Monster Manual Monday – S Shrieker
March 19th, 2012
There were some good S monsters, like the sahuagin, but I ended up going with the mindless fungus that warns of approaching predators. Then bigger predators come know to come and eat whatever’s bothering them. If you saw a shrieker you might expect a bunch of bubgears or organization of ogres would be coming to thump you with clubs.
March 19th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Bubgears! Wolverine’s steampunk nemesis.
March 19th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
RavenBlack – Hahahaha! Brilliant. I’m going to leave that typo because your explanation is so good.
March 20th, 2012 at 11:41 am
The other problem with shriekers is how they were a food source as well as a watch system. And one of the things that would eat them was described on the same page — shambling mounds.
That’s what DMs I knew would also spring on you — or something very much like it — when they got tired of the bubgear/ogre strategies.