[Rq-rules] Sea Griffon

[Peter Johansson]

That would be very useful and would also make the Chaos Project even 
better than it already is.

    /Peter J


Peter Maranci wrote:
> All this talk is making me wonder if I should start a new section on 
> the Chaos Project, one devoted exclusively to fantastic beasts. Or 
> would that be useful?
>  
> ->Peter
>  
> On 5/24/07, *Paul Cardwell* <carpgachair at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:carpgachair at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Speaking of Chilean monsters, there is the chonchon
>     (first o should have an acute accent, but those don't
>     go through the e-mail process very well).  It is a
>     rather gaunt human head with shark-like teeth, which
>     flies by flapping its ears.  They are invisible until
>     they attack, but give their presence away by muttering
>     "tue, tue" (accents on the e) as they fly.  Like a
>     cross repels vampires, a hexagram repels them. (No
>     that is not "equal time" for Jews, but was first
>     recorded by conquistadores, who had reason to fear the
>     Inquisition.)
>
>     There are quite a few non-European fabulous beasts
>     from around the world that can be used.  Despite the
>     fact that the various Celtic groups (particularly
>     Irish) had an overabundance of these, there are many,
>     many others.  Mythworld Bestiary includes them from
>     every continent except Antarctica.
>
>     Paul Cardwell
>
>
>
>     --- Roger Benham <rog_benham at hotmail.com
>     <mailto:rog_benham at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>     ---------------------------------
>     There's loads of other monsters in Terran mythology
>     that have never been written up.  I remember a Chilean
>     one which resembled a floating cow hide with teeth
>     around the edge that would sneak up on and consume
>     swimmers in the sea.
>
>     I think the Gateway Bestiary tried to break the mould
>     a little bit- the Celtic and Cthulhu monsters were
>     good, and even the Gloranthan ones were different- I
>     love the Jack O'Bear for instance- but I think the
>     Eurocentric Bestiary kinda still holds true.  I'm
>     musing about doing an Australian aborigine campaign
>     (Been musing for years... one day I may get something
>     done!) using the creatures from Terra Australis, and
>     so on.
>
>     I'm not a fan of the AD & D approach of more is
>     better, but I have noticed that the players do get
>     bored of meeting the same monsters in my campaigns
>     over and over in the wildernesse encounters.  As such,
>     variety is useful but not to the scattergun approach
>     of D20.
>
>     Were there Japanese monsters in the Japanese
>     supplement?
>
>     There are also shedloads of other monsters like the
>     rusalka and the like from Ukrainian mythos too.  All
>     good stuff.
>
>
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