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[Polymer] Monster - Fleshwarp Homunculus
🕑 Added 2022-05-23 14:01:02 +0000 UTCI was reading up on mythic traits and I wanted to try making some stronger monsters that could make use of them. I was also thinking about boss monsters and really wanted to see if I could make a 3-stage monster work. I ended up with the fleshwarp amalgamate, goliath, and colossus — defeating one evolves it into the other. I'm pretty happy with some of the actions and traits, especially Blood Boiling (which forces vulnerability on enemies) and I can't wait to try it out in a game! We'll have to see if they're balanced.
It's also innately tied to the artifact in this compendium, the Rod of Reanimation, so that's pretty cool too.
Also the art was fun. Weird grossness with extra eyes and mouths.
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The fleshwarp homunculus is a being legendary among biomancers and necromancy wizards, whispered in shadows and scribbled in lost tomes. Even in its heyday, under guidance of the Empire of Blood’s Hemogogues, only archmages in the inner circle held the key to unlocking the fleshwarp’s true potential — a final form so devastating that even they feared its existence. The Hemogogue scattered its secrets amongst themselves, inked not on paper but on skin, passed through generations as inconspicuous tattoos. Hundreds of years later, descendants of the Hemogogue’s members, now in its present incarnation as the Polymer Lab, slowly collect and reassemble the pieces.
The arduous creation of a fleshwarp appeals to those with undeterred will. Any sufficiently powerful biomancer can combine blood, organs, and viscera to form a basic fleshwarp agglomerate, an ooze-like mass of skin, bone, body parts, and protruding grasping limbs. Evolving further, however, requires the Arathin’s Rod of Reanimation, a mythical artifact presumed lost to after the Empire’s fall. The agglomerate evolves into a goliath, a humanoid mass of flesh with thousands of sharp jagged bones and cracked reddened skin. The goliath in turn evolves into a colossus, an enormous humanoid mountain of flesh with hundreds of bulbous blood pustules beneath spilling organs. GMs can decide when or how the rod is reclaimed, and who might wish to create a fleshwarp goliath or colossus.
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