Bring a classic piece of weird fantasy to your tabletop with this massive Flail Snail. Standing at a towering 83mm, this Huge-scale creature features a beautifully detailed segmented shell and five menacing flail-tipped tentacles ready to crush any adventuring party. Its heavily textured gastropod foot and dynamic pose make it a standout centerpiece for Underdark or cavern encounters.
A massive flail snail senses an intruder in its cavern and raises its club-tipped tentacles in a defensive display.
A mid-dungeon obstacle, a territorial guardian of a cavern, or a strange beast encountered in the Underdark or an enchanted forest that requires tactical positioning to bypass its shell and flails.
Artist: Duncan Shadow
Type: MONSTER
Pose: The main body is curved in an 'S' shape, with the front raised high. The tentacles are splayed in an organic, waving pattern.
Action: Moving/Walking
Mood: Menacing
Action Category: Movement
Genre: Fantasy
Suitable Locations: Underdark caverns, damp dungeon corridors, fungal forests, subterranean ruins, wizard's menagerie, deep sea trenches (as a variant), enchanted gardens, sewers beneath a major city
Encounter Scenarios: A territorial predator defending a bridge or narrow passage (Enemy), A creature being farmed or harvested for its magical shell (Objective), A wandering beast encountered while the party traverses the Underdark (Obstacle)
Power Level: Medium (score 42/10)
Compatible Game Systems: Dungeons & Dragons (5e / general) (perfect): ; Pathfinder (1e / 2e) (perfect): ; OSR (Old School Renaissance) (perfect): ; Frostgrave (good): ; Kings of War (usable): ; Mork Borg (good):
Sex: Indeterminate, Build: Hulking, Size: Huge, Age: Not applicable, Style: Realistic / High-Detail
Creature: Flail Snail (Monstrosity), Size: Huge
Body: A massive gastropod with a thick, undulating foot and a heavy spiral shell. It possesses six to eight thick tentacles that terminate in hard, multi-pointed nodules.
Also known as: Giant Snail, Crystal Snail
Related creatures: Giant Slug, Carrion Crawler, Cave Fisher
Distinctive Features: Multi-headed flail tentacles, Segmented shell texture, Heavily wrinkled gastropod foot
Monster Weapons & Attacks: type: Tentacle Flails, description: Bludgeoning club-like nodules at the end of long, muscular stalks., position: Head/Anterior section, type_ja: 触手フレイル, description_ja: 長く筋肉質な茎の先端にある、鈍器のような棍棒状の結節。, position_ja: 頭部/前部セクション, In many game systems, the shell can reflect magic or emit light.
Defensive Features: Large, hard spiral shell protecting the dorsal side.
Aesthetic: Cool / Badass, Creepy / Unsettling, Classic Fantasy, Intimidating / Imposing, Grimdark
Cultural Aesthetic: Generic Western Fantasy
Hairstyle: None (non-humanoid)
Similar to characters: Dungeons & Dragons Flail Snail, Pokemon Omastar, Elden Ring Crystal Snail, Gary the Snail (Monster version), Dark Souls Man-Eater Shell
Miniature Dimensions: 83.0mm H x 54.8mm W x 64.9mm D (base: 75.0mm)
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