April Fools, everyone. This week, we’ll be covering commissions from @glarnboudin, who requested a variety of monsters from different incarnations of Scooby-Doo. Honestly, I was kicking myself that I’d never thought to do Scooby-Doo monsters before: as a young child who loved monsters but was a huge coward, Scooby-Doo was an excellent training-wheels way for me to get my creature fix.
The Creeper is perhaps one of the most iconic monsters from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? series. He regularly appears in spin-offs, reboots, even a State Farm commercial. I’ve seen him referred to as a take on Frankenstein’s Monster, but I think he’s more a melange of multiple hulking brute killers from B-horror movies. The name is derived from Rondo Hatton’s character from House of HorrorsandThe Brute Man, and I feel like his look owes more to Lon Chaney Jr. in Indestructible Man than it does to Frankenstein]
Spectral Creeper This muscular humanoid is hunched over, with a dull, dead gaze and hands clenched. His skin tone is a gray-green, and he has clearly been dead for some time.
Spectral creepers are the reanimated corpses of cat burglars, pickpockets, and other non-violent thieves. Typically, a spectral creeper forms when one of these criminals dies with unfinished business—with a major heist planned, but not executed. If the creeper achieves this goal post-mortem, it continues with even bigger and bolder heists. A spectral creeper is never satisfied with the wealth they have, accumulating riches upon riches. A few creepers will even allow their treasures to be reclaimed just so they can steal them a second time.
A spectral creeper is most notable for its ability to pass through locked doors, solid walls. It can empty chests or lockboxes without opening them by reaching through their sides. They cannot do this endlessly, however. Most spectral creepers still carry thieves’ tools to help them disarm traps or open locks in case of emergencies or to assist their minions. Spectral creepers are also skilled in disguises, and may masquerade as the living in order to case a target or evade detection. Regardless of whether or not the spectral creeper was violent in life, all of them are willing to kill in pursuit of a mission. Their fists are heavy and their grip tight, but they still cannot resist rifling through the pockets of their victims even as they crush them.
Screenshot from “Don’t Fool With a Phantom”, accessed at Scoobypedia here
[Commissioned by @glarnboudin. In doing research for this set, I have been watching the relevant episodes of Scooby-Doo. And this one confuses me a little. The Wax Phantom himself is pretty standard–corporate executive disguising himself as a monster to steal from his own company–but the red herring is weird. The Wax Phantom was supposedly animated by Mr. Grisby, a disgruntled wax museum owner, who seems to genuinely believe his black magic brought the thing to life. He’s also gray, dresses like the Crypt Keeper, and has a shack full of ghosts and animated skeletons. So either Grisby actually is magic and the undead are real in this version of the Scoobyverse, or he’s just so dedicated to his craft that he lives in a Spirit Halloween Store. Either seems plausible.]
Wax Phantom This looming figure appears to be a roughly shaped humanoid made out of running wax. It is faintly luminous, and its facial features are contorted into a crude grimace.
Wax phantoms are undead-like constructs created as instruments of vengeance. They appear as rough humanoid outlines the size of an ogre, incredibly strong for their size. Wax phantoms are frequently used to kidnap chosen targets—they can scale sheer walls, burst through doors or other protections, and encase victims in a cocoon of wax to take back to their lairs. A wax phantom under control of its creator follows the master’s bidding, but free-willed wax phantoms typically kill their captives in sadistic, drawn out fashions.
Constructing a Wax Phantom A wax phantom is created by building a body around an animated humanoid skeleton. The wax is sculpted into an effigy of a person or thing the creator hates, and then melts back into a monstrous form as it animated. The wax must be infused with unholy water and rare herbs worth 1,000 gp.
CL14th;Cost101,050 gp Construction Requirements FeatsCraft Construct; Spellsanimate dead, geas/quest, false life, fear;Specialcreator must be caster level 14th;Skill Check Craft (wax) DC 22; Cost51,050 gp.
