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Playtime! => The Playground => : something random March 03, 2010, 05:32:57 PM
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Each post consists of 2 parts
Your reasons the previous posters silly monster is not silly while there should be logic to your reasons it can be slightly woolly logic
Then a silly monster for the next poster + reasons it is silly if you think it is necessery
Lastly before I post a monster to get things started each monster should be in a published RPG book
I will start with the obvious choice
The Gelatinous Cube I don't think I need to give reasons why it's silly
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It's not silly. Most dungeons have square-shaped tunnels, so the thing is designed to pick up the most trash possible.
Next silly monster: Owlbear
Reason: Really? You take a bear (scary), and give it a less scary head.
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It's not silly. It combines the effectiveness of a daytime and a nighttime predator.
Now, a Dracotaur is silly. A reptilian creature with the lower torso of a dragon. Seems silly and redundant to me.
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It's not silly. It combines the effectiveness of a daytime and a nighttime predator.
Now, a Dracotaur is silly. A reptilian creature with the lower torso of a dragon. Seems silly and redundant to me.
Oh, come on. Wouldn't it be sillier if a reptialian had a lower torso of something nonreptilian like a kangaroo or a mephit or a dolphin?
Now, a Sharn, that's silly. It's like the creators at WotC put every broken ability they could think of into a blender and just smeared it all over the forgotten realms. And they even look silly!
(http://www.dragonavenue.com/images/uploads/373_sharn.jpg)
I mean, look at those big goofy grins.
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There is nothing silly about having 7/5 casting with only 4 HD -- that's some serious shit (take that, TO'ers)
raggamoffyn -- now that's silly. c'mon, what's not silly about some fool with dirty underwear on it's head?
(http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20captured%20one.jpg)
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If that is what it takes to cover up a bald spot and an ugly head then I feel the guy has taken the better of two alternatives, he also looks strong.
Now what is really silly is every single ooze ever thought of. A ball of jelly that even in MM looks like a jell-o for someone with lack of calcium. Their reproductive system is even described as "One ooze, a moron with a sword, two oozes" in the Book of erotic fantasy. How is this not silly?
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There's nothing silly about slimes: there's ALWAYS room for jello!
What's silly is Badgers (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/badger.htm), because they sing! (http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/)
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Not silly:
A badger that takes damage in combat flies into a berserk rage on its next turn, clawing and biting madly until either it or its opponent is dead.
I think that says it all -- AFAIC, that's pretty bad-ass.
Silly: cockatrice -- it's the world's ugliest chicken :twitch
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Silly: cockatrice -- it's the world's ugliest chicken :twitch
It can turn you to stone, a flock of these things would be near unstoppable without area of effect spells. Not so silly then, if hideous.
What is silly is the siege crab which is basically a living bus.
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That's not silly. Total cover and concealment, plus complete obedience, PLUS four claws and the power to level a city. I'd call that a very efficient underwater/beachfront primary assault.
Now, a Susurrus is silly. It's basically a disco ball wrapped around a human-shaped air filter that gets pissy when you light a match...
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Someone could make huge money with a living disco ball, if you bring a bard you could start a company and make huge money as a travelling last-minute party agency. Just avoid the lighter-phenomenon.
Now the Shirokinukatsukami from OA is a different matter. The head of a lion, trunk of an elephant, tail of a cow, arms of an ape but with tiger claws. Someone is not smoking tobacco, this is silly indeed.
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Not silly:
- 9th-level spells at will
- casting as a 14th level sorcerer
- all wrapped-up in only 12 HD
it's ridiculous alright -- ridiculously awesome!! (only the sharn exceeds this guy in awesomeness)
Silly: tendriculos
it looks like a slimy, larval Oscar the Grouch. And where are the eyes that give him this supposed "low-light vision"?
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I've seen enemies crawl out of a tendriculos' mouth. The tendriculos was a druid and it's friends were shielded from the acid by resist energy.
That's a badass way to get around. Not silly.
(I just realized that the rules of this game don't specify a D&D monster....I have to do this one)
[spoiler]Questing Pheldagriff is silly: It's a hippo with wings! And when you use it's abilities, it gives other people hippo tokens! Now THAT's silly!
(http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAGPLA/questing_phelddagrif.jpg)[/spoiler]
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If you think hippos are silly, you've never seen one bite a crocodile in two. That's one badass pachyderm.
Goatfolk, on the other hand, are... anthropomorphic goats. Like a minotaur, but less badass. Why would you take a badass monster and make it less badass?
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Not silly:
I once saw a goat chew through an aluminum can -- how about you try it, and then let me know how that turns out for you :p
Silly:
Senmurv -- um, do I really need to explain this one? really?
