D6x6 Savage Sahuagin

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D6	These sahuagin appear
1	like long-nosed, stretch-jawed goblin sharks.
2	with extended plesiosaur necks and stubby flipper-limbs.
3	with scaly sails and flabby limbs like marine iguanas.
4	with the extravagant colours of reef fish and the eccentric anatomy of special breeds of koi or goldfish.
5	like dangly-appendaged wobbegongs.
6	with the armour plating and heavy jaws of a dunkleosteus.

D6	These sahuagin tend to attack
1	by clambering onto the decks of ships with sharp shell-knives and picks.
2	in ports and harbours on lightless new moon nights.
3	whole fleets at once in artificial doldrums.
4	by striking deep inland, up rivers and wetlands, to allay suspicions of their base of operations.
5	trespassers in their ever-expanding territories.
6	after first creating false reefs, shoals, and lighthouses to lure passers-by into ambushes and wrecks.

D6	These sahuagin worship
1	the principle of predation. All must eat to live. One eats. Another is eaten.
2	the ocean currents and what they represent. Today’s ally is tomorrow’s enemy. What comes will pass.
3	coral, and the processes it embodies. To these sahuagin all life is built upon the bones of the dead, each generation and epoch becoming the bed of the one to follow.
4	the lightless abyss below, which swallows whales, the waste of the world, and the sun itself.
5	the secret flame, the black smokers, impossible smelters beneath the waves.
6	the glowing lure, the dangling nematocyst, all traps and venoms.

D6	These sahuagin have the unpleasant cultural practice
1	of having as many children as possible then winnowing those they judge as weak, leaving only a fraction as the worthy.
2	of using public torture both to punish criminals and as a show of merit.
3	of eating their elderly alive.
4	of organizing their population into a graduated pyramid of slaves.
5	of attempting to totally eradicate even the memory of their enemies.
6	of essentially having no greater moral principle than “might makes right”.

D6	These sahuagin are led by
1	a necromancer who makes their demense within the jaws of an animated megalodon fossil.
2	a mangled oracle whose limbs and sensory organs were ritualistically cannibalized to sensitize them to higher realms.
3	a nephilitic giant descended from one of their own and a being they consider divine.
4	a human admiral who’s basically become Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now.
5	an undead lieutenant of Davy Jones who requires them to deliver a quota of drowned souls.
6	a four-armed mutant who fulfils a messianic prophecy of theirs, who’s reluctantly accepted their position in the hope that they can lead the sahuagin to a better future.

D6	These sahuagin respect
1	strength enough to dominate those who disrespect you.
2	wealth as the expression of your superiority.
3	cunning to outwit those who’d prey on you.
4	decadence, as what use is power if it doesn’t bring pleasure.
5	pacifism, as one must be mighty indeed to ignore provocation.
6	ruthlessness, a total lack of qualms between you and your goals.

D6x6 Bubbly Bullywugs

Could also be grippli, or grung. Whole lotta frog people in D&D.

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Poison dart frog

Surinam toad

Horned frog

Desert rain frog

Tree frog

Cane toad

D6	These bullywugs resemble
1	poison dart frogs.
2	surinam toads.
3	horned frogs.
4	desert rain frogs.
5	tree frogs.
6	cane toads.

D6	These bullywugs inhabit
1	muddy holes in the ground.
2	frond-huts folded from giant ferns.
3	canopy-settlements on top of a cloud forest.
4	wicker shelters that use the roots of mangroves as frames.
5	domes of blown foam that are surprisingly effective at insulation and keeping out pests while being easy to repair or recreate.
6	sinking stone ruins in a marsh infested with man-eating plants.

D6	These bullywugs’ cuisine
1	is based on a medical theory that meals must combine proportionate ingredients from water, land, and air to be healthy.
2	is mainly composed of the grubs, eggs, and the protein-rich “milk” and “cheese” of the enormous beetles they keep as livestock.
3	is incredibly spicy, as they habitually chew a stimulant herb that numbs their tastebuds to other flavours.
4	is usually off-putting texturally to humans as bullywugs can’t chew their food.
5	has as its most prestigious condiment the slime of great hunters and warriors.
6	is garnished with live flies and other buzzing insects.

