I seldom see plant-based monsters. It's easy to understand, though. Plants don't run after you neither do they spit fire r-right?
Anyways, post plant monsters and tell us about your green, unfriendly leafy guys.
I seldom see plant-based monsters. It's easy to understand, though...
John Thomas
Wyatt Nelson
>neither do they spit fire
Not quite spitting fire but
>en.wikipedia.org
>The fruit is a large capsule with explosive dehiscence; seeds can be launched at 70 metres per second (160 mph). One source states that ripe capsules catapult their seeds as far as 100 metres (330 ft). Another source states that seeds are thrown as far as 45 metres (148 ft) from a tree, with a mode of about 30 metres (98 ft).
Samuel Myers
too prone to musicals
Carson Price
This pic looks like it's straight from /d/
Adam Reyes
Alright, that's a neat idea. Gotta put that in my game asap.
Evan Diaz
>I seldom see plant-based monsters
Huh, really? The last arc of my campaign involved my players taking down the Garden, a faction of vegepygmies and shambling mounds and that kind of stuff led by a fey supremacist trying to subjugate the city by breeding new strains of submission-inducing recreational drugs. I thought that kind of thing was pretty common.
Thomas Lee
You don't see them, because they're too terrifying for most players.
en.wikipedia.org
Jaxson Hernandez
You sure? I don't see dick neither on the woman nor on the plant.
Cooper Fisher
>Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The hairs cause an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last anywhere from days to years, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen welt. The sting is infamously agonizing. Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage in 1963, said "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn’t work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else."[9] However, the sting does not stop several small marsupial species, including the red-legged pademelon, insects and birds from eating the leaves.[6]
Damn nature. You scary.
Connor Hernandez
Because they all get statted as monsters when they should be terrain features.
Bentley Murphy
Stationary monsters aren't generally engaging.
Ayden Morris
the predominant status effect/ really frightening attack for plants are poison, and poison is boring. Fire, ice, electricity, etc. is adaptable and to an extent can be influenced by the player's actions, while most of the time poison is either plot-level-occurrence or a healing spell/alchemist away from being cured.
A lot less fun. pic entirely unrelated.
Isaac Scott
I prefer the original ending, Seymour.
Tyler Gomez
>The fruit is edible if the stinging hairs that cover it are removed.
Who the fuck discovered that?
Nathan Hernandez
Someone who was extremely, desperately hungry, I bet.
Xavier Rivera
Ents are trees. Trees don't walk. Make your living trees walk. Done.
I've made up lots of plant monsters actually, 'cause players tend to ignore the flora I describe. Surrounding a witch's hut were some tall sunflowers with corn-like leaves. If they players come within 10 feet of them, the sunflower monsters attack with slashing leaves and sleep spores. Basically a trap the witch set to protect herself, also an alarm system
Aiden Phillips
plant is def jizzing tho
Nicholas Lopez
This thread is growing on me
Brandon Edwards
As an alternative to "making the plants move", you could also bring in the fungi aspect of having a connected network covering a large area.
You manage to escape or avoid a lethal plant, only to find it's a fungus and you are in the middle of a huge area of it just under the surface.
Lucas Rodriguez
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Aiden White
They are very frienly, if you catch my drigft.
Josiah Hall
>fungi
>plants
Back to school with you.
Austin Nguyen
they are not fungi though
Tyler Edwards
Well, no, they're walking, talking creatures.
But they're biologically similar to fungi, not plants. They grow from spores, not seeds.
Nolan Hill
Hunter Taylor
>nature evolved IED fruit and hairs that give you an itch years later
>nature didn't evolve lewd aphrodisiac plants
Owen Jones
Mother
Fucking
Triffids
Xavier James
Last adventure I wrote had four kinds of plant creatures.
Crawlers: giant tangles of roots around a larger, thicker central body. They burrow in search of any matter they can digest. Slow, but very tough. They're not exactly hostile, but always hungry; will crush living beings into a pulp and feed by absorbing their fluids.
Lashes
Archers: giant flowers, they can grow as large as a wagon wheel. Their central part is full of holes from which they shoot arrow-like spines. When they run out of spines, they close their petals into a conical, serrated shape and attack by stetching their stalk to strike nearby creatures like a snake.
Lashes: long vines that grow in large "webs", covering ceiling and walls. Each vine stays coiled until something approaches. They have white flowers with featherlike petals that they use to sense movement, like a cat's whiskers. When they sense movement, the Lashes uncoil, whipping whatever approaches them. The flower, besides being a sensor, is also acidic, so the whipping can result in serious burns.
Chalices: large bulging structures, each similar to a large vase with a wide mouth, thin neck and an even wider bottom. Inside the chalices is a tempting, sweeting-smelling nectar that compels creatures to approach and drink of it. When someone leans or reaches into the chalice, it will open its mouth to swallow the creature whole. The creature then is slowly digested, it can take days for the Chalice to completely digest its prey; but because it's immersed in the thick, sticky nectar, it can die very quickly of asphyxiation.
Xavier King
Mmm yes plant mons. Actually probably gonna throw my acolytes against a plant worshipping cult in the near future. Racking my brain for good combat encounters that involve plant hybrid mutants though.
Nolan Price
I should say that the greatest signs of devotion involve hacking off limbs and goop scooping organs to be replaced with the branches and reproductive organs of the plant species.
I want the sap/fruit juice/pod slime to be useable as some sort of fuel so that there's an end goal and the players can prove the planet useful instead of getting the nuke blah blah blah
Long burning or explosive syrup seems kinda basic though, and a kinda weak superpower for all these cultists to be that devoted.