Snail, Giant Cone (2HD) | ×App 1-6 | AC 4 | MV 10, climb 10 | HD 2 (hp 8) | ATT bite (1d4 +grapple, poison) or harpoon (20' 1d8 +poison) | SA/D: marine camouflage; poison; spit tethered harpoon, shell | SV 16 | ML 10 | INT non | DX 5 | SZ M (4') | TC - | XP 76 | Instinct: relentless predator
This hog-sized spotted snail leaves a viscous trail of slime in its wake as a long rasping proboscis tastes the air for prey. Its intricately patterned shell is roughly shaped like a cone. 
— Surprizes on a 3:6 when submerged in water
— Shell: gain +4 armor (0) but can't move or attack.
— Poison causes paralysis, followed by death in 2d4 rounds (save negs). If saved, pain causes -2 all rolls and makes feats impossible for 1d6 days.
— The victim of a bite automatically takes 1d4 damage per round for as long as the snail is attached.
— The snail can fire its tethered harpoon at an opponent up to 20 feet away. If snail hits, the filament latches onto the opponent’s body, hindering them. This drags the stuck opponent 10 feet closer each subsequent round unless that creature breaks free. The filament has 10 hit points and is AC 2. If the filament is severed, it grows back within 1 hour.

Snail, Giant Cone (4HD) | ×App 1-4 | AC 2 | MV 10, climb 10 | HD 4 (hp 16) | ATT bite (1d6 +grapple, poison) or harpoon (30' 2d4 +poison) | SA/D: poison; spit tethered harpoon, shell | SV 15 | ML 10 | INT non | DX 4 | SZ L (8') | TC - | XP 225 | Instinct: relentless predator
This 8-foot long spotted snail leaves a viscous trail of slime in its wake as a long rasping proboscis tastes the air for prey. Its intricately patterned shell is roughly shaped like a cone.
— Surprizes on a 3:6 when submerged in water
— Shell: gain +4 armor (-2) but can't move or attack.
— Poison causes paralysis, followed by death in 1d4 rounds (save negs). If saved, pain causes -2 all rolls and makes feats impossible for 1d6 days.
— The victim of a bite automatically takes 1d6 damage per round for as long as the snail is attached.
— The snail can fire its tethered harpoon at an opponent up to 30 feet away. If snail hits, the filament latches onto the opponent’s body, hindering them. This drags the stuck opponent 10 feet closer each subsequent round unless that creature breaks free. The filament has 12 hit points and is AC 1. If the filament is severed, it grows back within 1 hour.

Snail, Giant Cone (6HD) | ×App 1-2 | AC 1 | MV 10, climb 5 | HD 6 (hp 24) | ATT bite (2d4 +grapple, poison) or harpoon (40' 2d6 +poison) | SA/D: poison; spit tethered harpoon, shell | SV 14 | ML 10 | INT non | DX 4 | SZ L (12') | TC - | XP 680 | Instinct: relentless predator
This 12-foot long spotted snail leaves a viscous trail of slime in its wake as a long rasping proboscis tastes the air for prey. Its intricately patterned shell is roughly shaped like a cone.
— Surprizes on a 3:6 when submerged in water
— Shell: gain +4 armor (-3) but can't move or attack.
— Poison causes paralysis, followed by death in 1-2 rounds (save negs). If saved, pain causes -2 all rolls and makes feats impossible for 1d6 days.
— The victim of a bite automatically takes 2d4 damage per round for as long as the snail is attached.
— The snail can fire its tethered harpoon at an opponent up to 40 feet away. If snail hits, the filament latches onto the opponent’s body, hindering them. This drags the stuck opponent 10 feet closer each subsequent round unless that creature breaks free. The filament has 14 hit points and is AC 0. If the filament is severed, it grows back within 1 hour.