D6	If provoked, these bullywugs
1	will unleash their mutated, oversized tadpoles like attack dogs.
2	will harry the ones that provoked them with envenomated darts, then close in for the kill when the venom takes effect.
3	will appeal to their mystics to respond with psychedelic nightmares and manifestations.
4	will pile on from above with bared sabres.
5	will pelt with arrows and javelins from a safer, heightful distance.
6	will lure their enemies into traps and ambush sites they’d normally use for hunting game.

D6	If befriended, these bullywugs
1	can provide their services as skilled pharmacists, cooking up cures and poisons alike.
2	can act as guides to interesting regional sites that know how to avoid any exceptional dangers.
3	can be hired as skirmishing auxiliaries.
4	will provide you any intel their scouts and spies acquire.
5	can sing you their magic croak-songs that weaken curses and demons and all other evil things.
6	can grant you an audience with their patron spirits.

D6	These bullywugs are beset by
1	farmers filling their territory in to expand their fields.
2	treasure-seekers who believe they know the way to a hidden city of gold.
3	a gargantuan crocodile, a lord among its kind, who demands living sacrifices.
4	a wannabe warlord whipping up bullywug clans into a conquering army and enslaving those who don’t go along.
5	the experiments of a radical metamorphosist who believes the four traditional life stages of the bullywug are needlessly limiting their potential for change and growth.
6	their own ultra-traditionalist ancestors rising from their graves to harass and even assault those bullywugs who’ve changed with the times.

GLOGvember Day 2: Monsters; or: D6x6 Despicable Drow

Per this: https://sunderedshillings.blogspot.com/2021/09/glogtober-21-back-with-vengeance.html

Tis the season for mortal folly

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D6	This drow has
1	an enchanted corset that allows them to contort their torso into physically impossible positions.
2	a cloud of stinging, yet undeniably sensuous, sulphurous perfume about them.
3	an outfit like a mummy's wrappings, woven from spider-silk.
4	clipped, square ear-tips, the mark of a former slave.
5	gold wires threaded just under the surface of their skin, emerging in spiralling piercings at bony or cartilaginous points.
6	a pair of befanged chelicerae framing their cryptic smile.

D6	This drow's attitude towards non-drow
1	is paternalistic, believing they should be benevolently enslaved until raised to an acceptable level of civilization.
2	is antipathic fetishization.
3	is esoteric interest, reading drowish involvement into their history.
4	is willful ignorance and avoidance.
5	is chauvinistic aggression, expecting the other to fall with a mere breath.
6	is bemusement at their alien ways.

D6	This drow is tied up with
1	importing and adultering exquisite surface wines.
2	a local deliberative council over whether brutal repression or slight appeasing reform is preferable.
3	a slave uprising that has exiled them from their familial estate without wider society's knowledge.
4	evading a bohemian suicide pact by poison they agreed to in their younger days.
5	dynastic politics wherein they're being evaluated by a closer, more powerful heir as a potential threat.
6	attempting to profit off a border conflict by playing both sides without being discovered and punished by their superiors.

D6	This drow inhabits
1	a town that fills a porous aquifer emptied by a long-past empire. Sharing drinks from the same cup is the highest show of trust they know.
2	a hamlet in an abandoned mine, nigh-forgotten by surface-folk and underworld alike.
3	a nocturnal, nomadic community that's conditioned their giant possum mounts to see them as their children and carry them about their routes in their pouches and on their backs.
4	a parasitic under-city in the maze-like catacombs beneath a human metropolis.
5	a village at the bottom of a jungle that grows so densely no sunlight reaches its forest floor, alongside a voracious, bioluminescent, near-abyssal ecosystem that's evolved there.
6	a settlement with its slums in the caldera of an extinct volcano, its wealthier districts stretching through the empty lava tubes well below.