“The Country of the Iguanodon” by John Martin, in the public domain. Accessed at Wikimedia here
[Commissioned by @glarnboudin. This is about as retro as retrosaurs get. These ghastly creatures made me think “zombies”, which took me in the direction I went with them. I can imagine this painting as an exhibition match between necromancers off in the distance, taking bets and sipping wine.]
Primord CR 9 NE Undead This immense pallid horror resembles a swollen lizard or crocodile, with piggy black eyes over a massive maw lined with teeth.
A primord is something of a showpiece among necromancers—it is a creature designed more to be a display of talent and resources than a useful entity. Primords can find employ as guardians and terror weapons by skilled necromancers, but are frequently expended to fight each other in contests of wizardly might. Primords are mindless killers, and they live to fight. Without orders, a primord will instinctively kill and devour creatures, adding their mass to its own. They battle with claws and teeth, but their most effective weapons might be the combination of their grotesque appearance and merely plowing over enemies with their mass. Primords are as comfortable in the water as they are on land, and free willed primords can often be found at sea, attacking whales and sea monsters.
Creating a Primord A primord is created using a mounted skeleton as a base—this can be the intact skeleton of a Gargantuan creature, or a composite made from the skeletons of multiple recent or fossil creatures. This skeleton is then buried in a mass grave with 20 HD of zombies, and the spells animate dead, false life andbestow curse are cast over the morass. A primord counts as having twice as many Hit Dice as it actually has for the purposes of the material component needed, and for animation and control.
Finished commission work, really pleased how this came out, the description for the Crypt Mistress is an undead seducing cousin of a succubus, a demonic and warped, twisted caricature of a woman with lank hair casting black magic who even revolts other demons, she was required to be leering, crude and disturbing. used Hellion HD for Anneka Demon as base figure
Alright, sorry for the slight delay. Here’s the first taste of what to expect in Terminal Desires for everyone to try out. If you find any issues or bugs let me know and I can prepare another patch if it’s something game breaking.
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I’ve had lot’s of fun working on this so far and there’s plenty more to come in further updates!
Quiet Places is a series of maps that mark suitable roleplay locations with little to no NPCs. They’ll be categorized as follows; Home - Closed buildings with a homey exterior ideal for walk up. ‘Open’ Home - Also a homey building but with actual openings or rooms. Camps - Refugee or relief tents along with supplies nearby. Merchant - Areas or caravans perfect for merchant or trading roleplay. Sacked - Destroyed, burning and pillaged buildings, streets or trading stalls. Forsaken - Places ‘claimed’ or occupied by the forsaken. Event - Miscellaneous areas that are heavily themed and may be perfect for certain rp scenarios.
Gilneas is a completely empty capital, making it an absolute favorite roleplay city for more than just Worgen. The only animated models you’ll find here are creaky windows, birds and other players. (I’m serious, not even a critter!) Blizzard’s art team outdid themselves with this Victorian grimdark atmosphere and haunted ghost-town. So come one come all edgelords and ladies!
Light’s Dawn Cathedral is the largest walk-up and event location by far. But many other areas are frequented like Greymane’s Court and some of Merchant Square. That being said, Gilneas is a complicated piece of in-game architecture. Some windows, ledges and buildings you can’t even access while other spots are purposefully tucked away. A frustrating place to explore but awesome to RP in. There are TONS of quiet buildings and spaces where people don’t seem to go or know about.
You’ll find mostly Alliance side roleplay here, but I’ve stumbled upon a few blood elves and the rare Forsaken. Honestly it’s a shame I haven’t come across more Horde side guild events taking place in Gilneas - there’s a nice chunk of the city heavily themed for our darkest lady. Not to mention it’s far easier to get to for Horde! Trust me! So, to all roleplayers, consider making an event or a casual RP night in Gilneas some time soon! Or just head on over for some of that nice, dark setting.
P.S. Mother of GOD it’s done!!! Sorry for the wait everyone, getting a new job has taken a lot of my focus and energy these days! Let me know if the lack of coordinates bothers anyone! Silvermoon is up next~
I swear there will be new writing up soon, I’m working on finishing a slew of poems and have decided to serialize some of my short stories here so more people can read them.
In the mean time however learn about new podcast episodes of which I’m proud of!
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