Creature Feature - Giant Worms, Spell Slinging Spiders, and Bloody Bushes

Annelid, Great

What is an Annelid you dare ask? Well it’s a giant hermaphroditic worm, up to a 1000 ft. long and has 25-50 HD (holy fawking $hit Bro!). ohh I almost forgot the obligatory Dune reference “The sleeper has! Blah, blah, blah.

The highlights are that it digs giant tunnels and swallows people whole. Also it paralyzes earth elementals with its bite, though this power is poorly understood. You know, kind of like why this monster exists. Who is going to fight this thing anyway? I can see it now, our trusty adventurers encounter a thousand foot behemoth. The DM looks across his screen, you have initiative, what do you want to do. Joe who plays the Halfling, grins and says “I pull my dagger, let’s gut this biatch!” Hah! just kidding, everybody would run or maybe the wizard could levitate it to death or something.

Possible Hooks: The Ground shakes outside the tavern, plates and mugs fall of the table and clatter to the floor, pictures fall of the wall and patrons are violently thrown the flood. Then, as suddenly as it began, it’s over.  As the characters step outside to investigate, they barely avoid falling into the 25 ft. wide hole in the taverns porch, the middle of the street and the shops across the way used to be.

GRUBS Rating: Meh, Uninspired. Big, Dumb, Stupid looking.

Aranea

Whoa! Large brained, super intelligent spiders that can cast spells and spend their leisure time doing arcane research. So it turns out that the super large bump on their heads is just wizard hat in disguise. Inquiring minds want to know, but the text doesn’t say, can Aranea cast Web? There is no information about their society or other habits but they are chaotic so I’m gonna guess they aren’t party friendly. Lol

GRUBS Rating: Uninspired, While spider are creepy and shit, just adding spells to them isn’t that great of an upgrade.

Archer Bushes

Yep, this is the ugly little bastard.

“A rose by any other name is…ow, stop shooting me with thorns thou fucking bushes!” Shakespeare it is not. This thing isn’t horrible, it’s just that the picture has it with a gaping fanged maw. Which is pretty stupid. It would be far more interesting if it were just a natural plant that defends itself from being trampled and preyed on by animals. Maybe those thorns are also seeds that grow new plants. But no, instead it’s a carnivorous, blood slurping, semi-mobile escapee from some lunatic wizard’s tower. Just one more reason to burn magic-users at the stake.

GRUBS Rating: Uninspired, killer plants are pure fertilizer.