What if a zombie eats a magic users brain?
Does he become a Lich?

I'm pretty sure it's a ritual profane thing, like it doesn't just happen it happens under specific circumstances to a spellcaster capable of lingering after death.

But yeah sure why not.

Whatever's most horrifying and least expected. This is horror you're talking about, not physics. Things don't happen "because" anything; they happen, and then you face them, go mad or die.

>>21867380
>A Bird-That-Bawks

Possibly related?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwVogZQtjI4

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Fish-that-Flops masterrace

I'd imagine you could fluff it anyway you want.

Simply change the way the discorporate ability works by replacing worms and bugs with birds and lugs.

I like the idea though.

A chicken that cocks.
a lobster that licks
a squid that sucks

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>>21867675
I take back
>>21867619
Squid-that-Sucks masterrace

>>21867675
A worm that walks made entirely of lobsters.

JesusChristHowHorrifying.png

>>21867696
And the lobsters lick

A Shark-That-Shuffles

>>21867703
There's one of those at my local bar, likes to try and get a bit of money out of folks passing through.

>>21867703
At this point I feel like 1upping you

A Whale that Wakes

>>21867723

A dolphin that dumps.

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>>21867751
A Dragon that Quakes

A Death may Die

>>21867763

A tortoise that tickles.
An eel that emails.
a crab that cooks
a jellyfish that jiggles

>>21867380
>Fish-That-Flops

Welp, I have my new BBEG.

>>21867782
A Flea that Flakes

>>21867790

>not using a swarm of lobsters that goes out of its way to lick you.

>>21867797
Lobsters don't have tongues.

>>21867782
>An eel that emails.
It must be an electric eel.

Kyuss is very confused.

>>21867807

Yes. Roll for SAN loss.

>>21867807
Thats what makes it so horrifying. These ones do.

>>21867790
>The man rounds the corner, dragging a foot behind him. Water trickles out of the sleeves of his heavy, dark robe, and he moves with an otherworldly slipperiness, as if his body did not entirely belong to him. He raises an outstretched arm towards you, but no hand protrudes from the yawning black sleeve of his robe. Inside, you see movement, accompanied by a faint slapping noise, like...

>"Fish!", lovable-but-inadequate NPC says, as out of the creature's robe explode a torrent of the slimy creatures, pushing him back against the wall and pressing against him, flopping, as an impossible amount of them spew from the foul monster. A moment later, there is nothing but a crimson-stained pile of fish where he was standing. Crimson, flopping fish.

>>21867619
>"Ever fuck a school of fish?"

Oh fuck, that brings me back.

>>21867863
>piranha that poaches

>Bird-That-Bawks

You mean a Murder-of-Crows.

>>21867863
>Crimson, flopping fish.
Red snappers!

>>21867825
>>21867807
>>21867827

All I can picture is some dude really flipping his shit, tears of terror streaming from his eyes while a lobster gently licks his cheek.

>>21867908
>"The robed creature presses against you, you hear the sound of tiny pincers as they work away at your clothes, ripping them to shreds. Suddenly, hundreds - no, thousands of lobsters spew forth from underneath your tormentors robes, their tongues sensually flicking in and out of their little mouths. You feel countless lobsters licking every inch of your naked body, caressing you in places you never knew could feel that way. Their licks are legion and bring you a strange mix of both pleasure and horror, as they coat your entire physique in their glistening lobster-saliva."

>"Roll for SAN loss."

>>21867984
And yet another addition to the list of things I never thought I'd have to read but /tg/ proved me wrong.

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>>21867908
>>21867984

Never change /tg/.

>>21868014
You didn't have to read it. It was there, but you could have ignored it. You CHOSE to read it.

>>21867984
Why the fuck is this turning me on?

goddammit, /tg/.

>>21868063
Because you failed the roll to see if you develop a new fetish.

>>21867380
>So a Worm-That-Walks is what happens when worms eat the dead flesh of a magic user, right?
Not quite.
http://dungeons.wikia.com/wiki/SRD:Gathering_of_Maggots
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monsters/wormThatWalks.htm
Otherwise every dead spellcaster would animate everything around them(grave dirt would become a earth elemental, a tree would become a treant, etc) and a Worm-That-Walks wouldn't be so rare.

No, it isn't.

"The nethermost caverns," wrote the mad Arab, "are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific. Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl."

The worms eat his flesh and his mind takes them over. The wizard becomes a gestalt hivemind of worms. It's a specific ritual.

>>21868072
I'll never be able to eat lobster again ;_;

>this thread

/tg/, I think we need to talk.

>>21868117
>eating lobster
Better to just fish up a pot of crawdads. They might not be as fancy but you can get more of them.

>>21868173
What about?

>>21868117
no, no. You're thinking about it the wrong way.
Think of it as a revenge.
or develop vore fetish

>>21868180
About you turning everything into a ridiculous fetish.

>>21868096
>It's a specific ritual.
That's not what the text you posted said. The test you posted said "The wizard's soul doesn't leave too quick so when worms eat his body it gets stuck in him and they get weird."

