DRAGON #360 Art Gallery: Dryad

Aeolius · Nov 16, 2007

That thing from Design & Development: Cosmology (9/26) is supposed to be a dryad?!?

Ummm...no. Mind you, it says "Concept: Dryad", so perhaps there is still time for them to get it right.

Plane Sailing · Nov 16, 2007

Well, there is already a mini that looks like that too, so I guess they are sticking with it...

Guild Goodknife · Nov 16, 2007

This needed it's own thread because... there are just not enough!!
my hat of D4.0 dryads no no limit

Charwoman Gene · Nov 16, 2007

I like the new dryad. Tree-like = Better.

Geron Raveneye · Nov 16, 2007

Well, you know...it was the classic problem all over again. I mean, they just couldn't call them Entwives, could they? And Treantwives is awkward to pronounce. And since there were enough comments about slutty-looking fey in the MM1, they probably went with the path of least resistance...you can call this dryad a lot, but slutty it ain't. :lol:

Cadfan · Nov 16, 2007

Frankly, a monster the players can stab is more useful to me than a monster they can't.

This looks a lot more stabbable than the "hot chick with nonviolent powers" dryad type.

Aaron2 · Nov 16, 2007

This is how Games-Workshop does their dryads as well

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/woodelves/painting/dryads/1.htm

Wierd that D&D would follow them so closely.

Aaron

Aeolius · Nov 16, 2007

Cadfan said:
Frankly, a monster the players can stab is more useful to me than a monster they can't. This looks a lot more stabbable than the "hot chick with nonviolent powers" dryad type.

there's a joke there... but I'm not going to be the first...

Me, I prefer the "hot chick with nonviolent powers" dryad. D&D is NOT solely about combat. Having a fey that charms her opponents, occasionally keeping the ones she fancies, is infinitely more interesting than that topiary abomination.

Drkfathr1 · Nov 16, 2007

Aren't they calling this the "Blackwoods Dryad"? So maybe its an evil or feral version, not the classic type we're used to?

Personally, I prefer the slutty type, but it will be nice to have a version that's meant to be fought.