D&D 5E Giant Snails in Medieval Manuscripts.

[generic]

I am now officially in love with the idea that the devil is a giant snail that is based on japanese horror comics.

Uzamaki, the endless spIrAl..... [incoherent screaming]

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Now mix in the use of emotion based slime from ghostbusters 2 and cripse, I think it's got potential.

I now want a Paladin with a War Snail mount.

It's a racing snail that you attach the saddle to the side and it retracts and spins.

 

[Richards]

I once had a ranger/rogue with a snail as an animal companion. (I named him Shelldon.) He pretty much just sat there on my PC's shoulder, but my PC was the "sidekick" in a two-person adventuring group and I didn't want to take any D&D spotlight time away from my 10-year-old (at the time) nephew, whose PC was the star of the campaign. (I did teach Shelldon a few tricks: "stay" and "play dead" were two he was exceptionally good at, as well as performing mathematical computations as long as the answer was "zero.")

Johnathan

 

[Weiley31]

It may take you a while to arrive wherever the action is. And heaven help you* if the villain runs away.

*Not sure if this is a pun, is ironic, is both, or is neither.

Unless it becomes Spelltouched with a mild version of haste to make it move normal.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

apparently they can be domesticated.

 

[Weiley31]

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apparently they can be domesticated.

Man, Death Stranding dlc looking great!

 

[Dausuul]

This is the best thread ever.

 

[Coroc]

Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?

It's a common scene in medieval marginalia. But what does it mean?

www.smithsonianmag.com

Okay, I'm asking,

In medieval manuscripts, we have a surprising number of knights fighting giant snails.

How did this great pestilence come to being in your dnd game? Were they a symbol of another creature, or was there really that many giant snails terrorizing the countryside?

Was there an era that was the rise of the Flail snails?

Oh i can just make a guess, this is a symbolic depiction of the knight successfully "conquering" a noble woman with his "Lance" eventually?
Medieval art is full of symbolism, as are fairytales btw.

 

[Coroc]

You also have lots of hares that are fighting knights in those manuscript (and the knights are often losing), and lots of other weirdness.

Wonder if those hares were the inspirations for Rubbits in the original version of the Swedish game Mutant...

Do you know the hilarious scene with the killer rabbit in the mounty phytons knight movie?

 

[Eltab]

Do you know the hilarious scene with the killer rabbit in the mounty phytons knight movie?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The most dangerous creature in the land is not a monster nor a dragon but a bunny rabbit.