#Mastodon Hunters

[belghast]

Sitting In The Waiting Room - Talking about the wait for Last Epoch Tombs of the Erased, creating a custom filter, new POE2 filter from Neversink, and the Mastodon Hunters

[no7er]

The Magnificent Glasstodon Digital artwork by me, 2022

[key-to-everything]

My stack of recent-ish CD purchases

Top to bottom: Mastodon - Blood Mountain / Krushhammer - Blood Violence & Blasphemy / Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion / Celtic Frost - Monotheist / Begotten - Nothing Worth Remembering / Anthrax - Only / Slayer - Christ Illusion / Slayer - South Of Heaven / Colour Haze - Colour Haze / Iron Maiden - Powerslave / The Cure - Pornography

[house-of-1000-corpses]

I wish that I was still there

[skulkingwriter]

Guess what I suddenly realised I hadn't shared anywhere on them socials even though it came out in October?

The panda triplets are established as Dragon Speakers, but Brawnshanks the golden monkey has possession of the Broken Forest. What does he want it for? What does the Dark Sun portend? Why the pangolins, other than because pangolins are adorable and weird and we love them? FIND OUT NOW from all good and evil book shops!

And then! Guess what I also realised I didn't even know the pub date for? I am a very competent full time author professional. Anyway part two of the saga of Whisper, Stride and Breathstealer, and our lovely friend the Great Devourer, available on February the 6th 2024!

[onlyhurtforaminute]

MASTODON-OCTOPUS HAS NO FRIENDS

[bargainsleuthbooks]

The definitive guide to cooking with wild and store-bought mushrooms, with 120 recipes for everything from dinner to dessert. Mushroom hunting season is coming up and this is a useful guide. My review: #Bookthreads #Booksky #BookBlogger #TheMushroomHuntersKitchen #TheExperiment #NetGalley #ARCReview

[galaxy--drifter]

Pursue happiness with diligence

Pursue happiness with diligence

Pursue happiness with diligence

Pursue happiness with diligence

[pedrodleon]

[my draws / musical idols]

[bigotedsjw]

I mean…

Seeing Tumblr post screenshots get big on mastodon is always hilarious but it's especially so when you see that they obviously don't realize that "-official" is a little game we play around here, and it means nothing.

But yeah sure, Amtrak, the US national railroad company, posted that funny comeback.

[ka-boom1]

Some songs that remind me of Supernatural that literally no one asked for <3

Wicked Games ~ Chris Isaak

Pug ~ The Smashing Pumpkins

Family Tree ~ Ethel Cain

Ramble On ~ Led Zeppelin

Evil Eye ~ Franz Ferdinand

Sextape ~ Deftones

Tear You Apart ~ She Wants Revenge

Season of the Witch ~ Lana Del Rey

Kill of the Night ~ Gin Wigmore

Black Hole Sun ~ Soundgarden

The Hunter ~ Mastodon

Loser ~ Beck

Sympathy for the Devil ~ Rolling Stones

Life in the Fast Lane ~ Eagles

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper ~ Blue Öyster Cult

Pour Some Sugar On Me ~ Def Leppard

Armageddon It ~ Def Leppard

What? ~ Rob Zombie

[thecreaturecodex]

Garl

"A Very Harryhausen Halloween: Part 5" © Robert Squier, accessed at his website here

[The garl from basic D&D is not a very interesting monster. It's a giant caveman with 6 HD and no special abilities, and no flavor text except "hey, these guys are really really stupid. They do +4 damage with weapons. And sometimes have uncut gems". But I knew I wanted to cover it? Why? Well, I have a fondness for scientifically inaccurate cavemen as monsters. So much so that I invented an entire subtype for them, the pilts. And Ray Harryhausen's troglodyte, from Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, is a monster that's been on my "I should cover one day" radar for a long, long time. But the name "troglodyte" is taken in D&D and Pathfinder (even if Pathfinder has to call them xulgaths now) So this is a syncretic entry. Using the garl's name and HD as a basis to do a Harryhausen Trog.]

