I saw this in a dream. |
Punished Poacher
(or Ambulatory
Abomination, or Suffering Strider, or Darwin Damned)
These cursed
beings are punished by the God of the long walkers and herbivores.
They appear as a large grazing mammal, with a human's bent upper
torso, arms, and head as the animal's front left or right leg. They
must spend all moments supporting the weight of the great animal they
are bound to. Pulling grass and tubers from the ground to feed their
beat with their arm can keep them alive and strong, failing to move
quickly enough will allow wolves to tear out both their and their
animal's throat. Any attempt to call out for help or communicate with
regular humans will spook the herd and only cause more pain as they
are forced to act as a leg of a charging, fast, very heavy animal.
There
may also be version of this for other races; elves as the third limb
for deer, dwarves for rams, kobolds from great crocodiles, and ogres
for elephants. This curse counts as a 4th
or 6th
level spell and requires great efforts to undo. Most prefer to put
this creature out of its misery.
Punished
Poacher
(3 HD beast, 1 HD man, trample at 1d8, can speak but spook herd
causing stampede, can only attack once before needing to provide
weight support)
A lovely intersection between gameable, interesting and horrifying.
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