Item Code: |
06004 |
Title: |
Monstrous Menaces #4 |
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 fourth in a series of new monsters to
populate his dungeons and wilderness. Each installment of the
Monstrous Menaces series presents three new monsters.
The fourth installment presents the
Castle Keeper with a 7 HD Magical Beast, a 5 HD Extraplanar
Being, and a 1 to 12 HD Magical Beast. Each entry includes
complete listings for the monster's description, organization, ecology,
treasure, range, and special abilities.
Hribixul
A hribixul is a creature born of madness, a distant cousin of the
chimera - it has the forequarters of a sabertooth tiger, the
hindquarters of a llama, two long giant serpent tails, and three heads:
sabertooth tiger, llama, and giant serpent. It stands as tall as a
warhorse, and the serpent tails are each 15 feet long and can operate
independently. The large sabertooth tiger head is central, with
the llama and serpent heads to each flank. Though smaller and
lighter than a chimera, they are utterly inimical to their distant
cousins, and attack each other on sight.
Memnech
Memnech, also known as "Blades of Vengeance," are beings from a distant
planar sphere of order and balance. They hire out to various
deities as mercenaries, but only for missions where the deity is
avenging him or herself on heretics, schismatics, blasphemers,
desecrators of temples, and the like, never for conquest or to fight in
the deity's other battles. The price is always paid in jewelry,
which memnech often wear on their missions.
Memnech take the form of tall, muscular, hairless male and female humans
with four arms and glowing eyes that blaze white with righteous fury.
Skin coloration is always unusual, such as pure white, ebon black, blood
red, lime green, and the like, to set the memnech apart from common
mortals. They also have four feathered wings, each feather
alternating platinum white or ebon black.
Quasi-Dragon
Quasi-dragons, also known as false dragons, dragon-lizards, or
dragon-serpents, are large, frilled and finned, scaled creatures with
features of both serpent and lizard and dragon. It is thought that
they are either a primitive ancestor to true dragons or a distant cousin
thereof. In some lands they are plentiful enough that they are
considered true dragons, and true dragons are considered to be the
royalty of dragon-kind.
The typical quasi-dragon has a body like that of a lizard, with a neck
as long as its body, and with a tail as long as neck and body combined.
Its legs are short and stumpy, but quite strong, giving them a sinuous
serpentine appearance. The head is crocodilian, with many long
jagged teeth and a long red tongue. Some bear horns upon their
head and frills around their neck, especially old males, and they have a
long line of spikes down their back. Midway down their back, on
either side of the spikes, are long fins, like those on various species
of lizards; in some these take the appearance of vestigial wings.
Printing Information
This was also released in print as
Monstrous Menaces Compendium 1-5.
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