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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