#flind

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Whoops, accidentally did player character options twice. Have an extra! I want at least something here to not just be a person with different skintone, the amount of humanoids in a row is starting to wear on me >_> On the left is the Flind, the gnoll god's favorites!  7 feet (2.1  m) and 300 lbs (136 kg) of pure muscle, and if you're into pain that flail can temporarily send you into a frenzy or paralyze you! Other than that it's just a big powerful hyena person with no fear and a love of fighting. Gotta love a leader who leads by example, putting themselves on the frontlines!

On the right is the oblex! An INCREDIBLY intelligent ooze made from mindflayer experimentation. They absorb your memories, skills, personalities, languages, everything! They can Charm person or Detect Thoughts at will, and have domination and hypnotic pattern spells for extra fun. Even if they haven't eaten a person, just having copied thier memories is enough for them to recreate them, forming up to 13 creatures at once. So if you're up for a slimy orgy, this is for you! You might struggle to remember after, but you actually regain lost memories after a good night's sleep!

And If you're wondering how a 5e original is so messed up and lore heavy and cool, it's because they didn't make it. This was a Make-a-Wish monster of Nolan Whale. This dying child's final wish was to give us a fucked up bodysnatcher ooze that devoured people and stole thier minds and forms, recreating them for its own goals. Truly a noble cause. Rest in Peace, if only you'd lived to bless this earth with more of these glorious creations.

[xdraonarts]

pov your boyfriend meets your dad for the first time

[chronivore]

Flind

[thecreaturecodex]

Further elaboration, inspired by a conversation with @abominationimperatrix​.

We know that goblinoids exist because of the tampering of outside forces. The first goblins were created by the blood spilled by barghest demigods. Hobgoblins were created from goblins by the Infernal Duke Canzoriant (who hasn’t been heard from in a long time; maybe he’s dead?). So why shouldn’t bugbears be the same?

Just as hobgoblins were modified from goblin stock, so too were bugbears built from hobgoblins. Cultists of Lamashtu wanted to make their own goblin super-soldiers, and wanted them to be well and truly influenced by chaos. But rather than using demons as their source of genetic diversity, they turned to sahkils. The first few generations of bugbears were in fact native outsiders, the hobgoblin version of tieflings, representing the hobgoblin’s own fears of the beast within as much as they did a new and improved shock trooper. And, as part of the divine grace of the Mother of Monsters, bugbears didn’t have to be rebred every generation like mules, or even were limited to their own gene pools like most discrete species.

Bugbears are built to hybridize. And the offspring of a bugbear and another goblinoid... is a bugbear.

After a few centuries of this parasitic reproduction, there were enough bugbears, and enough genetic diversity within them, that they rarely need to crossbreed with hobgoblins and goblins anymore. But they are still capable of doing so. And bugbears still feel more comfortable leaving their babies in the care of another goblinoid than they do raising them themselves (canonically, childbirth is dangerous for bugbears). So although they are not obligate brood parasites, bugbears engage in brood parasitism wherever their ranges overlap with goblins and hobgoblins.

And then, based on the whispering of the cult of Lamashtu? The gnolls saw this development of the bugbears and decided to do the whole “positive eugenics” thing to themselves. With less shortcuts via the influx of evil outsiders, and more breeding the strongest and the toughest with each other over generations. And that’s where flinds come from.

What's your options on bugbears in Golorian being all serial killers or atleast obsessed with fear? I think that has room for, improvement. Definitely feels weird for them though.

I love it.

It's one of my favorite lore changes between D&D and Pathfinder. It makes bugbears feel less like "goblin, but giant". And Paizo has made it clear that some goblins mutate and just grow to Medium size, so you can have giant goblins if you want 'em.

@monstersdownthepath suggested that bugbears have a demonic taint to them. Despite their CE nature, I'd suggest sahkils instead. Bugbears are the Fear of Marauders, of Banditry, of Murder. Only they're mortal. But I bet a lot of their souls end up in Xilbaba when they die.

I imagine that small groups of bugbears are somewhere between bandit gangs and terrorist cells, roaming around and striking for maximum psychological impact as much as to get material goods. Larger communities would be like Halloweentown, only much less friendly. With running competitions for "most blood drained in a single evening". And adopting more terrible monsters into their numbers as Honorary Bugbears. Life's no fun without a good scare! If the Thing Hiding Under Your Stairs and The Shadow on the Moon At Night really wanted to kill you, and then looted your supplies and took over your village until the well runs dry or next year's crop doesn't plant itself. That's a bugbear clan.