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Silly:
Senmurv -- um, do I really need to explain this one? really?
Yes, because I have no idea what a senmurv is.
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Silly:
Senmurv -- um, do I really need to explain this one? really?
Yes, because I have no idea what a senmurv is.
you have google, don't you? :P
Okay -- it's that flying rainbow wolf -- it's looks like the gay-pride mascot of D&D (not that there is anything inherently wrong with that, of course :hide)
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Not silly at all. Using simple Steven Hughes-logic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0lVbMOMTi0) with how the straight people are the true pussies (the straight man wants a soft, femine woman. The gay one wants a hard piece of wood right up their back door, who is manlier?) you can easily prove that the gay on is manlier than the average wolf and since they are far from silly you can only call it an exceptionally manly wolf.
Silly however, is the Brain in a Jar, if it can not control the necromancer who created it it will simply be an ornament in a jar for an eternity. I've seen a lot of silly things, and believe me, this is silly.
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Your rhetorical skills are quite impressive, sir.
However, your powers of observation seem to be a bit lacking: your "silly little brain" is not silly at all -- it melts brains! and can rebuke undead, to boot. And never mind that it is just a brain -- without a body -- this brain refuses to die! And with 3 whole HD, no less -- A 3 HD BRAIN!
Now, if you want to see silly, simply flip a few more pages to the "desiccator". This guy's major attack is ....... (wait for it) ....... (wait for it) .... hali-fucking-tosis. Really? "Oh, wait a minute -- I need a drink of water" -- give me a break.
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I think that's a perfectly logical thing for a dead water being to do...seek the water it lost in its former life by drinking it from others.
However, a Raiment...that's just too much for me. Undead clothing? Seriously?
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Dude, that's the stuff of nightmares. Have a couple of encounters with those, and you'll be locked in a round rubber room completely naked. Anything that can reduce you to such a state is not silly at all.
Silly -- origami golem. Seriously, it's f'n paper -- "oh no, better watch out for those paper cuts" :eh
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Are you kidding? The paper the golem is made from might have explosive runes on it!
Now, a CALZONE golem...
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...Gets a higher armor class than the tarrasque by standing in a fire for a few minutes. Making it incredibly tough to kill.
But then there is a stained glass golem, which is just silly.
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Not all of us want to enter fights without style and pizazz, and a stained glass golem casts lovely shadows on walls. Very aesthetically pleasing.
And speaking of the tarrasque, talk about silly! A supposed "Destroyer of worlds" that could be defeated by a solo 9th level wizard, was it not? A vile damage dealing warlock with Fell Flight does the same thing at lower levels, iirc. I mean, come on, talk about silly! And all those instances of Toughness? PAH!
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Oh come on, I mean... Well... If you look at... Yeah, I've got nothing. It's the freaking Tarrasque. In the spirit of this thread, I'll defend the big T by simply saying he's so iconic he can't be silly.
If you want to see a real silly monster, how about a Lantern Archon. What? Did they need a good Will'o wisp?
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Oh come on, I mean... Well... If you look at... Yeah, I've got nothing. It's the freaking Tarrasque. In the spirit of this thread, I'll defend the big T by simply saying he's so iconic he can't be silly.
If you want to see a real silly monster, how about a Lantern Archon. What? Did they need a good Will'o wisp?
What's so silly about nitelites for solars?
Flumphs. Need I say more?
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Flumphs. Need I say more?
Not familiar. Sourcebook?
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flumph?wasRedirected=true
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The flumphs have sorcerer as their favoured class. Any race with a penchant for magic like that is frightening.
However! The leShay is clearly the silliest monster. It's basically an elf...with a few SLAs...and a soulknife ripoff. And they dual-wield bastard swords, which is well known to be a silly idea.
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Aren't they, by default, epic level to start with, though? I mean, can something be epic and silly? I think not.
Grells. Flying brain-birdbeak-head-things. Sure, they can go ethereal, and there was that one in the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil that could really mess up your day, but as a whole? Pretty silly.
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Not silly: everything in your argument only supports why they rock.
Silly: Redcaps. it's a ghoulies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoulies_%28film_series%29) wannabe. 'nuff said.
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Yea, but if some of them ever decided to make a band they would already have a great name.
Going back to golems, Pastry Golems are silly. Sure you can use Proffession (Cook) to make them, but honestly whats so scary about a monster that you can just throw rats at and watch it get eaten up?
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not silly: yeah, and Ray Stantz thought that the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was innocuous, too.
silly: skin kite .... sounds like what you call it when you stretch out your scrotum.
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silly: skin kite .... sounds like what you call it when you stretch out your scrotum.
