Make this creature scary

I challenge any writer to make a greentext story on the Roving Mauler, a ridiculous creature. I want to see how creative you guys are, and how you can spin it (no pun intended) into a terrifying creature, something someone wouldn't want to encounter, instead of laugh at.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    that's Buer, a president of hell

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Isn't Buer's whole shick how he's trying to ascend again? He's less like a traditional demon and more like an addict who can't let go of his vices even though he knows they're ruining him.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Don't blame me, I voted for Ose.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Make it a "biblically accurate" kind of thing, put it on fire, make the legs constantly spinning.
    Also, make them stunlock b***hes like the skeletonwheels in Dark Souls.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty much this, if you're going to use lesser key of solomon in a serious way treat it like its descriptions of goetic demons are bare approximations of what human mind can comprehend out of their chaotic form, retold by a dumb occultist who is probably farther away from the truth than he think. It falls on the GM's shoulders to make the description convincing for the players. I think Delta Green has a module which gives players an online version of lesser key of solomon to try to summon demons if they want, suffice to say, it most likely won't end well.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I actually made use of buers and trinacrias (a similar creature). However, seeing how you are a normie midwit, I don't want to share anything with you.

        This depiction does not correspond to the description in the Lesser Key of Solomon. It's a fantasy of a XIXth century French illustrator.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I want the trinussy

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Imagine the footjobs!

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >welcome to Sardinia mothterfricker

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Trinacria is the symbol of Sicily, amerimutt.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty much this, if you're going to use lesser key of solomon in a serious way treat it like its descriptions of goetic demons are bare approximations of what human mind can comprehend out of their chaotic form, retold by a dumb occultist who is probably farther away from the truth than he think. It falls on the GM's shoulders to make the description convincing for the players. I think Delta Green has a module which gives players an online version of lesser key of solomon to try to summon demons if they want, suffice to say, it most likely won't end well.

      Reddit

      I actually made use of buers and trinacrias (a similar creature). However, seeing how you are a normie midwit, I don't want to share anything with you.

      This depiction does not correspond to the description in the Lesser Key of Solomon. It's a fantasy of a XIXth century French illustrator.

      Would

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >people giving actual answers is Reddit
        >But someone saying “heheh my ideas are so cool I ain’t sharing them with you losers :^)” makes you cream your pants

        Glad I don’t know you in real life tbh, bet you’re insufferable

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Bet you'd fit in much better on Reddit.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    President Buer is an entirely reasonable demon and I won't stand for the defamation of his conducf nor character.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I enjoyed his implementation in La Mulana, though to be fair he's a pretty early-game boss so he's weak, comparatively. Poor guy usually dies to caltrops or rolling shuriken.

    But seriously though, why would you consider "bitey lion creature with even more claws than a normal lion, and can also sonic spin" a laughable creature? Just look at that motherfricking podracing champion right there.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ever played dark souls? Things that look like wheels are terrifying.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just remember OP, you asked for this.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Mess with the meow meow and you get the pow pow

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What is this post? This is the worst post.

        I'm crying.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Make it giant, spin around traveling the world spreading disease and pestilence wherever it goes, eyes rot if you look at it style. Tarrasque level of destruction, except everything is diseased on top.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You could do it as dominions does. He enchants both the battlefield and the world with the second sun spell. On the battlefield, it stops anyone casting darkness, and gives everyone not heat resistant exhaustion, and raises the temperature of the entire world significantly, which is good in cold areas and terrible in already hot places. It renders places unlivable for humans,

    It's also a reasonably powerful spellcaster of death, blood and fire. It's completely immune to fire, and just straight up burns people close to it. It spawns fire elementals and is a demon so recovers it's fatigue quicker than human spellcasters.

    It also causes fear, which combined with it's burning aura makes it hard for mortals to get even near it.

    However it's most powerful thing is in game it produces a fire gem each battle, so it can always cast at least one powerful spell without you having to load it up with your own personal gem supply and it's harder to wear it down with multiple attrition battles.

    Basically, lots of reasons that don't include "It'll rip you apart in melee"

    Dominions is a good source for giving new abilities to DnD monsters. There's a great spell list too

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Dominions is a good source for giving new abilities to DnD monsters. There's a great spell list too

      I'm making pale ones as a faction in my current campaign. Don't know how I'm going to translate some of the spells to 5e mechanics, but pales one ATM are generally slower (20 ms instead of 30 for non-specialized monsters), and I've had to crib some 3rd party spells for them to feel thematically on point.

      i'm doing it as EA mostly, as Olms are great

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Pale Ones are basically the average Gankerner
        >Pudgy
        >Live underground (in the basement)
        >Live with their mom (earthmother)
        >Dad is a giant prick (golden pillar)
        >Pure in heart, have never known the touch of a woman
        >Whenever they go outside they get beaten up
        >Not allowed to open the basement closet, open it anyways, find a bunch of weird porn, left permanently scarred
        >Spend all their time painting sculptures
        >Had a best friend (the Olms) who they haven't seen in ages but they keep trying to call
        >Doomed to die without children
        Too good for this world

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I feel Persona took this and actually made it scary.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >a creature that instantly activates all the uncanny valley almonds
    >while being obviously a predator
    I'll fail to see how it's NOT scary

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's not scary when you're a desensitised midwit.

