Anyone know anything about these creatures, what they look like, what their stats are etc? I looked through the whole MM and Forgotten Realms campaign settings books and couldnt find any description of them, only that they were good magicians or something like that. Wierd isnt it considering they had alot of impact on Fâreun....
Phaerimms of the Forgotten Realms
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LoneWolf23
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They're found in the "Monsters of Faerun" supplement.
Tom Cashel
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I will!
They're nasty-looking. A huge mouth, filled with razor teeth, surrounded by four arms. No eyes. The body is shaped like a six-foot-long "windsock" (according to the Monsters of Faerun book), but is also kind of like a big scaly green slug that tapers to a barbed tail, with a stinger on it. They move by natural levitation.
The stinger injects either poison or eggs. The poison causes paralysis and levitation (!). The arms may claw or wield masterwork falchions.
Phaerimms are sorcerors, and cast all their spells as spell-like abilities.
By the way, the Forgotten Realms novel The Summoning, and the other two in Troy Denning's trilogy, have a lot to do with phaerimms and their escape from beneath the Anauroch.
They're nasty-looking. A huge mouth, filled with razor teeth, surrounded by four arms. No eyes. The body is shaped like a six-foot-long "windsock" (according to the Monsters of Faerun book), but is also kind of like a big scaly green slug that tapers to a barbed tail, with a stinger on it. They move by natural levitation.
The stinger injects either poison or eggs. The poison causes paralysis and levitation (!). The arms may claw or wield masterwork falchions.
Phaerimms are sorcerors, and cast all their spells as spell-like abilities.
By the way, the Forgotten Realms novel The Summoning, and the other two in Troy Denning's trilogy, have a lot to do with phaerimms and their escape from beneath the Anauroch.
Gez
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You can download freely the PDF about Netheril from wizards.com. It is in the D&D section, in the menu on the side, click download, then "classic download" in the box, and you can then look for a netheril sourcebook in the FR section.
On the cover, you have well-done illo of a phaerimm. The illo in MC:MoF is not well done.
But is monster is goofy-looking to start with, so...
On the cover, you have well-done illo of a phaerimm. The illo in MC:MoF is not well done.
But is monster is goofy-looking to start with, so...
Tom Cashel
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Goofy?
When they first came out, in 2E, the scene would've gone like this:
PC 1: What the hell's that goofy-looking thing?
PC 2: I don't know...but it looks stupid. Let's kill it.
Phaerimm: Unleashes a meteor swarm followed by a time stop and a few power words.
DM: Now who's 'goofy-lookin' "?
When they first came out, in 2E, the scene would've gone like this:
PC 1: What the hell's that goofy-looking thing?
PC 2: I don't know...but it looks stupid. Let's kill it.
Phaerimm: Unleashes a meteor swarm followed by a time stop and a few power words.
DM: Now who's 'goofy-lookin' "?
Gez
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It's not because something is dangerous it isn't goofy. DnD is full of monsters that are both dangerous and ridiculous. The beholder, to start with, looks silly. The natural form of the Malaugrym also. Yet, beholders, malaugryms and phaerimms are dangerous.
But they looks goofy. And nothing will ever change that.
But they looks goofy. And nothing will ever change that.
Tom Cashel
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Hmm, this is almost like the hockey debate over which is better, European style or North American style?
You guys seem to like sensible, non-goofy, boring monsters like ogres and orcs, giants, trolls, etc.
I use oozes and beholders, phaerimms and yuan-ti, all the time.
Because everyone knows that it's not hockey without some fist-fights, right?
You guys seem to like sensible, non-goofy, boring monsters like ogres and orcs, giants, trolls, etc.
I use oozes and beholders, phaerimms and yuan-ti, all the time.
Because everyone knows that it's not hockey without some fist-fights, right?
Tom Cashel said:Hmm, this is almost like the hockey debate over which is better, European style or North American style?
You guys seem to like sensible, non-goofy, boring monsters like ogres and orcs, giants, trolls, etc.
I use oozes and beholders, phaerimms and yuan-ti, all the time.
Because everyone knows that it's not hockey without some fist-fights, right?
Well, I used dancing mushroom in my campaign once when we all had taken amphetamine before the game
I really cant build a good atmosphere and a scary setting with oozes. Yuan-Ti seems cool though
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