>>21868189
>fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws
>instructs
It's very much a voluntary thing.

>Terrasque-That-Trundles

>>21868187
You almost make it sound like a bad thing. /tg/ is all about power perversion potential. Why do you think wizard is generally accepted as the bestest of classes?

>>21868203
Because it is, crunch-wise, in 3.5e? Hell, in most game systems?
Wizards tend to be broken, not even counting inventive uses of their powers (hello Color Spray).

>>21868200
I'm pretty sure that's being used in the archaic sense, in which it's passive, which is to say that the worm gains knowledge on how to do a specific thing rather than that the wizard necessarily made a specific choice. This should be pretty obvious from the use of the word "fats" directly fucking before it.

>>21868203
>Why do you think wizard is generally accepted as the bestest of classes?
Because it's the most powerful and the most versatile?

>>21868228
>>21868232
Ok, that, and the fact that it generally allows for the most abuse of power, compared to the other classes.

>>21868232
>laughingdruidinelementalform

>>21868229
Well, considering the fact that the worm that walks that he sees in The Festival evidently has the wizard's memories and personality, either he's commanding these worms or the worms are SO like him that they believe themselves to be him. Which honestly isn't really much different.
Anyways, in D&D it's emphatically the former. The wizard is the same guy, just embodied in a mass of worms.

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>dead magic user
>flies lays eggs in it
>maggots feast on the corpse
>infused with power
>mature into magical superflies that form a gestalt wizard entity
>evil undead wizard who is a cloud of maggot ridden flies.

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>>21867723
>A Whale that Wakes

>>21868329

Lord of the flies? Quick, call the SWAT team, and let's poopie trap him.

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>>21868329
This...
This sounds pretty awesome, actually

>>21868329

>flies form into a vaguely human shape to masquerade as a humanoid sorcerer.
>upstart hero with magic sword of slay evil attacks
>stabs him in the 'gut'
>youjustgottricked.jpg

>>21868255
>implying druid spells are anywhere near wizard spells
>implying physicality matters compared to taht

>>21868275
Well yes, the worms eat the soul. That doesn't change the fact that the wizard doesn't necessarily do anything special to enable this.

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>>21868377
Only way to be sure.

>>21868419
>implying we're not in the same tier
>implying that I cannot do everything you can do an more

>>21868377
Would said creature actually be evil though?
or is the process of creating such a creature cause it to be evil?

Worms are more easily controlled.

I can easily see a particularly powerful magic user breaking the will of a flock of crows though, becoming 'The Murder' or 'The Shadow of Wings' or something.

>>21868765
It's a fucking wizard made of fucking flies. Every fantasy trope says it has to be evil. It'll only be otherwise if the GM deliberately wants to make it a tweest.

>>21868783
Morrigan/Badb/Macha

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Scarab-That-Strides

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>Worm That Walks thread
>Only one mention of the Wormgod
>No pictures

FTFY, guys.

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Cat That Crawls, anyone?

>>21870303
I don't see a humanoid made from dozens of cats.

>>21870303
That's not made out of cats.

>>21867814
i lold harder than i should have, and for that i thank you.

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>>21867863
>out of the creature's robe explode a torrent of the slimy creatures, pushing him back against the wall and pressing against him, flopping, as an impossible amount of them spew from the foul monster. A moment later, there is nothing but a crimson-stained pile of fish where he was standing. Crimson, flopping fish.

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>>21867790

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>>21868765
Did you think about this before asking?
Fucking spell-casting dickflies that trick you into thinking they're an evil wizard, BUT NOPE THEY'RE FLIES YER FUCKED

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>>21867908

>>21868228
>inventive uses of Color Spray
I'm listening.

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Just going to leave this here.

>>21867380
Thanks for the laughs, OP.

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>>21867380
>So a Worm-That-Walks

WRONG.

In the first five words you're wrong.

It's not *a* Worm That Walks, it's THE Worm That Walks. As in there's only one and it's a title of all things.

Also, this isn't just a magic user, this is a cleric that attained godhood.

>>21870957
What setting are you thinking of? Lovecraft says no such thing.

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>>21870983
The Elder Evil setting that specifically uses OP's image and the Worm That Walks, and what he described is more or less exactly how the Worm That Walks existed.

It's a pretty fair and accurate assumption.

>>21870957
so much autism

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>>21870983
Not that guy, but D&D canon. Kyuss, the BBEG of the Age of Worms campaign setting, was an epic cleric/wizard/necromancer who became the Worm That Walks by sacrificing a whole city of his fanatics. Dude's got the most powerful dracolich in the world as his second-in-command (who happens to have the highest TPK rate of any canon adventure path 'boss').

Good setting, by the way.

Thing is, in 3.0 you can make a Worm That Walks with a ritual, so the guy you're replying to is full of shit.

>>21871080

Moron. Check the Epic SRD before shooting off your mouth. There's a spell to create a Worm that Walks - so even if there's only one in YOUR setting, this is not like the Tarrasque.