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... y'know, I've been holding off from watching any of that particular series of anime. Now I sorta' wonder if I shouldn't rectify that. That got some laughs out of me.

Shredder's represented too, but neither of those are ninja turtles. And only shredder is near as close a character design.

E: Still, getting close. Bebop and a Rocksteady and we'd have a full team.

Today, while grocery shopping, I noticed they are now selling brownie-filled chocolate chip cookies.

I bought some.

I got home.

And ate some. I will eat more, tomorrow.

Ah, yeah, it's probably not true for d20. Likely one of th'varying differences between Inc and it.

And maybe a cap, I'unno. S'like I said, that sort of thing happens pretty much only with gremlins* and it's more than a little thematic for 'em. Plus of the stuff it happens with, only the gremlins are particularly mobile. Not exactly a high priority issue, aye. Leaving it be wouldn't be a big deal, in m'opinion, and it's a fairly neat thing. E: Though maybe cap xp gains (on a per dungeon level basis, if possible) and squelch corpse generation for multiplying creatures. Orcs in particular get giddy when they run into a multiplying critter, since each corpse consumed will probably give a little XP. Several dozen corpses...

*Well... and a few others. Brown molds, sometimes blue jellies and brown puddings, but of those only the molds can happen autonomously. Brown mold infestation of a lava stream is something best just left alone, though not because of the amount of 'em. They get more max and min HP the more fire damage they take, heh. Three, four thousand HP mold? I've seen that. Dozen member multi-thousand HP mold swarm? Yeeeeuup. Just... walk away. They're slow.

The gremlins in incursion are pretty specifically a callback to the movies. Not sure if the D&D ones are similar, heh.

... bright side is the only time you're really going to see something that extreme is with gremlins, and they're... kinda' flimsy. And have a massive weakness (bright light insta-kills them). So long as you don't get close enough for the ridiculous flurry of bolas can get you. Or get in melee.

And there was still something like another half page of corpses. Plus more outside that square. Gremlins coming across a water source is always a bit of a hoot. Providing you have a way to deal with huge numbers of tanglefoot bags and bolas, anyway. Also providing you do not get in melee range, because that many stacks of swarm tactics will annihilate basically anything.

Not exactly complaining about the >2k XP I netted from a single shot of scouring wand, though >_>

Mm... or just add the int component to the description. Closest thing the description comes to mentioning that is saying it only effects "sapient" creatures, whatever that means from a mechanics perspective.

Gives me a better idea of what the thing can target, anyway. Not something odd going on, just a description that's not as transparent as most.

Still. Laughing grick. Not sure what that would sound like, but...

Oh, that's definitely the results of a spell. Hideous Laughter (Enchantment, Mage 2), specifically. 1d4 turns of can't-do-jack, for the low price of 2 (4, for non-enchanters) mana. Mostly I was wondering how a grick is managing laughter at all. It understands the concept of humor? Its physiology is capable of producing laughter? I mean, apparently, since it is, but... I've seen artist renditions of a grick, now. That is not the face of something capable of a chuckle. Most other critters of similar sorts can't manage it. Snakes, most birds... most animals, really.*

Maybe hideous laughter should, in fact, be a thaum/ench spell that generates laughing organs on creatures that don't have them?

*My actual guess is it's an odd interaction with the gnome vermin affinity stuff rendering gricks capable of speech, insofar as the engine is concerned, and thus capable of laughter.

E: Either that, or there's a minimum intelligence threshold or something along those lines. Never really paid too terribly much attention re: what exactly hideous laughter can target. Haven't played enchanters very often, heh.