Friday, April 6, 2012

A-to-Z Challenge, F: Firefox (New Oe/BX/1E Monster)

This is one of those ideas I just sort of stumbled across. I looked at that icon sitting in the dock of my Mac and wondered... "Was there a mythological creature the browser was named after? Or was it just a made up marketing/branding name?" It seemed to be the latter. My hope is that one day, decades from now, this creature (below) ends up as a mythological creature of unknown origin, after which the browser was named. (Yay revisionism!)

Firefox


DESCRIPTION

The fire fox is a magical creature, able to transform at will from a normal fox to an elemental being of fire. In its material (plain) form, a fire fox has the look, appearance and abilities of a standard fox. In its transformed state, a fire fox appears as a fox formed from flame, with an increased set abilities (numbers in parentheses at right) and attacks as a 5 HD monster.

In material form, the creature’s sole attack consists of a rather benign bite, doing only 1-2 points of damage. However, in its fiery form, a fire fox is able to attack a target with its two burning paws and fiery bite (3 attacks doing 1-6/1-6/2-12 points respectively,) or “throwing” fireballs from it’s mouth (1 per melee round,) doing 3-12 points of damage with each fiery missle. The intense heat radiated by the firefox in its elemental form will do 2 points of damage to all creatures standing within a 10’ radius nearest the fox, and 1 point of damage to all creatures standing within the next 10’ around the first.

In both its material and elemental forms, a fire fox is immune to poison and all flame- or heat-based attacks. While transformed (in elemental state only,) a fire fox is immune to normal weapons, and can only be hit by magic weapons or spells.

Oe/1E STATS
FREQUENCY: Very Rare
NO. APPEARING: 1-6
ARMOR CLASS: 5 (3)
MOVE: 12” (24”)
HIT DICE: 3
% IN LAIR: 25%
TREASURE TYPE: C, U
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: See below
SPECIAL ATTACKS: See below
SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below
MAGIC RESISTANCE: See below
INTELLIGENCE: Very
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: S (2’ at shoulder)
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
Attack/Defense Modes: Nil


BX STATS
ARMOR CLASS: 5 (3)
HIT DICE: 3**
MOVE: 120’ (240’)
ATTACKS: See below
DAMAGE: See below
NO. APPEARING: 1-6
SAVE AS: Fighter: 2 (F:5)
MORALE: 6
TREASURE TYPE: C, I (x3)
ALIGNMENT: Neutral

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