Item Code: |
06001 |
Title: |
Monstrous Menaces #1 |
Type: |
Supplement |
System: |
Castles & Crusades |
Author(s): |
James Mishler |
Editor(s): |
James Mishler |
Artist(s): |
Peter Bradley |
Date Published: |
2009 |
Format: |
8-page PDF |
Original Price: |
$1.00 |
The first in a series of new monsters to
populate his dungeons and wilderness. Each installment of the
Monstrous Menaces series presents three new monsters.
The first installment presents the
Castle Keeper with a 4 HD Monstrous Humanoid, a 6 HD
Aberration, and a 1 to 16 HD Magical Beast. Each entry includes
complete listings for the monster's description, organization, ecology,
treasure, range, and special abilities.
Gharlidh
Gharlidhs are a horrific subterranean humanoid race purportedly bred by
an evil underground overlord. They feature characteristics of
humans, goblins, and orcs, but only vaguely, for most of their five to
seven-foot tall body is covered by bony growth from the top of their
thick skull to tips of their clawed toes. Their head is misshapen,
as they have neither eyes nor nose, and so the skull slopes unnaturally;
their ears however are huge, hairy, and pointed. Their mouth is
huge, and filled with many sharp fangs.
Grulnosc
Grulnoscs look much like a giant snail with an extremely thick,
stone-like shell, save that it stands six to eight feet tall at the top
of its shell. Upon closer examination, however, the slimy flesh of
the creature is revealed to be utterly different in nature from that of
normal snails, or any other known living creature, and the shell is of
solid rock, latticed with metals and perhaps even gems; the seven eye
stalks with very human-like eyes that it projects from its "head" also
indicate to those steeped in animal lore that this is not a natural
creature, or even a giant-sized version of such.
Rocktopus
At some dark point in the history of the world, oceanic octopi were
magically mutated such that they took to life on dry land, albeit
preferably in wet subterranean locations, though these creatures can
survive quite well aboveground in tropical locations such as rain
forests, jungles, swamps, and marshes; anywhere, really, provided there
is a large and deep pool of water for spawning. Full-grown
rocktopi are nine to 16 feet long (one foot per hit die), with eight
long tentacles of many suckers, a large bulbous body, two large eyes,
and a razor-sharp beak.
Printing Information
This was also released in print as
Monstrous Menaces Compendium 1-5.
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