The prototypical City State model used in many RPG fantasy games is modeled not on cities of the Dark Ages or late Roman years, but on the greek one.
The City States of ancient Greece were all extremely different from one another. Thanks to the occasionally blood crazed Frank Miller, we have the whole ideal of Spartans as the ultimate macho warriors, and while an immense and rather rude portrayal, it still isn't too far off. Spartans did nothave such a diversity of genders. there was a lot more to them than shown, however, and much of it was oversimplified. For example, Sparta was ruled by two kings and a council of elders. It emphasized maintaining a strong military, while Athens valued education and art. In Athens every male citizen had the right to vote, so they were ruled by a democracy. Rather than have a strong army, Athens maintained their navy.
Thebes did, Athens was more "well, fine, if you must, but I ain't gonna like, do anything", Argos and Rodes, and Corinth and Syracuse were all way different.
At the peak of the City State Era, there were well over a 1000 different city states, each a complete and utter stand alone, self supportive entity.They differed greatly from the each other in governing philosophies and interests. What we think of as "greek culture" actually grew out of the "figuring it out" stage at the end of the Age of Cities, as outside forces (such as the Persian invasions) forced them to ally again and again not as what we think of as Greeks, but really as just a bunch of different countries. Those invasions (and there were a lot of them) slowly forged the idea and identity of the many different kinds of people into the ones we know today -- and arguably it was the Romans who really finalized that process.
After they (the Romans) finally overthrew the Etruscans, they were more than a little inspired by their frequent trading partners, and decided they simply had to be part of the whole. So they went and took it, lol.
and before all of that, of course, you have the Minoan culture.
Honestly, I wonder what the cultures of the non-settled, still hunter gatherer sorts were like when they reached the Straits of Bosphorus. The Black Sea and the Mediterranean, so obviously still a "new" thing (geologically). That those early PIE folks would become the forebears of so much certainly could not have been within their scope of possible thinking.
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I had a funny idea. So imagine you're the DM for a metagaming party and you tell them they're going to fight trolls. So they begin to stack up on fire and acid weapons. Then, when they're about to start the fight, you reveal the trolls are the mythological trolls and that fire and acid isn't strong against them.
What do you think would happen then?
This would depend on *which* mythological trolls, lol....
Bridge trolls are different from Tunnel trolls from Forest trolls -- and that's just in one segment.
Then you have the assorted different variations of nordic trolls (five different types, lol, ranging from the ones like in Frozen to the giants of to the kind that turn to stone at the touch of the sun).
by some recollections, Fomorians (one of the ancient enemies of ireland) were trolls, driven out by the Tuatha.
But none of this changes the point, lol.
You see, it would depend on how much one's players know about the DM's knowledge of trolls. My folks (which include people I have been friends with for over 50 years and their kids and grandkids) would hear me say "trolls" and go "oh, crap."
Especially right now, since the trolls for my upcoming setting are based in part not only on the kind that turn to stone in the dawn sun, but also a mish mash of Man-thing and Swamp thing with shambling mounds and big foot and Yetis. They are one of the more common critters one can encounter on Wyrlde.
I am going to be sadly very busy today, but i will try to get some interesting mythical thing yanked out of my head. Housecleaning iis a sunday thing, especially after a game night.
Or icelandic trolls, who would be fairly chill to anyone non human. (They’re kinda afraid of humans) (the vikings set a bad first impression)
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I had a funny idea. So imagine you're the DM for a metagaming party and you tell them they're going to fight trolls. So they begin to stack up on fire and acid weapons. Then, when they're about to start the fight, you reveal the trolls are the mythological trolls and that fire and acid isn't strong against them.
What do you think would happen then?
This would depend on *which* mythological trolls, lol....
Bridge trolls are different from Tunnel trolls from Forest trolls -- and that's just in one segment.
Then you have the assorted different variations of nordic trolls (five different types, lol, ranging from the ones like in Frozen to the giants of to the kind that turn to stone at the touch of the sun).
by some recollections, Fomorians (one of the ancient enemies of ireland) were trolls, driven out by the Tuatha.
But none of this changes the point, lol.
You see, it would depend on how much one's players know about the DM's knowledge of trolls. My folks (which include people I have been friends with for over 50 years and their kids and grandkids) would hear me say "trolls" and go "oh, crap."
Especially right now, since the trolls for my upcoming setting are based in part not only on the kind that turn to stone in the dawn sun, but also a mish mash of Man-thing and Swamp thing with shambling mounds and big foot and Yetis. They are one of the more common critters one can encounter on Wyrlde.
