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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8461593" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Updating the <a href="https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/7989149" target="_blank"><strong>Afanc Working Draft</strong></a>.</p><p></p><p>After re-reading the background info, I decided to cut out the "if they can find enough to eat" after the breathing air bit. It seems extraneous.</p><p></p><p>I also changed the last sentence's "A newly hatched afanc would only be about a foot long and a pound in weight" to the more succinct "A newly hatched afanc is about a foot long and a pound in weight."</p><p></p><p>Also forgot to put its defauly alignment of NE at the start of the Afanc Adolescent statblock.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That was just something I made up! Young afanc are heavy-bodied fish with large round heads and big scales that live in freshwater, what common freshwater fish does that sound like? A carp!</p><p></p><p>If you don't care for carps, it's easy to cut it out:</p><p></p><p><em>A huge heavy-bodied fish several times longer than a human is tall, dull gray in color and covered in large scales. Its forefins are longer and more flexible than most fishes</em>.</p><p></p><p>A typical young afanc is around 12 to 15 feet long and weighs 800 to 2,000 pounds. Afanc smaller than that don't attack people. A newly hatched afanc is about a foot long and a pound in weight.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Combat</span></strong></p><p>Young afanc hunt in packs. They will use organized tactics such as flanking attacks or having one of their number pretend to be an "injured giant fish" to lure fishermen or other predators into an ambush.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Methinks that'd best belong in an "In Zakhara" underbar, how about:</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>In Zakhara</strong></span></p><p>These monster fish are called <em>gawwar samakat</em> in Zakhara's common tongue of Midani. They are a well-known menace to shipping and people who work on the water. Most inhabitants of the Land of Fate do not know they are called <em>afanc</em> in "unenlightened regions" such as Faerûn. Gawwar samakat eggs can sometimes be bought and sold in the luxury shops and markets of Zakhara's many cities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8461593, member: 57383"] Updating the [URL='https://enworld.org/index.php?posts/7989149'][B]Afanc Working Draft[/B][/URL]. After re-reading the background info, I decided to cut out the "if they can find enough to eat" after the breathing air bit. It seems extraneous. I also changed the last sentence's "A newly hatched afanc would only be about a foot long and a pound in weight" to the more succinct "A newly hatched afanc is about a foot long and a pound in weight." Also forgot to put its defauly alignment of NE at the start of the Afanc Adolescent statblock. That was just something I made up! Young afanc are heavy-bodied fish with large round heads and big scales that live in freshwater, what common freshwater fish does that sound like? A carp! If you don't care for carps, it's easy to cut it out: [I]A huge heavy-bodied fish several times longer than a human is tall, dull gray in color and covered in large scales. Its forefins are longer and more flexible than most fishes[/I]. A typical young afanc is around 12 to 15 feet long and weighs 800 to 2,000 pounds. Afanc smaller than that don't attack people. A newly hatched afanc is about a foot long and a pound in weight. [B][SIZE=5]Combat[/SIZE][/B] Young afanc hunt in packs. They will use organized tactics such as flanking attacks or having one of their number pretend to be an "injured giant fish" to lure fishermen or other predators into an ambush. Methinks that'd best belong in an "In Zakhara" underbar, how about: [SIZE=5][B]In Zakhara[/B][/SIZE] These monster fish are called [I]gawwar samakat[/I] in Zakhara's common tongue of Midani. They are a well-known menace to shipping and people who work on the water. Most inhabitants of the Land of Fate do not know they are called [I]afanc[/I] in "unenlightened regions" such as Faerûn. Gawwar samakat eggs can sometimes be bought and sold in the luxury shops and markets of Zakhara's many cities. [/QUOTE]
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