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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7835070" data-attributes="member: 57383">Updating <a href="http://enworld.org/index.php?posts/7612822/" target="_blank">Mystaran Kraken Working Draft</a>.I gave the tentacles the standard &quot;severing a tentacle does half damage to the cephalopod&quot; but would be game for it doing no damage like the original text. With 992 hit points it makes little difference.Hmm, I'm not that keen on the &quot;since a Mystaran kraken is mottled blue-green&quot; beginning.How about:Camouflage (Ex): A Mystaran kraken can rest motionless and almost perfectly mimic a floating mass of kelp. It takes a DC ?? Spot check to distinguish a camouflaged Mystaran kraken before it moves. Unfortunate creatures may already be within reach of the kraken's tentacles before they see it. Creatures with ranks in Knowledge (arcana) or Survival may use one of those skills instead of Spot to notice the monster.Well a group of PCs of high enough level to fight one would find a Spot DC of 20 trivial, but I'm OK with that. I consider it more of a &quot;flavour&quot; ability than something useful.Do you want to do anything with the following?&quot;When a kraken attacks a ship, it wraps six of its tentacles around the craft …&nbsp; The six tentacles hold on to the ship, automatically inflicting 7d6 points of constriction damage each round (half damage, in hull points, to the vessel)&quot;Maybe:Shipcrusher (Ex): A Mystaran kraken can constrict a colossal creature or object with more than one tentacle. The constriction damage increases by 1d6 for each additional tentacle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7835070, member: 57383"] Updating [URL='http://enworld.org/index.php?posts/7612822/'][B]Mystaran Kraken Working Draft[/B][/URL]. I gave the tentacles the standard "severing a tentacle does half damage to the cephalopod" but would be game for it doing no damage like the original text. With 992 hit points it makes little difference. Hmm, I'm not that keen on the "since a Mystaran kraken is mottled blue-green" beginning. How about: [B]Camouflage (Ex):[/B] A Mystaran kraken can rest motionless and almost perfectly mimic a floating mass of kelp. It takes a DC ?? Spot check to distinguish a camouflaged Mystaran kraken before it moves. Unfortunate creatures may already be within reach of the kraken's tentacles before they see it. Creatures with ranks in Knowledge (arcana) or Survival may use one of those skills instead of Spot to notice the monster. Well a group of PCs of high enough level to fight one would find a Spot DC of 20 trivial, but I'm OK with that. I consider it more of a "flavour" ability than something useful. Do you want to do anything with the following? "When a kraken attacks a ship, it wraps six of its tentacles around the craft … The six tentacles hold on to the ship, automatically inflicting 7d6 points of constriction damage each round (half damage, in hull points, to the vessel)" Maybe: [B]Shipcrusher (Ex):[/B] A Mystaran kraken can constrict a colossal creature or object with more than one tentacle. The constriction damage increases by 1d6 for each additional tentacle. [/QUOTE]

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