joerevesz@... wrote:
> ***********
> Blob
> Enchantment:        Gloom and Doom
>  Strength Attacked: EN
>  Strength Damaged:  JO
> Passed by:          Touch
> Physical Attacks:   Rotting for SS DL from ST, AG, EN
What is the 'Gloom and Doom' SE? The only thing that comes to mind would
be a negative attitude carried to extremes?  Or did I miss something in
the write-up?

> Cocatrice
Spelling - cockatrice
> -------------------------------
> No. Appearing:      1-2
> Size:               2'
> Battle Ability:     9
> Vitality:           36
> Enchantment:        Hard Heart
>  Strength Attacked: EN
>  Strength Damaged:  KI
> Passed by:          Sting
> Physical Attacks:   Bite 3D d4 or
>                           Sting d8
> 
> Special Attack:     Turn to Stone!
> -------------------------------
A Cockatrice passed it's 'turn-to-stone' death by a glance or breathing
on the victim.

>    The Cockatrice is a vile little creature said to result from a cock's
> egg laid in a manure pile tended by a Dragon!  However they come into
> being, they are filthy and deadly.  In appearance, the look like scruffy
> roosters with sooty Rainbow Dragon's wings, cruelly glittering eyes, a
> forked tongue and a barbed Dragon's tail.  Its bite is a petty SS-4, but
> its worst attack is it's barbed tail, which in addition to SS of PV
> damage can actually turn a person to stone!
>    The Cockatrice has a 50/50 chance of biting or stinging each round.
> If the physical sting is successful, player takes physical damage and is
> infected with Hard Heart.  A standard SF roll may prevent the matching MU
> damage to Kindness, but the player must also make a Endurance rating save
> vs. the same DL or be literally stoned.  (And let he who is without sin
> cast the first adventurer!)  Player may be turned back to his former self
> by a High Level WordRune that I haven't written yet.
>    The presence of a Cockatrice is very clear if you hear its
> rooster-like crow at sunset.  The bird's particularly vile attitude may
> be attributed to the fact that there are no female Cockatrices!  The
> solitary bird is usually on its own, but may occasionally be found
> hanging out with one other such male.

The WR would be the least of my problems.  Let me know if this is liked.


> Dragon Snake
> -------------------------------
> No. Appearing:      d4
> Size:               2'
> Battle Ability:     14
> Vitality:           10
> Enchantment:        Decit
>  Strength Attacked: SC
>  Strength Damaged:  SC
> Passed by:          Bite
> Physical Attacks:   SS-2 bite, Possible 2d8 squeese
> Special Attack:     Hypno
> 
Like this one.

Jack