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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8568482" data-attributes="member: 57383">So how wordy are we aiming to make said Description?I'm inclined to keep it fairly simple like the <a href="https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8469307" target="_blank">Giant Solifugid</a>, especially as the stat section got a bit long.The most recent text rough draft we have is this:But the most recent D&D Beyond rough draft cut out some of the above and rearranged a few points to:Unlike their smaller cousins, giant brittle stars are active predators, combing marine environments for prey. A giant brittle star has five long, slender, whip-like arms joined to a central body disc. The body is sharply demarcated from from the arms and contains the five-jawed mouth. The body and arms are covered in a meshed chitin-like material with a pattern akin to chainmail, rendering the creature's hide tough and harder to damage. The tube feet are sticky and used to hold and manipulate prey or cling to wet and slippery surfaces, such as cliff faces and cave roofs.That seems a reasonable start, although I can see a few tweaks to propose.Should add a few words about:Habitat?Hunting Strategy?Reproduction?I'm thinking the Habitat should just be salt water with enough food to sustain them.Might leave out Reproduction, as it's complicated (especially as there are both heterosexual and hermaphroditic species of real-life brittle stars and some reproduce by splitting as well). Although I might change my mind later.As for Hunting Strategy, that seems the important thing to explain. How about we give it its own subentry titled, say Killer Stars?Oh, and I would fancy adding some variants.As well as the previously mentioned (and realistic) Burrowing Star, how about a more fantastical Walking Star that can breathe fresh water and lives in lakes and rivers, which is adept at pursuing prey on the land. Or it might be flat out amphibious and only need water to spawn?</blockquote>

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