I am going to be sadly very busy today, but i will try to get some interesting mythical thing yanked out of my head. Housecleaning iis a sunday thing, especially after a game night.
Or icelandic trolls, who would be fairly chill to anyone non human. (They’re kinda afraid of humans) (the vikings set a bad first impression)
why are there so many trolls!!!
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I had a funny idea. So imagine you're the DM for a metagaming party and you tell them they're going to fight trolls. So they begin to stack up on fire and acid weapons. Then, when they're about to start the fight, you reveal the trolls are the mythological trolls and that fire and acid isn't strong against them.
What do you think would happen then?
This would depend on *which* mythological trolls, lol....
Bridge trolls are different from Tunnel trolls from Forest trolls -- and that's just in one segment.
Then you have the assorted different variations of nordic trolls (five different types, lol, ranging from the ones like in Frozen to the giants of to the kind that turn to stone at the touch of the sun).
by some recollections, Fomorians (one of the ancient enemies of ireland) were trolls, driven out by the Tuatha.
But none of this changes the point, lol.
You see, it would depend on how much one's players know about the DM's knowledge of trolls. My folks (which include people I have been friends with for over 50 years and their kids and grandkids) would hear me say "trolls" and go "oh, crap."
Especially right now, since the trolls for my upcoming setting are based in part not only on the kind that turn to stone in the dawn sun, but also a mish mash of Man-thing and Swamp thing with shambling mounds and big foot and Yetis. They are one of the more common critters one can encounter on Wyrlde.
I am going to be sadly very busy today, but i will try to get some interesting mythical thing yanked out of my head. Housecleaning iis a sunday thing, especially after a game night.
Or icelandic trolls, who would be fairly chill to anyone non human. (They’re kinda afraid of humans) (the vikings set a bad first impression)
why are there so many trolls!!!
Ehehehehe the party would be doomed if you made them fight an internet troll >:3 (otter face= :3)
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I had a funny idea. So imagine you're the DM for a metagaming party and you tell them they're going to fight trolls. So they begin to stack up on fire and acid weapons. Then, when they're about to start the fight, you reveal the trolls are the mythological trolls and that fire and acid isn't strong against them.
What do you think would happen then?
This would depend on *which* mythological trolls, lol....
Bridge trolls are different from Tunnel trolls from Forest trolls -- and that's just in one segment.
Then you have the assorted different variations of nordic trolls (five different types, lol, ranging from the ones like in Frozen to the giants of to the kind that turn to stone at the touch of the sun).
by some recollections, Fomorians (one of the ancient enemies of ireland) were trolls, driven out by the Tuatha.
But none of this changes the point, lol.
You see, it would depend on how much one's players know about the DM's knowledge of trolls. My folks (which include people I have been friends with for over 50 years and their kids and grandkids) would hear me say "trolls" and go "oh, crap."
Especially right now, since the trolls for my upcoming setting are based in part not only on the kind that turn to stone in the dawn sun, but also a mish mash of Man-thing and Swamp thing with shambling mounds and big foot and Yetis. They are one of the more common critters one can encounter on Wyrlde.
I am going to be sadly very busy today, but i will try to get some interesting mythical thing yanked out of my head. Housecleaning iis a sunday thing, especially after a game night.
Or icelandic trolls, who would be fairly chill to anyone non human. (They’re kinda afraid of humans) (the vikings set a bad first impression)
why are there so many trolls!!!
Ehehehehe the party would be doomed if you made them fight an internet troll >:3 (otter face= :3)
Oh my gods, you genius!
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They kind of skipped a small section. When Quetzalcoatl went to get the bones from the death god, the Lord of the Dead (I forget his name) wouldn't let him take them. The bones were his and he was worried that they wouldn't give them back. Quetzalcoatl said that he wouldn't steal the bones, only borrow them. Humans would be mortal and he would get the bones back when they die. The Lord of the Dead still didn't really want to give up his bones, so he said, "Very well, you may borrow my bones but first you will have to play music on this conch shell." He gave him a normal conch shell that shouldn't have been able to play music, but Quetzalcoatl called upon the worms and the bees to aid him. (When your god needs the help of a bumblebee and an earthworm to save your soul you should know it is time to find a different faith) The worms carved holes in the shell and the bees flew inside and their buzzing caused the shell to produce beautiful music. The Lord of the Dead was forced to give the bones of man to Quetzalcoatl and, with the help of Xolotl who helped him get into the underworld, he returned to the surface world. The Snake goddess ground the broken bones and mixed them with Quetzalcoatl's blood, creating the first humans.
