be dreadfully slow on Homebrews at the moment, I'll try to liven things up a little by posting some D&D monster versions of some of the fabulous creatures of Lumberjack's tall tales. The main source of information I've used is William T Cox's [I][B][URL="http://www.fearsomecreaturesofthelumberwoods.com/cover.htm"]Fearsome Critters of the Lumberwood[/URL][/B][/I], but I've also took bits of info from the GURPS Bestiary, a Paul Bunyan book, assorted websites and even a science fiction novel, plus a few ideas of my own. It's quite bizarre that GURPS Bestiary is the only RPG I know of which features any of these beasties. There are loads of games with stats for Japanese monsters such as tengu but so few with North American monsters? I've come across few d20 versions of these beasties on Enworld and elsewhere, but didn't pay much heed to them since I prefer to take my own shot at them. They're formatted according to the late 3.0/early 3.5 D&D template á la the reissued Fiend Folio, partially because I statted some of these creatures up according to the 3.0 format a few years ago and it made them easier to convert, and partially because I don't think the latest monster-format offers much of an improvement. The focus is on such Lumberjack Critters as will serve DMs as actual monsters, I'm not planning to write up stats for those creatures pose scant threat to mankind, such as the Squonk, which have no attacks and a propensity for dissolving into tears. Monsters will probably appear rather slowly, and I may post some of them in an incomplete version in an effort to turn this thread into a cooperative venture. We'll just have to wait and see how things turn out, since I don't have much of an plan for how things will go. [/FONT] EDIT: I've added [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4543481-post116.html"]a post to the Ultimate Homebrew Index[/URL][/B] containing links to all the Lumberwoods Monsters on this thread. [FONT=Arial] So, without any further preamble, here's the first Fearsome Critter:[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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