I am working on crodlu drawings, and my designs vary greatly. What are your favorite Crodlu illustrations and how do you envision their appearance? Some of my sketchs depit them as more Osterich like, with long necks, short tails, and long legs. Others lean more to a dinosaur, a thicker necked, beaked veloceraptor like build with a long tail. If you have a favorite crodlu pic. please share it. Thanks!
The Osterich ones are Erdlus, that lay big and tasty eggs. Crodlus are large lizard-like, so yeah, dinosaur-like ones. They are big enough to be ridden.
The Brom picture Dune Trader cover is good.
That one's my favorite :D , though that particular crodlu does look a little tubby.
That one's my favorite :D , though that particular crodlu does look a little tubby.
Like a fat turkey with scales!
Like a fat turkey with scales!
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Like a fat turkey with scales!
That seems to be the general trend in most of the illustrations. I was hoping to shy away from the fat ostrige-turkey-dinosaur. But hey what do you think? If you could have the look of the crodlu redesigned to your vision would it be different than what has been depicted? I have found various artist interpretations of what a crodlu looks like and it seems to me that there is no one solid image.
In the Wanderers chronicle pg.23, pg 34, pg.47, these crodlu's have thicker necks and are in similar build to the starwars Taun-ton. Their sizes are slightly larger than aan average humanoid as the legs of the rider wrap around the body and it stands perpendicular.
While Crodlu on the cover of Dune Trader is much larger with the rider sitting on top of its back almost like camel rider would. While the creature is bipedal it still has more of a vertical posture ( I am assuming its body is counter balanced with either a short thick tail or a long tail).
Now on the last page (insde) of Dune trader there is a picture and a description of the Crodlu. The image presented shows a long necked crodlu very Osterich like in build. By far not my favorite image. But unfortunately best represents the written description found below it. "Crodlu resemble enormous, scaled osteriches with long wicked arms that end in wicked claws."
In additon within the same paragraph they said somthing that intrigued me. " While their eyesight is poor, their sense of smell is acute, more than making up for their visual impairment." I found that bizarre since the animal that the crodlu's build is based on (Osterich) has incredible eyesight, also what is the purpose for having such a long neck if it isn't used to get food from trees or to scope predators from a distance? How does an acute sense of smell "more than make up for their visual impairment"? This doesn't quite make sense when the animal is known for its speed and agility and is often used as a mount.
Imagine- Farsighted- As the Mul warrior realizes he is getting stalked by a band of elven raiders, he increases the speed of his crodlu mount. Faster and faster the agile creature moves, but blunders straight into a rock that it couldn't quite see, crushing its foot and throwing the warrior straight into a cactus bed!
Imagine- Nearsighted- As night approches pack of wild crodlus huddle together for the night. They get restless as they catch wind of a foul predator.
They quickly form a circle with the adults facing outward and their young protected within the ring. A blurry shape moves before them then stops just out of visual range. No longer any movement is present. The scent is not as strong as it once was, so the crodlu wait longer. As time passes one by one the crodlu become weary and the circle begins to break. The barrier begins to break, each crodlu, one at a time enters the center of the circle and goes to sleep. A tigone carefully waits just outside of the crodlus range of vision, while, allowing his scent to be blown in the opposite direction. With the circle weakened, and the remaining crodlus weary, the tigone strikes!
I don't know if anyone as thought about these things. Comments? If you have an idea about the way Crodlu should be depicted let me know! Thanks!
Great effort! So is that your favorite Pic Mega?
No, of course not. My fave pic is the one from the dune trader. ;)
No, of course not. My fave pic is the one from the dune trader. ;)
I like the one from the Dragon Crown adventure better. My favorite though, is the one on the Gulg booklet in the Ivory Triangle accessory. :P
I like the one from the Dragon Crown adventure better. My favorite though, is the one on the Gulg booklet in the Ivory Triangle accessory. :P
:heehee
Bladow!
Bladow!
There's the teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-freak I was talking about!
BROM RULZ!!!
I am a bit sad that there aren't any good full shot pictures of the creature.Here are the best sketches that I've seen:
In one of my drawings I have opted to make the crodlu a low back, the back doesn't dip it is just straight, which allows a saddle to be easily placed upon it. I mixed many types of crodlu together but leaned closer to the skinny body type. Iwanted to crodlu to look fast but strong so I thikened its neck. The tail is short and thick to hep provide balance. If I only had a scanner...
In one of my drawings I have opted to make the crodlu a low back, the back doesn't dip it is just straight, which allows a saddle to be easily placed upon it. I mixed many types of crodlu together but leaned closer to the skinny body type. I wanted to crodlu to look fast but strong so I thikened its neck. The tail is short and thick to help provide balance. If I only had a scanner...
These are great pics! Many I have already seen but a few I have not. I have notice their are mainly two varieties of crodlu posted, the type with the thin neck and low back, and the type with the thicker neck and build, and with a high rise back. A low back crodlu would allow a rider to easily straddle it when they are mounted on top. A high rise back would be tricker maybe it would be similar to riding a camel? Or maybe a special saddle would have to be made?
What you are seeing in the pictures is the difference between light and heavy crodlu. The heavy war crodlus are even stornger due to the selective breeding. The game statistics block reflects this as more str and more HD than the light one. Basically the difference is like between a puddle and a pit bull. Both are dogs, yet one is definetly bigger and meaner than the other.