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I love the tradition where I get minis that my daughter picked out.

This is one that she described as "a Squid-Octopus." Also "He looks like he's gonna eat me." I believe he's supposed to be one of the stranger D&D creatures (a sort of stalagmite that eats the rare creature to walk into a cave- sort of like a carnivorous plant, except larger, deadlier, and living in environment that doesn't have plentiful creatures to support it.

Naturally, we had to incorporate it into our Mouslings game, and I found this encounter was my favorite moment as a GM.

- Mouslings are at sea
GM: You hear singing. It sounds like children waying come and play with us. Make a will save.
(4 Year old makes will save, fails. Her mother passes. GM considers saying something about being compelled to believe the voices, then thinks better of it). Yep, you hear children singing "Come play with us."

4yo: We need to go play with the children! Let's go right now! We get out of the boat to find the children.

Mom: Maybe they aren't really...

4yo: We go play with the children!

- The mouslings disembark, and are attacked by a strange tentacled monster that was impersonating children singing

4yo: (with astonishment) He lied!




I went for a fleshy appearance, rather than making it look like an inorganic stalagmite. It just seemed more horrific a creature that way.

The base I made for it was based on some Kingdom Death bases that I've made. For some reason, this creature just strikes me as so extremely strange that it fits right in in that hell dimension setting. Plus, I had made several of these Plains of Faces bases for clients, but I hadn't had a chance to paint one myself yet.

The monster looks great (and yes, D$D thingie) Your story is funny, but...all I can think of is the things roleplaying teaches...and the phrase "He lied!". That is going to come back and haunt you in about ten years...

That's the best kind of story. My own father was pretty good at that sort of trickery when I was a kid. Fond (and only slightly resentful) memories.

I like the creature to. Reminds me a bit of the tree monsters (reapers?) in the old ultima games.

Great Work.

They were called Ropers in Dungeons and Dragons (Oh Gawd I'm such a Nerd)

You know, I just don't think that "Cigar Shaped" is a good description for any monster.

 odinsgrandson wrote:
You know, I just don't think that "Cigar Shaped" is a good description for any monster.

LOL Esp when you start to think of Bill Clinton.

 odinsgrandson wrote:
You know, I just don't think that "Cigar Shaped" is a good description for any monster.

Perhaps "eggplant-like" would be preferable?


Or, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

You made that tentacled stump look good with an excellent base and paintjob. I give it a

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 odinsgrandson wrote:
You know, I just don't think that "Cigar Shaped" is a good description for any monster.

Perhaps "eggplant-like" would be preferable?


Or, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

I could see that if you regularly smoke cigars. But for most of us, who don't interact with cigars regularly, but do live In our post-fraudian society, a cigar is almost never a cigar.

I dunno. I think Freude still informs the modern era.

I'm sure Gary Gygax had it named "Tentacled Penis Monster" but it got edited out. Hentai had yet to reach popular culture.

It looks great, Odinson.

We killed one of these in a DnD game at some point in my he distant past.

Love the hard stare the eye is giving, and please post more of your adventures.

My OH just looked at the picture from across the room and went "Roper!" so I guess some things just stick with you.

Ah, Gygax slipped his renamed fallic monster into D&D and... man, some things just come out wrong.

I bet it was originally based on one of those toys you get out of the quarter machines at the grocery store. A lot of original monsters are like that.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
I dunno. I think Freude still informs the modern era.

I do not disagree. Sorry if that wasn't clear The things Fraud got right have entered the collective consciousness to the point where we all just assume everyone has always known this is true. And the stuff he got wrong is the stuff we attribute to him.


By the way- and I'm just being needlessly technical here- but we're in the "Contemporary Era." The "Modern" era ended sometime around the '60s. I know, the terms mean the same thing, but that's because we don't have someone like Queen Victoria to name our eras after (especially since the great conversation has gone global).

It's OK, I was failing to comprehend. Sorry.