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Sunday, 30 June 2019

Dungeons and Dragons Monster: Figure Conversion - "Nothic" from a "Carrion Crawler"

Necessity is often the "mother of invention" so when my return to RPG required a "new monster model" for the adventurers to gawp at, and a similar one kind-of existed (squint and you could see it) .. I picked up my paint brush and had a go to "transform" creature 'A' into creature 'B' (see below, a Nothic is a transmuted magic-user who like Icarus flew too close to the sun and got burned [deformed] badly - in particular he has a big bad eye ranged attack weapon. The model was a previously run of the mill "Carrion Crawler"):


Well I had plastic a "Carrion Crawler" spooned from a boxed game which looked hideous enough - so instead of letting it see through some 'slug stalks' I pained a large green eye in the middle of the creatures forehead. It works for me .. the only bad thing was that through an ingenious use of a light spell on its eye by a brave cleric - the thing was blinded and then killed by the party - although it nearly took the party's leader (a Magic-User) out. However, it did take the adventurers most of the night to overcome this foe, so that was a RPG result!
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2 comments:

  1. Red_Cardinal1 July 2019 at 21:44

    Lovely conversion job!

    Were you playing DnD 5E when your cunning players cast Light on the pesky monster? If you were, could Mister pedant here ;) mention that in 5E the Light cantrip can't be cast directly on a creature. It can be cast on an object held or worn by a hostile creature but not the creature itself. It also doesn't cause the blindness condition.

    If you could cast it on enemies and cause blindness, it would make it a formidable spell and would rather negate the use of the 2nd level Necromancy spell "Blindness". If I was the player, I'd be using this spell this way all the time now on every enemy...:)

    I'll get me coat now..... ;)

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  2. Geordie an Exiled FoG1 July 2019 at 22:59

    Thanks Red Cardinal
    I was pretty pleased on the paint job ;)

    Thanks for the rules clarification, very much appreciated

    In terms of game play the cleric in question had just been hit by a evil rotting flesh eye attack from the Nothic (that very nearly killed her) and was extremely close [every attack opens up a momentary weakness in the attacker] .. so I'm calling the it on me as the DM bringing the doom of the creature upon itself by opening its eye too wide [as the exception to the rule], it still brought another character (the Magic User party leader) to 1hp - so it "did its thing"! ;)

    However, your point will stop this cantrip becoming a killer quick win weapon - much appreciated

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