Need help with "bugs"

[Herobizkit]

That's all awesome stuff, guys! You've all got my gears grinding now...

I like the Neogi idea, especially since Psionics are going to be a new and huge part of the rest of my campaign; IMC, magic is dying, psionics will rise in their absence, then magic will come back as a new type (Elements of Magic: Mythic Earth style).

My biggest worry is that my campaign already features a large number of "fuzzies", ie half-man/half-animal types. How many is too many?

 

[Nyaricus]

My biggest worry is that my campaign already features a large number of "fuzzies", ie half-man/half-animal types. How many is too many?

Fuzzies rawk my socks dude, no worries

I agree though: many great ideas in this thread. I miss that old Nazi one which got lost - another exemplar of it's kith :\

 

[Herobizkit]

Okay... is the Neogi actually in the MM? I see it's not in the SRD, so I assume it's closed content if it is. That's the problem I was having with mind flayers. Still, no big... I can always just make up "slug-like psionic overloards"

 

[Drowbane]

I'm not sure which 3.x book Neogi first reappeared in... but I know they're well covered in Lords of Madness.

Another bug-race... from DCv1, the Diopsid (spelling?). They seem to be kind of an "Underdark Kreen".

 

[Herobizkit]

After some Google-fu, I've found the Neogi was originally listed in the 3.x MM2. Hrm...

 

[takasi]

Neogi are great. Also try spell weavers from MMII, they're a good mastermind insectoid race.

 

[Nyaricus]

Bah, spiders are done to death. Ditto for mantises and ants.

Roaches.

Just consider what the roach has to offer:
They are capable of surviving ANYTHING. Remind me, what are the only things that will survive after a Nuclear holocaust? Roaches and Keith Richards. That's right. Just imagine a vermin the size of a dwarf that won't stay dead? The best way you could reflect that in straight D20 is to give a bombadeer beetle d12 for hit dice, up it's AC by a bunch of points, give it a DR #/-, and a Spell resistance that would make the tarrasque proud.

They are naturally insideous, and will work their way into anything they can

They are ravenous and consume everything they can in order to reproduce as fast as they can.

They are a vactor, the grand majority of them are diseased.

I've decide to have a giant cockroach encounter in my Saturday game thansk to having a dream about this (literally dreaming about what was going to happen at D&D and what I should do - really odd/lucid dream :\). Little girl rushes out into the street, with a baby bug (2 feet long, only) lached onto her back, eviscerating her (sp?) as she screams "they came from below!"

:devilsmiley:

 

[IcyCool]

Pop out your Fiend Folio and give the Ethergaunts a look.

Man-sized, vaguely insectoid looking bipeds with advanced technology, a face of writhing tentacles covered with a bony mask that will drive you insane if you see it without the mask, and a serious hate on for the inhabitants of the material plane.

They've been away on the ethereal plane for a long time, and now they are ready to take back their original home (material plane) from the vermin who live there.

 

[DMH]

Bah, spiders are done to death. Ditto for mantises and ants.

There are a lot of insects that are totally ignored in games- earwigs, webspinners (ant like insects with web emitting organs in the forelegs), lacewings, black flies, horntails, aphids and scales, firebrats and silverfish, springtails (which I don't consider true insects), caddisflies, dung beetles and many flies and wasps.

 

[Herobizkit]

Pop out your Fiend Folio and give the Ethergaunts a look.

Man-sized, vaguely insectoid looking bipeds with advanced technology, a face of writhing tentacles covered with a bony mask that will drive you insane if you see it without the mask, and a serious hate on for the inhabitants of the material plane.

They've been away on the ethereal plane for a long time, and now they are ready to take back their original home (material plane) from the vermin who live there.

Which version? The update 3.x or the old one?