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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 953043" data-attributes="member: 4144">Are you familiar with how Ravenloft wrote up vampires and such, Krish?  That's how I think an entry for black dogs should be... add in a few "salient abilities" that can be used to customize the dog.  Black dogs in the folklore of different parts of England seem to have different powers.  For example, the Moddey Dhoo (Isle of Man) had a death attack, the north England dog Skriker (?) has backwards-turned feet (maybe applying a penalty to Track rolls), the dog of Tring (which supposedly resulted from a witch's curse) could explode itself, the dog of Bungay had some pyrotechnic ability, and the dog called Gytrash had a shapeshifting ability (specifically, into a horse).  Another dog, Barghest, had an ability to change into a nasty dwarf (source of the DnD monster).Also, I'd make the alignment different.  Most of the old stories about the black dogs have them cast as a sort of protector of grave/consecrated areas or roadways/travellers, albeit one that brooks no infraction on its territory.  Maybe just make it any neutral or something, along the lines of the storm giant's alignment entry.  Some definitely would be evil.Just my two cents and like I say, how I would do things.  I like black dogs.  And BOZ - it's not that one, though it's undoubtedly where Zeppelin got that title. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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