Well, what if you drop the sentence structure while tightening the constraints even more? So, the monster won't be doing anything, you'll need to make an adjective do a lot of work. How is that possible, you might ask. Well a lot of the classic monsters are just that Adjective-Noun. For Example, one-eyed giant, two-headed giant, or any giant natural creature: ants, frogs, weasels, bats, spiders etc. Here are some more adjectives you've probably seen:
- skeletal
- shadow
- were-
- various colors (grey ooze, black dragon)
- winged (winged bears)
- -man
[Snip]Here was a ton of me generating back and forth and getting more complicated and possibly confused, haha[/snip]
This turned out harder than I thought, but here's my go at it:
- brass spider
- armor-plated ape
- mummified sealions (okay, okay, sea lions is two words isn't it?)
- mechanical fish
- voice-stealing cat
- explosive leeches
- levitating herbivore
- Crystalline memory-thief
psychotropic starfish
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goth smurfette
flesh-burrowing caterpillar
psionic dragonfly
chaos turkey
invisible ape-lord
plane-shifting serpent
sperm golem
Yes! I think you've got the hang of this.
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ReplyDeleteI love that word "clockwork." I should have used that instead of "mechanical." How about wind-up, ooh that gives me some ideas.
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Skeletal Snakes
Orbital Parasite
Etheral Lamprey
Great! "Orbital" may take the prize for adjective use, because I can think of several different ways to interpret it.
ReplyDeleteIf the goal is merely intriguing, not playable, then puns and conflicts do the trick.
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Up-See Daisy
Albino Shadow
Abysmal Radiance
Limbless Groper
Receding Hare-Lion
Of course, during my childhood gaming my favorite cleric PC was devoted to the God of Noise. Undead flee from holy symbols, but everything flees from holy cymbals.
Tailless Mermaid
ReplyDeleteDidn't I have more of these? I distinctly remember an Axiomatic Dragon and a Juvenecsing Corse.
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