Glyptodon | ×App 1-4 | AC 1 | MV 20 | HD 7 (hp 28) | ATT tail strike (2d6 plus stun) | SA/D: Shell; stun | SV 13 | ML 8 | INT animal | DX 4 | SZ L | TC - | XP 510
This armored creature has a bony, turtle-like shell from which protrude short limbs, a blunt head, and a short spiky tail.

• Stun for 1-3 rounds on a natural roll of 20 (save neg).

Last edited by Jimm.Iblis (8/19/2020 11:29 pm)

I love these boards.

"I need a Glyptodont." 

"Wait a sec here's one."

So the concept I'm working with sort of mashes up "Bone Tomahawk," "Valley of the Gwangi," "Cannibal Holocaust," and Incan worship practices. 

A bunch of miners and their families in remote communities have gone missing.  In most cases the men are slain, but the women and children disappear, presumably taken captive.  The rumors suggest debased humans from a legendary place known as the Valley of the Kwangsi are the culprits.  The PCs are hired to follow the trail, solve the mystery and bring back any survivors.

When they get there, they find a huge hidden valley full of megafauna, a few giant reptiles, and our debased cannibals, none other than the Kwangsi.  The Kwangsi use trained phororhacos as guards and practice cannibalism.  They worship stunted mummies that they claim are their ancestors from beyond the stars.  The mummies are stored in tombs but brought out for important ceremonies.  They believe that the descendants of these people will be coming soon so they are preparing a special feast for them.

Sound interesting?
 

Last edited by Spider of Leng (8/20/2020 4:19 pm)

Spider of Leng wrote:

So the concept I'm working with sort of mashes up "Bone Tomahawk," "Valley of the Gwangi," "Cannibal Holocaust," and Incan worship practices. 

A bunch of miners and their families in remote communities have gone missing.  In most cases the men are slain, but the women and children disappear, presumably taken captive.  The rumors suggest debased humans from a legendary place known as the Valley of the Kwangsi are the culprits.  The PCs are hired to follow the trail, solve the mystery and bring back any survivors.

When they get there, they find a huge hidden valley full of megafauna, a few giant reptiles, and our debased cannibals, none other than the Kwangsi.  The Kwangsi use trained phororhacos as guards and practice cannibalism.  They worship stunted mummies that they claim are their ancestors from beyond the stars.  The mummies are stored in tombs but brought out for important ceremonies.  They believe that the descendants of these people will be coming soon so they are preparing a special feast for them.

Sound interesting?
 

Yes, especially if the mummies just happen to animate when the PCs are around; or maybe their ancestors return?

Yes, sounds very intriguing: look forward to the developments.

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Spider of Leng wrote:

Cool stuff, though the glyptodonts are in fact a type of armadillo.  When their bones were first discovered, they were thought to be megatherium.  And the two species lived in the same areas and are found in the same Marx toy sets!

Interesting stats; I was thinking about the same for glyptodonts (AC: 2; 6 HD; 2-12 damage plus stun), though I was going a little tougher with cynognathus (4 HD), though this will play, for sure. 
Moschops will be 5-6 HD; Sphenecodon around 6 HD; and maybe 8 HD for Macrauchenia.

Jimm.Iblis wrote:

Glyptodon | ×App 1-4 | AC 1 | MV 20 | HD 7 (hp 28) | ATT tail strike (2d6 plus stun) | SA/D: Shell; stun | SV 13 | ML 8 | INT animal | DX 4 | SZ L | TC - | XP 510
This armored creature has a bony, turtle-like shell from which protrude short limbs, a blunt head, and a short spiky tail.

• Stun for 1-3 rounds on a natural roll of 20 (save neg).

This 9'-long Pleistocene ground sloth was similar in shape to an armadillo, although it was very large and had a long tail. The end of the tail had a heavy ball set with spikes, much like the head of a morning star. In addition, this beast's body was heavily armored with a shell like a turtle's. A peaceful herbivore, Glyptodon was still dangerous to provoke.
~ Conversion from Dragon 137, "Into the Age of Mammals"

Nice execution on the stats (I was working on this idea a few years ago then I became a PC for the adventure instead of the DM), I’d love to get back to noodling around with this niche...
 
Left off here:

Ixpats:
Scythian expatriates on the lam have oft sought safe havens or to obfuscate discovery through disguise or even disfigurement, only brutal wilds offer much reprieve to the patient and persistent Ixians. Many fleeing Scythian have sought solace in the desolate diamond dunes, few lived to see seasonal change, for most luck and life expired soon after the last drops from their water skins, yet some did persevere...

Think Inuit cum Bedouin, riding giant armadillos (Glyptodons) each towing on skids an empty shell.

Total Ixpat population: c. 800 scattered and roving.

Roughly 60 to 90 family groups, limited in their size by the number of dominated Glyptodons they husband. Each Glyptodon towing a shell which may easily house six adults yet twelve is possible in emergencies (think clown car packed). Thus, many families are about six members per armadillo with a three shell family seemingly the goal and the practical maximum since families greater than twenty ofttimes split thru rightful and occurring rites.