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thecreaturecodex · 3 months

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Hawktoad

Image © Frog God Games, by Stan Morrison

[When I was struggling with writer's block, I attempted to start a project where I converted a bunch more monsters from Sword and Wizardy's Monstrosities book. The hawktoad was the only monster that was actually finished from that attempt. Like a lot of S&W monsters, it combines low HD with high lethality, being a 2 HD monster that can start strangling a PC to death with a single hit from its tongue. The throttling critical ability is my attempt to combine that in theory with the practice of game design where characters are a little less disposable.]

Hawktoad CR ½ N Magical Beast This creature resembles a fat toad from the waist up, with a tadpole-like tail instead of lower legs. Rather than hop or crawl, it flies, gliding through the air as if it were water. Its forelimbs end in clawed feet, and it has a sharp beak in place of a mouth.

Hawktoads are magical carnivores that combine features of amphibians and birds. Most sages assume that they are unnatural creations, either the product of meddling mages or a consequence of magical radiation. They use their prehensile tongues to hold prey down while tearing at it with their talons. Their beaks are relatively soft, and more useful for processing dead meat than causing damage to the living. Although a lone hawktoad will only attack prey of its size or smaller, they become daring in groups, and may attack prey the size of a horse.

Hawktoads live in mixed-sex flocks. Unlike either hawks or toads, they are gregarious hunters, with multiple individuals dive-bombing the same victim. They lay leathery eggs, which they bury in moist soil during the rainy season. The young are precocial, able to wiggle out of the soil on their own and fly to join the nearest flock, which may or may not be the flock of their parents. Hawktoads take relatively well to captivity, although they grow listless and sick if kept in a cage instead of being allowed to fly free. Because of this wanderlust, they are popular mascots among nomadic peoples. A hawktoad may be taken as a familiar by a neutral spellcaster with the Improved Familiar feat of at least 3rd caster level.

Hawktoad CR ½ XP 200 N Small magical beast Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, Perception +5

Defense AC 13, touch 12, flat-footed 12 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural) hp 9 (2d10-2) Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +1

Offense Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft. (good) Melee 2 claws +3 (1d3), tongue +1 touch (grab) Special Attack grab (Large), throttling critical

Statistics Str 10, Dex 13, Con 9, Int 2, Wis13, Cha 6 Base Atk +2; CMB +1 (+5 grapple); CMD 12 Feats Multiattack Skills Fly +7, Perception +5; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception

Ecology Environment temperate hills and plains Organization solitary, pair or flock (3-18) Treasure incidental

Special Abilities Flight (Su) The flight of a hawktoad is a supernatural ability Throttling Critical (Ex) If a hawktoad successfully confirms a critical hit with its tongue attack, it wraps its tongue around its opponent’s neck. This prevents the creature from speaking or using verbal components, and the creature must hold its breath or begin to suffocate.

#hawktoad #pathfinder 1e #swords and wizardry #magical beast #osr

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 2 months

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He-Man - Masters of the Universe art by Dan Brereton of Skeletor, Evil-Lyn and etc

#he man #motu #master of the universe #dan brereton #skeletor #evil lyn #castle greyskull #fantasy art #swords and sorcery #swords and wizardry #trapjaw #beast man

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jeandejard3n · 3 days

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umberhulk · 4 months

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Secret of the Black Crag

A hex crawl type adventure for characters level 1 to 5 written for Old School Essentials. This looks like a really great pirate themed adventure for OSE. It’s 96 pages include NPCs, a hex crawl, a few dungeon crawls, some new monsters, and treasures. There is some history and mysteries to uncover. I think it looks really good! Writing The writing is good not great. The content is really solid…

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#adventure #D&D #DCC #dungeons and dragons #Old School Essentials #ose #Pirates #RPG #Swords and Wizardry

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rpgpolls · 9 months

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#roleplaying games #rpg polls #tabletop roleplaying games #ttrpg #ttrpgs #independent ttrpg month #indie ttrpg #retroclone ttrpg #labyrinth lord #swords and wizardry #whitehack #osric #ose #old school essentials #retroclone

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swornsword · 10 months

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#sword & sorcery #wizardry #sorcery #wizard #fantasy art

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arianna-creates · 5 months

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Rmbr that old headcanon that Kilgarrah was transfigured into a bitch ass cat and Merlin decided to put up with his annoying ass for centuries so that he wouldn't go mad? Yeah me too

.... I realized the horrible implications that come from Merlin existing in the same universe as Hogwarts so I googled it and it says he was a slytherin student who "went on to do great things" guys that means that Hogwarts was founded BEFORE the prophecy came to fruition which doesn't work with BBC Merlin's plot/timeliness at alllll

In order to fit my hc's I'm gonna say he made himself look young with potions in order to study after Arthur died or maybe he just started doing magic w/o speaking and people were so impressed that they gave him a job!

