Enhance your tabletop jungle or alien world with this menacing Tooth Plant. Standing at a standard medium scale, this botanical horror features deep vertical ribbing, unsettling spore vents, and a crown of vicious curved tusks ready to snap shut on any passing adventurer.
A predatory plant waits silently for prey to pass over its upward-facing maw.
Stationary ambush predator in a swamp or jungle, a biological trap in a dungeon, or an environmental hazard that releases spores when approached.
Artist: Epic Miniatures
Type: MONSTER, TERRAIN
Pose: The figure is in a static, upright position, rooted to its base.
Action: Standing/Idle
Mood: menacing
Action Category: Standing/Idle
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Suitable Locations: underground fungus forest, alien jungle planet, swamp of the forgotten queen, wizard's laboratory garden, bottom of a pit trap, overgrown ruins of an ancient city, sewers of a major metropolis, caverns of the Underdark, biological spaceship interior, enchanted dark forest
Encounter Scenarios: Ambush predator hidden among normal plants, Hazardous terrain that bites players who end their turn adjacent to it, Objective for a druid quest to cleanse a corrupted grove, Defensive perimeter for a hag's hut
Power Level: Easy (score 18/10)
Compatible Game Systems: Dungeons & Dragons (perfect): Excellent as a homebrew carnivorous plant or a proxy for a Shrieker/Gas Spore variant.; Pathfinder (perfect): ; Frostgrave (good): Works well as a wandering monster in a jungle or swamp expansion.; Warhammer 40K (usable): Suitable as Death World flora or Tyranid-adjacent terrain.; Mork Borg (good): The grotesque, pockmarked texture fits the game's grim aesthetic.; Stargrave (good): Perfect for alien planet exploration scenarios.
Race: Not applicable, Sex: Not applicable, Build: Not applicable, Size: Not applicable, Age: Not applicable, Style: Not applicable
Creature: Tooth Plant (Plant), Size: Medium
Body: A single upright pod or stalk with a wide mouth at the top. The surface is textured with deep vertical grooves and numerous small pockmarks. Several large spherical protrusions are found on the sides.
Also known as: Carnivorous Pod, Maw-Plant, Alien Spore-Sack, Toothy Succulent
Related creatures: Shambling Mound, Gas Spore, Shrieker, Violet Fungus
Distinctive Features: Large curved tusks/teeth at the top, Deep vertical ridges, Pockmarked/holey surface texture, Spherical bulbous growths on the sides
Monster Weapons & Attacks: type: Bite, description: Large curved teeth at the top rim, position: Top opening, type_ja: 噛みつき, description_ja: 上部の縁にある大きな湾曲した牙, position_ja: 上部の開口部, type: Spores, description: Numerous small pits and pockmarks across the body, position: Lateral surfaces, type_ja: 胞子, description_ja: 体中に広がる多数の小さな穴, position_ja: 側面の表面
Defensive Features: Thick, ridged outer skin, Fleshy, bulbous growths
Mount: Not applicable, Size: Not applicable
Aesthetic: Creepy / Unsettling, Horrifying / Grotesque, Grimdark, Classic Fantasy
Cultural Aesthetic: Generic Western Fantasy
Hairstyle: None (non-humanoid)
Similar to characters: Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors), Piranha Plant (Super Mario), Malboro (Final Fantasy), Xenomorph Ovomorph (Alien), Oxyuroid (various RPGs)
Miniature Dimensions: 34.4mm H x 24.8mm W x 23.8mm D (base: 30.0mm)
Keywords: toothed plant, carnivorous flora, monster plant mini, jungle ambush, alien egg, spore pod, creepy garden, man-eating plant, living hazard, swamp monster, botanical horror, grimdark terrain, toothy pod, parasitic plant, fantasy vegetation, horror prop, death world plant, carnivorous bulb, tentacle plant, stargrave flora
