Ep 141: RAAH Real Monsters IX; Wendigo
Oct 31, 2017 17:52:35 GMT
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Post by 00dlez on Oct 31, 2017 17:52:35 GMT
Obviously, I have to be the one to start this thread 
Love love love the episode! The Wendigo has so many aspects to it, and the fact that you can kind of pick and choose from them to customize it to individual campaign needs is really awesome. You guys had a lot of great ideas.
One thing you only mentioned in passing (I don't think you touched on it after mentioning it in the Wendigo introduction) was that Wendigos are associated greed. It came up in a video game (on PC and consoles) I recently played called "Valley" and I thought it was a cool twist. Think about it - the corruption of one's greed and mistreatment/exploitation of others grows and grows until finally, one becomes so far gone that they crave nothing but the literal flesh of their fellow man and can never be satisfied. I imagine a banker or merchant on such a path for years, culminating an argument over money. The greed so profound that the thought of losing only a portion of his fortune is unbearable. The passion erupting from within leads to the murder of a business associate. The body lays dead on the floor, what to do... should I eat it? What choice do I have? A final act of total corruption and now you've got a Wendigo romping around some large City!
You mentioned also in the description that Wendigos have ragged, bloody, remnants of lips - I read somewhere that it is because their need for flesh lead them to chew their own lips off... Unsure how canon that is, but it certainly fits the mold and ramps up the creepiness.
Love love love the episode! The Wendigo has so many aspects to it, and the fact that you can kind of pick and choose from them to customize it to individual campaign needs is really awesome. You guys had a lot of great ideas.
One thing you only mentioned in passing (I don't think you touched on it after mentioning it in the Wendigo introduction) was that Wendigos are associated greed. It came up in a video game (on PC and consoles) I recently played called "Valley" and I thought it was a cool twist. Think about it - the corruption of one's greed and mistreatment/exploitation of others grows and grows until finally, one becomes so far gone that they crave nothing but the literal flesh of their fellow man and can never be satisfied. I imagine a banker or merchant on such a path for years, culminating an argument over money. The greed so profound that the thought of losing only a portion of his fortune is unbearable. The passion erupting from within leads to the murder of a business associate. The body lays dead on the floor, what to do... should I eat it? What choice do I have? A final act of total corruption and now you've got a Wendigo romping around some large City!
You mentioned also in the description that Wendigos have ragged, bloody, remnants of lips - I read somewhere that it is because their need for flesh lead them to chew their own lips off... Unsure how canon that is, but it certainly fits the mold and ramps up the creepiness.