My personal fav take is that he is a gay uncle but in a depressed hippie kinda way

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aesthetic--mood · 8 months

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Gryffindor Aesthetic

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raymondsalvador · 3 months

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Got a new weekly series of illustrations on my patreon.

It’s original characters from a Sword and Sorcery universe.

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thatswhatsushesaid · 1 year

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trying to concisely explain how stupid the mdzs fandom's morality wank is to my husband, who is essentially canon-blind and not at all interested in this genre like

"every day I check the character tags wondering if today is the day the purity police will stop twisting themselves into 4D pretzels trying to explain and justify why the necromancer protagonist, who murdered a woman by forcing a table leg down her throat and forced a dude eat his own legs (and also made this dead woman cannibalize this dude's junk, can't forget that part, and fed bits of this guy to the reanimated fierce corpses of children) in pursuit of vengeance, is the moral centre of the book, but the principle antagonist is an irredeemable monster because he had his actual rapist father literally raped to death by sex workers, and then had the sex workers killed to silence potential witnesses"

"what the fuck ray, why does anyone like either of these guys, they both sound awful"

"ok but consider this: they're both really cute"

"oh, word"

#salty peak sect 🧂#cannibalism #rape #murder #the cannibalism rape and murder book of gay sword wizardry #this is a very serious post

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nidamae-approvedhpfanfics · 8 days

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Rated: T, English, [Harry P., Hermione G.], Words: 126k+, Favs: 13k+, Follows: 6k+, Published: Feb 18, 2011 Updated: Aug 3, 2011

COMPLETED STORY

Remus was so shocked at seeing Sirius fall through the veil that Harry had raced past him before the boy's intentions even registered with the werewolf. Screaming "Sirius!" Harry followed his godfather into the veil before anyone could stop him.

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adventuresandshopping · 2 months

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City Encounters provides 200 daytime encounters and 200 night-time encounters for your characters to run into while exploring the city. ... This is the OSR version of City Encounters, written for Swords & Wizardry but easily usable with systems including OD&D, AD&D (1E), B/X, OSE and others!

#OSR #TTRPG #RPG #City Adventures #Mythmere Games #Swords & Wizardry #Dungeons & Dragons

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bitegore · 1 year

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"generic" but kind of interesting fantasy that then later reveals itself to be utterly batshit hard sci-fi so similar to fantasy as to be almost indistinguishable my beloved

#i love..... when second-world fantasy.... is later revealed to be earth-and-space swords and sorcery sci fi.............#its my favorite genre i swear #red rambles #sci fi fantasy yes yes but i want fantasy that's a bait and switch for VERY CLEAR SCI FI #like- when a magic system with regular rules is later revealed to be VERY MUCH hard sci fi #thats what i mean #when it is technology that almost conforms to the laws of phyics a la a warp drive #that the users have forgotten and elevated to the realm of wizardry and magic #it makes me INSANE.#this is partially about pern and mostly about that entire genre of sci fi fantasy #fuck its even sort of about Gor (notable example of a terrible gross fantasy series like that) and OSC's Pathfinder (good book by asshole)

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jeandejard3n · 1 month

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The Lord of the Rings: The Temptation of the Ring

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mrkapao · 2 years

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Getting back in the habit of carrying around a paperback wherever I go, like back in my middle school to early college years.

Current book is 'Swords Against Wizardry'. I'm mainly letting fate choose what I read next via thrifting. And afterwards sometimes dropping them off at one of those "Take a Book, Share a Book" Little Free Library nooks nearby one of the local schools.

#books #paperbacks #novels #swords against wizardry #Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #fritz leiber #read #read more #thrifting #pay it forward #nerds #geeks #bookworm #fantasy

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rynnelarion · 2 years

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Dracons are playable species from very old Wizardry games series. Their origins explained simple. They are result of... close relations between dragons and humans. They naturally big strength and agility and have ability to breath acid on their enemies. I would like this species to be remembered, because there are not much artwork with them in the internet. I am going to draw more of them in future. There are alredy several sketches.

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