One Edition Monsters

[Raven Crowking]

If we include the Tome of Horrors, then there is a 3e Dire Corby.

 

[grodog]

Thouls appear in Moldvay Basic, but were never published for AD&D; I don't recall if they were mentioned in AD&D (perhaps under Yeenoghu?) or mentioned/published for 2e/3e/4e, but they're relatively less-known monsters in general.

 

[kilamanjaro]

Thouls appear in Moldvay Basic, but were never published for AD&D; I don't recall if they were mentioned in AD&D (perhaps under Yeenoghu?) or mentioned/published for 2e/3e/4e, but they're relatively less-known monsters in general.

Thouls are in the 2nd Ed. Mystara MC. It seems like they were in a 3rd Ed. Dragon, but I can't find a reference for it.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Thouls are in the 2nd Ed. Mystara MC. It seems like they were in a 3rd Ed. Dragon, but I can't find a reference for it.

If you're willing to go third-party--albeit officially licensed, in this case--they also appeared in Zeitgeist's 3E Blackmoor book, and the more recent 4E conversion.

 

[Joshua Randall]

You memory serves you well. While the dire corby is indeed mentioned in the Homeland/Exile/Sojourn trilogy, it never made the leap to a 2nd Edition monster stat block.

Sweet! Now I know. (And knowing is half the battle.)

I'm totally making a 4e dire corby in the monster builder.

Hey, that gives me an idea: we should take every monster on this list, 4e-ize them, and submit it as a Dragon magazine article. Heh.

 

[Tewligan]

Did the cifal (colonial insect-formed artificial life, of course) ever make it out of the 1e Fiend Folio? Because, man, that thing was ridiculous.

 

[JoeNotCharles]

I know the answer's just gonna be "Mystara Monstrous Compendium" but what about one-off monsters from the Gazeteers or the Princess Ark series? I remember GAZ3 had Mandragora and some sort of blood-drinking plant, and they had a vampire variant called Nosferatu (which probably isn't unique enough to count). And Princess Ark had the Night Dragons and Cestian Gobblers - don't remember what all was introduced in later episodes.

For that matter, the Creature Catalog had a whole bunch of weird ones taken from modules that seem like they might not have been converted. Like the Oards (time-travelling humanoids from the future), Cryons (bat-like humanoids on skates), Wyrds (elven wights that throw orbs), Decapus (tree-dwelling octopus), and I'm sure I can think of more. Wish I still had that.

 

[the Jester]

I believe that the CIFAL was converted in a Living Greyhawk Gazeteer somewhere.

The decapus was originally from a Basic module iirc.

I'll add the were-weirdos to the list.

 

[Raven Crowking]

There were a lot of monsters in the Strategic Review/early Dragon that I don't recall seeing elsewhere.

 

[kilamanjaro]

I know the answer's just gonna be "Mystara Monstrous Compendium" but what about one-off monsters from the Gazeteers or the Princess Ark series? I remember GAZ3 had Mandragora and some sort of blood-drinking plant, and they had a vampire variant called Nosferatu (which probably isn't unique enough to count). And Princess Ark had the Night Dragons and Cestian Gobblers - don't remember what all was introduced in later episodes.

For that matter, the Creature Catalog had a whole bunch of weird ones taken from modules that seem like they might not have been converted. Like the Oards (time-travelling humanoids from the future), Cryons (bat-like humanoids on skates), Wyrds (elven wights that throw orbs), Decapus (tree-dwelling octopus), and I'm sure I can think of more. Wish I still had that.

For a bunch of these you are correct when you say Mystara MC. I don't have it in front of me but I know the Mandragora, Vampire Rose, Wyrds, and Decapus were in there. I think the Oards might be in there too.