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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8726665" data-attributes="member: 57383">It's nice to see 5E is continuing the Spelljammer tradition of <s>ripping off</s> homaging creatures from other media, or is it my imagination that this monster has a certain resemblance to the alien from <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945" target="_blank">Dark Star</a>?Well at least it isn't a blatantly obvious copycat like the Gammaroid.EDIT: and reading the comments I see I'm not the first to have remarked on the similarities.To answer the above.&nbsp; The Dark Star alien only makes a chattering sound and it might not be fully sentient, but does exhibit some degree of intelligence.After being picked up from it's home planet, it eventually escapes from the room it was shut in when it tricked a crewmember by hiding when they came to feed it and running out the door.The crewmember then chased it, and it led the poor sap on a merry chase until they both ended up in a lift shaft, where the guy was clinging desperately to a inches-wide ledge and then hanging from the underside of a descending elevator.During this, the alien made rather mocking sounding noises and then leapt upon his back and started mercilessly tickling him with its feet as he tried to avoid falling to his death.It eventually runs away, and after further misadventures the crewman managed to escape, armed himself with a tranquiliser dart pistol, and tracked down the alien.However, when he shot it the beast wasn't sedated, but deflated like a popped beach ball and died.Considering the &quot;alien&quot; literally was made from a coloured beach ball and a couple of gloves it's not surprising it was vulnerable to piercing damage! Still, for a tiny budget SF movie it was surprisingly well done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8726665, member: 57383"] It's nice to see 5E is continuing the Spelljammer tradition of [S]ripping off[/S] homaging creatures from other media, or is it my imagination that this monster has a certain resemblance to the alien from [URL='https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945'][I]Dark Star[/I][/URL]? Well at least it isn't a blatantly obvious copycat like the Gammaroid. EDIT: and reading the comments I see I'm not the first to have remarked on the similarities. To answer the above. The [I]Dark Star[/I] alien only makes a chattering sound and it might not be fully sentient, but does exhibit some degree of intelligence. After being picked up from it's home planet, it eventually escapes from the room it was shut in when it tricked a crewmember by hiding when they came to feed it and running out the door. The crewmember then chased it, and it led the poor sap on a merry chase until they both ended up in a lift shaft, where the guy was clinging desperately to a inches-wide ledge and then hanging from the underside of a descending elevator. During this, the alien made rather mocking sounding noises and then leapt upon his back and started mercilessly [I]tickling[/I] him with its feet as he tried to avoid falling to his death. It eventually runs away, and after further misadventures the crewman managed to escape, armed himself with a tranquiliser dart pistol, and tracked down the alien. However, when he shot it the beast wasn't sedated, but deflated like a popped beach ball and died. Considering the "alien" literally was made from a coloured beach ball and a couple of gloves it's not surprising it was vulnerable to piercing damage! Still, for a tiny budget SF movie it was surprisingly well done. [/QUOTE]

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