Shark World Inc

[Aeolius]

...1) Schools of fish controlled by intelligent hive minds...3) An island sized Portugese Man-O-War... 4) What about all those freaky skeletal fish that live at the bottom of the ocean and use lights to snare prey?...

funny you should mention it

I am working with a new BPAA player, who will be playing a collective school of small fish. We got the idea from the cifal, but I revised the beastie to include hags, of course

Man-o-wars are another interesting subject, as they are actually a colony of four distinctive types of polyps. I added jellyfish-like merfolk, in BPAA.

As for angler fish, yes, they are too cool. I have angler beholders which dwell in the depths, using one of their eyestalks as a glowing lure.

 

[drowdude]

5) Remoras, those little eel-like things that float around sharks and clean 'em. Would giant, intelligent sharks have giant, intelligent remoras? Would they be servants to the sharks? Advisors? Familiars?

Somehow this struck me as being very Disney-ish

 

[alsih2o]

5) Remoras, those little eel-like things that float around sharks and clean 'em. Would giant, intelligent sharks have giant, intelligent remoras? Would they be servants to the sharks? Advisors? Familiars?

i think if the sharks were powerful, but neutral, and the remoras were the evil collective mind that controlled them it would open up all sorts of cool possibilities.

how to save the N shark as an ally or aid whilst freeing him from the evil clutches of the parasitic badguys?

what reaction from the palading who just destroyed a few, only to discover they aren't evil, simply manipulated?

if you destroy the shark are the little turds pwerful enuf to reanimate it till they find another host?

 

[Gavin]

Somehow this struck me as being very Disney-ish

Must be a bad flashback to the eels from Little Mermaid. Not exactly what I had in mind.

And here I was thinking giant sharks was a little too Spielberg

I think the relationship between the sharks and their symbiotes could make for interesting plot-hooks.

 

[alsih2o]

I think the relationship between the sharks and their symbiotes could make for interesting plot-hooks.

is this a BAD fishing pun? or was that unintentional?

 

[The Iron Mark]

What about Elasmosauruses, Bronze Dragons, Dragon Turtles, Gargoyles, Ghouls, Cloud Giants, Gibbering Mouthers, Sea Hags, Annis Hags, Kua-Toa, Lizardfolk, Locathah, Salt Mephits, Merfolk, Water Nagas, Merrow(Aquatic Ogres), Purple Worms, Sea Lions, Shocker Lizards, Nixies, Tojanidas, Tritons, and Scrags(Sea Trolls)? If you're wondering at some of the stranger ones I mentioned, all I did was look for creatures who have the Aquatic descriptor or that lived in aquatic areas.

 

[Aeolius]

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[Crothian]

What about Elasmosauruses, Bronze Dragons, Dragon Turtles, Gargoyles, Ghouls, Cloud Giants, Gibbering Mouthers, Sea Hags, Annis Hags, Kua-Toa, Lizardfolk, Locathah, Salt Mephits, Merfolk, Water Nagas, Merrow(Aquatic Ogres), Purple Worms, Sea Lions, Shocker Lizards, Nixies, Tojanidas, Tritons, and Scrags(Sea Trolls)? If you're wondering at some of the stranger ones I mentioned, all I did was look for creatures who have the Aquatic descriptor or that lived in aquatic areas.

Nice list. Feel free to start taking things from it and defining them for Shark World even if that description is little more the "They are Shark bait." Aquatic dinos would be a great addition to the world. I was thinking of actually not using the normal Dragons and possible coming up with new versions that are more aquatic in nature. Possible have one be based on the Dragon Turtle, but create rit in traditional dragon format.

 

[Aeolius]

What about Elasmosauruses, Bronze Dragons, Dragon Turtles, Gargoyles, Ghouls, Cloud Giants, Gibbering Mouthers, Sea Hags, Annis Hags, Kua-Toa, Lizardfolk, Locathah, Salt Mephits, Merfolk, Water Nagas, Merrow(Aquatic Ogres), Purple Worms, Sea Lions, Shocker Lizards, Nixies, Tojanidas, Tritons, and Scrags(Sea Trolls)? If you're wondering at some of the stranger ones I mentioned, all I did was look for creatures who have the Aquatic descriptor or that lived in aquatic areas.

Most of those have been mention in the course of my campaign, as it has been running since 1998.

As the campaign centers on hags, it goes without saying that sea hags, annis, and greenhags abound.

A new PC is considering the half-bronze dragon template, as I will allow that crossbreed to breathe water. In my BPAA Background, I mention two dragon turtles; one is undead, while the other is two-headed. I have a special breed of kopoacinth (aquatic gargoyle) known as the liverock gargoyle; in essence a mobile extension of a living reef. Kuo-toa live in the Shaft of Stormalong, a massive undersea tunnel which descends to the Darksea. Instead of salt mephits, I added salt hags and salt creeps. I expanded upon the sea lion, by including a foo sea lion. Not to mention my hydrimera, which is part giant squid, part dire shark, and part feline sea lion. As for nixies, a new PC will be a “fiendish fey”; planetouched offspring of a nixie and half-fiend. I have tojanida in a vast “forest” of giant anemones. Not only do I have scrag and merrow, but I added the kresh, also known as a sea trogre, a scar-merrow crossbreed.

There are tribes of locathah, merfolk, triton, and other aquatic races in various regions of the Pinnacles.

I did the same thing you did – I went through my monster books, picked out all the seafaring critters and used them, while adding new ones of my own.

 

[Aeolius]

Nice list. Feel free to start taking things from it and defining them for Shark World even if that description is little more the "They are Shark bait." Aquatic dinos would be a great addition to the world. I was thinking of actually not using the normal Dragons and possible coming up with new versions that are more aquatic in nature. Possible have one be based on the Dragon Turtle, but create rit in traditional dragon format.

Speaking of bait, I used one of my newest beasties, the chum, in my latest BPAA Chapter. And when it comes to dragons, I added the coral, pearl, and abalone. The PCs encountered a small pearl dragon, awhile back, and discovered that its skin is pearlescent and its breath weapon is not unlike a barrage of sharpened oyster shells.