tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post2458650450111623572..comments2024-03-29T06:16:21.012+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Top 10 MonstersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-62578812529418506952009-02-21T20:50:00.000+08:002009-02-21T20:50:00.000+08:00Great list. This prompted me to blog about my top...Great list. This prompted me to blog about my top 10 monsters.Mr Baronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07502432352346301026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-82766234862278227332009-02-17T11:00:00.000+08:002009-02-17T11:00:00.000+08:00The pity is that Yak folk aren't open content unde...The pity is that Yak folk aren't open content under the OGL. I'd love to write a Yak folk sourcebook.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-39652537141942183782009-02-17T01:59:00.000+08:002009-02-17T01:59:00.000+08:00The yak-folk were around in 2nd Edition as well, a...The yak-folk were around in 2nd Edition as well, as sort of the mind-flayer stand-ins for the Al Qadim setting. They're great.Welcome to Dungeon!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14346914156633328775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-84663620047513150792009-02-16T22:24:00.000+08:002009-02-16T22:24:00.000+08:00The Yak Folk are from one of the later 3rd edition...The Yak Folk are from one of the later 3rd edition Monster Manuals; I think possibly from the second one, but I could be wrong about that.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-84401030923834923492009-02-16T14:09:00.000+08:002009-02-16T14:09:00.000+08:00Excellent list! The aboleth have long been a favo...Excellent list! The aboleth have long been a favorite of mine for similar reasons, and the players in my college game learned to fear and hate them. I'd just begun to warm to the neogi, but the campaign they were featuring in has probably just fallen apart recently. We'll just have to see.<BR/><BR/>The yak-folk, however, are a new one to me. Where are they from?trollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-8394442597946007302009-02-16T10:45:00.000+08:002009-02-16T10:45:00.000+08:00Jeff: Thanks for the link, though I'm not sure my ...<B>Jeff</B>: Thanks for the link, though I'm not sure my scribblings deserve to be seen by the hallowed eyes of Otus. I'll definitely think about submitting though. Rilmani are from one of the Planescape Monstrous Compendiums; I think the second one. They're basically true neutrals who enforce neutrality at the point of as sword. <BR/><BR/><B>Rach</B>: Speaking of Futurama, have you seen the D&D feature length episode?<BR/><BR/><B>Sirlarkins</B>: I could see Neogi ruling the world, definitely. They would only compose maybe a thousandth of the world's population, and would be a pampered elite, carried everywhere by their umber hulks and having their every whim catered to by slaves of many races.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-18291653164070394482009-02-16T07:58:00.000+08:002009-02-16T07:58:00.000+08:00I definitely like the way you think.Neogi are an o...I definitely like the way you think.<BR/><BR/>Neogi are an old favorite of mine two. Getting carried around by an umber hulk...so strangely evocative.<BR/><BR/>I could really see doing a D&D world where these were the <I>only</I> intelligent creatures.David Larkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04133630988557116729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-57517707217721803062009-02-16T02:03:00.000+08:002009-02-16T02:03:00.000+08:00"Militant neutrality"?I'm almost reminded of Zapp ..."Militant neutrality"?<BR/><BR/>I'm almost reminded of Zapp Brannigan's self-styled war between good and neutral.Rachel Ghoulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04765944479141792643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-82701173757348171752009-02-15T23:02:00.000+08:002009-02-15T23:02:00.000+08:00I think the Rilmani is a new one on me. I'm going...I think the Rilmani is a new one on me. I'm going to have to google that one.<BR/><BR/>BTW I stopped by here this morning to urge you to submit some Molluscy illos to <A HREF="http://odd74.proboards76.com/index.cgi?board=fanzine&action=display&thread=1809" REL="nofollow">this contest</A>. You really add some awesome to the proceedings!Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-42655590616122593362009-02-15T21:07:00.000+08:002009-02-15T21:07:00.000+08:00Yeah, and when you take something out of context s...Yeah, and when you take something out of context suddenly it looks brand new and innovative. You're absolutely right that the style and creator play a big part though. M. John Harrison made Viriconium work because he's just such a brilliant writer - a genius, actually, as a stylist. In the wrong hands energy weapons mixed with knights would fail horribly, as would probably Tibetan mind flayers. There needs to be a strong vision behind the creation.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-53023732672926629382009-02-15T20:11:00.000+08:002009-02-15T20:11:00.000+08:00It's like this, i suppose:Most of my impressions o...It's like this, i suppose:<BR/><BR/>Most of my impressions of the "nontraditional" DnD monsters come from the old DnD illustrations. Anybody can imagine a "goblin", but you need to look at the picture to imagine a "mind flayer".<BR/>So, when I think of a mind-flayer, I usually think of the old illustrations of mind-flayers. In the pictures they seemed kinda like a comic-booky, sci-fi-ish, actiony and not-terribly arcane or creepy or medieval monster.<BR/><BR/>When I re-imagine them in a dusty Tibetish place with old gold-and-red-threaded robes and cthuloid heads plotting in dusty Mongol-looking thrones and driving good men mad, they seem to fit right in.<BR/><BR/>The right style can make you re-thinkt he substamce I suppose, kinda the way I didn't want airships and energy weapons anywhere near castles and horses until I read Viriconium.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-91136054270331630942009-02-15T17:31:00.000+08:002009-02-15T17:31:00.000+08:00Actually most of them appear in my regular homebre...Actually most of them appear in my regular homebrew setting, calling Silaish Vo. I don't usually blog about it, but it's the setting where most of my actual play goes on. (I have this aversion to writing about my actual game sessions on this blog; not sure why.) <BR/><BR/>I like my fantasy worlds to be esoteric, creepy and eerily civilized, so I suppose that seeped into my choices!noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-48415350144056965592009-02-15T16:52:00.000+08:002009-02-15T16:52:00.000+08:00It's weird: It would never occur to me to use most...It's weird: It would never occur to me to use most of these monsters, even in an asian setting, yet, after reading your sokushinbutsu post, I can totally see how these (mostly) esoteric, (mostly) creepy, (mostly) eerily civilized monsters would fit perfectly into a world put together by the right person.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com