AVENGE THE CHICKENS!
fun idea! maybe throw a small amount of chicken ghosts at them first, maybe just menace the party, and then when a bunch of the ghosts combine together shit gets weird.
Based and Cucco pilled
How about the chickens make noises (as chickens are wont to do) that attract nearby monsters and undead? The PCs can't kill them because they are ghosts/undead, so they have to perform some weird burial rite (or something) to allow the chickens to go to the chicken afterlife.
That could be fun to do too! Though I'd hate it if Prof. Owl prepped a super cool kaiju chicken token and never got to use it. Maybe after the rites they turn into Ultra Mega Chicken? Hm.
Maybe after the rites they turn into Ultra Mega Chicken? Hm.
Yes!
In fact, make the DC check based on the number of chickens, and multiple failures summon Kaijucco.
EDIT: Ghost chickens attract living chickens, annihilation beam turns them into more ghost chickens, and the DC check increases
Ultra Mega Chicken?
No, he is legend
Burial rites normally work on ghosts in the system, but won't here due to Spooky Ghost Lighthouse ^(TM) shenanigans - I am taking the idea to attract other monsters though, that's exactly the type of harassment I'm thinking about
I hope you write up what happens during the session later on. I would love to read the outcome.
It'll be a few weeks before I have enough content to post an update, but I will eventually.
I regret to inform you that you've given me terrible ideas and now my players are going to have to endure literally months of random harrassment by ghost chickens. I probably should have looked at the ghost rules first, because the optional abilities made it really easy to turn some ghost commoner statblocks into ghost chickens with abilities appropriate to their deaths.
Going off recent sessions, I expect it'll be the session after next that I introduce the idea of ghost chickens with a fun inconsequential combat where they try to attack a flightly Kurrru that runs through a wall after a couple of rounds, to everyone's delight and entertainment. Then I can start a slow burn guerrilla warfare campaign filled with ambushes, hit and run attacks, and disturbed sleep for about 2 levels, before a final showdown with the mechanically Huge Skiaknorth with Telekinetic Assault reflavoured into chickens accompanied by the other 4 chooks when the party have to gather the magic doohickeys to open the ghost door.
Of course, opening the ghost door with the magic doohickeys unleashes the BBEG ghost, who uses similar tactics to harrass the party through the later levels, which is basically ideal because that means the ghost chickens aren't a stupid joke, they're foreshadowing.
I'm gonna need you to play the Earthbound Porky battle theme as these encounters occur
Fuck yeah.
I heard about a dude who did that with Temple of Elemental Evil. Chickens are cheap, so they kept testing things by tossing a chicken or two down each hallway. At one point a chicken fell into a transmogrification field of some sort and turned into a monster.
the chickens got so angry they regressed to a T-rex
yeah you gotta unleash some sort of undead greater raptor on them at some point
also, consider a zelda-style cucco swarm where they are belted with seemingly unending danger chickies for a set time period
consider a zelda-style cucco swarm where they are belted with seemingly unending danger chickies for a set time period
yessss absolutely have to do something like this
OP update us as things progress!
Turns out PF2e ghosts can get a telekinetic assault ability that deals bludgeoning damage in an area around them, so it's getting reflavoured to chickens.
Throw an Undead Chimera with Five Chicken heads at them
Dope!
My friends are always very upset when new bestiaries become available
In fact, Howl of the Wild just came out for Pathfinder and I already have an idea to have them jumped by a mercenary band of minotaur
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