Stealing this, and making my fiance hate you now.
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silly: skin kite .... sounds like what you call it when you stretch out your scrotum.
Stealing this, and making my fiance hate you now.
:lmao
have fun with that :D
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not silly: yeah, and Ray Stantz thought that the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was innocuous, too.
silly: skin kite .... sounds like what you call it when you stretch out your scrotum.
a kite of skin what is not disturbing about that having a few of those in your yard will scare away unwanted adventurers
Gnomes on the other hand who needs them they are small pesky pip squeaks
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Two words: Shadowcraft Mage. :P
You know what is silly, though? The phasm. I mean, the gelatinous cube is at least made of something corrosive, but this? It's like a giant amoeba.
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Two words: Shadowcraft Mage. :P
You know what is silly, though? The phasm. I mean, the gelatinous cube is at least made of something corrosive, but this? It's like a giant amoeba.
not silly -- it's form is so efficient - so perfect - that the only change in the last billion years is that it simply has gotten bigger.
silly -- famine spirit .... "nom-nom-nom; me likes to eat ..."
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The feeling of hunger is what drives (and has driven) billions and billions of creatures to put something in their mouths when their energy-depots have run low. These guys are not just the essence of "nom nom nom", they are the essence of survival, spirits of an instinct meant to keep life going as far as possible. And if anyone here thinks survival is silly, then I recommend you get an appointment with a shrink A.S.A.P.
What is silly however is the Skybleeder (FF), they are a flying blob of pure silly that even with an INT WIS of 17 won't do anything better than act as a mount
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dude flying blob of death like sergeant shlock
A sily monster goblins other then the fact they are good cannon fouder name one use one
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Not silly. More characters (and players) have cut their teeth on this iconic staple of fantasy RPGs than any other creature. Any creature that is that responsible for launching millions of characters' careers cannot possibly be silly.
Silly -- Crawling Head (FF). It's a head. that crawls. and is destroyed by water. "ahh! I'm melting; I'm melllllting!" :eh
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Not silly at all. A human able to survive with so crippling a weakness would be totally badass. Same with a human that can survive the loss of a limb and keep fighting.
Now this is a creature that managed to survive after losing ALL its limbs AND torso AND a crippling weakness. To be so utterly focused upon survival, to prevail against all odds - truly, that is a spirit worth admiring.
What's silly is the Ravid. I mean, they're like Trogdor with a bunch of pet toys.
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Trogdor. That alone makes it not silly.
Vargouilles.
They are heads that detach and turn their ears into wings. I mean, come on!
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Not silly. Imagine the horror of being slowly warped into one, having your human features warp, and finally your head afalls off. And worst of all, you've been smooched by one of them. Gross, but not silly.
The skin kite, on the other hand, is very silly. I mean, it's a kite. Of all the awesome, gross, and creepy things you can do with human skin, some necromancer goes and makes a kite for his kids? Seriously?
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That's rather caring for a father to do with what materials are readily available.
Didn't we also already do that?
And I have nothing to add for silly monsters. :(
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yeah, it was (by yours truly): http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7361.msg300055#msg300055
with a pretty weak rebuttal: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7361.msg324911#msg324911
And I still have nothing for why it isn't silly (the 2 presented are really stretching it :blink ... sorry :hmm)
(given the weakness of the rebuttals, I guess it did warrant revisiting)
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yeah, it was (by yours truly): http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7361.msg300055#msg300055
with a pretty weak rebuttal: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7361.msg324911#msg324911
And I still have nothing for why it isn't silly (the 2 presented are really stretching it :blink ... sorry :hmm)
(given the weakness of the rebuttals, I guess it did warrant revisiting)
Or maybe your argument for its sillyness was just that forgettable. ;)
I like the caring father argument, though. Who are we to call it silly if a poor, single dad has nothing to make his kid happy with but a bunch of human rags, and he makes the best of it?
...Yeah, it's still silly. And probably a bit traumatizing for the kid.
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Since we seem to be out of silly at the moment I went to the store to get some, and guess what I found! It's a Kuo-Toa (DotU), they smell like fish and look like Gollums love child with a frog. Truly silly I must say
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Not silly. They're kind of sad, actually. They want to be real aquatic threats but don't measure up to actual threats. They're kind of the (badly played) kobolds of the Underdark.
Silly: Ethergaunts (any); an entire race of wizards and they haven't managed to take over the world(s) yet?
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Ethergaunts aren't silly, the other creature native to the ethereal plane is the ghost. If you played an entire campaign facing only ghosts, I don't care how much wizard you are, you'll be eaten alive, especially with TMLs silly ghost characters.
