Building a monster

[Maharg67]

Starting off with just the head which is large and shaped like that of a dragon. The monster is huge and so the head is three metres long and two metres wide and thick.

 

Add away!

 

Please show respect for the poor beasty monster and not add anything too foolish or I will remove it. Can be comical but the monster needs to be able to survive. Thank you.

[Vindekarr]

Good starting point: Retiles are very efficient and the lack of a need to warm their blood internaly leaves a lot of biological resources spare for all sorts of interesting stuff.

 

To go with your head, and to "fill 'er up" I add a brain. A nicely powerful brain, giving it the ability to problem solve, learn using trial and error, visualy recognise objects, and to visualy identify prey and adjust tactics arcordingly.

 

Because the smartest predaotrs are always the most successful.

 

Potia Fimbriata is a tiny spider from central asia. Fimbriata however is incredibly, mind bogglingly intelligent. It instinctively recognises many spexies of spider that it would encounter in it's natural habitat by sight, and adjusts tactics to best suit it's prey. However that's only the begining. When encountering something new, Fimbriata bides its time, draws out the kill, and tries to absorb as much information oabout the new threat as possible.

 

Lastly, it's cunning. It feeds on web building spiders, and because those sense vibrations in their webs, Fimbriata waitt for a gust of wind to shake the web before infiltrating, when the wind dies off, the stay perfectly still. Their brain is so tiny you cant see it without a microscope, however it's near sentient level of intelligence and cunning cant be denied.

[Deleted1848331User]

I add sharp things (horns, teeth, claws, etc... you get the point.)

 

It has to be able to fight, after all. Hows it going to eat and steal food from predators?

[CommanderCrazy]

I add extremely strong armor, like scales.

 

So it can be strong, yet mobile.

[Deleted1848331User]

I add a spikeball to the end of it's tail (it has one right?) And if it doesn't have a tail, I add that instead.

[Genzel]

On the aforementioned tail, I add a row of backwards facing curved spikes on the top of the tail and front facing curved spikes on the sides, all the lines of spikes tapering with the tail.

[Deleted1848331User]

I add to the scale armor little hooks to trap weapons. This would be one helluva enemy in Oblivion lol

[DeadMansFist849]

I add flesh and bones so it has a body--funny how no-one added that yet.

[AliasTheory]

I add a pair of rapid-firing, heat-seeking anti-air missiles to its back. Our monster friend is going to have a ton of crap attached to him. How will he get those speedy demons out of the air with all this stuff on him if he gets attacked? WITH MORE FIREPOWER.

 

Also, this thread is awesome. :thumbsup:

Edited January 12, 2011 by AliasTheory

[Vindekarr]

I add a pair of RAMJET engines to it's back, everything is better with ramjets!

 

So far what it sounds like is a cyborg dragon, kinda reminds me of my favorite Godzilla monster... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidora, albeit with some cyborg bits.

Edited January 12, 2011 by Vindekarr