  11. 1 year ago
    Smaugchad

    Give it permanent level or ability score drain.

    Have it kill half the party and consume their bodies so they can't be resurrected

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Damn sheep are bleating again.
    >They've been on edge ever since this bad weather came in five days ago. And I understand them. You can hardly tell day from night, the wind ain't blowing, and frost has ruined whatever feed was left in the pasture.
    >Ain't natural. Not good for the womenfolk as well. My old lady has been swollen the last two months and needs her rest.
    >Speaking of, maybe it's little Cloudy having her first lamb. I better have a look.

    >As I approach the barn my pace quickens into a sprint. These are not nervous bleats. These are wailing, panicky, screams.
    >I kick up the door, brandishing a pitchfork, and try to make out what's happening in the gloom. I'm immediately overrun by the panicking sheep escaping into the pasture and fall on my back.
    >Damn it all, gonna take hours to round them up again. Now what the hell is this all about.
    >I hear it before I see it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Soft crunching sounds. Like walking on dry sticks. Sloshing. Like wading through mud.
      >Over in the corner is Cloudy lying down. Something small and furry is hunched over her. I knew it wasn't a lamb even before it turned to face me.
      >It's disgusting. The head, and only the head, of an enormous cat, hair slick with blood and eyes staring at me with calculating coldness. My ram is lying next to the corpse of Cloudy.
      >Our eyes meet. I can't move. It suddenly starts shaking, convulsing, and misbegotten limbs starts to slowly unfold from within its mane.
      >The disgust overpowers my fear. I have to kill this creature before it manages to stand up. I need to.
      >I charge it with my pitchfork and start whaling at it. It can't defend itself, yet it needs to die. Every instinct is screaming at me to end it.

      >After god knows how long, my bloody hands make the pitchfork too slippery to hold and I drop it.
      >The spirits leave my body. I'm too tired to even stand and fall to my knees.
      >There's not much left of the creature except a wet patch of fur. I exhale long and deep, and my eyes are drawn to poor Cloudy.
      >It was eating her.
      >...but the wound is odd. It looks like Cloudy's stomach was ruptured from inside out.
      >A soft voice rings out, freezing my blood.
      >"Thank you, father"
      >I hear screams from the house.

    • 1 year ago
      Smaugchad

      >Soft crunching sounds. Like walking on dry sticks. Sloshing. Like wading through mud.
      >Over in the corner is Cloudy lying down. Something small and furry is hunched over her. I knew it wasn't a lamb even before it turned to face me.
      >It's disgusting. The head, and only the head, of an enormous cat, hair slick with blood and eyes staring at me with calculating coldness. My ram is lying next to the corpse of Cloudy.
      >Our eyes meet. I can't move. It suddenly starts shaking, convulsing, and misbegotten limbs starts to slowly unfold from within its mane.
      >The disgust overpowers my fear. I have to kill this creature before it manages to stand up. I need to.
      >I charge it with my pitchfork and start whaling at it. It can't defend itself, yet it needs to die. Every instinct is screaming at me to end it.

      >After god knows how long, my bloody hands make the pitchfork too slippery to hold and I drop it.
      >The spirits leave my body. I'm too tired to even stand and fall to my knees.
      >There's not much left of the creature except a wet patch of fur. I exhale long and deep, and my eyes are drawn to poor Cloudy.
      >It was eating her.
      >...but the wound is odd. It looks like Cloudy's stomach was ruptured from inside out.
      >A soft voice rings out, freezing my blood.
      >"Thank you, father"
      >I hear screams from the house.

      P. Good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Soft crunching sounds. Like walking on dry sticks. Sloshing. Like wading through mud.
      >Over in the corner is Cloudy lying down. Something small and furry is hunched over her. I knew it wasn't a lamb even before it turned to face me.
      >It's disgusting. The head, and only the head, of an enormous cat, hair slick with blood and eyes staring at me with calculating coldness. My ram is lying next to the corpse of Cloudy.
      >Our eyes meet. I can't move. It suddenly starts shaking, convulsing, and misbegotten limbs starts to slowly unfold from within its mane.
      >The disgust overpowers my fear. I have to kill this creature before it manages to stand up. I need to.
      >I charge it with my pitchfork and start whaling at it. It can't defend itself, yet it needs to die. Every instinct is screaming at me to end it.

