Just for the hell of it, let's do some polling. What is your favourite:
1. Star Wars prequel?
2. Fellowship of the Ring member?
3. Giant type?
4. Dragon type?
5. Undead type?
Leave a comment under the post and I will reveal them all after 24 hours have passed.
1. Revenge of the Sith!
ReplyDelete2. This was the hardest question. I’m going to be contrary and say Boromir.
3. Frost. Giant vikings. Enough said.
4. Gem! Weird psionics and one subtype just vomits gems at people. 10/10.
5. Vampire. Intrigue, threat, the gm gets to do a funny voice.
1. Revenge of the Sith!
ReplyDelete2. This was the hardest question. I’m going to be contrary and say Boromir.
3. Frost. Giant vikings. Enough said.
4. Gem! Weird psionics and one subtype just vomits gems at people. 10/10.
5. Vampire. Intrigue, threat, the gm gets to do a funny voice.
1. Rogue One
ReplyDelete2. Merry
3. Verbeeg
4. Shadow
5. Juju zombie
1. John Carter of Mars (Barsoom Series).
ReplyDelete2. Gimli (the underdog to Legolas).
3. Fire giants.
4. Nagas.
5. Lovecraftian Ghouls.
1. Phantom Menace
ReplyDelete2. Sam
3. Cloud Giant
4. Red Dragon
5. Mummy
1. They were all pretty "meh" to me, but I guess I'd go with The Phantom Menace.
ReplyDelete2. Meriadoc Brandybuck
3. Hill
4. Black
5. Agarat, from X8: Drums on Fire Mountain
1. Clone Wars (the animated series)
ReplyDelete2. Marry or Pippen
3. Hill giant
4. Gem dragons (Topaz)
5. Revenant
1. Rogue One if that counts, Revenge of the Sith otherwise.
ReplyDelete2. Gandalf.
3, Fire Giants.
4. Red Dragon.
5. Lich.
1) Return of the Sith (Not too much Jar Jar silliness, not too much soppy romance)
ReplyDelete2) Samwise - Not particularly remarkable in combat but he's the one who keeps Frodo going even when the ring is gnawing at Frodo's mind.
3) Fire Giants - they just look brutal
4) Blue dragons - partly because blue is my favourite colour, but also because they seem lawful and intelligent enough to be more than big fierce monsters.
5) Liches, because wizard spells open up so many option, combined with at least 18 Intelligence and maybe a century or more of experience in handling threats.
Soloing Shelob and possibly mortally wounding her isn't particularly remarkable in combat? Cripes, you've got some high standards. I'm always torn between Sam and Merry for the "hobbit I'd least want angry with me" award.
Delete1.) That's hard, every one of them has something I absolutely hate. I guess Attack of the Clones, because that's the one I remember the least.
ReplyDelete2.) Depends. In the films Sam steals the show, but book Gandalf has a sort of presence that makes him just way too cool.
3.) Giants shouldn't even have types. They are just hueg dudes who sometimes eat people. I guess it can work, if you are ripping off Norse mythology, but then you only really have fire and ice. But then you don't really have much to go on about the fire giants, so ice just kinda wins out by default.
4.) The seven-headed, fire-breathing, mace-using, weirdly humanoid dragons of Hungarian folk tales. But then again dragons are an another monster, where each individual should be unique.
5.) Probably Death Knights. There's just something inherently cool about a skeleton in knightly armor coming at you with a sword.
1 - Episode 3
ReplyDelete2 - Gandalf
3 - Hill
4 - Red
5 - Lich
Phantom Menace
ReplyDeleteAragorn
Storm
Blue
Lich probably, maybe vampire
Not exactly hot takes, but there you are.
The Empire Strikes Back
ReplyDeleteBoromir
Hill Giant
Black Dragon
Wight
1. Rogue One, but I'm not a fan of any of them.
ReplyDelete2. Boromir.
3. The weird mutant ones. Fomorians?
4. Red.
5. Mummy.
Star Wars REBELS cgi animates series.
ReplyDeleteSamwise Gamgee
Old Norse
The Lindwyrm
Ao Andom of Japanese Mythology - Really more of a spirit than an Undead.