A silly creature? How about the Hydra. It has so many heads, it blood can't flow properly, unless it has 10 hearts, which in turns means it must have 5+ livers which severely messes the creature up. Also it's a long necked dinosaur that can only bite you and dies instantly to a level 2 spell. Why are these creatures not extinct from 3rd level wizards that decided to go up some levels fast?
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not silly it can solve world hunger
Silly monster Undead Kobold really a undead kobold
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You want to give the Kobold more of an excuse to dump Constitution and pump Charisma so that it can grab Unholy Toughness and be entirely MAD? That's not silly, that's terrifying. :P
What is silly, though, is the Hoary Hunter. It has curly-toed shoes. I don't think I need to say more here.
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Not silly, they have Santa's ear. Cross them and all treasure you find will be coal.
Now what's really silly is a wyvern. It's a dragon, without the dragon-ness, and it's too dumb to know what it's missing out on.
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Not silly: it has a scorpion tail! With poison! And it's huge!
What's silly is a Bog Imp (Heroes of Horror). It's basically a fey green goblin, but it makes people sink into the mud.
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Not Silly ... not only is drowning scary as hell, it's also a pretty brutal game mechanic. (not to mention that this is also how the reproduce)
Silly ... Grey Jester (same book)
he feeds on .... laughter?
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In the same way as the Hadoken runs on love, I imagine. Which is kind of scary. Also, it's a creepy jester. You want to tell the Joker to his face that he's silly?
Next up: The Roving Mauler (ToM). Behind the moderately badass name is... a lion's head attached to five legs, with literally nothing in between? What? :psyduck
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not silly ... this tumble-whore gets to make an attack on every single creature whose space through which he tumbles -- that's bad-ass.
silly : Mud Slaad (FF) (as if slaadi weren't silly enough, we now get this gem)
this guy's major shtick is cowering in fear and playing dead. WTF ???
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Not silly, the ability to act dead in a convincing way is an ability used with great success throughout the entire animal kingdom. It is a great way to survive those pesky adventurers instead of becoming random fodder.
Move your eyes to page 46 instead, to the Alkilith. A giant blob of being angry at stuff "Someone is hitting me with sharp things... Oh, a lake, I must pollute that". Silly
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not silly: aside from being immune to ... just about every damn thing, they have fucking cloudkill as a goddamn alternate-fucking-form.
silly: slide on down to page 59 to the Xerfilstyx. it's a slug. from Hell. that's right, a f'n slug. is that the best they can do?
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Use its blood and water from the river styx breathweapon? That's horrible and disgusting. It makes me want a shower...
Elder Evils 101 Irthicax Vane is a purple human Monk 17. He is running away like a girl or something. Purple beard makes it even sillier.
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Use its blood and water from the river styx breathweapon? That's horrible and disgusting. It makes me want a shower...
Elder Evils 101 Irthicax Vane is a purple human Monk 17. He is running away like a girl or something. Purple beard makes it even sillier.
He has a beard case and point.
You know what a silly monster is Aboreth its a fish no its a squid no its a transvesite style fish
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Their mucus turns you into one, they have psionic powers that aren't too shabby, and in several cosmologies they take over/nearly take over. They royally screw FR, for instance.
Humans aren't just silly, they are ludicrous. Free skill points, bonus feat, favored class: any, and no stat penalties. Sure, they're one of the most numerous species in any world, but that's just simply silly for such a superrace.
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Humans aren't silly. That bonus feat can be used for anything. Also, they can take Able Learner, when other races can't.
If you want to see a silly monster, look at the Grey Jester (HoH). It's basically a clown that makes you... sad. Stupid!
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Already covered pages back
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Oh well. Someone else can list one, then.
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Elves. If ever there were a Mary-Sue race...
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not silly .... it would be cool as hell to be able to just chill-out for hundreds of years on end ... and I could get so much done by only having to sleep half as much.
Silly: Arrowhawk. I mean, how many wings does this things need? I seriously doubt that it should even be physically possible.
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Silly: Arrowhawk. I mean, how many wings does this things need? I seriously doubt that it should even be physically possible.
You're saying that now, but once I shoot down your massive stronghold with my effigy x-wing you'll be singing a different tune.
(http://imgur.com/VGHaZ.png)
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Nice, The_Mad_Linguist
wheres the silly?
silly: the Lamia, how does it drain Wisdom?
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just like every other creature than drains ability scores -- it just does (*note: the exceptions to this rule are the cool ones ... but they are just that -- exceptions).
Silly:
gibbering mouther ... what? did Picasso have a really bad LSD trip? this thing is just one quick move from splattering apart.