Marbled cone snails are marine gastropod mollusks, about medium to large in size, usually as big as a normal sized hand. Their intricately patterned shells are roughly shaped like an ice-cream cone and are highly prized by shell collectors. Living in the ridges of Pacific and Indian Ocean, it has a shell over its body. The marbled cone snail can be found in various colors, ranging from black with white dots to orange with white patterns. It is also known as “cigarette snail”, which means that most of the time, a person stung by a cone snail has only time to smoke a cigarette before dying. There are over 500 different species of marbled cone snails. These snails are venomous enough that a single drop kills more than 20 people and its mouth has a proboscis hidden in it which spreads like a harpoon when the pray is reachable. Read through the following lines to know some more interesting facts and amazing information on this creature. 
Facts About Marbled Cone Snail 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species: C. marmoreus
Group Name: Pack
Length: 6 inches
Weight: 7.47 g
Diet: Marine worms, small fish, mollusks and other cone snails.
Habitat: Warm and tropical seas and oceans up to 90 m deep. 
Interesting & Amazing Information On Marbled Cone Snails

• A drop of marbled cone snail’s venom is so powerful that it can kill more than 20 people.
• The venom is so dangerous that it can cause intense pain, tingling, numbness and swelling. It can affect a person’s hearing, vision and speech.
• Marbled cone snail is included in the list of top 10 most dangerous animals in the world.
• The size of the marbled cone snail is six inches in length and 7.47 grams in weight.
• The snail traps its prey in a very unique way. It shoots out a toxic harpoon and reels in its prey—a passing fish, whenever it locates the same. The venom paralyzes its victim, which allows the snail to feast at its leisure.
• A marbled cone snail can fire its harpoons in any direction, even backwards.
• The snail also has a siphon, a tube which it uses to detect its prey and to inhale the water.
• The radular teeth of this snail are comparatively shorter than those of other species and vermivores, which hunt marine worms.
• The proboscis which is hidden in their mouths extends twice the size of the snail.
• These snails are found around reefs, where there is plenty of fish and other snails to feed on. They are spread over Australia, Caribbean, Pacific, Red Sea, and along the coast of Florida.
• In Hawaii, the shells of marbled cone snails were traditionally collected from the beach drift and used as beads to make puka shell jewelry.
• This snail’s adult shell has a size of 30mm to 150 mm though it varies. The colour of the shell varies from black to white dots.
• About 30 human deaths have been attributed to cone snail venom all over the world, till date. This happens when respiratory muscle paralysis leads to death.
• Anti-venom for the venom of this marbled cone snail is yet to be discovered.
• Studies have found out that the venom in these snails possess medical qualities that makes in valuable in medical research.
• The venom of marbled cone snail is the same as that of blue-ring octopus which is powerful neurotoxin which leads to weakness and loss of co-ordination.
• The diet of marbled cone snail is marine worms, small fish, mollusks and other cone snails.
• Marbled cone snail is said to be the master of deception as it hides very well. Other animals are not been able to spot it easily and steps ove it; this leads it to attack them. This makes it one of the most deadly creatures.

Last edited by Jimm.Iblis (10/12/2019 7:01 am)

Would love to see more Mythos monsters, if you have them!

Good stuff as always!

Carrion Worms:
Carrion Worms are Small creatures that resemble giant Maggots with a large Maw with rows of teeth dripping with poison, that seem to pulse in waves drawing anything it touches in, tearing flesh easily. They have 4 “eyes” equally distant around their maw, There Eyes are actually both heat and scent receptors as they are blind in any other sense. Their coloring is anamorphic and they, like the octopus change color to the environment around them. They inhabit corpses, eating dead flesh and spawning, however, they prefer live flesh and seek it out when within 15”.
 
 
No. encountered                     5D4
Alignment                               N/A
Size                                          Tiny (2”-3” long)
Movement                              1’
Dexterity                                 N/A
Armor Class                             9
Hit Dice                                   0 (2 HP)
No. of Attacks                          Special
Damage                                  1HP/round for 20 rounds
(death occurs when the worms get to the brain or heart)
Saving Throw                           18
Morale                                    5
Experience                              20
 
Special: When using stealth to access a living creature, the living creature must make a save vs death (poison) to sense whether they feel the initial bite and subsequent burrowing of the worm, as the worms secrete an anesthetic poison before and during their burrowing. A subsequent save vs death may be made each round that a worm is borrowing in thief flesh to notice that something is wrong. Once noticed the victim only has three options for removing the worms, A cure Disease will remove and destroy all the worms on and in a victim, Fire can be useful but will both kill 1D6 worms, but cause 1D6 HP in burn damage per application and can only be applied in the first 10 rounds of infection. Finally, the affected limb could be cut off within 10 rounds preventing the worms from gaining a foothold in the torso. After 10 rounds only, Cure Disease can help. Paladins are not only Immune to the Carrion Worms but cause them to make a morale check within 10’ or flee. Carrion worms can also inhabit undead beings as they will have no effect of those creatures, bursting forth from said creature upon its destruction.

