"Otyughs speak Common"?

[Hypersmurf]

I don't know about that. Imagine a psionic otyugh who is freakishly intelligent and who has learned how to animate garbage and fecal matter. . .

Then imagine it with maxed out ranks in gather information, and having to go to it for information.

Damn, that actually fits perfectly with Sanctity... the city I run an occasional adventure in when our DM feels like a break...

The City Dump is owned and operated by Montague the Troll, but I can easily imagine Marjorie the Otyugh living underneath it...

-Hyp.

 

[Drew]

I used an Otyugh in an adventure shortly after 3E first came out. The PCs were raiding a goblin cavern complex and found the Otyugh living in the creature’s garbage pit. One of the PCs asked me if he could talk to it. I flipped open my MM and, low and behold, the things speak common! Smiling, the PC looked at the Otyugh and asked “Hey, you want a job?” It now lives in the garbage area of said PCs Inn. They named it Bob.

 

[Sejs]

Then imagine it with maxed out ranks in gather information, and having to go to it for information.

Heh, and not two awakened rats... a horde of them. Its eyes and ears, and they're everywhere.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Heh, and not two awakened rats... a horde of them. Its eyes and ears, and they're everywhere.

The mob run by Don Otyugh

 

[Remathilis]

I suggest Cranium Rats...

Sureal thread.

 

[Olive]

Damn, that actually fits perfectly with Sanctity... the city I run an occasional adventure in when our DM feels like a break...

Hold EVERYTHING!!! Hyp, you don't DM? My ghod, I pity the person who DMs for you...

 

[Hypersmurf]

Hyp, you don't DM?

I DM sometimes... but I prefer to play.

-Hyp.

 

[Dr. Confoundo]

I don't know about that. Imagine a psionic otyugh who is freakishly intelligent and who has learned how to animate garbage and fecal matter. . .

Animated fecal matter?

'Hiiiidey ho! You smell all nice and flowery!'

*shudder*

 

[jeffh]

Wouldn't make much sense if they spoke Posh.

That joke will be SO lost on the typical reader from anywhere but England.

(Okay, I got it, and I'm a Canadian who has only spent three days in England in my entire life, but I'm pretty atypical.)

 

[Hypersmurf]

That joke will be SO lost on the typical reader from anywhere but England.

Hmm? I got it...

-Hyp.