#ankheg

Spitting Carapace Armor (shield), Rare (requires attunement)

✨Post made in collaboration with Green Goblet Games✨

This is the second of three posts we’ve made for my "Monster Harvesting" series, crafting magic items from monsters' body parts in a very Monster Hunter style. This bulky shield is made from the severed head of a large Ankheg, still clicking its mandibles and dripping with corrosive acid. Blocking a hit with it lets you spray sticky sludge right back at the attacker or snap the mandibles shut on a foe who misses you with an attack, locking them in place.

The image of a monster-slayer ranger or fighter wearing a monster’s head as a shield sounds really badass…

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These two Ankheg minis are printed from a high-quality resin, so are more flexible and sturdy compared to your average mini fig! This means that there are intricate details that have stayed during the printing process and will withstand constant handling whilst on your battle maps.

Monster Manual - Ankheg

Ankhegs are burrowers. Real burrowers, unlike bulettes and purple worms. Most of the time they're invisible to the eye, unless they're hiding in very shallow ground, in which case their antennae peek through the soil. You won't find them in places with lots of rock or water. Farmland is coincidentally the best place to find one. Reflecting on it, the ankhegs probably lived in those places first, and then humanoids decided to start farming while it was already inhabited. An elf told me that out West, lots of land was once prairie and forest but was converted to farm fields afterward. He'd seen the trees fall and everything.

Anyways, ankheg are generalists, meaning they aren't very aggressive. Put up a little fight and they'll be sent scattering. Their legs are too weak to do more than scratch, but their mandibles are hardened to dig through the earth and can hurt real bad. If it squirts a little acid, it's on its last legs, as this is stomach acid. This is a last resort and they will use it to mask a retreat.

Comic Teaser #3: Acid-spitting Ankheg