dungeons and dragons monster: ankheg
2019.12.21 (updated : 2021.06.17)
No. Enc. 4+1d6 (12d6)
Alignment Master race
Movement 35m (12m)
Armor class 3
Hit dice 1d6+2
Attacks 1
Damage 3d4
Save As HD
Morale 9
XP 80-2,800 each
First found only sixty years ago by a three-kingdom expeditionary force among the ruins of the lizardfolk city of Dnost, the ankheg has now been found in all of the coastal provinces in the Seir Aleth and as far north as Ofeb. Currently attacking demi-human, goblin, and gnoll settlements in an alarmingly coordinated fashion, the ankheg is considered such a threat that in unprecedented cooperation armies from six races have set up an eradication force. Already the lizardfolk race is in collapse, its former kingdoms among the endless wetlands of western Ujuai destroyed and depopulated. An evacuation and resettlement operation ordered by the gods themselves is underway.
Early reports indicate substantial difficulty containing the threat. The ankheg operate with long-range coordination incomprehensible to even the most disciplined militaries. Alarmingly, a flying variant of ankheg has been spotted in the past six months.
The ankheg is a burrowing monster with an insect-like exoskeleton and a taste for fresh meat. It is about 3m long and weighs about 350kg. Using its arms for digging instead of assault, the ankheg often digs a winding tunnel up to 12m below the surface in the rich soil of forests or farmlands. The well-packed tunnel is 1.5m tall and wide. An ankheg usually lies 1.5m – 3m below the surface until detecting the approach of prey. It then burrows up to attack. If desperate, the creature can produce an acid spray once per day that inflicts 8d4 hp damage.
Ankheg flyer
Flying over battle scenes wherever ankheg have engaged humanoid armies, these winged horrors appear to assist the monsters tunneling through the soil. They are generally non-combatant but will fight if captured using the same techniques as their burrowing cousins.
Thanks for your comments! I agree that the gang down on Broadway could be a bit off-putting (unlike their downtown locale). Hopefully other Vancouverites will find your FirstFoto tip worthwhile. I've since left Vancouver, unfortunately, so I can't try them out.
FIJI PARADISE
HEY!! GREAT PICTURES. THE BEST PICTURES IVE SEEN ON THE NET OF FIJI SO FAR. I WENT TO FIJI OCT2001 TILL JAN2002 AND LIKE YOU INSTANTLY FELL IN LOVE AND LIKE YOU IM FROM CANADA AND HAD THAT SAME EXPERIENCE LEAVING FROM THE COLD TO A PLACE EQUIVALENT TO PARADISE!!! GREAT PICS PEACE!!!!
Cool, glad you like them. I envy you; the trip sounds amazing.
Hey Mark - I mean Michael (that's so funny!)
I just happen to have a coworker named Mark who has made me deeply envious because he has purchased a digital camera before me. (I'm still stuck on film for the moment, but not for long). I stumbled across your site by accident and have no recollection of how I got here, but what a fantastic find! You've refreshed my interest in finding different ways to view our very fine city (Vancouver, of course). If any friends of mine are coming to Vancouver for the first time, I will refer them to this site.
Thanks for the great work!
len
ps: that's an awful lot of scanning. What are your thoughts on digital shooting? If your thoughts on digital are somewhere on this site, forgive this question; I still have yet to explore much of your expansive website.
Hi, Len. I'm glad you liked the pics. Unfortunately, I had to leave Vancouver to find work.
It took me a while to come up with an answer for this one. Essentially, I think digital photography is pretty cool, but it's not anywhere near mature, yet. There are chips, display devices, and battery technologies just starting to come on the market that will immediately obsolete today's stuff - it's not like film technology where any 35mm camera can take tomorrow's new and improved films. I'd hate to buy now and then buy again in 18 months or three years because my stuff turned out to be laughably primitive compared to what was just around the corner, and I find myself not getting the results I could with the next generation of equipment.
But then again, it took me years and years before I adopted a mobile phone and I still don't have a DVD player. I suppose I like technology to have settled in before I start to use it (this is possibly an outcome of having worked with softwae for many years and finding anything short of v3 to be unspeakable crap). 8)
bug in site
I noticed a bug in your site:
under pictures—favorites—2001—page 1, the link to next page goes back to page 1 instead of to page 2. One must go back to the favorites list and manually click on page 2 to view. I know this is no biggie but you are a programmer and therefore by definition a perfectionist:) Later-
Thanks, Chris.
Whoops - thanks for the bug report.
journal of m. werneburg
My friend dropped her (fairly new) point-and-shoot Canon from waist height, and immediately it ceased to work, $250 down le toilette. I own a similar camera and from that day on I take care of it like it is made out of glass, there's probably nothing more painful...
Glad that nothing serious beside minor scratches on your camera!
Let's hope! As some of the important bits technically are made glass, I'm not happy with myself for having dropped it. But shoganai, ne?
that is some hard-core ikke-ikke onna. they must turn the dial on the sunbed to beyond the max to get their faces that dark!
Kinda sad that the fad has passed on. I guess the kids'll have to come up with something new.
Great pictures Mike. Love the texture.
Thank you, sir!
that is some hard-core ikke-ikke onna. they must turn the dial on the sunbed to beyond the max to get their faces that dark!
thanks you sir
I was hoping that it was 100% make-up. But I suppose you never know.
(Man, that was nearly a decade ago, already.)
Review of lens and Shutter
I disagree with the comment I just read about Lens and Shutter. I too have developped over 50 rolls of films there, and it's only when it was time to enlarge them that I noticed every single negative was stratched. Every single one. I tried to talk to the clerk (on Broadway), who very rudely told me it was my camera. I said that was improbable, because I had developed other rolls of films from the same camera elsewhere and they were fine, but she was adamant it wasn't lens and Shutter's fault. I went to FirstFoto, and haven't had a problem since then!