D&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

[Orius]

Many of those got their due in 2e somewhere.

 

[ilgatto]

Absolutely. Just musings. And wouldn't it have been nice to have all such monsters in MC3 and the dinosaurs pulled out for an MC4 Lost World Appendix? Sabre-tooths, Tarzan, great apes, axebeaks, Pellucidar? What's not to like? But perhaps too late for that (sabre-tooths in MC1) and too much hassle for TSR at the time - and then there was the planned release of the BD&D Hollow World a year later, of course. Still, not quite the same imho.

 

[ilgatto]

(...)
Like, does anyone remember the igundi? It's basically a lizardman who wraps themselves in an illusion of the person you most desire, and uses that to lure you in and eat you, which is rather lame; at least the succubus actually put out.
(...)

Actually..., re ingundi and succubi:

Dunno where I read this, but the renaming seems to have been for reasons of Mrs. Pulling.

 

[the Jester]

Actually..., re ingundi and succubi:

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Dunno where I read this, but the renaming seems to have been for reasons of Mrs. Pulling.

Nice catch! That's the entry from the Greyhawk Adventures hardback; you can tell because they dropped Reaction Adjustment before the first MC.

 

[Alzrius]

Actually..., re ingundi and succubi:

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Dunno where I read this, but the renaming seems to have been for reasons of Mrs. Pulling.

Awesome find! Though I suspect that the use of "incubus" there is a typo more than anything else, since both start with the same letter and use similar hunting techniques (though the igundi's is still all tease and no payoff, since it lures the victim somewhere isolated and then kills and eats them).

 

[Voadam]

Nice catch! That's the entry from the Greyhawk Adventures hardback; you can tell because they dropped Reaction Adjustment before the first MC.

The xp is also 1e style.

 

[ilgatto]

Awesome find! Though I suspect that the use of "incubus" there is a typo more than anything else, since both start with the same letter and use similar hunting techniques (though the igundi's is still all tease and no payoff, since it lures the victim somewhere isolated and then kills and eats them).

I'm pretty sure that the renaming is the case. I've got a note in my own write-up of the ingundi, part of which reads:

Historical Note: The Case of the Lost Devils
The ingundi used to be called incubus before Patricia Pulling and BADD (...). Fortunately, the staff at TSR proved a tad sloppy in replacing the word incubus with ingundi, so that sages of today still know what the creature should be called.

Like I said, I don't know where I read this, but I'm pretty sure I did read it somewhere. Perhaps some Dragon magazine?

Edited for clean-up.

 

[ilgatto]

(...) That's the entry from the Greyhawk Adventures hardback; you can tell because they dropped Reaction Adjustment before the first MC.

The xp is also 1e style.

Ah, yes. I copied the image from the Greyhawk Adventures hardback. My phrasing was a bit off. Sorry about that, not a native speaker and all that.

 

[Alzrius]

I'm pretty sure that the renaming is the case. I've got a note in my own write-up of the ingundi, part of which reads:

Historical Note: The Case of the Lost Devils
The ingundi used to be called incubus before Patricia Pulling and BADD (...). Fortunately, the staff at TSR proved a tad sloppy in replacing the word incubus with ingundi, so that sages of today still know what the creature should be called.

Like I said, I don't know where I read this, but I'm pretty sure I did read it somewhere. Perhaps some Dragon magazine?

Edited for clean-up.

I've never heard of that before, and can't find anything to back it up, but if that's the case it's a fascinating bit of lore. As I recall, James M. Ward was the driving force behind the Greyhawk Adventures book (though I'm not sure if he wrote that particular monster entry). I think he's active on Facebook; I don't have an account there, but maybe someone else in this thread does and feels like asking him...?

 

[ilgatto]

I've never heard of that before, and can't find anything to back it up, but if that's the case it's a fascinating bit of lore. As I recall, James M. Ward was the driving force behind the Greyhawk Adventures book (though I'm not sure if he wrote that particular monster entry). I think he's active on Facebook; I don't have an account there, but maybe someone else in this thread does and feels like asking him...?

That'd be fascinating! Me no FB neither.