Gauntlet Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 (edited) This is a Topic going over what are some of the Nasty things that a Big Bad Monster might do to the Player Characters. Like swallowing you whole or smashing you into the ground or anything else you would like to see that huge behemoth of a Worm, or Lizard, or Insect, or whatever might do. Edited January 18 by Gauntlet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 How about Throw you for distance? Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauntlet Posted January 18 Author Report Share Posted January 18 33 minutes ago, Ninja-Bear said: How about Throw you for distance? I never thought of that one. I have seen it in Champions but never in FH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 I'm guessing you want to move beyond the whole clawing and biting routine. Variations of stepping on you -- trample you in a charge, jump on you or fall on you. Or literally step on you if their feet are big enough. Squeeze you to death -- tentacles, serpentine body, trunk, bear hug, or in their hands if they're big enough. Drop something really heavy on you -- boulder, tree trunk, pillar or collapsed building or cavern ceiling. Dismember you -- pull off your arms or legs, tear your head off, or grab your body at either end and rip you in two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 (edited) Whoop, never mind, right in the OP. Edited January 19 by Rich McGee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ninja-Bear said: How about Throw you for distance? And its cousin, throwing you at another target, most likely a PC. Swallow and spit back out at someone is a variant. Beware the giant archer fish. One of my GMs back in the 70s had a stone giant encounter where they were pretty much playing baseball with the PCs. One of them would pick you up and throw you at another one with a club, who would bat you to a third one who'd catch and squash you a bit before throwing you back to the pitcher for a replay. Think the was the first encounter I was ever the sole survivor of, by dint of Brave Sir Robin tactics. I might have been nine years old but I wasn't a dummy. Big spiky monsters might grab you and impale you on its spines like a butcherbird does with insects on thorns or barbed wire. There's a smallish (20' tall IIRC) D&D monster called a corpse collector that does that, bringing its load back its necromancer owner when full. Might also get impaled like that just by being run/rolled over by a bigger spiky critter, getting injured and pulled along with the monster until you pull free. Big slimes and macro-amoebas and the like might engulf you, which is pretty much like being swallowed with a "Go Directly To Stomach, Do Not Pass Teeth" modifier. A really, really big monster might accidentally inhale or ingest whole groups of people, with its internal organs becoming a new hazardous battleground where you can contend with its immune system and possibly other victims. Snit's Revenge time. Edited January 19 by Rich McGee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauntlet Posted January 19 Author Report Share Posted January 19 What about throwing up slime that will digest you and then it will suck it and you back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Paralyse you for later. Or bind you up in webs Grab you and take you home for their children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Knock you down, wrap you up, blind you with debris their wings stir up, stomp you with area effect feet, bite limbs off, knock you flying, stun you with a roar, terrify you, cause you to at least temporarily go insane, destroy your equipment, off the top of my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 Frankly, the most horrific thing I can imagine is the monster overpowers you, and while you are unconscious it implants an egg in you. The larva hatches inside and consumes you from within as it develops, carefully avoiding doing any immediately lethal damage until it is ready to emerge, which could take months or years. There are bits of this concept in the Alien franchise and other sci-fi tales, of course, but it could be done in a fantasy context as well. Ninja-Bear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauntlet Posted January 22 Author Report Share Posted January 22 18 minutes ago, Cancer said: Frankly, the most horrific thing I can imagine is the monster overpowers you, and while you are unconscious it implants an egg in you. The larva hatches inside and consumes you from within as it develops, carefully avoiding doing any immediately lethal damage until it is ready to emerge, which could take months or years. There are bits of this concept in the Alien franchise and other sci-fi tales, of course, but it could be done in a fantasy context as well. That or the replacement monster like those from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 While it may not be directly harmful to you, a really, really big monster might be able to ruin your life by destroying the place you live in when you aren't adventuring along with the NPCs you count as friends and allies. Your childhood home, your personal stronghold if you have one, the castle of that noble who acts as your most important patron, the capital city of your nation, etc. The 13th Age campaign Eyes of the Stone Thief does this once the party has delved there a few times and escaped, getting the attention of the eponymous living dungeon mega-monster. It will start burrowing under entire settlements connected to the PCs when they aren't around, swallowing them from below. You'll find the shattered remains of places you once knew the next time you delve there, making the whole campaign stakes a lot more personal. Few things scarier than a dungeon with a grudge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 16 hours ago, Gauntlet said: That or the replacement monster like those from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Doppelgängers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauntlet Posted January 23 Author Report Share Posted January 23 3 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said: Doppelgängers Basically but an a much larger scale. Doppelgängers are one for one, while Body Snatchers go for the entire planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 4 hours ago, Gauntlet said: Basically but an a much larger scale. Doppelgängers are one for one, while Body Snatchers go for the entire planet. Fantasy Hero has them listed as a Race so in my mind the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 On 1/22/2024 at 12:57 PM, Cancer said: Frankly, the most horrific thing I can imagine is the monster overpowers you, and while you are unconscious it implants an egg in you. The larva hatches inside and consumes you from within as it develops, carefully avoiding doing any immediately lethal damage until it is ready to emerge, which could take months or years. There are bits of this concept in the Alien franchise and other sci-fi tales, of course, but it could be done in a fantasy context as well. *conscious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauntlet Posted January 24 Author Report Share Posted January 24 12 hours ago, Old Man said: *conscious Yea, while being paralyzed but able to feel it growing and growing inside of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MordeanGrey Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 A famous encounter from 25-30 years ago with our gaming group was a female player who had the equivalent of a giant tape worm inside of her. The party decided to cut her open to remove it and as soon as the player made the first incision the GM said, “Initiative!” 😅 Rich McGee and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 10 minutes ago, MordeanGrey said: A famous encounter from 25-30 years ago with our gaming group was a female player who had the equivalent of a giant tape worm inside of her. The party decided to cut her open to remove it and as soon as the player made the first incision the GM said, “Initiative!” 😅 We had something vaguely similar with a shrinking/mind controller villain in V&V way back in the day. We knew he'd "infected" the mayor and were standing in his office discussing potential "treatments" for getting him out when the mayor gets an odd look on his face and we hear him say (in the villain's voice) "You know I can hear you, right?" MordeanGrey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauntlet Posted January 25 Author Report Share Posted January 25 In one of my games I had a player character that could infect people with worms that would increase their stats, and if he wanted them to, control them as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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