Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6216713" data-attributes="member: 4937">I don't have time right now to right full scenarios, but:Giant Owls: Owls are iconicly the keepers of secret lore, particularly of things that happen in darkness or in the spirit world.  I would use a Giant Owl (probably with some templates) whenever I wanted a scenario that featured an unusual seer or sage.  For example, I might have a swamp were the top predators were giant owls, only to reveal to the player that the NPC they are looking for is also an owl.   Examples of Giant Owls used in this iconic role are the 'Great Owl' in 'Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM' (from the prespective of the PC) and the Spirit Librarian in book two of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'.  Crimson Death: Although I've never used one directly, this has always been one of my favorite monsters - a variation on the blood drinking ghost/demon/spirit.  Essentially this is a vampire elemental.  One was referenced indirectly in my current campaign as a scenario in the current adventures past.  A group of quarry men working in the catacombs accidently broke into an older section and released a Crimson Death.  When the workers were found, they all had been drained completely of blood.  You can use this monster any where you want a variant vampire, especially one in a more pre-Dracula ancient/medieval role of plague/gluttony spirit rather than in its more modern conception as sexual object.Black Unicorn: Use it any time you want to invert the normal iconics around a Sylvan wood.  The Black Unicorn serves as the protector of evil fairy woods, the Unseelie Court, and places you daren't go tramping for fear of little men.  Any scenario where you want to invert the normal perception of good guys/bad guys works.  For example, I might consider a Black Unicorn as a steed in 'Help, my helpless innocent daughter has been kidnapped!' adventure, where the 'innocent daughter' turns out to be far from helpless or innocent.   This might work particularly well when the PC's didn't realize OOC that black unicorns were evil, but still makes for enough of a twist even if they don't.   I might also do this sort of thing with town being threatened by goblins, where it turns out that the goblin tribe is basically innocent is being harassed by evil fairies and also needs the PC's help.Flumph: Granted, this monster is really narrow in its application, but I'd use one whenever I wanted to put together truly alien ecology - probably for a demi-plane or alternate prime material world.   I'd make it part of a speculative non-vertebrate non-seed bearing plant ecology.  The really interesting thing to me about such a creature in such a setting is that it would likely not be immediately recognized by anyone but the most lore savvy players, and would therefore be very unlikely to be recognized as the sentient/civilized member of the ecology.</blockquote>

Verification