Hail Honkdra!
I had to search that. Behold! https://www.geeknative.com/131266/honkdra-the-goose-hydra/
Oh, hell yeah! That’s a mz4250 classic, and I’m a longtime supporter of their work!
FYI, this model is flat-out terrifying when upscaled ~250% to a gargantuan 200mm base, (according to my players, at least) —but, in their defense, I admit I’d felt it also called for alligator gar pike mouths and staged in a suitably trampled & bestrewn hunting-ground to seal the deal and dub her Garhonkdra, the Choir of Tantrumax.
Give her a little fluorescent paint accenting and underlight her w/ UV, and they really start to wonder not if, but how the goose statblock’d been changed. 🤣
Oh my word, this person is awesome. And it is super generous to give the whole drive download right off. Just wow. I have a feeling a scaled up Honkdra is in my near future.
Without a doubt! I’ve supported a select few Patreon creators for a while now, and his email updates, etc., have been the most honest, humble, and inspiring among them —to the point that I lowkey look forward to them!
That said, I’d be doing y’all a disservice by failing to mention my other faves that stand alongside him:
- Bite The Bullet Studios — a married pair of amazing creators w/ a years-long line of some of the most unique, quirky, evocative, clever minis available these days;
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- SolGood Creations — Ukraine-based team of designers that not only send a massive amount of their Patron support directly to their local communities, but they share pics, vids, and more of our support helping their neighbors get through their days (they also put out an “unofficial” Ukraine-themed grimdark-future chapter, FWIW.) ;
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- Manuel Boria — an incredibly talented creator whose design work spans decades and it shows in the subtly emotive expressions in his sculpts, his detail invites the eye to wander deeper;
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- Warp Miniatures — truly signature work inspired by oldschool RPG & “euro” fantasy styles, he designs with a mind toward their folktale origins —and slays every time;
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- and not at all least, just Nate! 🙌🏼 — join the journey as Nate takes suggestions and discovers how best to model each target subject for 3D printing, but he’s no newb (it’s informative and without ego every time), and each release is a legend.
edit: sorry, the formatting’s wonky AF. 🙇🏽♂️
It’s Moby Duck.
The goose mother has born!
To be honest, if your DM isn’t riffing on the sheet notes, they should be, IMHO.
One OG sign it’s well past due: players gettin’ lazy w/ “low-level” challenges, letting IRL statblock fluency drive in-game assumptions, etc. Resistances, key abilities, tendencies, phobias, et al, should all be up for grabs if the party, or any members thereof, haven’t personally encountered said creature before in that biome, region, local area, season, and/or time of day. Who knows what effects to only those parameters brings about in that species? Besides, playing “by the book” doesn’t require playing “from the book”. 🖖🏼
Time to finesse those goblins, kobolds, infernal geese, (normal geese, better name) slimes/jellies, mud crabs, the lot!
And sometimes the official stats suck. The 2014 Tarrasque was just sad. And if Tabaxis get Cat’s Claws, Cat’s Talent, Feline Agility, and Darkvision, cats should have those too. Along with a jump height of more than -1 feet.
I mean, you could always just cut off the legs and wings instead
Or just forego the idea of cutting entirely, and smash it really hard with a big hammer.
Biblically-accurate goose
just milloons of goose heads
🎵 millions of goose heads Goose heads for me
imagine hydra affecting every body part.
lose a finger in an accident, 3 more grow. lose a leg, 3 grow.
it would be so hard to buy shirts and trousers.
such a beast would make a great source of endless meat for a ever growing community! Would be a nightmare to build a cage for though
I’m pretty sure you need to eat more to get the energy and protein to regrow.
the hydra parts grow magically, no story with a hydra states that the beast has a feast to prepare for the regrowth
There are troll mutants with this. Tyranny of Dragons has one in chapter 7, along with details shared below…
FOUR-ARMED TROLL
Sometimes when a troll loses a limb, it regenerates two limbs to replace the one it lost. This can result in trolls with multiple arms. A four-armed troll uses the troll stat block, except that it is a challenge rating 6 monster (2,300 XP) and has the following action instead of the troll’s normal Multiattack action:
Multiattack. The troll attacks five times, once with its bite and four times with its claws. If two or more claws hit the same target, the troll rends the target, dealing an extra 2d6 slashing damage.
