[The karnabo is a regional bogey from the Ardennes, a mountain range on the border of France and Belgium. Specifically, it’s associated with the fort of Rocroi and its surrounding commune, so it’s hyper-localized. It’s also very cool looking; I’m a sucker for anything with an elephant trunk. A Book of Creatures says that it has “basilisk eyes”, which probably means a death gaze, but instant kill abilities, as we know, are pretty rare in PF1e. It’s said to be the child of a sorcerer and a ghoul, so I gave it sorcerer spellcasting and links to ghouls in the flavor text.]
Karnabo
CR 10 CE Monstrous Humanoid
This creature appears like a swollen, elephantine humanoid with thick gray skin and a long trunk instead of a nose. It stands taller than a man. Its eyes are hollow and haunting.
The karnabo is a ghastly creature that dwells in caves and mountain peaks. It feeds on travelers, but not indiscriminately, because a karnabo enjoys building its reputation and spreading fear. When it attacks, it will usually go out of its way to leave someone alive to tell the tale, and may take hostages to amuse itself with before letting them go with ample horror stories. One of the strangest things about karnabo behavior is that they have several minor healing abilities, and will often times patch up a victim before setting them on their way. Some karnabo even act as dedicated healers during holidays, although their criteria for whom they heal and when is often arbitrarily narrow. Those who fail such measures are attacked.
A karnabo has sorcerous powers, which they use to increase their mobility and stealth capacities—karnabo are decidedly slow and steady. Once within range, they reveal themselves to use their most potent weapon, a gaze that kills by liquefying the organs. Creatures that flee may be halted in their tracks with a shrill, fear-inducing whistle, or merely blasted with spells, depending on the karnabo’s whims. Few karnabos fight to the death, as their purposes are served by leaving scarred and wounded survivors.
Karnabos are usually solitary, as they are long lived, reproduce rarely, and prefer isolated landscapes. Their diet is the remains of their victim’s organs, reduced to slurry with their gaze and sucked up in the trunk and drunk like an elephant does with water. If they kill a victim with other means, they will let it ripen and rot to liquid putrefaction before drinking that. Whatever is left is abandoned to the elements, or occasionally fed to friends. Karnabos get along well with ghouls, and can be found in their company.
Karnabo CR 10
XP 9,600
CE Medium monstrous humanoid
Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +13, scent
Defense
AC 22, touch 10, flat-footed 22 (+12 natural)
hp 126 (12d10+60)
Fort +11, Ref +8, Will +11
Immune ability damage, ability drain, energy drain, paralysis
Defensive Abilities stability
Offense
Speed 20 ft.
Melee 2 slams +16 (1d8+4)
Special Attacks gaze, paralyzing whistle
Spells CL 9th, concentration +13 (+17 casting defensively)
4th (5/day)—fear (DC 18), stoneskin
3rd (7/day)—fly, lightning bolt (DC 17), ray of exhaustion (DC 17)
2nd (7/day)—cat’s grace, command undead (DC 16), invisibility, scorching ray
1st (7/day)—expeditious retreat, lock gaze (DC 15), mage armor, magic missile, shocking grasp
0th—detect magic, detect poison, light, mage hand, message, read magic, resistance, touch of fatigue (DC 14)
Spell-like Abilities CL 9th, concentration +13 (+17 casting defensively)
3/day—cure moderate wounds (DC 16), lesser restoration
1/day—remove disease
Statistics
Str 19, Dex 11, Con 21, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 18
Base Atk +12; CMB +16; CMD 26 (30 vs. bull rush, trip)
Feats Arcane Strike, Combat Casting, Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Silent Spell, Skill Focus (Stealth)
Skills Climb +14, Fly +10, Knowledge (arcana, religion) +9, Perception +13, Spellcraft +9, Stealth +11, Survival +13
Languages Common, Necril, Undercommon
Ecology
Environment any mountains or underground
Organization solitary or pack (1-2 plus 3-12 ghouls)
Treasure standard (spell components for stoneskin x2, other treasure
Special Abilities
Gaze (Su) Range 30 ft.; save Fort DC 20; effect 1d6 Con damage. The save DC is Charisma based.
Paralyzing Whistle (Su) As a standard action, a karnabo can whistle horribly. All creatures within 30 feet must succeed a DC 20 Will save or be paralyzed for 1d4+1 rounds. A creature can break free of this paralysis early by succeeding another Will save as a full round action. A karnabo can only use this ability once every 1d4 rounds, and a creature that succeeds the initial Will save is immune to the paralyzing whistle of that karnabo for the next 24 hours.
Spells A karnabo gains spellcasting as a 9th level sorcerer. It does not gain other benefits of the sorcerer class, such as a bloodline, unless it takes levels in sorcerer.
Stability (Ex) As long as it is touching the ground, a karnabo gains a +4 racial bonus on its CMD against bull rush and trip attempts.
It's the BOGEYMAN!
