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shinylayatha · 6 months

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i got to premiere a monster I had in the back of my mind yesterday: gluttonous soil

it's a monster that is somewhere between a turbot and an earth elemental, mixed up with several teeth and eyes. it looks simply like undisturbed soil, until it feels weight on itself, when it then waits for the weight to move over its mouth before it chomps away

hard to kill since you basically have to destroy the connections between the grains of sand, which even gives off a bit of blood that seeps into the creature again, causing a blood frenzy as a defence mechanism

lots of fun to run and great for a trap or two. party yesterday encountered it in a smaller form (about 2m²), but I've planning to mayhaps hide one in the desert (like ... 1km²???), in the snow, in the jungle, etc.

so many ways to use them. the image of the party stepping onto a rock in the desert, the rock then shudders and reveals it is one of several eyes all around them staring hungrily?

yea baby

#having read nearly all of dungeon meshi in the last week and now I overthink monsters #but also it leads to great world building so who cares #also playing with the idea of having the gluttonous soil wrap itself around a cave tunnel #ready to chomp at anything trying to pass through the tunnel #i love it tbh #Overprepped DM thoughts #dnd #Aelerea and I am NOT under NDA

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