Because Australia isn't dangerous enough, this guy became a Crab Armorer. I can't say I wasn't inspired to unleash a new horror in my next game!
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D&D General Monster Optimization 101: Armor Crab
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DrunkonDuty
he/him
Awesome.
For his next project I think he should make hang-gliders for spiders.
For his next project I think he should make hang-gliders for spiders.
Benjamin Olson
Hero
So is your monster going to have purpose built armor (giant trained war crabs or something), or is it just going to be a species of hermit crab that infest unattended armories?
Either the first, or possibly a species of crustaceans who have figured out metalworking.
Benjamin Olson
Hero
Awesome.
I think I'm more excited for the possibility of a suit of armor in some old wizard's tower that starts to move, and the players think "oh god, another animated armor" only to discover that it's actually a colony of twelve armor crabs!
12 crabs in a t̶r̶e̶n̶c̶h̶c̶o̶a̶t̶ suit of full plate?
Benjamin Olson
Hero
Yep.
Probably not actually a hard fight, but the characters who beat the crabs on initiative spend the opening turns attacking the armor like they would a solo enemy, when in fact it's a bunch of tiny enemies with plate armor AC, that hop apart and swarm everyone, making the AoE that could easily take them all out unsafe to cast.
From that point on they'll be casting Burning Hands on every suit of armor they see.
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