D&D 5E Preview: Thri-Kreen

[the Jester]

Elves are delicious.

(Not a death threat to any elves in the building. Now go to sleep.)

 

[dream66_]

(Not a death threat to any elves in the building. Now go to sleep.)

Humans go sleep, Elves go trance. Thri-keen will watch, keep everyone safe.


Hmmm Elf must have wandered away in the night while I wasn't watching.

 

[the Jester]

Humans go sleep, Elves go trance.

I totally knew I was gonna get sassed on that.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

You're DM may have been exposed to Dark Sun, it's not hatred though...

Elves are delicious.

Especially when the elf is frightened or running. That's some really inconvenient pheromones, considering that any elf that runs into a thri-kreen tends to get scared and run. (On Athas, elves with high Dexterity scores can actually outrun thri-kreen... but most cannot.)

 

[Savage Wombat]

You're DM may have been exposed to Dark Sun, it's not hatred though...

Elves are delicious.

As I think on it, this anecdote would date to about 1989. Dark Sun is from 1991.

So I'm forced to assume that Dark Sun drew it's inspiration from my club.

 

[Kensboro]

Best, critical tables, ever: "Buttocks torn of, SHOCK, fall.".

I had an 18th level wizard that had his scrotum torn off by an arrow, and bled to death from an Arduin Crit (it's in the list).
Took forever to get him to that level...

Good to know I'm not the only one who remembers Arduin Grimoire

I have all of the books (9 of them). The demons were frightening, way nastier than standard D&D demons.
Oh yeah, and there were tables with skills/spells for character classes up to 99th level. No stopping at 20 in Arduin.

 

[Psikerlord#]

I really like this thrikeen monster. A great and interesting encounter for low level pcs if there's a psionic one or two in there.

 

[Steely Dan]

I had an 18th level wizard that had his scrotum torn off by an arrow, and bled to death from an Arduin Crit (it's in the list).
Took forever to get him to that level...

Good to know I'm not the only one who remembers Arduin Grimoire

I have all of the books (9 of them). The demons were frightening, way nastier than standard D&D demons.
Oh yeah, and there were tables with skills/spells for character classes up to 99th level. No stopping at 20 in Arduin.

Has some wild stuff; the Techno class, Amazons (and the NPC that had a belt made of man-flesh she made from the all the men she's killed on raids, violating the women), and yeah, the phraints (thri-kreen).

I might have to dig them out again.