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</table>23.251.71.108http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Vargouille&diff=522057&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 21:15, 7 March 20232023-03-07T21:15:23Z<p></p>
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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Vargouille&diff=522056&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 21:13, 7 March 20232023-03-07T21:13:10Z<p></p>
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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Vargouille&diff=522054&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 21:07, 6 March 20232023-03-06T21:07:55Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their bite is venomous, such that - failing the saving-throw - those 1d4 hitpoints are lost ''forever'', excepting a [[wish]]. Again: so first-edition went.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their bite is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[poison|</ins>venomous<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, such that - failing the saving-throw - those 1d4 hitpoints are lost ''forever'', excepting a [[wish]]. Again: so first-edition went.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Second Edition left it alone until the first [[Planescape]] ''Monstrous Compendium Appendix''. This nerfed the poison but added other horrendous abilities to compensate. First, a shriek effect: to [[paralyze]] nonvargouilles within earshot and eyeshot, making the kissykissy easier. The most-feared attack (and mode of reproduction) is to kiss you on the lips ([[Rape|''muah''!]]), clearly easier if you already can't move. This, failing a saving-throw, passes on a [[disease]]: over time, your head takes on vargouille traits until, at the end, the body is shunted aside and the head floats away.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Second Edition left it alone until the first [[Planescape]] ''Monstrous Compendium Appendix''. This nerfed the poison but added other horrendous abilities to compensate. First, a shriek effect: to [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paralysis|</ins>paralyze]] nonvargouilles within earshot and eyeshot, making the kissykissy easier. The most-feared attack (and mode of reproduction) is to kiss you on the lips ([[Rape|''muah''!]]), clearly easier if you already can't move. This, failing a saving-throw, passes on a [[disease]]: over time, your head takes on vargouille traits until, at the end, the body is shunted aside and the head floats away<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. So almost a different animal altogether, but a greatly improved one</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Third-Edition, raising this thing to the mainline Monster Manual, further omitted the disabilities in sunlight. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But, honestly, </del>that was dumb. At least they imposed a sensible 60-foot range on the shriek and didn't demand line-of-sight.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Third-Edition, raising this thing to the mainline Monster Manual, further omitted the disabilities in sunlight. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Frankly </ins>that was dumb. At least they imposed a sensible 60-foot range on the shriek and didn't demand line-of-sight.</div></td></tr>
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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Vargouille&diff=522053&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 20:59, 6 March 20232023-03-06T20:59:13Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their bite is venomous, such that - failing the saving-throw - those 1d4 hitpoints are lost ''forever'', excepting a [[wish]]. Again: so first-edition went.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their bite is venomous, such that - failing the saving-throw - those 1d4 hitpoints are lost ''forever'', excepting a [[wish]]. Again: so first-edition went.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Third-</del>Edition<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, raising this thing to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Monster Manual, </del>nerfed the poison but added other horrendous abilities to compensate. First, a shriek effect: to [[paralyze]] nonvargouilles within <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">60 feet</del>, making the kissykissy easier. The most-feared attack (and mode of reproduction) is to kiss you on the lips ([[Rape|''muah''!]]), clearly easier if you already can't move. This, failing a saving-throw, passes on a [[disease]]: over time, your head takes on vargouille traits until, at the end, the body is shunted aside and the head floats away. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They also </del>omitted the disabilities in sunlight <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but</del>, honestly, that was dumb.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Second </ins>Edition <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">left it alone until </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first [[Planescape]] ''Monstrous Compendium Appendix''. This </ins>nerfed the poison but added other horrendous abilities to compensate. First, a shriek effect: to [[paralyze]] nonvargouilles within <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">earshot and eyeshot</ins>, making the kissykissy easier. The most-feared attack (and mode of reproduction) is to kiss you on the lips ([[Rape|''muah''!]]), clearly easier if you already can't move. This, failing a saving-throw, passes on a [[disease]]: over time, your head takes on vargouille traits until, at the end, the body is shunted aside and the head floats away.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Monte Cook]] seems inordinately fond of this beastie. The Vargouille Knife is a bane in the [[Banewarrens]] of [[Ptolus]]; if you hit someone with it, his/her head turns into this. Also there's a plane in [[Beyond Countless Doorways]] where vargouilles flit around swapping bodies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Monte Cook]] seems inordinately fond of this beastie. The Vargouille Knife is a bane in the [[Banewarrens]] of [[Ptolus]]; if you hit someone with it, his/her head turns into this. Also there's a plane in [[Beyond Countless Doorways]] where vargouilles flit around swapping bodies.</div></td></tr>
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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Vargouille&diff=522051&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 20:42, 6 March 20232023-03-06T20:42:35Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Vargouilles''' are floating [[Neutral Evil]] heads with bat wings and small floppy tentacles<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. They own a shriek effect to [[paralyze]] nonvargouilles within 60 feet</del>. Their origin is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lower-planar </del>so those planes, and areas where <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">those </del>planes are meddled-with, are the most likely places to find them.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Vargouilles''' are floating [[Neutral Evil]] heads with bat wings and small floppy tentacles. Their origin is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Tarterus" </ins>so those <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"deepest pits of the lower </ins>planes<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" (not necessarily [[Carceri]] although, yeah, they're there)</ins>, and areas where <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such </ins>planes are meddled-with, are the most likely places to find them. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Luckily they are blind in natural sunlight and they dislike light generally. (Or so it went in First Edition.)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">signature </del>attack (and mode of reproduction) is to kiss you on the lips ([[Rape|''muah''!]]), clearly easier if you already can't move. This, failing a saving-throw, passes on a [[disease]]: over time, your head takes on vargouille traits until, at the end, the body is shunted aside and the head floats away.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Their bite is venomous, such that - failing the saving-throw - those 1d4 hitpoints are lost ''forever'', excepting a [[wish]]. Again: so first-edition went.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Third-Edition, raising this thing to the Monster Manual, nerfed the poison but added other horrendous abilities to compensate. First, a shriek effect: to [[paralyze]] nonvargouilles within 60 feet, making the kissykissy easier. </ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most-feared </ins>attack (and mode of reproduction) is to kiss you on the lips ([[Rape|''muah''!]]), clearly easier if you already can't move. This, failing a saving-throw, passes on a [[disease]]: over time, your head takes on vargouille traits until, at the end, the body is shunted aside and the head floats away<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. They also omitted the disabilities in sunlight but, honestly, that was dumb</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vargouille might seem to [[gargoyle]]s as [[jermlaine]] to [[gremlin]]s: some Frenchified way around a public-domain term such as to make it ''not'' public. In this case the second [[Monster Manual]] attempted more creativity. And it's under the OGL anyway so [[D&D]] and [[Pathfinder]] parties can enjoy this old-school monster together.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vargouille might seem to [[gargoyle]]s as [[jermlaine]] to [[gremlin]]s: some Frenchified way around a public-domain term such as to make it ''not'' public. In this case the second [[Monster Manual]] attempted more creativity. And it's under the OGL anyway so [[D&D]] and [[Pathfinder]] parties can enjoy this old-school monster together.</div></td></tr>
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