October is just around the corner and I thought to draw Bogey for the halloweeny spirit. Been a long time till I drawn him but it was a joy to make him again, really missed the fella
another one, this was in fact a movie i had actually seen quite some time back and actually always wanted to draw Bogey (his English dub name)/Buka (OG name) from My Sweet Monster
literally do not perceive my taste in 3d cartoon movies,i just thought these would be a nice watch to chill back and relax <3 i wasnt expecting to actually really like and endear myself so much to the chars, as quirky they are~
im pretty sure his antlers are much bigger than what they are actually portrayed here lol but i just wanted to draw something nice and soft he <3 this was right after the Scarecrow drawing pff~
*taps mic three times* may I humbly plant the seed of a band au??? This has been in my head like a fork stuck in a garbage disposal… lemme lay this out…
Starting strong we have Bradley on keys/ vocals (bc obvi), we have Bob on bass/back up vocals (when the bass is played correctly you don’t even know it’s there but when’s NOT there shits fucked to high heaven), Jake gives brass instruments (can’t explain this lol), Nat is on additional percussion/ harmonies (is known to be an absolute beast on the drums) and uhhh I’ll churn out the rest later lol
you MAY humbly plant the seed of a band au and I will humbly fucking READ IT!!!
okay but you're so right about Bob being on bass / backup vocals. like all of this is perfect to a tee (except I think Jake could also be like the really hot cocky drummer but I TOTALLY see brass too) but the Bob one takes the cake. underrated, talented, beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, etc.
Bob would be like undercover hot and then a video a fan took from the front row where they zoom in on his muscular arms and all those veins and his flexed jaw and baby blues would go viral and Bob would be Daddy Of The Month. and it would bug the fuck out of Jake!
I have read a lot less this year than in the last couple of years. I'm not going to beat my previous record of 129 books, that's for sure. But I feel like I've hit a decent stride of quality over quantity with this batch (also, one of them is over 600 pages long)
26. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, edited by Jeffery Andrew Weinstock. For anyone who is remotely interested in either monsters or literature, this book is a must-read. Yes, I know it’s an A-Z encyclopedia format and is more than 600 pages long. You can skip around, or read it in chunks. This book is the perfect tool for thinking with monsters, and is an excellent reference tool for using monsters intelligently in a project, or just as a collection of “oh, I should check that out”. It’s not perfect. All kaiju are lumped together under “Godzilla”, which barely gets two pages. Pokemon gets a single, very dismissive, paragraph. On the other hand, the entry for Harry Potter is ridiculously long and very fannish, and the “HP Lovecraft, Monsters in” article ignores Lovecraft’s racism entirely (because it’s written by ST Joshi, who else?). My biggest complaint is the lack of a general Mad Scientist entry—mad scientists are the monster of the 20th century, and both psychopaths and witches get generic entries as well as specific examples. My two biggest highlights are “Women, Monstrous”, which is a college level course in institutional misogyny and how it has been celebrated by some authors and subverted by others; and "Nick of the Woods", which is possibly the most influential American novel that has been almost entirely forgotten in the modern era. You can draw a direct line from Nick of the Woods to everything from Marvel movies to Wounded Knee.
27. Tasting History by Max Miller, with Ann Volkwein. “Tasting History with Max Miller” is one of my favorite YouTube series, and the book of the show doesn’t disappoint. It’s beautiful, with color photos of the food and images of historical characters and events. Most of the recipes come from existing episodes, and so the stories therein are familiar, but not told identically, and there are some that have new lore to go with old recipes. Or lore covered in the show, but a different recipe because the one that was made for the video wasn’t very good. Also, my copy is signed! Max Miller came to a local book fair, so I got to hear a book talk and then get my copy signed afterwards. And that was… two months ago? My reading really has slowed down!
28. Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend by Rachel Warren Chadd and Marianne Taylor. This book collects legendry about birds from around the world, and compares the stories that different cultures tell about the same animal with the animal’s actual ecology and behavior. A fair amount of the stories were new to me, which I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting the science to be as well! For example, the book talks about a paper that suggests that lyrebird foraging is important for reducing wildfires, as they help to break up mats of eucalyptus leaves and encourage decomposition. Also, as can probably be expected in a book about birds, there’s a lot of very nice photography.
29. The Cat’s Meow by Jonathan Losos. Losos is an evolutionary biologist (he’s the guy doing all of the studies with convergent evolution in Caribbean lizards) who got the domestic cat bug, and this is his book about the evolution of domestic cats. It’s written in a very readable style and goes into quite a bit of depth on how we know what we know. So individual scientists and breeders are profiled for topics like, which population of wildcats do domestic cats descend from? How does the behavior of feral cats in the Australian Outback differ from feral cats in rural Georgia? How is a new breed developed from a single individual? Losos also shares plenty of anecdotes about his own cats, as any loving cat owner would, and shares his “million dollar idea” with the reader. Saber toothed housecats, bred for both long canine teeth and a calm, indoor-friendly disposition.
30. Iberian Monsters by Javier Prado. This was a birthday present from my girlfriend @abominationimperatrix. The book is an illustrated collection of Iberian bogeys specifically—monsters designed to scare children into doing X or avoiding Y. At least half of the monsters in here are altogether new to me, and each entry often discusses multiple related monsters, with the “headliner” getting a full page illustration. Three things that jumped out to me. 1) How many parallels there are between the monsters of Spain and the monsters in Spanish colonies, like Latin America and the Philippines. I mean, that’s logical, but since I knew less about Spain’s monsters, I didn’t see the connections. 2) The large number of monsters that are based on historical individuals. Mostly soldiers and bandits, but also a watchmaker and an anti-fascist writer. 3) The story that scared me the most as a little kid was “Tailypo”… and there’s a variant in here that’s even worse. You know, for kids!
A towering spook, L'uomo Nero is an Italian bogeyman with a striking figure. Said not to cause physical harm to children, but instead he takes them to an unknown land of terror.