Horseshoe crab stats ?

[Pbartender]

There's plenty to eat, in a prehistoric sea, assuming you have a big enough hook:

Now those guys merit initiative checks...

 

[Lady89]

There's plenty to eat, in a prehistoric sea, assuming you have a big enough hook:

i don’t know if there is a BIG enough hook for those

 

[pawsplay]

Islanders will make them into (bad) soup if forced by hunger, but very few people eat a horseshoe crab on purpose. Also, they're not really crabs, but distant cousins of the arachnids, and they have blue Vulcan blood.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

IOW, in their stat block, they should have the Special Properties:

1) Not Really Meaty (Ex)
2) Not Exactly Tasty (Ex)
3) Possibly Toxic Enough To Make You Into A Zombie (Ex)

OTOH, kill one and you could use it's tail spike to make a decent improvised fishing spear, and the head could be used to scoop up other, more edible tidal residents (like urchins) or as a hand-shovel for digging up clams and other tasty diggers.

Hope you roll a nat 20 on that Survival check!

 

[Lady89]

IOW, in their stat block, they should have the Special Properties:

1) Not Really Meaty (Ex)
2) Not Exactly Tasty (Ex)
3) Possibly Toxic Enough To Make You Into A Zombie (Ex)!

LOL

OTOH, kill one and you could use it's tail spike to make a decent improvised fishing spear, and the head could be used to scoop up other, more edible tidal residents (like urchins) or as a hand-shovel for digging up clams and other tasty diggers.

I like that idea

 

[JediSoth]

OTOH, kill one and you could use it's tail spike to make a decent improvised fishing spear, and the head could be used to scoop up other, more edible tidal residents (like urchins) or as a hand-shovel for digging up clams and other tasty diggers.

Hope you roll a nat 20 on that Survival check!

You're onto something there. Sea Urchins are quite edible (at least, the roe is). I had some a few weeks ago. It was ... unpleasant. Texture-wise, I didn't note anything unusual (the rice gave the bite I had most of the texture), but the flavor was fishy-beach. Ever pick up a sea shell and you can smell what used to live in it? That's what it tasted like, along with briney sand (though, it wasn't gritty). I might be able to choke it down again if I had to choose between it and death by starvation.

Seaweed, however, can be very tasty. Nice and crunchy, too, prepared correctly.

 

[Aeolius]

You're onto something there. Sea Urchins are quite edible (at least, the roe is). I had some a few weeks ago. It was ... unpleasant.

I've had sea urchin that was wonderful, and I've had sea urchin that made me loose my lunch. All things considered, I'll stick with conch fritters.

Seaweed, however, can be very tasty. Nice and crunchy, too, prepared correctly.

You would probably enjoy my undersea campaign. I try to keep a varied menu; from inkwine soaked into chunks of sweetsponge, to blue lobsters served on a bed of mushroom coral, balls of red seaweed (ogo) filled with red-shelled shrimp from volcanic vents, and the ever-popular giant isopod served with skewered hagfish.

 

[Lady89]

You would probably enjoy my undersea campaign. I try to keep a varied menu; from inkwine soaked into chunks of sweetsponge, to blue lobsters served on a bed of mushroom coral, balls of red seaweed (ogo) filled with red-shelled shrimp from volcanic vents, and the ever-popular giant isopod served with skewered hagfish.

You are nicer then I am. My sea campaign has the pc’s scrambling for food. lol survival role pleas

 

[Aeolius]

You are nicer then I am. My sea campaign has the pc’s scrambling for food. lol survival role pleas

Did I mention that the sailfish steaks begin like this?:

( bigger pics HERE )

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Funny thing- out of the blue, I had another conversation abou the edibility of horseshoe crabs. Mom was watching Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and someone served him a Horseshoe Crab Soup that was, apparently, not just edible but tasty.