Number Appearing: Herd
Size: Watermelon to cargo van
Armor: Thick stony shell
Resilience: Surprisingly difficult to kill
Intelligence: Not that you'd notice.
Communication: Not much.
Disposition: Sluggish.
Violence: May stab other snails as foreplay. Otherwise no.
Enemies: Rustlers, assorted carnivores, Gourmands
Aims: Not as such.
Peculiarities:
- Vulnerable to salt. Snailherds use goads tipped with rock salt.
- There are legends of very patient knights training the beasts as Destriers for no readily apparent reason. Snail jousting may be popular in faraway lands that haven't heard of cricket, competitive walking, and other forms of spectator tedium.
- Those raised as livestock usually don't get much bigger than a small cottage, but keepers of snail lore maintain that they never stop growing and do not die of old age.
- Rustling them via herding isn't really practical. Rustlers on the Beanstalk tend to roll them to a waiting flying boat at the nearest leaf edge. Turns out that the hulls of flying boats are inexplicably delicious to herd snails, so one way or another they don't go very far.
Format cheerfully swiped from They Stalk the Underworld
"Look out! Its picked up a weapon!"
ReplyDeleteAs any good DM would say: "Sure, why not?"
DeleteBlade of Grass
magic weapon, +3 to-hit, 1d6+3 damage, no strength bonus to hit or damage, usable by any character that can wield a sword of any type
When found, this is a woven grass sword handle that detects as magical. Players making puns about basket hilts are subject to the usual penalties. If the hilt is planted in fertile earth, watered with 1 quart of fresh water and exposed to normal or magical sunlight, it will grow a green, sword-like weapon in 1 turn. Targets initially struck with the blade must save vs. poison or suffer -4 on attacks and other actions due to infernal itching.
The Blade of Grass is not metal, with all that implies. If the blade is cut, eaten, scorched, or aged for more than a month, the hilt must be replanted to grow a new one.
Sorry about the long reply time - my physical therapist severely limited my screen time for a while. I'd resent her for it if she hadn't been demonstrably right.