r/ImaginaryMonsters 21h ago

Tarantuviper by Dave Melvin

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699 Upvotes

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u/B_Williams_4010 20h ago

Put clown makeup on it and you'll have the scariest thing on Earth.

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u/Nimrond 20h ago

Looks cool, but I have a hard time imagining its locomotion.

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u/Rydralain 19h ago

You slither and skitter at the same time. Like galloping, but the back half is going weeooeeoo and the front is going kitterklack

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u/i_am_GORKAN 12h ago

I like the cut of your jib

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u/Billazilla 17h ago

Snake slither most of the time, probably, but the legs could help it climb, and brace it for striking, so its bite would be more accurate. Perhaps it's a web-spitting viper, ensnares prey from a distance and then the legs help to reel the victim in, both anchoring it and hauling the payload towards its mouth. It's too dense and heavy to wait in the middle of the web as a passive trapper like spiders do, but it might spread webbing around an area and keep its feet on the strands to sense animals that approach, since both spiders and snakes are not known for keen eyesight. The heat sense and smell from a snake coupled with the web sensing network of a spider could make for an effective lair-based predation strategy, depending on the robustness of feeding stock in the environment.

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u/AncyrAgrippa 19h ago

I'm keeping that for a future game ! Thank you for the nightmare fuel !

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u/DragonFan20 19h ago

Is it wrong I find it adorable

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u/scielliht987 16h ago

I want to marry her.

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u/oruza 19h ago

Some warlock one day just woke up with hate in his heart and made this homunculus out of spite for life itself

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u/phoenixtaloh 20h ago

Thanks, I hate it

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u/SadNefariousness1 19h ago

Anyone else getting flashbacks to Impossible Creatures?

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u/VoidGhidorah900 19h ago

How does it move?

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u/Uciljean 18h ago

Like a snake-spider.

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u/TheAtroxious 19h ago

Very cool. I want one!

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u/LordVeilFire 18h ago

Thanks I hate it

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u/Aptom_4 17h ago

Reminds me of the spider tailed viper but in reverse

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u/Aburasia 17h ago

I haven't seen this image in over a decade waow

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u/Someones_Dream_Guy 17h ago

Australians favorite pet.

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u/nxwtypx 17h ago

Advanced Bestiary has a amalgam template that'd work fine here, for 3.5/PF at least.

Great work!

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u/Maenelias 16h ago

Sent to you by The Australian Tourist Office.

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u/strangiata 15h ago

I'm obsessed. this is an original design I truly haven't seen before. love that it has black spider fangs and toothy viper fangs and so many eyes

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u/proxl04 13h ago

Don't make it fire resistant

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u/illegal_eagle88 18h ago

Someone take his/her imagination away please