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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2023186" data-attributes="member: 94">Why, thank you.One of my design goals with the lethid was to make creatures that substituted for some old favorites-- both in terms of Cthuhloid stuff as well as some monsters that were removed from the SRD.(This idea was inspired by Philip Reed's bloody brilliant 'Possessors' PDF.)The rgleth have a bit of "Hound of Tindalos" to them-- my recommendation was to allow them to appear/disappear from vertices. My excellent co-authors expanded this concept into a wider selection of "dimensional fetishes" with great flavor.The rgleth are also designed to replace a pretty well known creature from the SRD with its own dimension-shifting powers. Unlike the nihileth, which attach themselves to the host by covering the head completely (and I'm sure you know what these are meant to look like) the rgleth are a lesser-evolved creature, and must insert themselves directly into the spinal cord of the victim, which must generally be something of limited intelligence, such as an animal.I am certain by now you can picture the rgleth-hosted black jaguars of the first chapter, with the large spiny lump between their shoulder blades, the two long grasping tentacles flailing about, and the dimension-shifting powers... Sound familiar yet?  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> I'm very, very proud of the entire lethid mythology/physiology and grateful to Matt Beall and Eric Tam for taking the design seeds and just blowing them the F- out of the water.Wulf</blockquote>

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