Hail Honkdra!
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imagine hydra affecting every body part.
lose a finger in an accident, 3 more grow. lose a leg, 3 grow.
it would be so hard to buy shirts and trousers.
There are troll mutants with this. Tyranny of Dragons has one in chapter 7, along with details shared below...
FOUR-ARMED TROLL
Sometimes when a troll loses a limb, it regenerates two limbs to replace the one it lost. This can result in trolls with multiple arms. A four-armed troll uses the troll stat block, except that it is a challenge rating 6 monster (2,300 XP) and has the following action instead of the troll’s normal Multiattack action:
Multiattack. The troll attacks five times, once with its bite and four times with its claws. If two or more claws hit the same target, the troll rends the target, dealing an extra 2d6 slashing damage.
To be honest, if your DM isn't riffing on the sheet notes, they should be, IMHO.
One OG sign it's well past due: players gettin' lazy w/ "low-level" challenges, letting IRL statblock fluency drive in-game assumptions, etc. Resistances, key abilities, tendencies, phobias, et al, should all be up for grabs if the party, or any members thereof, haven't personally encountered said creature before in that biome, region, local area, season, and/or time of day. Who knows what effects to only those parameters brings about in that species? Besides, playing "by the book" doesn't require playing "from the book". 🖖🏼
Time to finesse those goblins, kobolds, infernal geese*, slimes/jellies, mud crabs, the lot!
*(normal geese, better name)
And sometimes the official stats suck. The 2014 Tarrasque was just sad. And if Tabaxis get Cat's Claws, Cat's Talent, Feline Agility, and Darkvision, cats should have those too. Along with a jump height of more than -1 feet.
Preach.
I mean, it's not like irrational stats're prevalent, (don't look at 1-3E) per se, but they're certainly less rare than expected.
FWIW, it's been how many decades so far, to hone a single foundational system and five+ editions, and this is progress?☝🏼🤷🏼♂️
I mean, you could always just cut off the legs and wings instead
Biblically-accurate goose
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