D6	This drow believes drow are
1	the survivors of some disaster that rendered the surface unlivable for ages, preserving the true pre-disaster culture while degenerate mutants proliferated above.
2	the favoured people of the one true god.
3	the root race from which all others are descended by lacking some essential aspect of drowness.
4	as a population endowed with a limited number of souls, and that their harsh society is necessary to prevent the birth of a soulless drow, their sort of anti-Christ.
5	unfairly forsaken due to an ancient crime of their ancestors for which they are guiltless.
6	spiritual flies trapped in the web of the material world.

D6	This drow's preferred poison
1	is a root extract that causes numbness, uncoordination, bowel evacuation, and general humiliation.
2	is milked from trogloxene scorpions, and causes rapid localized swelling until the affected tissue bursts.
3	is an oil created from the most toxic life forms of past eons, which annihilates healthy flesh on contact like antimatter.
4	is drained from the livers of a species of subterranean tunnel-eel, which inflicts an inability to metabolize oxygen.
5	is a subtle, tastless one derived from powdered mushrooms, which causes small, cumulative loss of impulse control and hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli.
6	is made from fermented spider husks, and causes phlegm, spittle, and vitreous jelly to weave themselves into solid, sticky filaments.

D6x6 Facinorous Firenewts

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D6	These firenewts have
1	iron piercings that glow cherry red from their body heat.
2	a coating of fluffy, asbestos-like fur.
3	painted their bodies with ash and soot in complex sigils that denote their lineage, occupation, and cult.
4	spiny black osteoderms that produce sparks when they clack together.
5	slick oil dribbling from glands across their body.
6	brown, blistered hides that sizzle and pop.

D6	These firenewts' flames
1	produce thick, sulphurous smoke.
2	are blue, and bright enough to sting the eyes.
3	are near-fluid, and splash like napalm.
4	crackle with orange lightning.
5	spiral up into scarlet twisters.
6	flicker in shapes suggestive of slavering beasts.

D6	These firenewts subsist
1	on a mixture of curdled blood and eggs from their herd of giant striders.
2	almost entirely on cannibalism. They're the last active remnant of an older, much greater civilization, the population of which went into extended hibernation. Their dormant bodies are rationed out to sustain the firenewts' effort to prepare the world for their reawakening.
3	on slimy mats of extremophile bacteria that grow on the surface of acidic hot springs.
4	on charred carrion left in the wake of the wildfires they spread.
5	on fish they catch en masse by boiling the water they're swimming in.
6	on veins of coal, dense with calories for their combustive digestion.

D6	These firenewts are ruled by
1	an eternal flame made of their ancestors who've shucked their flesh and become pure energy.
2	an exiled fire giant who treats them as amusing, beloved pets.
3	an azer viceroy who extracts tribute from them for his distant master.
4	a truly secret society whose members are hypnotically programmed to enforce laws and deliver missives.
5	a brazen bull possessed by a demon, which dispenses wise advice if someone is roasted alive inside it.
6	a lineage of solar priest-kings who are ritually sacrificed at calendrical intervals.

D6	These firenewts are
1	seeking allies of convenience against a wizard who's harvesting them as fuel for his arcane machines.
2	offering an enormous reward for the capture of a phoenix that's been spotted in their territory, as they believe they can steal its immolative immortality.
3	kidnapping smiths who can teach them to develop their industry.
4	sapping under a nearby city, so that they can burn it down in a single night and loot the remains.
5	feuding with an aristocratic health spa that claims the natural wonders of their territory are restorative to the mind and constitution.
6	dwindling and growing desperate due to an unnatural winter that's fallen over the region.

D6	A distinctive feature of these firenewts' territory
1	are perfectly round packed piles of dirt, extinguishing live burial mounds for the worst criminals.
2	are scorched geoglyphs that represent their heroes and mythic cycles.
3	is an abundance of an otherwise rare sort of fragrant, scaly-barked bush that requires extreme heat to open its seed pods.
4	are rings of obsidian megaliths they use for sacred gatherings.
5	are the criss-crossing trenches of an ancient, defunct irrigation system, long since dried up and covered in cracked, sun-baked salt.
6	are geysers that erupt regularly enough to set your watch to.

