Monstrous Menaces #5


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Item Code:

06005
Title: Monstrous Menaces #5
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 last in a series of new monsters to populate his dungeons and wilderness.  Each installment of the Monstrous Menaces series presents three new monsters.
The last installment presents the Castle Keeper with a 3 HD Monstrous Humanoid, a 5 HD Aberration, and a 1 to 6 HD Magical Beast.  Each entry includes complete listings for the monster's description, organization, ecology, treasure, range, and special abilities.
Chupacabra

A chupacabra is a small humanoid creature, about the size of a halfling or goblin, with lizard and canine-like features that much resemble that of a kobold (though there is no relation between chupacabras and kobolds).  Chupacabras have large, dull black eyes, gray to green skin, and large clawed hands and feet, though these last are relatively weak and are not used in combat.  A long row of sharp spines runs down its back; again, these serve to make the creature look more fearsome, but do not serve any useful purpose.
Felpha

This creature takes the form of a three-foot diameter, pinkish-tan, warty fleshy sphere, looking not unlike the hairless skin of a human sans muscle and bone, blown up with hot air - a balloon made of human flesh, essentially.  It has five human-like, ugly, pinched, and androgynous faces, each facing a different direction along the equator of its body, each complete with two eyes, nose, fang-filled mouth, chin, and two ears.  A thick cluster of dozens of five-foot long tentacles depend from the bottom, each ending in a trio of finger-like pincers.
Olgoi-Khorkhoi

Otherwise known as the Death Worm, this giant worm-like creature is actually distantly related to the caecilians, and thus an amphibian of sorts, though through magical mutation it possesses abilities more like that of a reptile.  Death Worms range in length from six inches to 30 feet, being six inches long per hit point, and one-tenth their length in diameter.
They are limbless, and they appear to be segmented, like a worm, as their serpentine body is divided by ring-shaped folds; thus the confusion as to its true nature, as it physically resembles a giant worm.  Its head is covered with thick, bony plates that it uses to push through soil and even stone with greater ease; these open wide in a four-pointed star fashion, almost like razor-sharp mandibles, to reveal its fanged maw.  Coloration is a brick to scarlet red, with the bony head and fangs pure white.
 


Printing Information
 

This was also released in print as Monstrous Menaces Compendium 1-5.
 


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