Tendriculous regeneration explanation?

[VirgilCaine]

Speak for your own group... maces and flails tend to be the order of the day with mine.

Out of curiosity, why?

 

[Dirigible]

That is mainly because there was not a 2d6/1d12 2 handed blunt weapon in the core rules.

Greatclub got gimped!

 

[Sejs]

Out of curiosity, why?

Because heavy maces are mean for a simple weapon and flails rock. They're the batman utility belt of martial weapons.


As for the regen - yeah, best I can think of is along the same lines as already mentioned. Particularly with viny plants that are tuned to regrow from clippings, crushing its mass is far more harmful than cutting it. You cut it and the plant just thinks 'okay, great, I'll just grow from where the runner ends now', whereas if you crush it the area becomes useless.

 

[frankthedm]

I don't know if anyone here lives in the southern US, but there we have a plant called kudzu famous for being "the plant that ate the South". Kudzu grows so amazingly quickly that you can actually see it happening. It grows more than a foot a day. If you cut a kudzu plant in two, you will have two kudzu plants. If you burn it, it will grow back while you sleep. If you freeze it, it will go dormant until it warms again. The only ways to reliably kill the plant are to dig up its massive root system and pulp it (bludgeoning damage) or find an animal that can stomach the tough, fibrous plant (acid damage).

Considering the concept art called it Killer Kudzu you might be onto something. As far as the monster being dumb, the name is a shortening of Tendril & Rediculous, making it more than painfully obvious it was intended as a joke monster.

 

[Gez]

Tendriculos, ridiculous.

That was the spelling nazi strike for the day.

Tendriculos would rather mean something like "little tendril"...