SBG Fantasy Design Competition Discussion: Bestiary

Just Previewing how they should look:


Armourdillo





armourdillo (ok, fine, armordillo for the Americans)



Height: 2ft



length: 4 ft



diameter 2.5 -3 ft



Weight: 60 lbs for young specimens, up to 300 lbs+



Strength: immense



Intelligence: low, slightly above armadillo



Language: animal noises



Special Abilities: eats and digest metal and ore, when in extreme can trough porcupine-like metal spikes, takes time to regrow, great digger (even through stone)



Special Defenses: roll-into-ball, thick metal shell, quite heat resistant



Appearance:a large armadillo with a metal shell, metal claws, metal spiked tail



Rarity: found only in areas with large amounts of scrap metal or rich ore (battlefields)



notes: the metal shell is in a special crystalline (and alloyed based on its diet) structure that is flexible but extremely hard and does not felt until about 3 times the melting point of steel, and is mildly toxic. it is thus sought for its special metallurgical properties by skill artisans. the empire farms them and calls them vitarmatura (living armour). though it is diffuclt to remove the armour from them while living, it is not lethal and possible by skilled mages



Habits: nocturnal, solitary, family groups with young, mammal

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Autoscripton


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autosctripton (self writer) (Imperial term)





Height: 6in



humanoid, with wings



type: fae, self-propagating thought-form



Weight: 200-400 g



Strength: enough for its size



Intelligence: IQ ~110, very creative, and occasionally witty



Language: can learn anything



Special Abilities: can change its appearance, and temporarily other attributes by bathing in ink or by writing on itself in elvish (e.g. for strong makes it strong) ink tattoos will fade within 60 min; ink baths can last up to 6h



Special Defenses: small



Appearance: small fairy, with glyphs floating on their garments



Rarity: found naturally only in special magical places in the earth where the earth itself seems to thinks them into being

can be found in the citadel where they have a symbiotic relationship with the mages, for whom they do small tasks in exchange for a supply of ink and room and board (naturally including room and board)

like all fae, their presence can increase the potency of magic



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Gulo Oktopodus





Question for the mods or tech minded:

Can I add attachments (pics primarily) as I go along or do I have to place them all at the beginning and then insert the text around the pictures ?   If this is the case I'll run out of space on the post for attachments before i get to the letter b and it would prevent inserting new creatures into alphabetical order.  Would it be better to create individual threads per creature/monster and then make a separate thread as an index like the review threads or the Vendor thread ?

 Thanks in advance, Pete

Orc, Uruk Hai-ish

Height: 6-7ft

Weight:200-375lbs (dependant on armor)

Strength: Average to Olympic Ability (before magical enhancement)

Intelligence: Low to Average

Languages: Orcish (Occasionally Common, Abyssal, or their "employers" language)

Special Abilities: Nothing magical, but uncanny tracking skills due to heightened hearing, sense

of smell, and low-light vision. 


Special Defenses: With high constitution, Orcs can take a beating and keep on coming, but the majority 

are not quick learners and hence have short life spans. 

Appearance and Rarity: Out in open country, mountains, deserts, and the Badlands especially, maurading bands of brutish Orcs are quite 

common. Powerful Wizards, Abyssal Lords, and anyone with enough money, magical items, or food can "employ" the services of an Orc
band.......but, as the old saying goes "Only a fool trusts an Orc twice." On rare occasions wealthy merchants will employ "civilized" Orc children they've found abandoned and raise them to be servants, valets, or even bodyguards. Female Orcs fight alongside and are trained with the males, the only difference in gender being childbirthing. Half-Orc children are often beaten and berated, but not treated as "outcasts" like they would be in Human societies. 

 and sometimes they eat human children.....



Lifespan: The oldest living Orc on record never learned to count........

That's not his....he's being a Saint and "organizing" our mess! Sorry D.S!!😅

Hey you don't have to be an artist to have some kind of drawing I can't draw that great but I try my best plus I'm only good at Disney characters and some drawing of swords.

I'm assuming you're talking about Dumbo lol

building off my idea for a war club from a tail bone how about this (not my image one i found on line ), a dragon variform hunted for its use as armor and weapons in a steel deficient area,perhaps this is where the dwarfs dwell,
  for scale 


also stumbled on to this page might get the muse descending for some au.pinterest.com/pin/427982770824531260/

That'd be a great winged dinosaur! I'm starting with the smaller creatures first......other than Andi's bold entry of Giant Flying Jellyfish (a Bavarian delicacy I'm thinking?) 😉and his riding centipede/giant worm! Bigger stuff as the countries and cities fill up with people and characters to challenge such massive creatures! 

SURE! You want me to write it up first thing in the morning or you can use the one I started out with for the tundra yeti, or the Orc one is a better detailed one. Do you think me picking the Uruk Hai style orcs from LOTR was better than the boring old D&D Orcs?? LOVING your ideas by the way Mon Ami!!

Jul 16, 2017 4:58:53 GMT -4 AndiTheBarvarian said:

I think it could be a good idea to post one empty template without any comment, which we can quote and fill with our weirdo stuff.

If the first line is the creature's name you perhaps can sort it alphabetically.

I would add a line for the "usage" f.e. "inhabitant" or "mount" or "pack animal" (hehe).  

Excellent Suggestion- Here you go:


Blank Format - Copy, Paste and Fill in:


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NAME:


Post Picture here(if any)

 


Height:







length:







diameter







Weight:







Strength:







Intelligence:







Language:







Special Abilities:







Special Defenses: 






Appearance:l







Rarity:







notes:







Habits:




Usage:


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