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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 2191490" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>...And that's it, as originally written. (Well, actually, I followed it up with my takes on 3.0 stats for the monastic flumph and the grell, but that information can now be found elsewhere: 3.0 flumphs appeared in Necromancer Games' <em>The Tome of Horrors</em> and an "official" 3.5 version appeared in Tim Hitchcock's D&D adventure "Box of Flumph" in <em>Dungeon</em> #118, while the 3.0 grell showed up in Monte Cook's <em>Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil</em> and then <em>Monster Manual II</em>, and the 3.5 version appears in the recent <em>Lords of Madness</em>.)</p><p></p><p>According to my records, I had originally submitted "The Ecology of the Grick" back on 11 Dec 00. It was rejected, not only because the new <em>Dragon</em> editor had decided to switch from the "fiction and footnote" format, but I was also critiqued (by an assistant editor) for bringing flumphs and grells into the picture. An ecology of the grick, I was told, should focus on the grick, not on other creatures. </p><p></p><p>Naturally, I disagreed. (I still do, for that matter.) However, having recently purchased <em>Lords of Madness</em> and reading through the grell entry, I have to say I <em>really</em> prefer the grell's "electrical sense" ability in that book over the "eyespots on short dangly tentacles" explanation I had come up with in this article (although my attempt at least explained what those dangly tentacles were actually there for). Of course, I had given an "electrical sense" to shambling mounds many years before in the third Monster Hunters "Ecology," so maybe I'm just naturally predisposed toward liking that concept....</p><p></p><p>In any case, I hope you enjoyed reading through this. In the process of converting my original story to chunks of Notepad text so I could post it here in the Story Hour, I got a chance to reintroduce myself to the Monster Hunters. Man, I had a lot of fun writing about those guys! I really miss those days.</p><p></p><p>Ah well. Time passes. Maybe someday the wheel will have turned full circle, and the "Ecology" articles will revert to their previous format. (Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?)</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 2191490, member: 508"] ...And that's it, as originally written. (Well, actually, I followed it up with my takes on 3.0 stats for the monastic flumph and the grell, but that information can now be found elsewhere: 3.0 flumphs appeared in Necromancer Games' [i]The Tome of Horrors[/i] and an "official" 3.5 version appeared in Tim Hitchcock's D&D adventure "Box of Flumph" in [i]Dungeon[/i] #118, while the 3.0 grell showed up in Monte Cook's [i]Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil[/i] and then [i]Monster Manual II[/i], and the 3.5 version appears in the recent [i]Lords of Madness[/i].) According to my records, I had originally submitted "The Ecology of the Grick" back on 11 Dec 00. It was rejected, not only because the new [i]Dragon[/i] editor had decided to switch from the "fiction and footnote" format, but I was also critiqued (by an assistant editor) for bringing flumphs and grells into the picture. An ecology of the grick, I was told, should focus on the grick, not on other creatures. Naturally, I disagreed. (I still do, for that matter.) However, having recently purchased [i]Lords of Madness[/i] and reading through the grell entry, I have to say I [i]really[/i] prefer the grell's "electrical sense" ability in that book over the "eyespots on short dangly tentacles" explanation I had come up with in this article (although my attempt at least explained what those dangly tentacles were actually there for). Of course, I had given an "electrical sense" to shambling mounds many years before in the third Monster Hunters "Ecology," so maybe I'm just naturally predisposed toward liking that concept.... In any case, I hope you enjoyed reading through this. In the process of converting my original story to chunks of Notepad text so I could post it here in the Story Hour, I got a chance to reintroduce myself to the Monster Hunters. Man, I had a lot of fun writing about those guys! I really miss those days. Ah well. Time passes. Maybe someday the wheel will have turned full circle, and the "Ecology" articles will revert to their previous format. (Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?) Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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