2021-04-03 Episode 35

{.right} Halberds and Helmets Podcast Talking about giant beetles and how I used them: pack animals for the underworld, war elephants for goblins and the like, or car sized monsters in dungeon corridors.

Halberds and Helmets Podcast

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2016-10-13 Giant Beetle: “When I ran Castle of the Mad Archmage, we encountered several rooms full of giant bombardier beetles and we fought them all using everything we had. It was a hell hole of flaming oil, charred corpses and madness, because somehow one of the players had claimed that you might be able to find gems inside dead giant beetles.”
Burning Corridors: “Fight! A lot of flaming oil was used but they just kept on coming. One of them got Simed and bite off a leg of him and then they killed Tristan. But eventually we managed to kill all the beasts.”
Halberds and Helmets: my homebrew rules with links to the PDF files

2016-10-13 Giant Beetle

Burning Corridors

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A fearful human face in the foreground and a giant bug in the background, inspired by Starship Troopers

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Speaking of the castle of the Mad Archmage: I was actually part of the group, back in the day. The way I remembered it was, that you SEEMED to put the idea of “Gems inside of Beetles” into our heads, but I was not present for the first few sessions anyway. And players are greedy looters in any case that will believe anything if it gets them potentially more treasure 🙂

We actually de-populated the level of beetles (as you admitted during the game that the random encounter tables are mostly “pick a monster from a nearby room”) and the Lizard Men moved into the now vacant rooms nearby.

Fun times

– Flavio 2021-08-08 21:13 UTC

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I think you are right. I might have joked with Samuel about there maybe being gems inside giant beetles and he then taking me up on it?

– Alex 2021-08-08 21:19 UTC