If I want an animal-themed encounter, what animals can plausibly have projectile weapons other than birds dropping shit on you?
If I want an animal-themed encounter, what animals can plausibly have projectile weapons other than birds dropping shit on you?
A giant version of those sand lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes, but their blood is corrosive like the xenomorphs.
Also,
Did you forget primates exist?
Monkeys throwing shit at you.
Skunks spraying you.
Cobras spitting venom.
That one lizard that shoots blood out of its eyes.
I forget the name, but there's a kind of water hydra that shoot "bullets" to hunt.
It has the ability to project thorn-shaped cells very far (relative to its size) and with great accuracy. What's even crazier is that it does not produce itself the "thorn" cells, they are parts of another organism they hunt and eat purely for that purpose, and their metabolism "guides" the thorn cells from its digestion area to the cannon organs.
I remember reading that, for all the insanity that is that little critter, what really fricks up the scientists studying them is that they somehow know they are running low on ammo, and only hunt the thorn cells producing bugs when they are low, and supposedly the labcoats don't know how they figure that out.
Probably some variety of sea slug, which are documented to engage in kleptocnidy (the act of "stealing" stinging cells from devoured prey).
It's called an archerfish.
What's really cool is that they both account for the refraction of light as it passes through the interface and vary the shape of the jet of water so that it hits the target as a broad blob whatever the range.
Fish with a gun
How fantastical are you willing to get? There are a handful of real-world animals with ranged attacks like the archerfish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_use_by_non-human_organisms) that you could scale up into actual threats without having to rely on overt magic, but if you're limiting yourself to just literal real-world animals then you don't have a lot of options.
Electric discharge.
I think squids shoot jizz darts.
>throws death stare at you
>his intimidation skill is so high you take 2d6 psychic damage
Laser zebras don't exist.
Laser panthers does tho.
Bombardier beetle.
Llama spit
Monke with a gun
porcupines flinging their quills
Pistol shrimp has a sonic gun in its claw that stuns its prey.
Dire porcupines.
Short-horned lizard, as it shoots blood out of it's eyes. So jazz it up a bit and there you go.
There are spiders that spit venomous silk (lightning fast) and some that cast nets of silk (can basically see in the dark.)
Does anyone have the pic of googly eyes shooped on the spider
Giant enemy crab.
Llamas are known for spitting the unholy father of all loogies at you.
Beetles with flamethrower butts.
Spiders launching webbing like bolas.
Camels with precise expectorate ability.
Shrimp with claws that make a death ray when they clap.
Slugs with projectile love darts.
Horned toads squirting blood from their eyes.
velvet worms also shoot sticky strands from cannon-like appendages
Cone snails project a venomous harpoon to hunt.
Ha-ha-happy hippos have potent projectile attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-jXMeo4a4k
There are beetles that spray acid
Why projectile when you can have leaping attacks that eviscerate you?
It’s just a bird
porcepine shooting spines. giant trantuas shooting hairs.
Crocodile hunter almost died from spitting cobras one time.
these things throw shit at you from trees if you’re annoying
Actual shit or objects they can get their tiny hands on
fruit, and relatively big ones, like figs
they cooperate too, so if one of them stars throwing, others join in because frick you
Camals spit.
>lives in primordial waters
>lives deep in earth
>hypersensitive to it's environment, noticing the smallest of changes
>mind blasts
bow before the OLM
Monkeys throwing birds at you like big darts.
cobra spitting venom
spider shoots web
spider shoots hair projectiles
frog exhumes poison or uses elongated tongue
lizard sprays blood from eye
monkee throw rock
fish or crab sprays high pressurized water
that's all my ideas
Didn't we have this thread last year?
Reposting.
what are the ants?
Formic acid projection.
Pretty common for forest ants around here in France.
What's up with the porcupine? Eye lasers?
tarantulas can throw their barbs, I’n assuming the porcupine is the same
the reptile makes his eye blood vessels burst to spray blood on predators
The quills detach easily (this way they stay embedded in the attacker's flesh), technically they can't just shake themselves to throw them everywhere like tarantula do, but you can always make up a local variant that evolved a bit further to actually do just that, for a mid-range walking ball of pain.
Critters in the trees rustling the branches to drop some kind of fantasy fruit on the party. Bomb apples, pinecones that spread paralysing spores, some such bullshit.