Also, when the current sun was going into the sky, the moon god decided it wanted to be the sun instead and tried to take the sun god's place. One of the other gods threw a rabbit at the moon god in an attempt to slow him down and the moon god obviously couldn't let the bunny fall so he caught it. But by then the sun god was in his proper place and the moon god was stuck as a moon god but at least he had a bunny.
They kind of skipped a small section. When Quetzalcoatl went to get the bones from the death god, the Lord of the Dead (I forget his name) wouldn't let him take them. The bones were his and he was worried that they wouldn't give them back. Quetzalcoatl said that he wouldn't steal the bones, only borrow them. Humans would be mortal and he would get the bones back when they die. The Lord of the Dead still didn't really want to give up his bones, so he said, "Very well, you may borrow my bones but first you will have to play music on this conch shell." He gave him a normal conch shell that shouldn't have been able to play music, but Quetzalcoatl called upon the worms and the bees to aid him. (When your god needs the help of a bumblebee and an earthworm to save your soul you should know it is time to find a different faith) The worms carved holes in the shell and the bees flew inside and their buzzing caused the shell to produce beautiful music. The Lord of the Dead was forced to give the bones of man to Quetzalcoatl and, with the help of Xolotl who helped him get into the underworld, he returned to the surface world. The Snake goddess ground the broken bones and mixed them with Quetzalcoatl's blood, creating the first humans.
Also, when the current sun was going into the sky, the moon god decided it wanted to be the sun instead and tried to take the sun god's place. One of the other gods threw a rabbit at the moon god in an attempt to slow him down and the moon god obviously couldn't let the bunny fall so he caught it. But by then the sun god was in his proper place and the moon god was stuck as a moon god but at least he had a bunny.
I think the reason she skipped the whole things with the human bones was because time constraints, also, the thing with the bunny is SO ADORABLE for a mythology that's all BLOOD AND DEATH!
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hi all. I am apologizing for not having a good one for today. Work is being a little problematic.
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I had a funny idea. So imagine you're the DM for a metagaming party and you tell them they're going to fight trolls. So they begin to stack up on fire and acid weapons. Then, when they're about to start the fight, you reveal the trolls are the mythological trolls and that fire and acid isn't strong against them.
What do you think would happen then?
This would depend on *which* mythological trolls, lol....
Bridge trolls are different from Tunnel trolls from Forest trolls -- and that's just in one segment.
Then you have the assorted different variations of nordic trolls (five different types, lol, ranging from the ones like in Frozen to the giants of to the kind that turn to stone at the touch of the sun).
by some recollections, Fomorians (one of the ancient enemies of ireland) were trolls, driven out by the Tuatha.
But none of this changes the point, lol.
You see, it would depend on how much one's players know about the DM's knowledge of trolls. My folks (which include people I have been friends with for over 50 years and their kids and grandkids) would hear me say "trolls" and go "oh, crap."
Especially right now, since the trolls for my upcoming setting are based in part not only on the kind that turn to stone in the dawn sun, but also a mish mash of Man-thing and Swamp thing with shambling mounds and big foot and Yetis. They are one of the more common critters one can encounter on Wyrlde.
I am going to be sadly very busy today, but i will try to get some interesting mythical thing yanked out of my head. Housecleaning iis a sunday thing, especially after a game night.
Or icelandic trolls, who would be fairly chill to anyone non human. (They’re kinda afraid of humans) (the vikings set a bad first impression)
why are there so many trolls!!!
Ehehehehe the party would be doomed if you made them fight an internet troll >:3 (otter face= :3)
In African mythology, there are many monsters that are based on hyenas. Really it isn't surprising. Hyenas are dangerous beasts with bone crunching jaws, often caked in blood and gore, that fill the night with their cackling. Here are a few hyena monsters.
There was the Nandi bear, a creature that came from the Nandi people. The Nandi Bear is said to be a giant bear that can stand on its hind legs, has a hyena-like face, and reddish fur. Its claws are long, and it has high shoulders and a sloping back. Sometimes they are also described as having six-digits, and a single eye. It is said to scalp people, and eat their brains. The Nandi bear is considered to be a cryptid, and many believe it actually exists. Because of its brain eating habits, I would say that this creature would make a good mind flayer related Dnd monster. Maybe mind flayers have infected bears or hyenas, causing them to mutate and become hideous monsters who attack on sight and eat the brains of their victims. Then, when the bear has aged to the point of near death, it travels to the elder brain and falls into its pool, dissolving and giving it all the nutrients from the brains that it has collected.
