Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
Hosted Forums
Creature Catalog Forums
General Monster Talk
Converting monsters from Dragon magazine
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6585211" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>It's really up to us whether we give it a poison attack or not.</p><p></p><p>I did a good deal of rummaging around the interwebs and couldn't find any references to it being poisonous. Then again, I didn't find any mention of it not being poisonous either.</p><p></p><p>If it is <strong><em>literally</em></strong> a centipede it ought to be venomous, while if it is a millipede it could be poisonous, but only defensively so, assuming they match regular Myriapods in their abilities. I'm under the impression the Vietnamese name for them is a general term that covers both hundred- and thousand-leggers, but for sure.</p><p></p><p>There are some cryptologists who speculate that it's a crustacean (in which case it wouldn't be venomous) or a surviving eurypterid (which we have no idea whether they were venomous since they've been extinct for hundreds of millions of years).</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately I couldn't find any references to them biting anything, or even what kind of mouth or jaws they have. There's a description of a carcass washed up on the Vietnamese coast in 1883, but it was missing its head.</p><p></p><p>A few articles claim Con Rit are "the same segmented dragon that appears in the classic folklore book Chich-Quai". That appears to be a reference to a Vietnamese origin myth centered on a personage called the Dragon Lord of the Lac. A classic <a href="http://pictures.linkmesh.com/dragons/shennong_vietnamese_dragon.php" target="_blank"><strong>Vietnamese Dragon</strong></a> has its body divided into twelve sections which represent the 12 months of the year. From what I could find about the <a href="http://www.vietspring.org/legend/VietnameseMyths.html" target="_blank"><strong>Vietnamese Myth</strong></a>, the dragons don't appear to resemble Con Rit.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We had discussed that for the Many-Finned and decided to drop the idea, but I'm game for giving it to the Con-Rit. There's one description that says they have a hard "metallic" shell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6585211, member: 57383"] It's really up to us whether we give it a poison attack or not. I did a good deal of rummaging around the interwebs and couldn't find any references to it being poisonous. Then again, I didn't find any mention of it not being poisonous either. If it is [B][I]literally[/I][/B] a centipede it ought to be venomous, while if it is a millipede it could be poisonous, but only defensively so, assuming they match regular Myriapods in their abilities. I'm under the impression the Vietnamese name for them is a general term that covers both hundred- and thousand-leggers, but for sure. There are some cryptologists who speculate that it's a crustacean (in which case it wouldn't be venomous) or a surviving eurypterid (which we have no idea whether they were venomous since they've been extinct for hundreds of millions of years). Unfortunately I couldn't find any references to them biting anything, or even what kind of mouth or jaws they have. There's a description of a carcass washed up on the Vietnamese coast in 1883, but it was missing its head. A few articles claim Con Rit are "the same segmented dragon that appears in the classic folklore book Chich-Quai". That appears to be a reference to a Vietnamese origin myth centered on a personage called the Dragon Lord of the Lac. A classic [URL="http://pictures.linkmesh.com/dragons/shennong_vietnamese_dragon.php"][B]Vietnamese Dragon[/B][/URL] has its body divided into twelve sections which represent the 12 months of the year. From what I could find about the [URL="http://www.vietspring.org/legend/VietnameseMyths.html"][B]Vietnamese Myth[/B][/URL], the dragons don't appear to resemble Con Rit. We had discussed that for the Many-Finned and decided to drop the idea, but I'm game for giving it to the Con-Rit. There's one description that says they have a hard "metallic" shell. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Hosted Forums
Creature Catalog Forums
General Monster Talk
Converting monsters from Dragon magazine
Top