{"id":638,"date":"2011-05-16T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=638"},"modified":"2013-12-05T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T17:38:37","slug":"mi-gojirra-the-fungus-lizard-king-of-the-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2011\/05\/mi-gojirra-the-fungus-lizard-king-of-the-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mi-Go’Jirra, the Fungus Lizard, King of the Monsters!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the games he ran at GenCon 2010, Monsters and Other Childish Things<\/a><\/em> author Benjamin Baugh wanted to do an old-school dungeon crawl.<\/p>\n

Well, sort of.<\/p>\n

Instead of old-school it would be with Monsters and Other Childish Things<\/em>. And instead of a dungeon it would be a quest inside the gigantic body of Mi-Go’Jirra, the biggest monster of Bigger Bads<\/a><\/em>, to help the big lug recover from some alien infestation.<\/p>\n

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\"See<\/a><\/dt>\n
See “Bigger Bads” for Mi-Go’Jirra in all his glory.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

We recruited genius cartographer Sean Macdonald<\/a> to turn Ben’s hand-drawn maps into things of wonder and grossness.<\/p>\n

Now we’re turning the map over to you, so you can build your own adventure around whatever’s ailing the King of the Monsters.<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a>
Inside Mi-Go’Jirra, the Fungus Lizard (click to ENLARGE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are some of Ben’s and my early notes to get you started.<\/p>\n

Inside Mi-Go\u2019Jirra<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walls and chambers are wobbly and curved and organic.<\/p>\n

The innards are complex and convoluted, with lots of little pockets and chambers off the main organs.<\/p>\n

Throw in things like pools of slime, blisters and oozing glands, contracting sphincters… basically the standard features of a dungeon translated into living innards.<\/p>\n

Also, fungus and spores and mushrooms of every inconceivable type. Go nuts with the fungus.<\/p>\n

For parasite minis, I’ll use candy… gummy worms and such.\u00a0 Players can eat their kills.<\/p>\n

Windpipe and Lungs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weird growths and giant cilia like stalagmites and stuff.<\/p>\n

Stomach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stretches cavernously from under the Liver to under the Lungs. It\u2019s filled with partially-digested cars and wreckage and people and elephants and whales and monsters.<\/p>\n

Liver<\/strong><\/p>\n

Solid mass with a few thin tunnel-like ducts running through it from the Stomach and the Little Gland Thing. Inside the Liver little side \u201ctunnels\u201d that end in cavelike cysts run off from the main ducts.<\/p>\n

Large arteries lead to the Heart and the Spleen.<\/p>\n

Gallbladder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nestled up between the Liver and Spleen. Like an open cave connected to the Liver by a tunnel-like duct.<\/p>\n

Spleen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have it kind of nestled up against the Liver and Stomach. A solid mass with an artery that connects to the Liver. A spiderweb of smaller veins run from the artery throughout the Spleen like little tunnels.<\/p>\n

Guts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Big, wide, twisty chasm-like tunnels going back and forth, with loads of debris like little shattered parts of cars and tanks and convenience stores and things.<\/p>\n

The guts end at the You-Know-What, tapering off to the Final and Ultimate Sphincter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the games he ran at GenCon 2010, Monsters and Other Childish Things author Benjamin Baugh wanted to do an old-school dungeon<\/p>\n

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