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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9249554" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>I'd much rather do the "ordinary" Giant Dragonflies first, if only to have a CR 3 arthropod to add to the Exalted Thrall of Pazuzu's <em>giant insect</em> options.</p><p></p><p>After further mulling, I now fancy doing three sizes of giant Odonata.</p><p></p><p>The original AD&D version was Man-Sized, but came in two strength: regular 7 HD ones and tropical 8+1-8 HD ones.</p><p></p><p>So I'm thinking we could have "ordinary" Medium-sized Giant Dragonflies and Damselflies for the former and bigger Large-sized Giant Dragonflies for the latter. I'd be inclined to call the Large ones Emperor Dragonflies since big dragonflies can live in temperate climes, not just the tropics.</p><p></p><p>As for the Helicopter Damselfly, those specialize in eating spiders by plucking them out of their webs. A <strong><a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/animal-spider-giant" target="_blank">Giant Spider</a></strong> is a Large monster in 5E (indeed, I think they're Large in all editions of D&D), so a Giant Tropical Damselfly would have to be Huge to believably carry one off through the air.</p><p></p><p>Will update my placeholder entries to match.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 9249554, member: 57383"] I'd much rather do the "ordinary" Giant Dragonflies first, if only to have a CR 3 arthropod to add to the Exalted Thrall of Pazuzu's [i]giant insect[/i] options. After further mulling, I now fancy doing three sizes of giant Odonata. The original AD&D version was Man-Sized, but came in two strength: regular 7 HD ones and tropical 8+1-8 HD ones. So I'm thinking we could have "ordinary" Medium-sized Giant Dragonflies and Damselflies for the former and bigger Large-sized Giant Dragonflies for the latter. I'd be inclined to call the Large ones Emperor Dragonflies since big dragonflies can live in temperate climes, not just the tropics. As for the Helicopter Damselfly, those specialize in eating spiders by plucking them out of their webs. A [b][url='https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/animal-spider-giant']Giant Spider[/url][/b] is a Large monster in 5E (indeed, I think they're Large in all editions of D&D), so a Giant Tropical Damselfly would have to be Huge to believably carry one off through the air. Will update my placeholder entries to match. [/QUOTE]
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