Plant creature article for Dragon

[BOZ]

One more:

A plant with leaves which act as a sleep contact poison. Not too bad, until Fall comes around and the whole forest is whirling with leaves! Anyone succumbing to the poison will quickly be covered by leaves and turned into compost by the time Spring comes around...

http://www.enworld.org/cc/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=856

 

[Conaill]

And one that could be useful *or* a hazard:

Exploding seed pods that impale seeds in anyone within a 10' radius (Ref check to avoid). Can be harvested and used as a grenade-like weapon. Anyone taking direct damage from the explosion will also take 1d6 damage every day, until the seeds have been removed (xd6 damage to do so), even after the entry wound itself has been healed. If you let it go too long...

 

[Conaill]

http://www.enworld.org/cc/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=856

Close, but still quite different. Putting contact poison on the leaves means that the effect could potentially reach much farther, and would make the PCs very paranoid about *any* leaf they see blowing arbout. Each leaf would also be a separate poison attack, rather than a single inhaled poison roll. Finally, having the victims asleep but hidden leaves (heh) open various rescue opportunities that aren't present with teh Somnastis Plant.

 

[Krishnath]

first of all before we get too bogged down in making new creatures, how about settling on themes. i think a maximum of 5 should be enough. what do you all think about that?

I think that is a good idea...

Hmm... themes...

 

[Shade]

Just a few possible themes...

Plants of the X Planes (X=lower, outer, inner, elemental, etc.)
Plants of the Faerie Realm (plants tied to fey in some way)
Twisted Vegetation (plants touched by the taint of the Far Realm, hauntings, etc.)
Fungus Among Us (duh)

 

[BOZ]

that's a good start (really good, actually). maybe we will have a poll to determine what ideas people like the best.

 

[Conaill]

I woudl rather group them by environment - seems much more useful in practice.

Plants of the magic forest
Jungle vegetation
etc...

 

[BOZ]

in some cases grouping by environment makes sense, but in some cases grouping by behavior or nature works better. here is what i put together (so far) using shade's and my ideas. some of these critters will be... "weeded out" if you'll forgive the pun, and there are more to add in as well.

Garden of Unearthly Terrors (archer bush, black willow, choke creeper, forester's bane, giant sundew, hangman tree, mantrap, retch plant, razorvine, sashalus, somnastis plant, thornslinger, tri-flower frond, twilight bloom, vampire cactus, vampire rose)
Underdark Plants (ascomoid, carapace, cushion fungus, fireweed)
Plant creatures (aartuk, algoid, campestri, dusanu, faerie phiz, hellseed, mandragora, quickwood, vegepygmy/thorny/russet mold, whipweed)
Psionic Plants
Plants of the Planes (hellseed, razorvine)
Plants of the Faerie Realm (faerie phiz; mostly new plants)
Twisted Vegetation (Far Realm, hauntings, etc.) (new plants only?)
Fungus Amongus (ascomoid, campestri, fungus hulk, sashalus, zygom)

 

[BOZ]

finished up that list. we can reorganize some of these lists, as it is still in the development stage. that first category has a lot of potential; too much, in fact. it can probably have another article or two branched off of it, or even be made into more than one article on the same theme.

suggestions, please! we can vote on which ones are most viable this coming week.

Garden of Unearthly Terrors (razorvine, tri-flower frond, hangman tree, forester's bane, vampire rose, explodestool, giant sundew, giant venus fly-trap, vampire cactus, strangle vine (Mystara), archer bush, black willow, bohun tree, boring grass, choke creeper, grab grass, jupiter bloodsucker, mantrap, giant pitcher plant, retch plant, singing tree, twilight bloom, witherweed, zombie plant, amber lotus flower, bloodflower, burnflower, dew fronds, firethorn, killer tree, pilfer vine, sashalus, sirenflower, somnastis plant, strangling vines (Athas), sword grass, thornslinger, vampire moss)

Underdark Plants (carapace, kampfult, ascomoid, noran, cushion fungus, fireweed, chromatic mold, serpent vine)

Plant creatures (hellseed, fungoid, vegepygmy/thorny/russet mold, whipweed, dusanu, mandragora, algoid, campestri, faerie phiz, aartuk, bohun tree, quickwood, clubthorn, helborn, gakarak, rekeihs)

Aquatic Plants (giant serpentweed, strangle weed)

Psionic Plants (brain seed, hunting cactus, esperweed, zombie plant)

Plants of the Planes (hellseed, razorvine, chronolily)

Plants of the Faerie Realm (faerie phiz; mostly new plants)

Twisted Vegetation (Far Realm, hauntings, etc.) (new plants only?)

Fungus Amongus (fungoid, explodestool, campestri, fungus hulk, ascomoid, sashalus, sirenflower, zygom)

 

[Conaill]

No love for my suggestions? Or do you prefer to narrow the playingfiled a bit more before we start thinking up new creatures?

Any idea on copyright issues with triffids and/or the plant from Little Shop of Horrors?