Help me find a template to slap on a rust monster

[John Q. Mayhem]

Hrmmm -- what book is that Feat in?

-- N, more ready to accept strange Templates than new Feats

The Draconomicon. Basically, if you have like +10 BAB and a pair of natural weapons, you get an iterative attack with one of them.

 

[Henry]

Awakened Axiomatic Forsaker Rust Monster of Legend?

That would:

A) Strike fear into your players.

B) Cause your players to pull a Jimmy Hoffa on you.

unfortunately, I'm not sure which.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Jimmy Hoffa? What do you speak of?

 

[Felon]

The Draconomicon. Basically, if you have like +10 BAB and a pair of natural weapons, you get an iterative attack with one of them.

Right, but the ruster only has a single attack with its antennae, so that's effectivelyn only one natural weapon. True, it does have 2 antennae, but counting them twice when they consitute only one attack is kind of like counting each digit on a monster's claw as a separate natural weapon.

Or does the Rapidstrike feat allow you to count the secondary bite as part of the prereq? I forget.

At any rate, give the ruster the Multi-headed Template, and we're in business.

 

[Driddle]

A lot of excellent ideas to make ol' Rusty a truly hideous threat. Behind-the-curtain ideas, because you're basically throwing around numbers and planning tactical advantages and whatnot.

I'm curious about something else, though: How will you justify this monstrosity? I mean, how exactly did it come to be -- other than via the DM's intent to terrorize his players with something exotic?

 

[Felon]

Well, I'll have to settle on a design before I can come up with a backstory, but I imagine a lot of it will likely have to do with mommy rust monster doing a bad thing with daddy (insert monster's name here).

Still, it's a valid question. For instance, why would a dragon want to mate with a monster that destroys metals? He certainly wouldn't want the kid getting near his own hoard. I'll have to give it some thought.

 

[Nifft]

The Draconomicon. Basically, if you have like +10 BAB and a pair of natural weapons, you get an iterative attack with one of them.

Ah, that makes great sense, because dragons are too weak for their CR as is.

-- N