#rutterkin

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Which Edition of D&D had the best design/artwork of a Rutterkin?

First Edition

Second Edition

Third Edition

Fifth Edition

Voting ended onMar 25

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WHICH WOULD YOU SMASH?

Canoloth

Rutterkin

Voting ended onJun 24, 2024

On the left, Canoloth! It's around 4 ft (1.2 m) at the shoulder with a 20‒30 ft (6.1‒9.1 m) long prehensile barbed tongue to grapple with. They're telepathic, covered in chitonous plates, and despite thier blindness thier amazing senses let them see everything within 120 ft (36.6 m) perfectly, ignoring all illusions or shapeshifting. They're also surprisingly chill creatures and won't do anything not SPECIFICALLY in thier contract. So if you can find some reason why stopping you isn't in thier contract they'll happily stop and chat or let you walk right past their guard gate.

On the right, the rutterkin, one of the most disliked demons among thier peers! They're 6 ft (180 cm) mutants of the abyss, each with thier own unique random asymmetrical bodies. Their presence fills people with immobilizing fear, and they usually travel in mobs!

[corthartle]

Some of my favorite hand illustrated flyers I made in 2024 for tampa bay’s diy music scene. one of my favorite things about being an artist is being able to participate in my community by making cool shit

[thecreaturecodex]

Qlippoth, Rutterkin

Image by Arnie Swekel, © Wizards of the Coast

[It appears that the D&D 3.x Art Gallery sites have finally been taken down from the Wizards of the Coast web servers. RIP.

The rutterkin is a monster I’ve used in the past, but never with any real enthusiasm. Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes finally gives them a mechanical hook, in that they’re contagious. This, combined with their grotesque appearance, made them seem a good candidate for shifting over to the qlippoth camp from its original demon designation. The mechanics here are a combination of ideas from rutterkins throughout the editions.]

Qlippoth, Rutterkin CR 4 CE Outsider (extraplanar) This humanoid creature is hideously twisted and warped, its limbs jutting at odd angles and its head pointed. Its large teeth are crooked and sharp. It carries a strange forked polearm, and has several other weird weapons arrayed on its back and shoulders.

Rutterkin are the foot soldiers of Yamasoth the Polymorph Plague. This qlippoth lord has long sought to prevent the influx of mortal souls into the afterlife by transforming creatures into qlippoth directly, or into beasts or plants with minor, unaligned souls. The rutterkins are the success story of these efforts, a wide-ranging and contagious horde of vaguely humanoid qlippoth. Any creature bitten by a rutterkin is cursed with painful disfigurement as its flesh creeps as if alive, and if a humanoid dies under this influence, it transforms into a new rutterkin.

In combat, rutterkin attempt to spread their curse as much as possible. They have spell-like abilities that help them maneuver around a battlefield and control the movement of their enemies, but once they have deployed these, they charge headlong into battle. Rutterkin wield weapons with ease—their favorites are polearms, chakram and swords. Rutterkin delight in revealing their full awfulness, which strikes creatures with so much disgust that they tear at their own bodies in revulsion.

Rutterkin are bullies and thugs, and especially enjoy picking fights with weak demons such as dretches, quasits and abrikandilu. Although stronger and smarter demons often hunt rutterkin for sport, an infestation of them can blight an area for a long time. Even if a gang of rutterkin is wiped out, their chaos phage can linger in the background before erupting into a new wave of aberrant horrors.  Their violence is sometimes coordinated by a more intelligent qlippoth like a shoggti or utukku. 

Rutterkin            CR 4 XP 1,200 CE Medium outsider (chaos, evil, extraplanar, qlippoth) Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +9 Defense AC 18, touch 12, flat-footed 16 (+2 Dex, +6 natural) hp 37 (5d10+10) Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +2 DR 5/lawful; Immune cold, mind-influencing effects, poison; Resist acid 10, electricity 10, fire 10; SR 15 Offense Speed 20 ft. Melee guisarme +7 (2d4+3), bite +5 (1d6+1 plus chaos phage), or 2 claws +7 (1d4+2), bite +7 (1d6+2 plus chaos phage) Ranged chakram +7 (1d8+2) Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft. (10 ft. with guisarme) Special Attacks horrific appearance Spell-like Abilities CL 4th, concentration +6 3/day—darkness, fly 1/day—dimension door, telekinesis (DC 17) Statistics Str 15, Dex 14, Con 15, Int 9, Wis 12, Cha 15 Base Atk +5; CMB +7; CMD 19 Feats Multiattack, Power Attack, Quick Draw Skills Acrobatics +10 (+6 jumping), Craft (weapon smith) +7, Intimidate +10, Perception +9, Stealth +10 Languages Abyssal, telepathy 100 ft. Ecology Environment any land or underground (the Abyss) Organization solitary, pair or gang (3-12) Treasure standard (guisarme, 5 chakram, other treasure) Special Abilities Chaos Phage (Su) Curse—injury; save Fort DC 14; onset immediate;; effect -6 Cha penalty and sickened; duration permanent until save is made. A creature suffering from the chaos phage curse can make a new DC 14 Fortitude save every 24 hours. If a humanoid, monstrous humanoid or native outsider dies while suffering from the chaos phage, it transforms into a free willed rutterkin in 1 minute. The save DC is Charisma based. Horrific Appearance (Su) range 30 ft.; save Will DC 14; effect dazed 1 round and takes 1d8 points of damage plus the creature’s Strength bonus. The save DC is Charisma based.

[desertdruidcrafts]

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[oldschoolfrp]

Rutterkin, minor demon, one of the weakest bullies of the Abyss (from AD&D module S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, TSR, 1982 and from AD&D Monster Manual II, 1983, looks like a Jim Holloway)   AD&D rutterkin fought with fists, strange weaopns, and spells, but lacked their 5e ability to create abyssal wretches.

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Voting ended onApr 2, 2024

The rutterkin, one of the most disliked demons among thier peers. They're 6 ft (180 cm) mutants of the abyss, each with thier own unique random asymmetrical bodies. Their presence fills people with immobilizing fear, and they usually travel in mobs!

And yes, I worked it out so many of the body horror or disease focused ones are in the last stage of the tournament, and therefore you'll be less likely to leave over it. We'll be going into the angels afterward :D

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen/purchase: Roman Catholic Holiday by Rutterkin