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[5e] Bulette Preview

Started by Sacrosanct, August 14, 2014, 02:01:20 PM

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Sacrosanct

August 14, 2014, 02:01:20 PM
Located here, as the image is too freaking big for me to embed directly without breaking all of your phones lol

I like the art for it.  And damn, they turned it into a flying bowling ball of sorts.  Odd for a burrowing creature, but whatevs...
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August 14, 2014, 03:50:50 PM
...Candygram!
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August 14, 2014, 04:28:28 PM
I think someone at WoTC has been watching way to many SyFy shark movies...
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August 14, 2014, 04:30:17 PM
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Dangersaurus

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August 14, 2014, 06:46:22 PM Last Edit: August 14, 2014, 06:51:00 PM by Dangersaurus
Hi - what's makes it a flying bowling ball? They've been leapers since Dragon#1, and they added the flying foot attack in the original Monster Manual.

I like that they've dropped them from Huge to Large, bringing them back towards their original proportions.

YourSwordisMine

#5
August 14, 2014, 08:12:44 PM
Quote from: Dangersaurus;779715Hi - what's makes it a flying bowling ball? They've been leapers since Dragon#1, and they added the flying foot attack in the original Monster Manual.

I like that they've dropped them from Huge to Large, bringing them back towards their original proportions.

in 1e and 2e, they could only jump 8 feet...

5e?

Standing Jump: 30 feet long jump or 15 foot high jump with or without a running start.

Deadly Leap: 15 feet

I don't know off hand what it was in 3.x or 4e, but compared to 1e/2e... This thing is a flyer...
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Omega

#6
August 14, 2014, 10:19:50 PM
Not too keen on the art.

Otherwise ok. Allmost like someone was a Gamera fan... Put a knife blade for a head and good to go.

Spinachcat

#7
August 15, 2014, 02:23:42 AM
Between the Tarrasque and the Bulette, I am deeply unimpressed with the MM. The art is blah, the flavor fluff is okay, but feels recylced, and the stats don't inspire. During the playtest, I was really advocating for making monsters more unique, more variety, more variants. Shame they went in the other direction.

The flavor fluff does offer adventure seeds however, and that's a good thing.

Notice the strange language in the Deadly Leap section. Odd references to being pushed out of a space into unoccupied space. Doesn't jive with the theater of the mind focus, odd 4e-leftover.

Dangersaurus

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August 15, 2014, 03:42:01 AM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;779745in 1e and 2e, they could only jump 8 feet...

5e?

Standing Jump: 30 feet long jump or 15 foot high jump with or without a running start.

Deadly Leap: 15 feet

I don't know off hand what it was in 3.x or 4e, but compared to 1e/2e... This thing is a flyer...

That long jump is pretty amazing, they averaged around that in 3.5, but could top out around 40 feet. I wasn't really talking about specific numbers, though... just that it's always been able to do it to some degree. The way I've run them over the years is to:
Round 1: jump out of the ground and bite/claw/claw
Round 2: if damaged, hop on you until you die.

jeff37923

#9
August 15, 2014, 03:06:38 PM
Looking at the artwork, how does it chew its victims?
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LibraryLass

#10
August 15, 2014, 06:01:55 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;779965Looking at the artwork, how does it chew its victims?

I figure it doesn't, just chops them up with that big serrated beak and swallows, not unlike a vulture.
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Omega

#11
August 15, 2014, 06:38:33 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;779965Looking at the artwork, how does it chew its victims?

Yeah. It looks more like a plant than a land-shark...

YourSwordisMine

#12
August 15, 2014, 06:45:28 PM
Quote from: omega;780034yeah. It looks more like a plant than a land-shark...

feed me seymour!
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#13
August 15, 2014, 08:35:59 PM
Maybe the armored beak thing hides actual teeth and such that it uses for chewing things up, afterall the beak thing would make tunnelling through dirt and rock alot easier since it'd act like a huge plow.

Mr. Kent

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August 15, 2014, 09:10:19 PM
It's adorable and I want one as a familiar.
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