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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 20, 2014 3:48:01 GMT
I was just looking at those Dollar Tree dragons and considering cutting off the small wings and using Halloween bat wings instead. A $2.00 dragon sounds good to me. Several of my hand-made dragons or even other monsters have Halloween bat wings on them. I once bought a huge net bag of Halloween bats with something like a hundred bats in it. I haven't used half of them and I've done a lot with them. I bought it at one of those After-Halloween discount stores for a buck.
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Post by belatucadras on Sept 20, 2014 4:50:23 GMT
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 20, 2014 7:02:16 GMT
Very nice belatucadras. This deserves to be thoroughly copied.
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Post by fayegrimm on Sept 20, 2014 17:18:49 GMT
Whelp, looks like I've got yet another item on my shopping list. To the Bat Cave!
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Post by commsnake on Sept 21, 2014 7:30:48 GMT
Those look far to much like the flying monkeys from the wizard of oz. And they still give me the willies!!!
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Post by belatucadras on Sept 21, 2014 7:59:22 GMT
They do look like flying monkeys. They need to be touched up.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 22, 2014 4:39:35 GMT
I made three or four bat-winged gorillas that actually do look very similar to the WoO flying monkeys. I statted them out and sent them against my group one day and I never heard the end of Wizard of Oz references They were still pretty cool monsters and it really taxed the party to deal with flying gorillas. This photo shows one I made with epoxy putty wings. I have one or two with Halloween bat wings and one with wings cut from a foam craft sheet.
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Post by dungeonmistress on Sept 22, 2014 4:42:24 GMT
What stats did you give those flying gorillas?
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 22, 2014 4:47:16 GMT
What stats did you give those flying gorillas? I don't know if I still have the paperwork... it's been a few years. My recollection was that I basically used a standard gorilla, added flying and a wing buffet attack. I gave them the "fly by attack" feat and I think I had a lead flying gorilla with slightly better stats. I actually don't even remember if it was "gorilla" or some variation of "ape".
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Post by dungeonmistress on Sept 22, 2014 4:51:40 GMT
Thank you, that gives me somewhere to start.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 22, 2014 5:03:42 GMT
I have been known to make up monster stats on the spur of the moment.... I should be more oranized and keep them all in a notebook or something. If I did, I'd probably have a small bestiary of my own by now....
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Post by dungeonmistress on Sept 22, 2014 20:50:18 GMT
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 23, 2014 4:05:32 GMT
I think those wings work better on the lion than the original dragon.
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Post by fayegrimm on Sept 23, 2014 4:15:47 GMT
Here is a (WIP) Griflion I'm making with the wings off a Dollar Tree Dragon. Great use for the wings, especially if you were replacing the ones on the dragon to start with. I noticed the wings on the 2 headed dragon have quite a bit more texture too, so if you are looking for some demon styled wings to scavenge they would do nicely.
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Post by sotf on Sept 23, 2014 4:50:20 GMT
Here is a (WIP) Griflion I'm making with the wings off a Dollar Tree Dragon. Honestly, that looks like something more of a manticore from the wings and shape...griffons tend to have feathered rather than batlike wings
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Post by dungeonmistress on Sept 23, 2014 15:21:21 GMT
It's not a manticore, no human-like face or scorpion's tail. Not a Griffin, either, as you noted- wings are not feathered abd it's head is not that of an eagle's. It's closer to a dralion, except dralions have longer, more serpentine bodies and generally have no wings. If anyone has a better name for my dragon-winged lion, please tell me.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 23, 2014 16:17:45 GMT
It's not a manticore, no human-like face or scorpion's tail. Not a Griffin, either, as you noted- wings are not feathered abd it's head is not that of an eagle's. It's closer to a dralion, except dralions have longer, more serpentine bodies and generally have no wings. If anyone has a better name for my dragon-winged lion, please tell me. I have a couple scorpion tail, feathered wing lion-headed beasts that I call "lionticores". Maybe you have created a "ligon"?
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Post by dungeonmistress on Sept 23, 2014 16:38:13 GMT
Ligon? Hmmm... That's has possibilities.
I'll finish painting him today and I'll post the pic. Tell me what you think then.
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Post by DarthTaco18 on Sept 26, 2014 22:41:00 GMT
*palm to forehead* reading suddenly made me think of napolean dynomite.
anyways, I too kinda thought it looked like a manticore. OOOoo, you could make it into some sort of chimera also. either way the type of wings adds an interesting flavor to the beast.
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