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How about monstrous snails?

Snow moving, but armored, and some species of snail can spit paralytic venomous barbs.

For starters- that second comic pic is creepy and I do not like it at all.  

Snails are very creepy creatures.  The thought of a giant carnivorous one?  Gah!!!  I remember watching a nature show where there was a cone snail or something in the ocean.  It shot out a poison barb, stung a fish, then slowly enveloped it's mouth around it and ate it alive.  It was horrible....

[video=youtube;30zgbn_QffM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zgbn_QffM[/youtube]

Imagine that at three to four hundred pounds or more.....

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How about monstrous snails?

Snow moving, but armored, and some species of snail can spit paralytic venomous barbs.

The slugs in the king kong movie with jack black were pretty nasty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTWYQhTT388

Quote from: RunningLaser;930992For starters- that second comic pic is creepy and I do not like it at all.  

That's Uzumaki for you. ^^

Love Uzumaki... great, mindbending stuff.

When I was a kid I'd let snails crawl on me... tickly little rasping as they crawled. 'crawled'? 'oozed'? 'wiggled'?

I put together a race of horrible snail centaurs for my last 4e campaign. I wanted something different from the usual goblin/kobold/goon fare for the PCs to face. I called them cenchos in an indirect reference to Irish myth, gave them slow movement speed but superior defensive tactics, and based their appearance on the killer hermits from Final Fantasy III:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/b/b8/FF3NES-KillerHermit.gif/revision/latest?cb=20080217174326

They dripped acid and spoke like slow-motion drunkards. Some of them had gems embedded in the center of their shell whorl that granted them limited magical powers.

There is of course the flail snail. A giant snail with 4 morningstar flail like tentacles.

IIRC RuneQuest had a firebreathing Chaos snail.

Quote from: DavetheLost;931024IIRC RuneQuest had a firebreathing Chaos snail.

You're probably thinking of dragonsnails. In addition to the basic, snail x dragon they are chaos creatures with potentially a wide range of weird abilities.

Of course, there's also the Molnang (Death Snail) from "The Dragon's Bestiary" in Dragon #126... Nothing like being chased down in Gamma World by a hyper-aggressive, super-destructive snail whose eye beams are like black beam rifles, secretes slime that causes 10d6 damage, and leaves a track of burned ground that causes 1d6 damage alone. Not to mention it has a shell that can be cut into shields capable of reflecting "beams of heat, light, radiation, sound, etc., as well as acid and black rays". If you're lucky enough to survive the encounter and have the vibroblades to cut the shell, you can make a tidy profit. If you're hungry and have time to wait, you can leech the acid out of the meat. Just to be sure to cook it thoroughly to avoid contracting muscleworms ("More Mutant Fever", Dragon #108).

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If you ask me, I'd rather face the laser bears.

Later!

Harl

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;931016I put together a race of horrible snail centaurs for my last 4e campaign. I wanted something different from the usual goblin/kobold/goon fare for the PCs to face. I called them cenchos in an indirect reference to Irish myth, gave them slow movement speed but superior defensive tactics, and based their appearance on the killer hermits from Final Fantasy III:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/b/b8/FF3NES-KillerHermit.gif/revision/latest?cb=20080217174326

They dripped acid and spoke like slow-motion drunkards. Some of them had gems embedded in the center of their shell whorl that granted them limited magical powers.

I haven't played Final Fantasy III in almost a decade... was that monster anything like Ymir from Final Fantasy VI?
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Ymir_(Final_Fantasy_VI)

I had a DoomSnail in a 5e adventure where the heroes were fighting a demented water temple.

High AC, low movement, low Dex...poor thing got shredded by Sacred Flame.

I have a race of xeno snails in my sci fi home brew.  They have three nervous systems only one of which is senient.  

Based kind of on the sea snail that shoots super fast poisened barbs.  Humans have an unconcenss nervous systemthat controlblood preasure and dygestion and a concess nervous system that waves their arms around. With the snails I reversed it.  And added cybernetics on top.

Weird...I've actually been writing/playtesting an adventure that has the characters exploring the temple of a snail cult (using my own D&D-ish system, but also doing it for Dungeon World).

Some art I did for it:

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One of Robert E Howards Conan stories (the hall of thevdead) had a giant snail as the main monster.

The acid-spitting giant snails from the D&D RC were an absolute nightmare for my PCs.