I'm a Plant. (I thought they called guys like you fruits?)
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Just a small correction on the Giant Polyp: its first appearance was in the module C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan (1980).
Incidentally, there was a change made between 1e and 2e regarding the spines: in the illustration in the module, the spines only covered the mouth and damaged anyone who was dragged into it. When the Giant Polyp was updated for 2e, I think someone decided to make the spines more useful by having them cover the whole body.
Incidentally, there was a change made between 1e and 2e regarding the spines: in the illustration in the module, the spines only covered the mouth and damaged anyone who was dragged into it. When the Giant Polyp was updated for 2e, I think someone decided to make the spines more useful by having them cover the whole body.
Completely OT: While rereading the above module, I spotted what is quite possibly the silliest magic weapon idea I have ever seen: a sword +1, +4 vs. gas spores.
Who in their right mind would bother giving a sword a +4 bonus against gas spores? Who would use it, given the highly explosive nature of the intended targets?
Who in their right mind would bother giving a sword a +4 bonus against gas spores? Who would use it, given the highly explosive nature of the intended targets?
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keb said:
ahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
yeah, that's pretty lame.BTW, thanks for the info on the giant polyp. now, here's my question, did the original module present them as plants as well? did these folks not know much about biology or did they just decide to make a plant creature that was named after an animal?
BTW again, what other monsters appeared in C1? just out of curiousity...
BOZ said:
Well, it was described as appearing like a withered, leafless willow tree, but then the module says "This "tree" is a semi-sentient, gigantic variety of polyp, similar to a sea anemone..." Judging from this, I'm fairly certain the authors knew that polyps aren't plants. It was probably the "tree-like" part of the description that confused the people who put it in 2e.
The Nereid and Gibbering Mouther both got full monster descriptions in the back of the module. Other monsters included a talking crayfish, an intelligent giant hermit crab, a variant vampire (gaze acts as Hold Person, touch causes fear, no gaseous form, can turn invisible), a smaller but intelligent giant slug, the nahaul or alter-ego (chaotic-evil creature that uses a magic item to petrify a victim and take his memories), and mandrills (semi-intelligent "man-apes").
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