What does [THING] look like?

[Wolfsong]

I can understand a bone grill more than I can a frying pan.

[HavokBlue]

A bone grill probably wouldn't work to well. Bones get really brittle when you heat them. Maybe some sort of treated wood rods, if Zalanthans have a way to fireproof stuff.

As for frying pan-esque things, wide, flat stones would probably do the trick.

[FightClub]

Glass or obsidian might work.

[Wolfsong]

Rantarri?

Found it in Visualizing Zalanthas.

[Qzzrbl]

A bone grill probably wouldn't work to well. Bones get really brittle when you heat them. Maybe some sort of treated wood rods, if Zalanthans have a way to fireproof stuff.

I figure if I can believe Zalanthan glass and obsidian is tough enough not to shatter when chipped into thin blades and smashed over the hard shells of some of our tougher creatures, and that it doesn't take more than a full day to chop a thick tree down with a flint axe that likewise doesn't break.... I can believe Zalanthan bones don't get brittle with fire.

But that's just me.

[Rathustra]

I've had to moderate a post in this thread that linked to a file-sharing website which had a collection of pdfs.

Please don't link to copyrighted material on the forums. Thanks!

[Bilanthri]

After reading the description of a fairly simple hawkblade, I found myself with images of gunstock warclubs.


Wooden Hawkblade

[James de Monet]

Ratlon have about the same dimensions of an inix -- possibly a little bit smaller, and have a beak.

Like these with another set of legs?

That's pretty much right on the money of what I gleaned from their descriptions. x]

Ratlons, in their mdesc, are described as being very similar in shape to an erdlu, and having hard skin, a stubby tail, and a beak.

FWIW

[Zoan]

Man, that gaj picture earlier is pure nightmare fuel.

[Synthesis]

Man, that gaj picture earlier is pure nightmare fuel.

Pure nightmare fuel for anyone trying to construct a gaj's phylogenetic tree. Is it a pseudo-arthropod tetrapod, or a pseudo-tetrapod arthropod?!?  Chitinous exoskeleton and compound eyes are clearly arthropod features, but the bony jaw puts it at least at gnathostomata, and the legs are clearly tetrapod (although hexapod would perhaps be more appropriate), probably up to reptilia.

Burning questions:  do they have spiracles, book lungs, or true lungs?  Blood or hemolymph? A true brain or a ganglionic brain?  Three-chambered pump heart or a combined peristaltic heart/aorta? Smooth, cardiac, and striated muscle, or striated muscle only?

Quick, someone sequence a gaj genome so we can get some data for computational phylogenetics.



Odd urge:  special-app. a dwarf sorcerer who utilizes magick to accomplish scientific feats. > cast 'mon un polymerase chain reaction' vial

[Decameron]

I've always been curious as to the what others think the kryl look like:

Whenever I think of kryl, I think of...


or

Or whatever picture you can find of the aliens in Pitch Black that doesn't make them look like muppets (good luck).

The problem with this is everytime I picture those aliens, I can't help but see this one as well:


And I feel the less I see ...



... the happier my life will be. So, in either case, how do you picture the kryl?

[spicemustflow]

Pure nightmare fuel for anyone trying to construct a gaj's phylogenetic tree. Is it a pseudo-arthropod tetrapod, or a pseudo-tetrapod arthropod?!?  Chitinous exoskeleton and compound eyes are clearly arthropod features, but the bony jaw puts it at least at gnathostomata, and the legs are clearly tetrapod (although hexapod would perhaps be more appropriate), probably up to reptilia.

Burning questions:  do they have spiracles, book lungs, or true lungs?  Blood or hemolymph? A true brain or a ganglionic brain?  Three-chambered pump heart or a combined peristaltic heart/aorta? Smooth, cardiac, and striated muscle, or striated muscle only?

Quick, someone sequence a gaj genome so we can get some data for computational phylogenetics.



Odd urge:  special-app. a dwarf sorcerer who utilizes magick to accomplish scientific feats. > cast 'mon un polymerase chain reaction' vial

Can you do a quick make believe autopsy of an elf? How can they run for so long and be much weaker than a human at the same time? What their heart and bones must be like? Muscles?

[Barsook]

I've always been curious as to the what others think the kryl look like:

Whenever I think of kryl, I think of...

... the happier my life will be. So, in either case, how do you picture the kryl?

That one.

[Synthesis]

[bcw81]

So, in either case, how do you picture the kryl?

So I couldn't find a good picture, but I always see the buggers from Starship Troopers.

[Bilanthri]

[Barsook]

Are those hedgehog people?

[Ami]

I always thinkk of these when I think of Kryl...

[Bilanthri]

Are those hedgehog people?

Those were some of the last halflings 

[Barsook]

Oh, duh.

[Jingo]

Kryl

[Medivh]

Always thought of those ever since Synth posted a similar picture for kryl.

[IAmJacksOpinion]

If a kryl resembled anything the most, it would be the aliens from, well, Aliens. However there are vast differences. Chiefly mandibles and antennae to sense movement. I'm not positive, but I'm given to believe they have more legs than the bipedal Aliens, also. And there's more emphasis on the tail as a weapon (from what I remember, Aliens lurve to bite, and their tails are basically there to make them look cool.)

Kryl are slender too, so definitely not that bulky thing chasing halflings.

[Bogre]

Think something like Alien mixed with a bit of this guy.

[Barsook]

I thought they had wings.