So Medusa's stare could turn people to stone. Just peope? Like would stone flies gravel her floor, or stone birds and butterflies adorn the trees around her lair?
What type of stone? Sandstone, granite, basalt, marble?
Do the snakes eat? Could they eat for her, like munching popcorn while she reads?
What type of stone? Sandstone, granite, basalt, marble?
Do the snakes eat? Could they eat for her, like munching popcorn while she reads?
Comments
"As you enter the cave, your feet crunch over sharp gravel."
"I look at the gravel"
"Scooping it up, you realize it's stone flies"
"Oh crap!"
Also the idea that the PCs are sent to capture a specific medusa because it turns people into a lovely marble
The "Stone to Flesh" spell consists of slapping someone with a (presumably severed) Medusa's tongue...
When I run "D&D" type games, my instinct is often to pick or player survey a monster or monster type and go deep into the sort of "ecology of" thinking Dragon used to publish for specific monster campaigns.
Ovid: Let me explain how this is all the because the gods are petty and capricious.
Modern: She's still hot, though. Just scaly now.