Tainted Spiral

[BLACKDIRGE]

On the topic, I can see carrion crawlers having a nymph form, too. Although iI picture the nymph form not having the tentacles that the adults do - it likely either spits acid, or spits the paralysis-enducing carrion crawler slime that the tentacles produce.

Totally. Man, I gotta write that down. A carrion crawler nymph might find its way into my next Critter Cache or Bargain Bestiary.

On a side note, I think the chuul is actually based on certain types of aquatic beetle larvae.

BD

 

[Rechan]

Totally. Man, I gotta write that down. A carrion crawler nymph might find its way into my next Critter Cache or Bargain Bestiary.

Or your poor, neglected ENworld blog?

I think the carrion crawler nymph makes a good artillery, shootin' acidic goo. If they went with the carrion crawler paralysis goo, then it'd be a controller. But able to hit multiple targets. That's bad news.

(Heh. The last session of the game I played in, two leveled down carrion crawlers popped up. We immediately started focusing on them, because they were scary.)

 

[BLACKDIRGE]

Or your poor, neglected ENworld blog?

Check out the Blackdirge Publishing fan page over at Facebook. I'm posting the occaisonal new 4E critter over there now.

I think the carrion crawler nymph makes a good artillery, shootin' acidic goo. If they went with the carrion crawler paralysis goo, then it'd be a controller. But able to hit multiple targets. That's bad news.

Yeah, I think I would make the carrion crawler nymph artillery to make it a bit different from the adult.

I think there a bunch of monsters that could have interesting larva/nymphs/yound. Off the top of my head, the grick, roper, and umberhulk could have pretty nasty larval forms.

BD

 

[Rechan]

I think there a bunch of monsters that could have interesting larva/nymphs/yound. Off the top of my head, the grick, roper, and umberhulk could have pretty nasty larval forms.

The nice thing about this is that you get to use them earlier. So you don't have to just level them down, but you pop out a young one, and now your lower level PCs get to fight something classic.

Not to mention that it can be a great foreshadowing/make them nervous. If they just fought a bunch of baby grell, they have to wonder where the parents are.

Also, don't forget about alternate methods of reproduction for your aberrations. The mind flayer, after all, has tadpoles that are implanted into the skull, metamorphsizing into human. So a "Transform a victim" method of reproduction is possible.

Or go the Xenomorph route; they either 1) all inject targets (perhaps captured/paralyzed/dead targets) with eggs that incubate in the body, or 2) produce a secondary creature that injects the eggs (ala facehuggers). Route 1 works for carrion crawlers (they all ready paralyze targets to munch on, why not also lay eggs on them?) and route 2, imo, fits Grell. Simply because grell are freaking scary.

(Trivia: the inspiration for the xenomorph breeding in Alien was inspired by the parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in a paralyzed insect.)

 

[catsclaw227]

On the other hand, Nymphs are simply smaller (sometimes wingless) forms without sex organs they do not undergo a metamorphisis, they simply molt into a adult form.

So a Chuul Nymph would simply be a smaller young Chuul without sex organs

It would be a sad day if I ran into a nymph without sex organs.

[/looking for the "uh oh, here comes my wife!" button]

 

[jasonbostwick]

I think there is 5 level one chaos scar adventures so far, not three.

and we've mostly been getting two per month, not one. But yeah it is seemingly going to take a long time to get them all even so.

One thing to keep in mind is that there are only about 3-5 more adventures left until Scales of War finishes (I'm not sure how many installments it was supposed to cover, but they're up to part 16 and level 25 as of last month).

Unless they start a new adventure path, thats an extra 30-40 pages of adventure content that will open up in a few months.
Hopefully the majority of that space gets allocated to the Chaos Scar (though I wouldn't mind a few more Eberron adventures.)

 

[BLACKDIRGE]

I don't know if any of you noticed this, but the map for this adventure was created entirely with Dungeon Tiles. So, if you have the Caves of Carnage set, you can recreate the whole map exactly like it's shown in the adventure.

BD

 

[Nahat Anoj]

I don't know if any of you noticed this, but the map for this adventure was created entirely with Dungeon Tiles. So, if you have the Caves of Carnage set, you can recreate the whole map exactly like it's shown in the adventure.

I did notice that. It's a nice touch for those that use Dungeon Tiles.

As far as the adventure goes, it looks like a fun little jaunt against Lovecraftian terrors from beyond.