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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4602061" data-attributes="member: 57383">I guess I'd better give you a few words of explanation about these windigos. When I wrote up the Snow Wasset entry, I came up with the idea of them porpoising through the snow, leaving a trail that resembles giant footprints, and that led to the idea that certain eponymous D&D sages may claim this is the source of the windigo legend.Naturally, I could not let this pass without statting up said invisible flying flesh-eating giants, but that got me thinking. There are all kinds of versions of these monsters in legend and popular media, many contradictory. So, rather than trying to shoe-horn as many of these as I could fit into one kind of windigo, I decided to create a family of monsters to cover most of the bases.The Windigo Cursed is the closest in concept to the traditional windigo, a monster that looks human but is really a horrible cannibal. Most of its abilities were cribbed of the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129332/" target="_blank">Ravenous</a>, plus assorted serial killer B-movie clichés (e.g. the way Jason Voorhes moves from one place to another in an impossible fashion when nobody can see them, aka the "off screen teleport", and how everyone runs away when they see one except for the designated victim plus, of course, how you can apparently kill one and it just gets up again)The Windigo Beast covers the "hairy monster" form of the Windigo. It owes a lot of its concept to the wendigo (sic) in the Hellboy comics, with the Boreal Powers are cribbed from folklore about windigos.As for the Windigo Giant, I would hope that's pretty obvious in its inspiration - it's basically a less-powerful version of Call of Cthulhu's Ithaqua The Wind Walker, and owes quite a lot to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood" target="_blank">Algernon Blackwood's</a> The Wendigo.I'm pretty happy with the stats, although I'm a bit worried that the Wendigo Giant's Challenge Rating is a bit too low. It has a Con Drain attack and an awful lot on immunities. Still, it's no tougher than some fiends about that CR, and is quite vulnerable to fire attacks, which would be an obvious line of attack by adventurers who encounter one.</blockquote>

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