D&D General Snails: Threat or Menace? (in Dungeons and Dragons)

Shades of Eternity

Shades of Eternity

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I just finished compiling my fantasy heartbreaker (elderberry tales for those who are interested, private message me for a link) and was talking to the great Sam Dilion, and he posted this after telling him that you can fight carnivorous Snails:

"Carnivorous snails? Why would I smite those... they are cute and slimy."

So what side are you on in the great Snail debate?

What is the greatest Snail encounter in Dungeons and Dragons?

(if you think this is anywhere near serious, well, that's on you).
 

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Shades of Eternity said:
I just finished compiling my fantasy heartbreaker (elderberry tales for those who are interested, private message me for a link) and was talking to the great Sam Dilion, and he posted this after telling him that you can fight carnivorous Snails:

"Carnivorous snails? Why would I smite those... they are cute and slimy."

So what side are you on in the great Snail debate?

What is the greatest Snail encounter in Dungeons and Dragons?

(if you think this is anywhere near serious, well, that's on you).
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Snail slime carries parasites that can make characters blind: threat!
 





I'm feeling very lazy today, so I'm going to copy-and-paste something I posted on rpg.net's forum years ago, regarding my main campaign world:

Flail snails migrate in buffalo-like massive herds, between the jungles of Saradam and the mushroom fields of the Sacred Delta. No-one really understands why. A tribe of humans who call themselves Pamaetnimak (literally "followers of snails") live a nomadic lifestyle centered on flail snail migrations. The Pamaetnimak have special weapons resembling spiked war hammers just for breaking through flail snail shells, which they then sell (along with the flail snails' glasslike trails) to the towns and cities they pass by on their migrations.

Although the Pamaetnimak kill flail snails and sell their body parts for profit, they also revere the snails as divine spirits, and therefore afford them great respect and are careful not to thin the herds too far. The druids who serve as Pamaetnimak priests wield flails in battle, as homage to the sacred snails' own fighting style. There is a small, secretive cult of Juiblex among the Panaetnimak, which considers the snails to be spawn and servants of that demon lord.

So I guess I'm on team snail.
 

There were giant slugs in 2e and I remember them being quite terrifying. Of course the medieval texts knew how dangerous the dreaded slugs were.
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In a D&D 3.5 campaign based on the Skylanders console game, I played a humanoid crow gestalt ranger/rogue who was a sidekick to my nephew's PC, a humanoid sheep gestalt "baabarian"/cleric. When it came time to pick an animal companion, I chose a snail (not wanting to upstage the "main character"), named him Shelldon, and had him ride on my PC's shoulder. Shelldon was then trained to follow simple commands (like "Stay!" and "Hold still!") and could even successfully answer complicated mathematical problems, as long as the answer was zero.

Johnathan
 

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