Save or Die Podcast Adventure #32: Harpy Attack! May 17, 2011 Off By Executive Producer Vincent This week we talk about:Game Ettiquite III: On The Road, The Fine Art of Winging It II: Thinking On Your Feet, The Harpy and end the show with a review of X2. Join us! http://media.blubrry.com/saveordiepodcast/saveordie.info/wp-content/uploads/SOD32.mp3Podcast: DownloadSubscribe: RSSShare this:TwitterLinkedInEmailMoreFacebook Related
I don’t understand the illustration of the harpy. ARe those its boobs or what? Oy vey!
The wings are covering the front of the harpy so no, you are not looking at breasts.
She’s actually breast-feeding Plastic Man and Mister Fantastic.
Harpy? We can do something with this. In fact, we have.
I give the harpy a variety of sound-based voice effects. Some have been able to mimic voices or sounds while others have had a sonic screech that can deal damage or shatter objects. One harpy sang magical lullabys that threatened to put victims to sleep.
I also liked combining different aspects of Greek mythological creatures and the harpy would occasionally receive the bronze feathers of the Stymphalian Birds – granting them a better AC, but a worse flying speed. I also had a unique “Harpy Queen” that had a head/face similar to Medusa.
Being so foul and dirty in Greek myth, I originally gave the harpy a troglodyte-like stench quality.
Thank you for the review of X2 – always one of my favorites. The Mystara “Mark of Amber” Audio CD Adventure went even further into the scenario.
The reason for all the French, and for a lot of the weirdness, is that the module was based heavily upon the “Averoigne” writings of Clark Ashton Smith – as referenced in the Bibliography. When I first purchased the module, I was expecting something out of Roger Zelazny’s “Amber” novels, but this was even more interesting in many ways.
Oh – and the module includes a pronunciation guide for the French words.