I once made a Dire Armadillo for a campaign. Instead of having a smooth spherical shell, it had a jagged stone like shell. When it rolled up, it could come down a mountainside like a giant boulder. The party was hired to find out what was destroying houses in a village at the base of the mountain this thing lived on. The village was recently established and had heard terrible rock slide sounds in the evening. As a mining community, almost everyone was out working or gathering food and supplies during the day. When they would come home in the evening to find a decimated building and hear old ladies and children telling stories about living bolders or rock monsters, they began to worry that they had offended some god or a massive earth elemental. A small party was formed by some miners. Not all returned, and the ones that did had broken pickaxes and severe injuries. Whatever it was, it was clearly too much for them to handle.
Question of the week: So many options, but I would have to say Dire Muskrat. Muskrat on their own can be quite vicious, but having one with teeth the size of shortswords would be fantastic. It would have a swim speed and the amphibious trait. Being able to set up a house out in the water that could only be entered from below the surface of the water could really cut down on unwanted house guests as well. That thick oily pelt would definitely bump up its AC and adding a tail lash ability as part of its action economy wouldn't be bad either. I could definitely see it getting sneak attack damage in environments like marshes, shorelines of lakes, and riverbanks. As for the lore, they were once bread in captivity by a clan of Hill Giants as a food source. As the number of giants dwindled from the great wars, the Dire Muskrats found opportunities to chew away at the fencelines of their massive pens and eventually escaped. Now roaming the world for the first time as free creatures, they have begun to set up small colonies in mostly temperate climates. They try to stay away from major urban and built up areas and tend to be territorial by nature because of their past.
I once made a Dire Armadillo for a campaign. Instead of having a smooth spherical shell, it had a jagged stone like shell. When it rolled up, it could come down a mountainside like a giant boulder. The party was hired to find out what was destroying houses in a village at the base of the mountain this thing lived on. The village was recently established and had heard terrible rock slide sounds in the evening. As a mining community, almost everyone was out working or gathering food and supplies during the day. When they would come home in the evening to find a decimated building and hear old ladies and children telling stories about living bolders or rock monsters, they began to worry that they had offended some god or a massive earth elemental. A small party was formed by some miners. Not all returned, and the ones that did had broken pickaxes and severe injuries. Whatever it was, it was clearly too much for them to handle.
Question of the week: So many options, but I would have to say Dire Muskrat. Muskrat on their own can be quite vicious, but having one with teeth the size of shortswords would be fantastic. It would have a swim speed and the amphibious trait. Being able to set up a house out in the water that could only be entered from below the surface of the water could really cut down on unwanted house guests as well. That thick oily pelt would definitely bump up its AC and adding a tail lash ability as part of its action economy wouldn't be bad either. I could definitely see it getting sneak attack damage in environments like marshes, shorelines of lakes, and riverbanks. As for the lore, they were once bread in captivity by a clan of Hill Giants as a food source. As the number of giants dwindled from the great wars, the Dire Muskrats found opportunities to chew away at the fencelines of their massive pens and eventually escaped. Now roaming the world for the first time as free creatures, they have begun to set up small colonies in mostly temperate climates. They try to stay away from major urban and built up areas and tend to be territorial by nature because of their past.
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i REALLY like the dire moose and penguin!
enjoyed this one a lot!!! very fun idea and i will be using it! i’ll let y’all know; already thinking about dire crows, honey badgers, and more!!!
Sounds amazing! We'd love to see what you come up with!
dire owl for a mount
A very wise choice
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