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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8644967" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Yes, how about changing the Variant subentry to be for Six-Armed Brittle Stars and do the Land Star as a separate monster?</p><p></p><p>That'll require a minor tweak to the <strong><a href="https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8557938" target="_blank">Giant Brittle Star (Ophiuroid)</a></strong> <strong>Description</strong> from:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> Most kinds of brittle stars are either male or female, although some are both sexes at once or can alternate between male and female; they breed by floating millions of eggs away on the currents. The rare <strong>Six-Armed Brittle Star</strong> (see below) can also reproduce by splitting in two.</p><p></p><p>The Six-Armed Variant entry can be as follows. I've polished the wording up a bit from the Land Star Variant's rough draft.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">V</span>ARIANT<span style="font-size: 18px">: S</span>IX<span style="font-size: 18px">-A</span>RMED<span style="font-size: 18px"> B</span>RITTLE<span style="font-size: 18px"> S</span>TAR</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">A few species of brittle star have six arms instead of the usual five. These animals can multiply by fission, splitting their disc-shaped body down the middle to produce two new animals, although they are still capable of reproducing normally. A six-armed star with the three arms on one side of its body shorter than the other side is probably a youngster produced by fission that hasn't regrown the half that formed its twin sibling.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> A six-armed brittle star has the following traits.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em><strong>Fission.</strong></em> During their reproductive season, a six-armed giant brittle star can split in half to become two new brittle stars; this slow process takes 10 to 20 (2d6 + 8) days but does not inconvenience the creature. The two new brittle stars each have 21 (2d10+10) hit points and three arms. As they gain new arms with their <em>Regrowth</em> ability, their hit points slowly increase until they reach 42 (5d10 + 15) hit points when they grow six full length arms and a complete body-disc. It usually takes at least three months (6d10+60 days) for a split half to regenerate into a whole six-armed giant brittlestar.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <em><strong>Six Arms.</strong></em> A giant brittle star with six limbs instead of five does not gain any extra attacks, but its <em>Shed Arms</em> is triggered by 7 damage or higher (5 if it has the <em>Fragile Arms</em> trait) and losing arms reduces its speed as follows:</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> A six-armed giant brittle star's speed is lowered by 5 ft. if it loses one or two arms and halved if it loses three or four. If it loses five arms its speed becomes 5 feet and if it loses all six it has a speed of 0 feet.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> If the brittle star finishes a long rest its arm stumps regrows enough to remove one "arm's worth" of speed reduction, so its is lowered by 5 ft. with two or three arms, halved with four or five lost arms, and reduced to 5 ft. if is has lost all six arms. The brittle star regains its speed and arm attacks when its <em>Regrowth</em> trait replaces the lost arms.</p><p></p><p>I'll update the <strong><a href="https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8557938" target="_blank">Giant Brittle Star (Ophiuroid)</a></strong> with the above.</p><p></p><p>That just leaves doing the Land Star as a separate entry, which shouldn't be that troublesome.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: And the Land Star is done (see below). Left the <strong><a href="https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8557938" target="_blank">Giant Brittle Star (Ophiuroid)</a></strong>'s Six-Armed Variant in <strong><span style="color: red">Red</span></strong> while waiting for your feedback.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8644967, member: 57383"] Yes, how about changing the Variant subentry to be for Six-Armed Brittle Stars and do the Land Star as a separate monster? That'll require a minor tweak to the [B][URL='https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8557938']Giant Brittle Star (Ophiuroid)[/URL][/B] [B]Description[/B] from: To: [INDENT] Most kinds of brittle stars are either male or female, although some are both sexes at once or can alternate between male and female; they breed by floating millions of eggs away on the currents. The rare [B]Six-Armed Brittle Star[/B] (see below) can also reproduce by splitting in two.[/INDENT] The Six-Armed Variant entry can be as follows. I've polished the wording up a bit from the Land Star Variant's rough draft. [INDENT][B][SIZE=5]V[/SIZE]ARIANT[SIZE=5]: S[/SIZE]IX[SIZE=5]-A[/SIZE]RMED[SIZE=5] B[/SIZE]RITTLE[SIZE=5] S[/SIZE]TAR[/B][/INDENT] [INDENT]A few species of brittle star have six arms instead of the usual five. These animals can multiply by fission, splitting their disc-shaped body down the middle to produce two new animals, although they are still capable of reproducing normally. A six-armed star with the three arms on one side of its body shorter than the other side is probably a youngster produced by fission that hasn't regrown the half that formed its twin sibling.[/INDENT] [INDENT] A six-armed brittle star has the following traits.[/INDENT] [INDENT] [I][B]Fission.[/B][/I] During their reproductive season, a six-armed giant brittle star can split in half to become two new brittle stars; this slow process takes 10 to 20 (2d6 + 8) days but does not inconvenience the creature. The two new brittle stars each have 21 (2d10+10) hit points and three arms. As they gain new arms with their [I]Regrowth[/I] ability, their hit points slowly increase until they reach 42 (5d10 + 15) hit points when they grow six full length arms and a complete body-disc. It usually takes at least three months (6d10+60 days) for a split half to regenerate into a whole six-armed giant brittlestar.[/INDENT] [INDENT] [I][B]Six Arms.[/B][/I] A giant brittle star with six limbs instead of five does not gain any extra attacks, but its [I]Shed Arms[/I] is triggered by 7 damage or higher (5 if it has the [I]Fragile Arms[/I] trait) and losing arms reduces its speed as follows:[/INDENT] [INDENT] A six-armed giant brittle star's speed is lowered by 5 ft. if it loses one or two arms and halved if it loses three or four. If it loses five arms its speed becomes 5 feet and if it loses all six it has a speed of 0 feet.[/INDENT] [INDENT] If the brittle star finishes a long rest its arm stumps regrows enough to remove one "arm's worth" of speed reduction, so its is lowered by 5 ft. with two or three arms, halved with four or five lost arms, and reduced to 5 ft. if is has lost all six arms. The brittle star regains its speed and arm attacks when its [I]Regrowth[/I] trait replaces the lost arms.[/INDENT] I'll update the [B][URL='https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8557938']Giant Brittle Star (Ophiuroid)[/URL][/B] with the above. That just leaves doing the Land Star as a separate entry, which shouldn't be that troublesome. EDIT: And the Land Star is done (see below). Left the [B][URL='https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/8557938']Giant Brittle Star (Ophiuroid)[/URL][/B]'s Six-Armed Variant in [B][COLOR=red]Red[/COLOR][/B] while waiting for your feedback. [/QUOTE]
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