T(entacle)-Rex

Publisher's blurb: This is the 74th in an ongoing series aimed to provide the overworked DM with ready-to run encounters. The PCs are gripped by the horror of the T(entacle)-Rex. The brilliant but reckless Dersatti Pesh-Hy-Rial felt sorry for creatures he believed had been treated unfairly by the gods or chance and set out to correct this unfairness. One of his early projects in this vein was the modification of the tyrannosaurus rex. Pesh-Hy-Rial believed that the creature had been unfairly given ludicrously small arms and he set out to correct this error. He thought about simply increasing the size of the arms, but he got sidetracked by his interest in cephalopods and fixated on tentacles. Using magical and scientific means, he blended the standard tyrannosaurus with a cephalopod and was pleased with the resulting T(entacle) Rex. He created several breeding pairs and released them, then set about on his next project. While the T(entacle) Rex went extinct in some realities, it generally survived in worlds which also saw the survival of the dinosaurs. Wizards have also recreated the creature in some realities, often by chance.