I also love the implication in Ironfang Invasion, through characters like Scarvinious and Scabvistin (great naming convention too, IMO), that some, but not all, bugbears are envious of hobgoblins. They like the idea of civilization, of order and rigidity. And so they enlist. And because of their strength and power, they can succeed. If they "beat the bear" out, in Scabvistin's words.

So if you want to give bugbears another hook, here's my alternate, but not necessarily incompatible take. They're brood parasites. Because what's scarier than a baby that's not yours taking over your life?

We know that in Pathfinder canon, goblins and hobgoblins are both communal breeders (thanks to nursery locations in both Rise of the Runelords and Jade Regent). A mother bugbear sneaks into a goblin creche and leaves her baby behind, after killing one of the young and either eating it themselves or feeding it to Junior. The somewhat addlepated and mutation-prone goblins won't notice or mind a slightly hairier infant, right? And then the bugbear baby takes more than its fair share of resources, maybe knocks off a few of the other kids, and then either leaves the goblin colony at a young age in order to find more bugbears, or stays and muscles his way into a leadership position.

Doing the same to a hobgoblin community is riskier. The hobgoblins are much more in tune and observant. But in this case, it becomes more of a mutualistic relationship that could tip into parasitism on either end. Maybe the bugbear can get along in the hobgoblin village by learning discipline, or be content with the role of scavenger or brute. Or the bugbear could try to take over, if the hobgoblins are weak. And if the bugbear doesn't have the resources to survive and thrive, the hobgoblins send them off on a suicide mission.

And even though they only rely on other goblinoids for raising their young...most of the time, there are rumors that they do this to other peoples. Even if it happens once in a hundred years, everyone will know the story of how the Munson boy got very hairy and very big very quickly, and then slaughtered and spit-roasted the family dog when he was only 4? That kind of fear keeps the bugbears powerful. And makes the bugbears very happy.

[amaite]

Day 3: Boots Gwindor

I wanted to draw him for so long.

[phatkochi]

@huffy-1337 it's you

[princehendir]

Thank God for the internet because if this was the old days this gnoll fight would've made me rage quit forever.

[commander-yinello]

RIP Jen'ee, you were too fabulous for Honour Mode.

[bhaalsdeepbat]

having some Thoughts about the Chosen of the Dead Three using existing religious / cultural hierarchies to get entire groups of beings to crusade for a single God. and like the Absolute ending being the sudden shift from polytheism to monotheism bc everyone will be worshipping one God: the Absolute.

[pinkfloyd-musicartnaturelove]

Harry Flind

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Meanwhile, in the MPMM tournament, we're still figuring out who the top 16 are going to be. On the left, the Kraken Priest is a priest...for a kraken...but they've got cool powers because of it! They've got an electric touch, can frighten with their voice, and they get a couple good spells from their patron. Magical darkness, "Evard's Black Tentacles" (20 foot mass of squirming tentacles), and at-will magical commands that force you to comply (they just have to be one word like "kneel" or "grovel").

On the right is the Flind, the gnoll god's favorites!  7 feet (2.1  m) and 300 lbs (136 kg) of pure muscle, and if you're into pain that flail can temporarily send you into a frenzy or paralyze you! Other than that it's just a big powerful hyena person with no fear and a love of fighting. Gotta love a leader who leads by example, putting themselves on the frontlines!

[xdraonarts]

my next session of DnD is coming up and I have been meaning to draw a nicer piece for Roark (My Player Character’s ex-boss, a Flind who’s constantly phasing in and out of corporeality now. He hunts down knights for revenge over what happened to his late group). So far there isn’t any real thought out lore to this I was just rotating the moment Ruber from Quest For Camelot stopped a mace with his bare hands in my mind and thought it’d look good on Roark.

[chronivore]

Flind

[spellshite]

Virgin "Crate Of Viscera And Bones" Hrodak VS Chad "Crate Of Corpses, Bones and Body Parts" Jaws

[mistercrowbar]

someone save these tadfools

Everyone was pretty ambivalent about Aldiirn taking a tadpole but Shadowheart was just SO CONCERNED it struck me. Aldiirn was hesitant before but the encounter with the Flind shook him and Astarion hadn't developed tentacles after a few days so... one or two extra tadpoles couldn't hurt. It'd help them infiltrate Moonrise, after all!

[bara-izu]

Just Dark Urge/Curse of the Lycan things ✌ Flind gets it Based off tadpole interaction with flind in act 1