Garl CR 5 CN Humanoid (giant) This humanoid has gray leathery skin and a simian face, with a horn growing from the center of the forehead. It is clad in crude fur garments and clutches a tree branch as a club.

Garls are oversized, horned humanoids related to pilts and their kin. Unlike most members of this lineage, garls are not strongly predisposed to violence. They are hunters of megafauna, spending their lives tracking herds of mastodons, giant sloth, woolly rhino or other primeval beasts. As such, they are more likely to view other humanoids as curiosities rather than prey. Garls are incredibly social creatures, as they know that cooperation within their bands is what keeps them alive. On the one hand, this means that a garl found alone is likely to befriend travelers, including adventuring parties or caravans, in order to form a surrogate clan. On the other hand, that means that they are somewhat naive and prone to exploitation; many garls found in “civilized” lands are as enslaved laborers or soldiers.

Garls fight naturally with clubs, stones and their own natural weapons. Both male and female garls have horns, which are made of keratin like the horn of a rhinoceros (some unscrupulous merchants with enslaved garls have been known to shave it off and sell garl horn as rhino horn). Garl strategy is crude but effective—typically, a single garl will attempt to bait a foe into charging it, braces its horn against the charge, and then its fellow garls surround and beat down the opponent. Garls can combine assisting their allies with furious shouts and displays of strength.

Garl material culture is limited. They can make weapons out of stone and wood, and often wear furs as both protection and trophies of especially memorable hunts. Garls have not mastered fire, but value it extensively—fires are collected from lightning strikes or other natural events, or even stolen from other humanoids, and then carefully guarded by garls whose community role is as fire-tender. Some of these fire-tenders are magically gifted; garls that can cast spells are rare, and usually druids. Garls are awed by long distance projectile weapons such as bows and arrows, and take well to their use if trained.

Garl CR 5 XP 1,600 CN Large humanoid (giant, pilt) Init +0; Senses low-light vision, Perception +5

Defense AC 17, touch 9, flat-footed 17 (-1 size, +6 natural, +2 armor) hp 51 (6d8+24) Fort +6, Ref +2, Will +5

Offense Speed 40 ft. Melee Large club +7 (1d8+4), slam +5 (1d6+2), gore +5 (1d6+2) or 2 slams +7 (1d6+4), gore +7 (1d6+4) Ranged Large club +3 (1d8+4) Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft. Special Attacks brace, bullying aid

Statistics Str 19, Dex 11, Con 18, Int 5, Wis 13, Cha 10 Base Atk +4; CMB +9; CMD 19 Feats Cleave, Intimidating Prowess, Multiattack (B), Power Attack Skills Intimidate +8, Perception +5, Survival +6; Racial Modifiers +4 Survival Languages Piltish

Ecology Environment temperate and cold plains and hills Organization solitary, band (2-8) or clan (10-40 plus 50% noncombatant young) Treasure standard (leather armor, 2 Large clubs, other treasure)

Special Attacks Brace (Ex) If a garl readies an action to attack a charging opponent with its gore attack, it deals double damage on a successful hit. Bullying Aid (Ex) When a garl takes an action to aid another’s attack roll or armor class, it can make an Intimidate check against the opponent it is aiding against.

[key-to-everything]

Mastodon - The Hunter 2011

[rabtownsend]

capturing man.

model: Angel Constance photo: @rabtownsend

Toronto. October 4th, 2024. These shapes we wear are deterministic. A desired shape is hunted or hunting, but we've little use for the lives of caught hunters.

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[specialagentartemis]

oh to be a late Paleolithic hunter-gatherer in 12,500 BCE Chile dining on mastodon steak with wild onions and potatoes

[aerial-jace]

I'm on Wafrn now! A new rising Tumblr alternative within the Fediverse network (so, Mastodon and BlueSky compatible), so I thought to check it out and have the option open in case this place goes caput. Feel free to follow me!