What is your favorite TITANSPAWN

[Kwalish Kid]

My favourite titanspawn are dead titanspawn.

 

[Tharkun]

Er....could someone please direct me to the information center about what a TITANSPAWN is???


Then I'll GLADLY give my opinions about which is kewlest!

 

[Bagpuss]

Er....could someone please direct me to the information center about what a TITANSPAWN is???


Then I'll GLADLY give my opinions about which is kewlest!

Any creature in the Scarred Lands setting, that pretty much means all the monsters in the Creature Collections, most of the monsters in the Monster Manuals and all the PC races.

 

[Graf]

When I originally wrote the Vertigen up they affected anyone that was in range that failed thier save. Sword and Sorcery Studios changed them a good deal but I'm cool with that. They made them into a more P.C. friendly race, where as it would be very difficult indeed to play one the way I had it.

Interesting.
Them looking like elves does allow them to be good infiltrators with saying the have shapechanging powers. (I wonder if that's why Virduk has such a mad-on for elves? because nobody can tell them from Virtigen....
Obviously they have to have some control over their powers or else it won't be very easy to sneak around a city.
Guard 1: Where'd he go?
Old sargent: Jes follow the spew and the folk 'at look drunk.
I'm thinking gaze attack (IMC).... so they cover their eyes no problem, but they can't really look at each other deeply.

On the topic of titan spawn. In geneal, do you Scarred Lands fans like the darker Titanspawn. I think that the loss of thier creators makes the Titanspawn inheirently tragic.
I come to this conlusion by the fact that the only things I created for the SSS books that have recieved any mention outside of my own on these boards have been the Vertigen and Wicked's Edge. Both of which I feel or pretty dark ideas.
I just want a little input before I dedicate my attentions to the Creature Collection 3 open call.

Hmmm.... What else have you done that's more light and doesn't get mentioned? (come on, pimp, we're all waiting... )
I don't want to discourage you from making lighter creatures. To make a sweeping generalization: no matter how cool the bad monster is, when the players kill it, its dead.

I get more utility out of good/neutral creatures. Time and times again because they keep coming back. They talk to the PCs, encourage, feud, challenge, etc.
I think some of the best monsters in the CC were the Abandoned, The Albadian Battle Dog, the Forsake Elves and Dwarves and the Charduni, the Moon Cat, the Hollow Knights, Bat Devils, Jack-of-Tears, Amalthean Ram, Huror.
(the thing is that most of them wouldn't be refered to as Titanspawn, all points about life originating on Scarn being from the titans aside... so they don't naturally come to mind when someone askes your favorite titian spawn)
Generally they can be friend, or foe and switch back and forth. Most naturally and easily involve plots that are more complex than some variant on "its bad, kill it". As a DM I am perpetually fighting the tendancy to get into the "seak and destroy" mode. Lighter and more mixed creatures help balance that out for me.

I'm not saying that bad creatures are bad.... There were some great opposition creatures too, Hags, the Unhallowed, the Asaath, Belsamaug, Slarecian-types, Wrack Dragons. Gorgons.
But there are also lots and lots of "spooky dark monsters" nobody talks about. Anybody remember the Blight Wolf? Dweller at the Crossroads? Fleshcrawler? Manster? Memory Eater?
(Every monster book need a few dark things that go bump but I had to look them up.)
I think it was a testiment to the original CC that there were less "things for PCs to beat up and get XP" and more interesting things.
The CCII was just teeming with eeeevil (and I realize that was the premise and the point of the book) .

I'm getting a bit unclear here. I wouldn't focus purely on dark stuff and I wouldn't presume that because the monsters that people have been posting about recently are sort of dark that that's all that people remember.

I've gotten a lot of utility out of Hamadryads recently.

 

[DarkShiv]

The Dweller at the Crossroads is my "T" total favorite Scarred Lands antagonist of all time. It drips plot. I had forgotten all about him until I was flipping through CC1 today looking for holes that need to be filled.

 

[Sanackranib]

the dweller rocks

it's just I don't think my players would go for him. Or maby it's just that I KNOW that I wouldn't having been presentated with a deal with the devil-senerio already and I was the only PC out of about 16 who wasnt wheeld by it. (I succeded in avoiding it twice! the 3rd time I was actually offened because he DIDEN"T even offer me a deal. his responce was "whats the point you arn't gonna accept it anyway" so I said well I was gonna at least hear you out.)

 

[Warmaster_Horus]

Ummm...

Ummm... I'm not familiar with Scarred Lands. What are the Titanspawn ? Are they like the awnsheighlen of Birthright ?

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Re: Ummm...

Ummm... I'm not familiar with Scarred Lands. What are the Titanspawn ? Are they like the awnsheighlen of Birthright ?

Hello W_H! Good question - this is a bit confusing.



On Scarn, the deposed gods, the "Titans" created most life forms - although it is questionable/uncertain/doubtful that they created the human & demihuman races. l

In general usage, the term "titanspawn" refers to evil humanoids & other monsters, including some very common ones like

The Ratmen ( Slitheren )
Snake-Men ( Asaathi )
Orcs
Spider Eye Goblins
The Proud
Gorgons
Hags

and many many more creatures detailed in the CC1 & CC2

I'm not sure if I have a favorite yet...

 

[Warmaster_Horus]

Thanks BigFreekinGoblinoid, I thought they were perhaps humans tainted with the essence of fallen Titans or something. Maybe I should check out the Scarred Lands setting

 

[Holy Bovine]

My favourite titanspawn are dead titanspawn.

Why, whatever would make you say that my dear Lobster-Like being?

Some of my favourites are the Gorgons (High and Low), Hags (and where are Hags listed as a template?), Wrack Dragons and, while I don't think they are technically titanspawn, I love Jack of Tears and his Carnival Krewe those guys alone make both Creature Collections worth the price of admission IMO.