Saturday, April 28, 2012
Bestiarum Vocabulum 1
Today's lesson will be the Daemonette.
Apparently, Daemonettes appear as both beautiful and repulsive to those who look upon them. Their bewitching opal eyes and enchanting aura veil their androgynous features and grotesque claws, revealing an alluring appearance the beholder will always consider the epitome of beauty.
Yeah, because nothing says "beautiful, bewitching, and alluring" like crab claws.
I can't remember the rules for 40K, but I think their big crab claws can punch through the sides of tanks, and snip well armoured men in half. Their other claim to fame is that because they're so "alluring", they cause their opponents to hesitate, because obviouly they're just so interesting that you momentarily stop defending yourself to mumble "What in the blazes is that sexy thing?" That leaves them with an opening to eviscerate your sorry butt.
In Dark Heresy our group inadvertently summoned one*, and had to dispatch her quickly, while fighting in an small underground bunker/map room. They kept referring to it as a Kitchen-ette, while they shot it a few times with hellpistols and .44 magnum revolvers. No big deal.
In game terms, their "alluring" trick causes you to pass a willpower check each turn, or spend half of that turn gawking. Oh, you need a full round to do an action? Reloading? Invocation? That's too bad.
One surefire way to defend against this is to be a Techpriest with the Chem-Geld trait.
Apparently in the year 40K, there is only war. And terrible choices.
*They didn't actually summon one. Only heritics do that.
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While running my group through the 'Mansions of Madness' game a few weeks back my players kept referring to the Byahkee's as the "Bukkake's". You can imagine the smirks and giggles I had to endure while trying to narrate that tale of Lovecraftian horror.
Oh noes. I thought this one going to be a family friendly blog. We have a gal in our gaming group, so we keep it fairly clean. Well, one time there was a corrupt sheriff with a mustache, who we constantly referred to as "Mustache Ride". I was doing init, so I got to label everyone, which gave me an excuse to say it every turn. Yeah, I'm pretty much a 13 year old.
Byahkee's, huh? I need to brush up on my Lovecraftian monsters, cause I have no idea what that is. All I know from Lovecraft is Fish-dudes, Cone-dudes, Flying Polyps, and the Yellow King. Well, and Mr. Squidface, of course.
It was actually the gal in our gaming group that renamed the Byahkee as such.
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