1. Solo
ReplyDelete2. Gimli
3. Troll
4. Gloranthan dragon (the sort that might be mistaken for a range of hills while sleeping)
5. Ghouls
1. Attack of the Clones (Fight me!)
ReplyDelete2. Sam
3. Storm Giant
4. Black Dragon
5. Skeleton
Favorite:
ReplyDelete1. Star Wars Prequel: Does the Clone Wars animated series count? If so, that. Otherwise N/A.
2. Fellowship member: Aragorn
3. Giant type: Ogre
4. Dragon type: Red, especially dear old Smaug
5. Undead type: Vampire, there's a lot you can do with it
1. Revenge of the Sith.
ReplyDelete2. Gandalf (HM Sean Bean Boromir).
3. Stone Giant (thanks, Trampier).
4. Black Dragon (thanks, DCS).
5. Crawling Claws, especially in their 4E swarm variety. So much fun.
1. N/A
ReplyDelete2. Aragon
3. Cloud
4. Black
5. Vampire
Solo, Gimli, Narnian, Red, Dracolich
ReplyDeleteOk, I'll bite.
ReplyDelete1. If by prequel you mean any story that is set prior to the opening scene over Tatooine in 1977 "Star Wars", my answer is hands down "Rogue One." Don't even talk to me about Episodes 1-3 or recent animated stuff.
2. Sam. No question. And I'm talking Tolkien, not Jackson. But if we're talking Bakshi, I might go with Aragorn.
3. Frost Giants. The glacial rift was the most interesting part of G1-3 in my opinion.
4. Fire-breathing ones, so Red, I guess.
5. The intelligent and self-aware undead. Could be a skeletal lich or an ice-to-the-touch vampire, as long as it knows what it is and what it has lost.
the 3rd one, Merry, hill, black, Bodak
ReplyDelete1. Solo, because it was fine. If you meant the prequel trilogy, then Phantom Menace.
ReplyDelete2. Boromir
3. Either fire giants or storm giants, but if we count things that aren't "true giants" then Fomorians
4. Green dragon, I think
5. Hard not to just go with "vampires" in general, although I really like flameskulls/demiliches
Attack of the Clones(?)
ReplyDeleteGandalf
Frost
Black
Mummy(?)
1. Rogue One
ReplyDelete2. Aragorn
3. Fire
4. Red
5. Wight
My daughter (age 7) answers:
ReplyDeleteAttack of the Clones
Legolas
Fire giant
Red dragon
Ghost
(She plays AD&D)
My son (age 10) answers:
ReplyDeleteAttack of the Clones
Legolas
Fire giant
Red dragon
Vampire
(Skeleton if you mean “favorite to fight,” he says)
Also plays AD&D.
1. Rogue one
ReplyDelete2. Gimly
3. frost
4. Bronze ,(Blowhards)Hackmaster 4th
5. Wight
1. Episode II: Attack of the Clones
ReplyDelete2. Aragorn
3. Ice Giants
4. Ice Dragons
5. Death Tyrant (undead beholder)
Episode II,
ReplyDeleteGimli,
Hill Giant,
whatever bullshit cosmic void sapphire dragon Pathfinder's introduced this week, I'm a sucker for stupid sparkly dragon types,
bedsheet ghost
1. Revenge of the Sith
ReplyDelete2. Pippin
3. Formorian, if we're using 5e
4. Red dragon
5. Liches
1. The last one. The Phantom Menace was trash, Attack of the Clones was better, & Revenge of the Sith was the best.
ReplyDelete2. Sam, though that was a harder choice.
3. Fomorian
4. Red
5. Vampire
1. ep 1
ReplyDelete2. boromir (and the lament for boromir is my favorite part of the book)
3. storm
4. green
5. lich
1. Does Rogue One count?
ReplyDelete2. Hate LOTR
3. Hill
4. Green
5. Ghoul, played as intelligent, almost apologetic even or in denial about it's cravings- if you get a positive reaction check.
1. Revenge of the Sith
ReplyDelete2. Samwise
3. Stone
4. White
5. Mummy!
None. Pippin, Ettin, black, skeleton (with custom modifications)
ReplyDelete1. Got to be Rogue One (does that count?)