There are also creatures that I will call Hyenaweres (I forget the real name). They aren't werehyenas, because hyenaweres are hyenas that become human, not humans that become hyenas. They are said to take the role of magic users, and one account tells of a man that would rub himself with a stick to become a hyena at night, and then rub himself with the stick again to become a human in the morning. Hyenaweres do attack people, and their favorite prey are lovers. People really did believe in this monster though, and some thought that there were whole villages with the population made up of hyenaweres.
The Kishi is a strange beast that acts similarly to a succubus. They look like humans and lure others in, and then reveal that they have a hyena mouth on the back of their head. They then proceed to devour their victims with the hyena mouth on the back of their head which is as strong as a normal hyenas bite.
Vampiric hyenas are also a thing. Greeks believed that if a dead werewolf's body was not destroyed, then it would transform into a vampiric hyena and haunt battlefields, sucking the blood from dead and wounded soldiers. Others thought that was what hyenas did normally.
I also remember reading a tale about a hyena that wanted to scare someone (as if they aren't scary enough) so he did the obvious prankster move. He took off his skin, exposing the slimy muscles, white bones, and pulsing veins underneath, such a classic trickster move.
Dnd already has gnolls, so these could easily be used to spice them up. Maybe giving them some extra powers and monsters that fight for them. I personally would love to see the look on a player's face when the gnoll they are fighting decides to take off its skin. I think that would lower its armor class, but it should make the players get the frightened condition. Then, once the gnoll has been killed and they leave the crime scene, they hear rumors of a vampiric hyena that has been attacking travelers at night. (Always dispose of the body) Later they find out that the neighboring gnoll tribe has made an alliance with a mind flayer colony, and now Nandi Bears are wreaking havoc.
Side Comment on Ancient Greece...
The prototypical City State model used in many RPG fantasy games is modeled not on cities of the Dark Ages or late Roman years, but on the greek one.
The City States of ancient Greece were all extremely different from one another. Thanks to the occasionally blood crazed Frank Miller, we have the whole ideal of Spartans as the ultimate macho warriors, and while an immense and rather rude portrayal, it still isn't too far off. Spartans did not have such a diversity of genders. there was a lot more to them than shown, however, and much of it was oversimplified. For example, Sparta was ruled by two kings and a council of elders. It emphasized maintaining a strong military, while Athens valued education and art. In Athens every male citizen had the right to vote, so they were ruled by a democracy. Rather than have a strong army, Athens maintained their navy.
Thebes did, Athens was more "well, fine, if you must, but I ain't gonna like, do anything", Argos and Rodes, and Corinth and Syracuse were all way different.
At the peak of the City State Era, there were well over a 1000 different city states, each a complete and utter stand alone, self supportive entity.They differed greatly from the each other in governing philosophies and interests. What we think of as "greek culture" actually grew out of the "figuring it out" stage at the end of the Age of Cities, as outside forces (such as the Persian invasions) forced them to ally again and again not as what we think of as Greeks, but really as just a bunch of different countries. Those invasions (and there were a lot of them) slowly forged the idea and identity of the many different kinds of people into the ones we know today -- and arguably it was the Romans who really finalized that process.
After they (the Romans) finally overthrew the Etruscans, they were more than a little inspired by their frequent trading partners, and decided they simply had to be part of the whole. So they went and took it, lol.
and before all of that, of course, you have the Minoan culture.
Honestly, I wonder what the cultures of the non-settled, still hunter gatherer sorts were like when they reached the Straits of Bosphorus. The Black Sea and the Mediterranean, so obviously still a "new" thing (geologically). That those early PIE folks would become the forebears of so much certainly could not have been within their scope of possible thinking.
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Or icelandic trolls, who would be fairly chill to anyone non human. (They’re kinda afraid of humans) (the vikings set a bad first impression)
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why are there so many trolls!!!
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Ehehehehe the party would be doomed if you made them fight an internet troll >:3 (otter face= :3)
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Terry Pratchett & Brian Jacques. Best authors of all time. Change my mind.
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Oh my gods, you genius!
