Trial of Ink - Day 23 - Adaptive
Added 2023-01-05 02:02:48 +0000 UTCGishadar
Variacoriis foedus
Gishadar is a species of aberrant creature that evolves due to their close proximity to an unstable planar rift that connects their habitat to various elemental planes. When a Gishadar suffers an injury, its body immediately reacts and transforms to protect itself from that type of injury. For example, a Gishadar that is burned by fire will immediately develop skin made of burning embers that not only protects them from the fire but also can be used as a weapon against an enemy. They are social creatures that hunt in large groups. What's more unique is that using their limited telepathic communication, when one Gishadar reacts to a certain injury, it can inform the other Gishadar, triggering their transformations as well.
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Comments
Slivers from MTG, once again rearing their heads in this design space. A wonderful creature premise that I love, group adaptation. I am definitely having an overly rich merchant trafficking these illegally for an unexpected encounter.
Ned Kelsey
2023-01-08 06:22:40 +0000 UTCMy original intent is to limit their resistance to up to 3. So when other Gishadar gain resistance via the 30 feet proximity, they also use up 1 of their limited use. I'm considering their rather tanky hp and pack hunting tactic. Without this limitation I think they would end up becoming resistant to all possible damage very quickly leaving the player with no option to get pass those resistance. That what i was considering. You can definitely increase the difficulty by increasing the limit.
Sinlaire
2023-01-05 16:06:38 +0000 UTCSure sure! Though one question, it doesn't spell it out so I'll ask for clarification, is the intent behind its adaptive transformation to have up to 3 resistances? And then if there was a second one they each have up to 6?
Z3brim
2023-01-05 13:15:23 +0000 UTC