      >After god knows how long, my bloody hands make the pitchfork too slippery to hold and I drop it.
      >The spirits leave my body. I'm too tired to even stand and fall to my knees.
      >There's not much left of the creature except a wet patch of fur. I exhale long and deep, and my eyes are drawn to poor Cloudy.
      >It was eating her.
      >...but the wound is odd. It looks like Cloudy's stomach was ruptured from inside out.
      >A soft voice rings out, freezing my blood.
      >"Thank you, father"
      >I hear screams from the house.

      I don't get it. Was he fricking the sheep and that lead to an abomination from hell being born into the world?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        okay lmao, in hindsight it was a really dumb idea to have a sheep farmer be the protagonist. I tried to go for "grotesque occult creature that reincarnates in place of its killer's unborn child and burrows out of the would-be mother". So the last sentence is meant to imply that the creature is currently eating its way out of the farmer's wife.
        But you know, death of the author and all that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That works too. It didn't telegraph well and/or I'm moronic but you're writing with Ganker posts so there's only so much you can do.
          Fun write up regardless thanks anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Soft crunching sounds. Like walking on dry sticks. Sloshing. Like wading through mud.
      >Over in the corner is Cloudy lying down. Something small and furry is hunched over her. I knew it wasn't a lamb even before it turned to face me.
      >It's disgusting. The head, and only the head, of an enormous cat, hair slick with blood and eyes staring at me with calculating coldness. My ram is lying next to the corpse of Cloudy.
      >Our eyes meet. I can't move. It suddenly starts shaking, convulsing, and misbegotten limbs starts to slowly unfold from within its mane.
      >The disgust overpowers my fear. I have to kill this creature before it manages to stand up. I need to.
      >I charge it with my pitchfork and start whaling at it. It can't defend itself, yet it needs to die. Every instinct is screaming at me to end it.

      >After god knows how long, my bloody hands make the pitchfork too slippery to hold and I drop it.
      >The spirits leave my body. I'm too tired to even stand and fall to my knees.
      >There's not much left of the creature except a wet patch of fur. I exhale long and deep, and my eyes are drawn to poor Cloudy.
      >It was eating her.
      >...but the wound is odd. It looks like Cloudy's stomach was ruptured from inside out.
      >A soft voice rings out, freezing my blood.
      >"Thank you, father"
      >I hear screams from the house.

      This isn't scary. This is just literally every wednesday in Wales.

  13. 1 year ago
    Smaugchad
  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I ran Buer as an optional boss fight in a dumb action game once and he was easily the boss my players fricking hated the most and had the most difficulty with. The movement score I gave him ended up being way too fricking high so he was just cartwheeling around the arena kicking the shit out of them while they could barely land a hit.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    While it looks kinda goofy, I think it wold look creepier in motion.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Get awful dogshit creature to use in campaign
    >give it 5xs multi attacks
    >party gets action economy'd to death by Wheel Lion

    It's like you guys don't know how to be awful DMs or something.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Have you tried not playing D&D?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Like what

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My experience is that players will find scary and take seriously anything that fricks them up pretty bad.

    So just make it hurt a lot, you don't care if the thing that you're your leg and is eating it silly, it will freak you out.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's a sassy robot terrorist that can only be defeated by gaybots

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It doesn't matter how silly it looks as long as it poses a threat.
    Have it roll in from in the distance, hit a party member, do a frickton of damage, and then roll away before the party can even properly react.
    Then when it comes time to actually fight it, everyone will know that it's a threat that can hit like a truck and move as fast as one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. People who can't enjoy the juxtaposition between weird/grotesque and an honest threat lack in imagination.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >be high level party, travel to the far southwestern jungle continent because there's fat stacks of loot to be found in the ancient temple ruins
    >the lowland jungle is an awful shitstorm full of mosquitoes and animated plants so we decide to head for the mountainy area instead which has less forests
    >locals warn us not to go there
    >implying
    >first day into the mountainy area, much less insects and carnivorous megaflora, otherwise the usual fare
    >worst thing we've ran into was a solitary wyvern which died before it finished diving at us
    >also find out there's some other kind of tribals here, either goblins or kobolds
    >day 2, we're getting closer to that sweet sweet ancient abandoned temple, we can already see the outline
    >suddenly some goblin in a moronic looking tribal mask appears out of nowhere and blocks our path and spouts something in his language
    >dumb party members get into an argument whether it's worth casting comprehend languages here and now
    >before they reach a decision the goblin releases an extremely (magically) loud lion roar
    >party sharpshooter decides not to give him any more chances and deletes the goblin from existence with a shot between the eyes
    >just as we say "good riddance" the whole mountains start to shake, and it appears the roar has triggered an avalanche
    >as we retreat to seek some shelter we notice the avalanche is much faster and it's catching up to us
    >we also hear the hundreds of rocks are also roaring like lions not unlike the goblin
    >those are not rocks

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it clearly levitates, communes only in ancient long-dead languages, and can at-will cast Purify/Corrupt Food & Water, Fireball (which it breathes), Cone of Fear, or Lower Water

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Writer

    [...]