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Hey look at this blood and death!
https://youtu.be/dfupAlon_8k
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They kind of skipped a small section. When Quetzalcoatl went to get the bones from the death god, the Lord of the Dead (I forget his name) wouldn't let him take them. The bones were his and he was worried that they wouldn't give them back. Quetzalcoatl said that he wouldn't steal the bones, only borrow them. Humans would be mortal and he would get the bones back when they die. The Lord of the Dead still didn't really want to give up his bones, so he said, "Very well, you may borrow my bones but first you will have to play music on this conch shell." He gave him a normal conch shell that shouldn't have been able to play music, but Quetzalcoatl called upon the worms and the bees to aid him. (When your god needs the help of a bumblebee and an earthworm to save your soul you should know it is time to find a different faith) The worms carved holes in the shell and the bees flew inside and their buzzing caused the shell to produce beautiful music. The Lord of the Dead was forced to give the bones of man to Quetzalcoatl and, with the help of Xolotl who helped him get into the underworld, he returned to the surface world. The Snake goddess ground the broken bones and mixed them with Quetzalcoatl's blood, creating the first humans.
Also, when the current sun was going into the sky, the moon god decided it wanted to be the sun instead and tried to take the sun god's place. One of the other gods threw a rabbit at the moon god in an attempt to slow him down and the moon god obviously couldn't let the bunny fall so he caught it. But by then the sun god was in his proper place and the moon god was stuck as a moon god but at least he had a bunny.
I think the reason she skipped the whole things with the human bones was because time constraints, also, the thing with the bunny is SO ADORABLE for a mythology that's all BLOOD AND DEATH!
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragon sensei! I am the inventor! I am the trickster! I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I am the maker of The Cult of Mythology Nerds!
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hi all. I am apologizing for not having a good one for today. Work is being a little problematic.
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In African mythology, there are many monsters that are based on hyenas. Really it isn't surprising. Hyenas are dangerous beasts with bone crunching jaws, often caked in blood and gore, that fill the night with their cackling. Here are a few hyena monsters.
There was the Nandi bear, a creature that came from the Nandi people. The Nandi Bear is said to be a giant bear that can stand on its hind legs, has a hyena-like face, and reddish fur. Its claws are long, and it has high shoulders and a sloping back. Sometimes they are also described as having six-digits, and a single eye. It is said to scalp people, and eat their brains. The Nandi bear is considered to be a cryptid, and many believe it actually exists. Because of its brain eating habits, I would say that this creature would make a good mind flayer related Dnd monster. Maybe mind flayers have infected bears or hyenas, causing them to mutate and become hideous monsters who attack on sight and eat the brains of their victims. Then, when the bear has aged to the point of near death, it travels to the elder brain and falls into its pool, dissolving and giving it all the nutrients from the brains that it has collected.
There are also creatures that I will call Hyenaweres (I forget the real name). They aren't werehyenas, because hyenaweres are hyenas that become human, not humans that become hyenas. They are said to take the role of magic users, and one account tells of a man that would rub himself with a stick to become a hyena at night, and then rub himself with the stick again to become a human in the morning. Hyenaweres do attack people, and their favorite prey are lovers. People really did believe in this monster though, and some thought that there were whole villages with the population made up of hyenaweres.
The Kishi is a strange beast that acts similarly to a succubus. They look like humans and lure others in, and then reveal that they have a hyena mouth on the back of their head. They then proceed to devour their victims with the hyena mouth on the back of their head which is as strong as a normal hyenas bite.
Vampiric hyenas are also a thing. Greeks believed that if a dead werewolf's body was not destroyed, then it would transform into a vampiric hyena and haunt battlefields, sucking the blood from dead and wounded soldiers. Others thought that was what hyenas did normally.
I also remember reading a tale about a hyena that wanted to scare someone (as if they aren't scary enough) so he did the obvious prankster move. He took off his skin, exposing the slimy muscles, white bones, and pulsing veins underneath, such a classic trickster move.
Dnd already has gnolls, so these could easily be used to spice them up. Maybe giving them some extra powers and monsters that fight for them. I personally would love to see the look on a player's face when the gnoll they are fighting decides to take off its skin. I think that would lower its armor class, but it should make the players get the frightened condition. Then, once the gnoll has been killed and they leave the crime scene, they hear rumors of a vampiric hyena that has been attacking travelers at night. (Always dispose of the body) Later they find out that the neighboring gnoll tribe has made an alliance with a mind flayer colony, and now Nandi Bears are wreaking havoc.
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