D&D 1E Changes to Monsters: 1e through 4e

[Particle_Man]

I kinda miss the Modrons...

 

[Dragonbait]

I kinda miss the Modrons...

Me too..

 

[mlangsdorf]

Orcus - pig-head? Same for orcs.

Weren't orcs always pig-headed? That's how I remember them from the 1st edition MM.

 

[Keltheos]

The mythical Lamia was half woman, half serpent. A similar theme is present in the Keats poem.

I am not sure how D&D's lamia started out as a centaur-like creature, much less how it turned into a beetle-creature.

Not always a serpent:Topsell's The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1607, 1608, 1658) shows her as a scaled cenaur-like creature.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Not always a serpent:Topsell's The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1607, 1608, 1658) shows her as a scaled cenaur-like creature.

Wow! Either you're a scholar, or your web-fu is superior to mine.

 

[Baduin]

Gygax preferred medieval bestiaries to the original Greek legends. See the Gorgon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)

 

[Animal]

does it have both boobs and balls at once on that pic or am i making things up?..

 

[Dragonbait]

does it have both boobs and balls at once on that pic or am i making things up?..

I think you are correct.

 

[Particle_Man]

Weren't orcs always pig-headed? That's how I remember them from the 1st edition MM.

I once described orc to a friend of mine as a "6 foot tall green anti-social Miss Piggy".

Heck, I think there was an old dragon magazine ariticle featuring orcs (in the #60's somewhere) that hinted at a "Mys Pyggui" orc goddess of love and beauty.

 

[hamishspence]

hee hee hee.

Kermit and Miss piggy: orcs are their greenish, unfriendly offspring