ReplyDelete2. Bill the Pony
3. Hill Giants... Nice and simple.
4. Green...I imagine their lairs always smell a bit like a swimming pool.
5. Vampires, but sophisticated ones with good manners.
1) There are no prequels. Same goes for Highlander.
ReplyDelete2) Merry. The guy kneecapped the Witch King of Angmar, for cripes' sake. Right behind Eowyn in the "bad-ass that goes largely unappreciated" category.
3) Cloud, on grounds of nostalgia. My first GM played them as potheads who were surrounded in a haze of reefer smoke at all times. The image has stuck with me all these years. There's also the whole Jack & the Beanstalk thing going for them, and Willoughby Hall was pretty cool.
4) If we're sticking to D&D, I suppose the Red will do. Dragons really ought to breath fire if anything, although poison is tolerable. Beyond that, there was a seven-headed dragon (with each neck sprouting from a different spot on its spine) in an old story in Cricket Magazine that puts everything D&D ever came up with to shame. Now that was a properly epic dragon. Stuck with me for 40 years now.
5) Skull Lords, although not the lame 5e version. I like stuff with multiple heads, and the "lose a skull, lose some powers" mechanic made them more interesting than many monsters. Also fond of that kind of patchwork undead where you've got bits from multiple critters stuck together.
Rogue One
ReplyDeleteGandalf
Fomorians
White dragons who live in the desert and spit rock salt instead of frost
Sons O'Kyuss
1. The Bad Batch season 1...Okay, okay, Attack of the Clones. Christopher Lee makes up for the cringy Naboo romance subplot.
ReplyDelete2. Samwise Gamgee. He really is the heart of that novel.
3. Can't say I've ever really loved one type over the others, but I have been using Stone Giants an awful lot recently.
4. Green. Classic dragon color, unusual breath weapon.
5. Ghouls. Very challenging for low HD monsters.
Rogue One
ReplyDeleteSam
Stone
Biohazard (from Twisted Menagerie Manual)
Patchwork Flesh Golem
1. Star Wars prequel? Revenge of the Sith is the least bad. It's at least not boring.
ReplyDelete2. Fellowship of the Ring member? Gandalf the Grey
3. Giant type? no strong opinion, but I really like the mountain giant illustration in the Fiend Folio
4. Dragon type? shen lung (spirit dragon)
5. Undead type? sons of Kyuss
1. Dont have one.
ReplyDelete2. Boromir
3. Hill
4. Red
5. Lich
Revenge of the Sith
ReplyDeleteGandalf
Frost
Green
Wraith
1. Star Wars prequel: Ep. II Attack of the Clones
ReplyDelete2. Fellowship of the Ring member: Boromir
3. Giant type: Stone Giants
4. Dragon type: Greyhawk Dragon
5. Undead type: Death Knights
1. too bad they never made any...
ReplyDelete2. Boromir
3. Fire
4. Red
5. Skeletons
1. Haven't watched them all.
ReplyDelete2. Sam
3. Stone
4. Red
5. Skeleton
I'm up for some polling
ReplyDelete1) The Clone Wars
2) Sam Wise
3) Rune Giant from Pathfinder's the Runelords
4) Black Dragon
5) Death Knight like Lord Soth from Dragonlance
1. Phantom Menace
ReplyDelete2. Frodo, you assholes
3. Sloth
4. Any of the ones that talk
5. Can't beat a good ghost
1. Rogue One
ReplyDelete2. Gimli
3. Stone
4. Green
5. Lich
1. Episode III, because I *really* like the novelization and you can't have one without the other; or Episode II, because Young Salt really liked those bug people.
ReplyDelete2. Boromir. Decent fellow who screws up in a major way, and is often remembered most for that, but displayed the capacity to get back on track before he exited stage left.
3. The bigger the better.
4. Red ones. They fly fast.
5. I like skeletons, especially if they can come in different flavors.
1. Episode 1, fun and not weighed down by actors trying squeeze emotion from an unemotional script
ReplyDelete2. I always liked aragorn as a kid, now probably boromir
3. Cloud giants, they live in clouds!
4. Blue
5. Zombies (but these one are maggot filled and infectious. Don't let them touch you!)
Only 24 hours? Bah!
ReplyDelete1. I'm too old for this... all those movies are worthless.
2. Sam
3. Frost of course.
4. Green
5. Ghouls