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If this isn't the lion that mauled Alexander on the mountain before he got healed by a snek then it could beat that lion up.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's so ridiculous about that, I'd be scared shitless if that thing was staggering towards me

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >They found Dr Seraz dead. Face caved in and body still twitching.
    >Just like my cousin and the five other men that went on that godforsaken expedition all those years ago.
    >Fricking bastard caused all this. He was the one who laughed at the old woman's hex and decided to continue.
    >"Childish rhyme" he called it. Wouldn't even translate for the rest of us.
    >Well I hope those crypt trinkets were worth dying for, you senile piece of shit.
    >...
    >I know I'm next.
    >My cousin complained about eyes in the alleys and mirrors just before he died a couple months ago. I feel them as well. They're never there when I turn around but I know I'm being watched. Yellow, feral. The eyes of a beast.
    >I ransacked Dr Seraz's house yesterday. I got his journal from the expedition. Pretentious bastard didn't bother to translate the hex but he did write down the words.
    >I'm seeing a mystic tonight. Some robed weirdo. Word on the street is that they're from Sangeria so they should be able to translate the curse. And then I'll just convince them to break it. By force if I have to. I'm running out of time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >"Ahhh yes, old Sangerian this. Very old. I'd wager less people than I have hands can speak it fluently nowadays."
      >Old Mother protect me, this masked fool is my only bet?
      >"Yes, good, great. But you can? Fantastic. Break the curse and I'll pay you anything.
      >"Oh, it's not a curse."
      >What?
      >"It's a warning. Dire. I hope you didn't ignore it."
      >"I didn't know! I didn't fricking know!"
      >"So you did. Hm, well I suppose there is still a way out."
      >The mystic stands up, robes fluttering as he does. The tabby resting on his knees jumps off, annoyed.
      >"Kill the feline."
      >"Kill it? Why?"
      >"This will decide your fate."
      >I think for but a moment. Ritual sacrifice bullshit or not, I'm not going down like my cousin. I pick up the cat and snap its neck.

      >"There. Now what."
      >"How very unfortunate. I hoped the last one would be different."
      >The voice grows deeper. The robes starts shuffling and something large and red rises from an unnatural angle. The mask slips off.
      >The last thing I see is the yellow eyes.
      >The last thing I hear is Mess with the meow meow and you get the pow pow

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        God damn it anon, I was hoping it would end with the mystic opening the door get on the floor/everyone walk the dinosaur

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always have to think about thid comic when I see that stupid monster

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's that other comics where they kill monsters to eat and wear their parts?

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It is a wheel of lion claws... It's basically a larger Sonic the Hedgehog.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Off topic but I think it's kind of neat when you can see the inspiration behind some mythical creatures. Like, some ancient lad probably caught a glimpse of a lion rolling off of a rock and made this whole headcanon to explain it instead of seeing a twisty lion that went back to normal when it landed

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >spin it (no pun intended) into a terrifying creature
    For the unprepared and/or a proper CR 3 encounter? It is exactly that.
    >Faster than normal humanoids, and can climb
    >Drive by attack
    >Scent, darkvision, lowlight vision
    >Fast fricking healing and spell resistance

    If you don't have a way to shut it down or catch up to it, it will just keep tumbling over you again, and again, fleeing when it's been hit and slowly bleeding you dry. You need to kill it in the single turn that you've got a clear shot on it, and hope that there was only one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >If you don't have a way to shut it down or catch up to it, it will just keep tumbling over you again, and again, fleeing when it's been hit and slowly bleeding you dry. You need to kill it in the single turn that you've got a clear shot on it, and hope that there was only one.
      It's incredibly easy to catch it because the tumbling attack is a full-round action and is only 40 ft. range. This means at best it'll approach from 20 ft. or something and end 20 ft away from you. Either way within the range of your martial's charge.
      If you're somehow unable to kill it in 1 round then have the martial go for grapple/trip rather than attack (though a good attack should almost kill it).
      That is to say, I don't mean it's a shit monster, it's basically just fairly balanced. Maybe too balanced honestly, I'd give it a speed of 80 or 120 to capitalize on the hit and run tactics.

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