More Norse Flavor
*Trow-Troll:
Trow and Trolls share the stats of Hill Giants in AS&SH with the following change and Description(s).
 
                                                Trow                                        Troll (Chieftain)
Treasure                                  M (x10), D                               I, M (x20)
 
Special:
Trow and Trolls in Norse Mythology are massive humanoids 9-12 feet in height and weighing as much as 1,500 pounds. These brutes are hideous, misshapen and warty, with thick, hairy hides. They oft will wear thick pelts and wield huge clubs or spears. These giants can hurl massive boulders at their enemies. Typically, they are cruel and quite enjoy tormenting smaller humanoids, such as men. Trow and Trolls oft live solitary lifestyles, though sometimes a raiding group may be encountered, or a clan dwelling in a large cavern. For every 8 Trow, there will be 1 Troll Chieftain that stands some 12-15 feet in height and weighs as much as 2,000 pounds. In Hyperborea,
the Norse Trow and Trolls as their Great enemies, as they are notorious for raiding and pillaging their communities for slaves, livestock and Treasures. Can lob large stones (30-50lbs) to a range of 100 (or to 200 at a −2 attack penalty) for 2d8 HP damage.

Last edited by BlackKnight (12/23/2019 9:44 am)

I would check with Ghul to see how many of those entries are protected IP for Hyperborea and not covered by an Open Gaming License.
 

Ghul wrote:

gizmomathboy wrote:

I would check with Ghul to see how many of those entries are protected IP for Hyperborea and not covered by an Open Gaming License.
 

I thought they are all uniquely created monsters not currently in the game. Is that not so? 
 

They are all the monsters "In the game", Directly out of the Books, I added the descriptions, but the original spreadsheet I got had all the original stat block information...

The original Doc had the following "Disclaimer" on the second page (that got dropped on conversion to .csv)

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Last edited by BlackKnight (12/28/2022 8:05 pm)

digitalelf wrote:

Was curious if anyone here has converted any of the genies, particularly the Djinni and/or Efreeti?

I know I can just use them out of the Rules Cyclopedia or the 1e/2e Monster Manuals pretty much as is, but it would be cool to see what others may have done.

Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for, but seeing as I have adventures that use them and I needed to convert them over anyways, here are fairly direct, quick and dirty conversions from the MM:

Djinni: #E 1|AL CG|SZ L|MV 30 (fly 90)|DX 14|AC 4|HD 7+3|#A 1/1 (pummel)|D 2d8|SV 13|ML 12|XP 1480|TC Nil| Special:
Beneficent Host: Once per day can cast Create Food and Water, Hallucinatory Terrain, Major Creation, Invisibility, and Alter Self (CA 12).
Whirlwind: A djinni can create a whirlwind and send it up to 50 feet away. Creatures caught in the whirlwind are buffeted by powerful winds and whatever debris has been picked up, taking 2d6 damage and having to make a transformation save or be blown off their feet and knocked 1d10 feet away in a random direction.
Lord of Air: If attacked by creatures of the air, enemies suffer -1 "to Hit" and -1 damage. Further, a djinni subject to air based spells recieves a +2 to its saves.
Noble Djinni: 1% of djinni encountered are nobility, and are in most respects treated as an efreeti. Noble djinn's pummel attack deals 3d8 damage, while their whirlwind deals 3d6 and transformation saves are made at -2. XP 2350.

Efreeti: #E 1|AL N (LE)|SZ L|MV 30 (fly 90)|DX 12|AC 2|HD 10|#A 1/1 (pummel)|D 3d8|SV 12|ML 12|XP 1900|TC Nil| Special:
Born of Fire: Once per day can cast Wall of Fire, Hallucinatory Terrain, Enlargement (self only), Invisibility, and Alter Self (CA 10).
Master of Flame: At will can cast Produce Flame and Pyrotechnics (CA 10).
Immunities: Immune to normal fire, resists magical fire as ring of fire protection.
Wishmaster: An efreeti can be bound by a powerful sorcerer and be compelled into either 1001 days and nights of service or into granting 3 wishes. An efreeti will grudgingly work as a servant, returning to its extraplanar home as soon as possible, but will attempt to twist and pervert any wishes it might be compelled to grant out of spite.