Where did these monsters appear?

[diaglo]

do novels give stats?

not really. but they give background and flavor text.


although, the choose your own adventure ones sometimes did for pregen PCs.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I believe that the Fachan also made an appearance in All the World's Monsters by Chaosium, in the murky mists of time (Around 1977 or so...)

The Auld Grump

 

[Voadam]

you're not thinking about the xvart are you?

Doh! yes. Probably. I knew the ones I was thinking of were near the end of the alphabet.

 

[BOZ]

urds fly, xvarts don't.

 

[diaglo]

urds fly, xvarts don't.

only when the hit the phan.

so maybe they were in white dwarf first. i can't check. my white dwarf collection went to the recycle center back at my elderly parents house.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

urds fly, xvarts don't.

I had a bad case of the xvarts a few nights ago, but the Gas-X took care of it.

 

[BOZ]

my white dwarf collection went to the recycle center back at my elderly parents house.

*cries*

 

[diaglo]

*cries*

http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2127029&postcount=7

 

[BOZ]

ok, before this goes on forever... here are the sources of which i know the stats and full descriptions (i.e., monster manual style, not merely planned or random encounters) for these critters are:

Fachan (Forgotten Realms version):
Monstrous Compendium MC11 - Forgotten Realms Appendix II (1991, David “Zeb” Cook)
(other versions of fachan in other sources)

Giant-kin, Verbeeg:
Monster Manual II (1983)
Monstrous Compendium MC2 (1989)
Monstrous Manual (1993)

Oil Beetle:
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules (Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, 1981)
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson (revised by Frank Mentzer), 1983)
AC9 - Creature Catalogue (1986)
Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991)

Thoul:
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules (Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, 1981)
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson (revised by Frank Mentzer), 1983)
Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991)
Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994)

Urd:
Monstrous Compendium MC2 (1989)
Monstrous Manual (1993)

Verme:
Monster Manual II (1983, Gary Gygax)
Monstrous Compendium Annual Two (1995)

if you know of any additional sources beyond these, i will add them, if not i'm going with just what i have here.

 

[Voadam]

I looked in my books and you are correct, Urds are not in the 1e FF, MM and not even in th Greyhawk Adventures the hardcover.