Which Edition of D&D had the best design/artwork of a Cranium Rat?
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Which Edition of D&D had the best design/artwork of a Cranium Rat?
Second Edition
Third Edition
Fifth Edition
QUALIFIERS: Cranium Rats
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Sentient telepathic rats! As of the MPMM, by themselves they're sentient but stupid, using telepathy to communicate mainly though shared emotions. Get a few together and thier collective intelligence becomes a hivemind that's probably significantly smarter than YOU. They can cast spells like command, dominate monster, and confusion. Even when broken off, it takes over a week to return to normal. Mindflayers make these in droves to act as eyes and ears, but they often break free of control by moving out of thier range of influence. Also, their head glows in the dark! :D
Introducing
Rask!!!!!!!
He's a dragon who hords knowledge
They only really care about finding old ruins, reading every book or piece of literature he finds, and their cranium rat blinker
He's an emerald dragon and has a lot of cool psychic things he can do
Their a linguist and know 6 languages
This is a drawing I did during a session so it's not super refined but I think it's fitting, like a self portrait they'd draw themselves
Once upon a time, I was playing dungeons and dragons, and I asked my groupmate who was two or three years younger than me what I should draw (adhd gaming be like) and they said Bentley (our swarm of cranium rats).
Bentley it shall be, I said.
Abby meeting a cranium rat. In this weird dnd vampire cross over from rp. With copper residue on her shoes.
WHICH WOULD YOU SMASH?
Nagpa
Cranium Rats
On the left is the Nagpa! A cabal of powerful wizards turned into these human-sized vulture creatures, cursed to only learn more magic from the ruins of civilizations. They're incredibly smart, charismatic, manipulative, know at least 6 language, and are typically plotting to bring down governments and cities. They also have a wide variety of magic to dominate, restrain, manipulate minds, fly, create illusion, and whatever else that particular ancient wizard has gotten its hands on. Good argument for these things to have near any spell. Also has mage hand for spectral hand fun, and can paralyze others within 30 feet (without a daily limit)!
On the right, sentient telepathic rats! By themselves they're sentient but a bit stupid, using telepathy to communicate mainly though shared emotions. Get a few together and thier collective intelligence becomes a hivemind that's significantly smarter than YOU. They can cast spells like command, dominate monster, and confusion. Even when broken off, it takes over a week to return to normal. Mindflayers make these in droves to act as eyes and ears, but they often break free of control by moving out of thier range of influence. Also, their head glows in the dark! :D
MONSTober 23
made a new header and i’m pretty happy with it! my dnd character amelia, who i’ve been playing for over a year now, plus her pet cranium rat greg