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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8680094" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>de<span style="color: red">reddened</span> the <strong><a href="https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8676177" target="_blank">Giant Sea Star</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p>For the <strong>Description</strong>, here's a start:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Sea stars, also known as starfish or asteroids, are a familiar sight on beaches. Star shaped marine animals covered in heavy bony armor, they move around very slowly on hundreds of boneless tubular pseudolegs on the underside of their body and five arms. Sea stars are predators and scavengers, mainly eating bivalves such as clams plus whatever carrion they come across. A giant sea star is just an enormous version of this animal, large enough to swallow most humanoids.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking of adding the following:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">V</span>ARIANT<span style="font-size: 18px">: C</span>RYPTIC<span style="font-size: 18px"> S</span>EA<span style="font-size: 18px"> S</span>TAR</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Many giant sea stars are colored and patterned to match the sea floor they live on to make it easier to sneak up to prey and avoid the attention of creatures that hunt them. Some cryptic stars also have aquatic plants or even animals such as sea anemones growing on them to help them blend into their background.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> A cryptic brittle star has the following trait.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em><strong>Cryptic Coloration.</strong></em> The giant sea star has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks when in its native environment.</p><p></p><p>Upon reflection I'd rather add <strong><em>Cryptic Coloration</em></strong> to the Traits of the standard giant sea star and explain it in the <strong>Description</strong> with:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><strong>Cryptic Starfish.</strong></em> Most giant sea stars are colored and patterned to match the sea floor they live on, represented by the <em>Cryptic Coloration</em> trait. This makes it easier to sneak up to prey and avoid the attention of creatures that hunt them. Some cryptic sea stars also have aquatic plants or even animals such as sea anemones growing on them to help them blend into their background. There are giant sea stars that lack <em>Cryptic Coloration</em>, and a few are so brightly colored they have no proficiency in Stealth. These uncamouflaged species are sometimes thorny or poisonous (see below) but others simply live in the lightless depths of the sea where coloration serves no purpose.</p><p></p><p>Was going to give it another <strong><em>Note</em></strong> paragraph describing its hunting habits plus the Thorny Star and Poisonous Star variants after the main description.</p><p></p><p>Finally, sea stars have very good regenerative abilities. Although they vary a bit by species, if you cut a starfish in half it can often survive and grow into two starfish, while chopping one into chunks might result in a plague of the creatures a few months later.</p><p></p><p>I fancy incorporating that into the creature. Either by expanding its <em><strong>Regrowth</strong></em> trait or creating a Variant of it. Maybe rename the trait <strong><em>Regenerative Regrowth</em></strong><em>?</em></p><p></p><p>To be effective I'm thinking it needs a <strong>Variant: Severable Arms</strong> based on the <em><strong>Shed Arms</strong></em> trait of the Brittle Star's <strong>Variant: Brittle Limbs</strong>. Then an attacker can actually chop or tear an arm off so it can grow into a new sea star.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8680094, member: 57383"] de[COLOR=red]reddened[/COLOR] the [B][URL='https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8676177']Giant Sea Star[/URL][/B]. For the [B]Description[/B], here's a start: [INDENT]Sea stars, also known as starfish or asteroids, are a familiar sight on beaches. Star shaped marine animals covered in heavy bony armor, they move around very slowly on hundreds of boneless tubular pseudolegs on the underside of their body and five arms. Sea stars are predators and scavengers, mainly eating bivalves such as clams plus whatever carrion they come across. A giant sea star is just an enormous version of this animal, large enough to swallow most humanoids.[/INDENT] I was thinking of adding the following: [INDENT][B][SIZE=5]V[/SIZE]ARIANT[SIZE=5]: C[/SIZE]RYPTIC[SIZE=5] S[/SIZE]EA[SIZE=5] S[/SIZE]TAR[/B] Many giant sea stars are colored and patterned to match the sea floor they live on to make it easier to sneak up to prey and avoid the attention of creatures that hunt them. Some cryptic stars also have aquatic plants or even animals such as sea anemones growing on them to help them blend into their background. A cryptic brittle star has the following trait. [I][B]Cryptic Coloration.[/B][/I] The giant sea star has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks when in its native environment.[/INDENT] Upon reflection I'd rather add [B][I]Cryptic Coloration[/I][/B] to the Traits of the standard giant sea star and explain it in the [B]Description[/B] with: [INDENT][I][B]Cryptic Starfish.[/B][/I] Most giant sea stars are colored and patterned to match the sea floor they live on, represented by the [I]Cryptic Coloration[/I] trait. This makes it easier to sneak up to prey and avoid the attention of creatures that hunt them. Some cryptic sea stars also have aquatic plants or even animals such as sea anemones growing on them to help them blend into their background. There are giant sea stars that lack [I]Cryptic Coloration[/I], and a few are so brightly colored they have no proficiency in Stealth. These uncamouflaged species are sometimes thorny or poisonous (see below) but others simply live in the lightless depths of the sea where coloration serves no purpose.[/INDENT] Was going to give it another [B][I]Note[/I][/B] paragraph describing its hunting habits plus the Thorny Star and Poisonous Star variants after the main description. Finally, sea stars have very good regenerative abilities. Although they vary a bit by species, if you cut a starfish in half it can often survive and grow into two starfish, while chopping one into chunks might result in a plague of the creatures a few months later. I fancy incorporating that into the creature. Either by expanding its [I][B]Regrowth[/B][/I] trait or creating a Variant of it. Maybe rename the trait [B][I]Regenerative Regrowth[/I][/B][I]?[/I] To be effective I'm thinking it needs a [B]Variant: Severable Arms[/B] based on the [I][B]Shed Arms[/B][/I] trait of the Brittle Star's [B]Variant: Brittle Limbs[/B]. Then an attacker can actually chop or tear an arm off so it can grow into a new sea star. [/QUOTE]
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