Twenty-One 21 Word Dungeon Rooms

Inspired by:
http://eldritchfields.blogspot.com/2021/11/ten-dungeon-rooms-21-words-each.html
http://eldritchfields.blogspot.com/2021/11/fifty-more-21-word-dungeon-rooms.html

1. Hunters' Cloakroom

Muddy footprints across the floor. Pelt coats hung on meat hooks, still wet. Damascene dagger worth 50 gp in a pocket.

2. Cryptic Grove

Gnarled leafless trees thrust up through the floor, prying bricks from the walls. Brittle, break at a touch, releasing hungry beetles.

3. Misplaced Mailroom

Torn-open letters scattered across desks and cabinets. One in ten contain useful info: troop movements, blackmail. Trivia in the rest.

4. Blackout Fountain

Malachite statue of jolly man sloshing liquid from his cup. Tastes like clean water, gets you drunk like strong liquor. Flammable.

5. Flagellants' Web

Withered corpses bound up in cats-o'-nine-tails obstruct the way. Remove a corpse's connections and it will animate furiously.

6. Cyclopean Staircase

Gargantuan pillar in center of room, carved with faint, spiraling steps. Those without depth perception can walk about these steps normally.

7. Flipping Pentagram

Silver pentagram painted on floor. Illusory demon chases those who enter toward the pentagram. Stepping on pentagram flips that floor section.

8. Tricksy Sauna

Full of thick, sweltering steam. Obscured team of goblins rearranges doors and loose planks to keep you trapped until heatstroke strikes.

9. Belly of the Beast (Constipated)

Grossly organic room. Digestive system organs hanging from ceiling, tubing on floor. Open sphincterish door by connecting them in correct order.

10. Bone Mill

Dusty air. Mill grinding bones to flour, pulled by snarling, carnivorous bulls. Bulls can charge, but only in a clockwise direction.

11. Warping Lens

Big glass orb built into dais. Dials around adjust its focus. Adjusted perspectives alter reality while viewed: magnify to enlarge, etc.

12. Hatter's Lounge

Furniture made of hats of various sizes. Full of maddening fumes. Needles, thread, felt, and a tub of mercury strewn about.

13. Execution Amphitheater

Wide open, wedge-shaped, marble steps. Acoustics concentrate sound. Any noise becomes deafening. Those on the corner stage take sonic damage.

14. Platform Pond

Algae-clouded pool holding koi buoyant enough to walk on, attracted to food yet startled by sudden splashes. Beneath, megasnakeheads lurk.

15. Fearsome Effigy

Claw-rent alcove holding petrified beast, its eyes carved with X's. Monsters cringe from its sight. Sleeping nearby brings restless nightmares.

16. Chthonic Oracle

Rift with nerve-tendril protruding from deeper than light's reach. Attachment casts Commune, answers are disturbing, drops connectee to zero hp.

17. Work In Progress

Room is incomplete, full of animated scaffolding. Scaffolding will snatch loose stuff with spindly limbs to construct the rest of it.

18. Lilliput Terrarium

Within are skeletons, tiny jungle, and a tribe of micro-humans. Lingering causes your soul to leave your body in minuscule form.

19. Being Gog Magogovich

Shaped like inside of skull. Portholes display vision of giant warlord, similar features for other senses. Tonguish protrusion controls his speech.

20. Time Capsule

Metallic, ovoid, hums unpleasantly. Time within runs 100 times slower. A legendary hero lives within, wants news but won't ever leave

21.The Goose Room

Plastered with parchment, puddles of ink about. A goose with inverted quills waddles around, writing autonomic poetry. Valuable, but hates humans.

D10x10 Calamitous Kaiju

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GLOGtober Day 7: What Causes That Strange Black Lightning?

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