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Dan C Davis	Thri-keen-like creatures?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 303 (03/18/09 11:03:25) Minimum 1 pt, right? Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I'm looking for some inspiration regarding thri-keen-like monsters. Quick backstory: A PC in my campaign was bull rushed into a deepspawn while still alive. The deepspawn chewed him up and spit him back out as a thri-keen. But no one has ever seen a thri-keen before because he's the only one in existence. What the PC doesn't know (but I do since I'm the DM) is that thri-keen are the eventual evolution of some creature that the deepspawn once ate. So does anyone know of any creatures similar to thri-keen that thri-keen could have evolved from? I'm looking for a creature with a combination of a few basic thri-keen traits: insectile, good jumpers, four arms, naturally psionic, that sort of thing. Any help would be appreciated! Make the world a better place; slap someone who needs it.
Utgardloki		#1	[-]
Posts: 185 (03/18/09 17:50:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I created a thri-kreen like creature for my own campaign once. I had a PC who wanted to play a thri-kreen, but the campaign was set far to the north, so I couldn't justify that race being in that climate zone. I created a "thra-kraan" race that evolved for arctic conditions. If you're interested, I can post the stats, although I envisioned them as more like northern cousins rather than an ancestral race. I also created a "Savage" template for the purpose of representing creatures, especially humanoids, at an earlier stage of evolution. "Savage" creatures are larger, stronger, but less intelligent than the base creature. If you're interested, I can post stats. Otherwise you could play "Armchair Evolutionary Theorist" and think of things the thri kreen could have evolved from. In that case, you might be on your own with regard to coming up with stats, but I would be interested in seeing what youcome up with. If I were designing an ancestral race for the thri kreen, I'd probably make them smaller, quicker and arboreal. Bonuses to jumping and climbing. They seem to have evolved from a creature like a praying mantis, so they probably get bonuses for hiding when in the woods. Perhaps weaken the poison to 1d3 Dex initial, 1d6 Dex secondary damage. Remove some or all psionic abilities -- although perhaps they have bonus skills and feats substituting for the lost psi-like abilities, even creating some if applicable. I don't know of any published creatures that could fit the bill.
Dan C Davis		#2	[-]
Posts: 304 (03/19/09 11:19:55) Minimum 1 pt, right? Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well, there are templates. There's the phrenic template to make a creature psionic, and there's a four-armed template named obah-blessed in a Dungeon magazine. That just leaves the jumping and the insectile parts left. But what I'm really looking for is an existing creature with at least two of those traits, but three would be even better. Make the world a better place; slap someone who needs it.
Wiz of Ice		#3	[-]
Posts: 5712 (03/19/09 11:32:03) Moderator Iron Liege Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	So you don't want to just change his race to thri-kreen?
Dan C Davis		#4	[-]
Posts: 305 (03/19/09 12:12:46) Minimum 1 pt, right? Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	He is thri-keen; we're using the class from Complete Psionic. But I think I found the answer. Compare a gelugon ice devil with a thri-keen. They're very similar; both insectile, and their heads and legs are nearly identical. If a gelugon gained two arms (the obah-blessed template) and lost its tail, they would be nearly identical except for the color! They could lose their ice-related abilities, including their coloring, over the generations by living in a warmer climate (and there's no reason they wouldn't considering that ice devils only have cold resistance, not immunity). Their devilish spell-like abilities could evolve into psi-like abilities (the phrenic template) through disuse as they cut themselves off from devil-kind, and you've got yourself a thri-keen. But why would an ice devil cut themselves off from their devil brethren, you say? A sanctified (template from Book of Exalted Deeds) gelugon might . . . And it doesn't hurt that there's one in my campaign already . . . Make the world a better place; slap someone who needs it.
Utgardloki		#5	[-]
Posts: 186 (03/19/09 17:37:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I like this story. If you want stats for my Thra-Kraan they could be one of the intermediary links. In 1st Edition devils and demons had psionic ability, so I've long considered psionics as being common in the outer plans. So psionic devils make a lot of sense. I think you can put Praying Mantis in this story. Perhaps praying mantises in Hell evolved into Savage Gelugons, and then into Gelugons (losing two of their arms in the process). Then some Gelugons left Hell to evolve into four-armed and psionic Gelugons and then into Thra Kraan, and then move south to evolve into Thri Kreen. I'm sure there is some kind of "minimal" template somewhere, so you could have a "Minimal Savage Gelugon" prior to the Savage Gelugon.

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