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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9053543" data-attributes="member: 57383">Let's see…A vast octopus or squid as big as a ship whose slimy body reeks of decay and ammonia. Its barrel-sized eyes are milky white like a dead fish but shine with malevolence. The creature is obviously a deliquescent corpse that moves by some unnatural agency. Its strangely mutilated tentacles have cruelly-hooked blades fused to their ends, tipping each leathery limb with a harpoon of hardened cartilage.

An undead cephalopod animated by some evil entity to become a mindlessly malevolent servant.

A krakendraugr only has six functional limbs. The two long tentacles of a living kraken have been stripped to stumps and the pieces grafted into its six shorter arms, turning them into barbed impaling weapons. These augmented arms are about 40 feet long.

Undead krakens cannot speak.It's a bit basic but does the job.Hmm, should we expand the Languages to give it a Golem or Zombie style ability to understand commands? Like so:Undead krakens cannot speak, but they understand commands given in any language. They have no intelligence, so their master's instructions must be very simple.What do you think?Didn't include any &quot;how to create&quot; rules since I don't want to give PCs the option of making one. Also, the most powerful undead that create greater undead can produce is the CR 11 Devourer at CL 20th, but the Krakendraugr is a higher Challenge Rating than that.Does it need an In Cerilia entry?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 9053543, member: 57383"] Let's see… [INDENT][i]A vast octopus or squid as big as a ship whose slimy body reeks of decay and ammonia. Its barrel-sized eyes are milky white like a dead fish but shine with malevolence. The creature is obviously a deliquescent corpse that moves by some unnatural agency. Its strangely mutilated tentacles have cruelly-hooked blades fused to their ends, tipping each leathery limb with a harpoon of hardened cartilage[/i]. An undead cephalopod animated by some evil entity to become a mindlessly malevolent servant. A krakendraugr only has six functional limbs. The two long tentacles of a living kraken have been stripped to stumps and the pieces grafted into its six shorter arms, turning them into barbed impaling weapons. These augmented arms are about 40 feet long. Undead krakens cannot speak.[/INDENT] It's a bit basic but does the job. Hmm, should we expand the Languages to give it a Golem or Zombie style ability to understand commands? Like so: [INDENT]Undead krakens cannot speak, but they understand commands given in any language. They have no intelligence, so their master's instructions must be very simple.[/INDENT] What do you think? Didn't include any "how to create" rules since I don't want to give PCs the option of making one. Also, the most powerful undead that [i]create greater undead[/i] can produce is the CR 11 Devourer at CL 20th, but the Krakendraugr is a higher Challenge Rating than that. Does it need an [B]In Cerilia[/B] entry? [/QUOTE]

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