WHITE DWARF Magazine monster index

[Echohawk]

WD 6 (April/May 1978), "A Place in the Wilderness": Dragon spider (Lewis Pulsipher), Termagant (Lewis Pulsipher), Blue Horror (Lewis Pulsipher), Striding Murderer (Lewis Pulsipher), Longhorned Murderer (Lewis Pulsipher), Fiend (Lewis Pulsipher), Jugger (Lewis Pulsipher).

The creatures in this article are all "dragons" based on Jack Vance's novel The Dragon Masters, so it might be more accurate to list them as:

• Dragon, Spider
• Dragon, Termagant
• Dragon, Blue Horror
• Dragon, Striding Murderer
• Dragon, Longhorned Murderer
• Dragon, Fiend

Note that the table of stats incorrectly lists the Longhorned Murderer as "Longhorned Murder". Also, although it is referred to in the text and has a picture, the Jugger does not seem to have any statistics including in the article. (I suspect that they were accidentally dropped from the table during lay-out.)

There are also very basic stats for four types of humans from the same setting: Tracker, Heavy Trooper, Weaponer and Giant. I don't think those are significant enough to warrant including in the index though.

 

[Echohawk]

WD 5 (Feb/March 1978), "Fiend Factory": Beholder Variant, Fuzzy, Beholder Variant, Steely, Demon, Gremlin, Demon, Bogy, Demon, Imps, Demon, Iron Demon, Cyborg, Cyclops, Manta, Cynopard, Banth, Kzin, Mobil DissThreepGoldeater.

Another update: These creatures come from an article that predates the "Fiend Factory" (which started in issue #6) called "Monsters Mild & Malign". One creature from the article (the Sphex) is missing from this list, and neither the gremlin nor the bogy is a demon, based on the descriptions.

 

[Echohawk]

WD 4 (Dec 1977/Jan 1978), "Monsters Mild and Malign (Predecessor to Fiend Factory): Part I:": ???.

Creatures appearing in this article are: Glitch, Droll, Smoke Creature, Smoke Demon, Typo, Mind Drain, Ibem, Black Leech, Black Monk, Black Orc and Death Snake. Note that these creatures (and the ones in the follow-up article in issue #5) are not original to White Dwarf, but a compilation of D&D-compatible critters that first appeared in even more obscure sources, including Dungeoneer, Alarums & Excursions, News from Bree and Owl & Weasel.

Also, I now have a new least favourite D&D creature ever -- the typo. This is an invisible, untouchable, invulnerable monster that causes spelling mistakes in spells cast nearby, such that a "sleep" spell instead summons a herd of "sheep". Ugh. Please don't anyone ever bother converting that one

 

[Shade]

Also, I now have a new least favourite D&D creature ever -- the typo. This is an invisible, untouchable, invulnerable monster that causes spelling mistakes in spells cast nearby, such that a "sleep" spell instead summons a herd of "sheep". Ugh. Please don't anyone ever bother converting that one

Can you provide the stats so we can get going on the conversion?

 

[Garnfellow]

Creatures appearing in this article are: Glitch, Droll, Smoke Creature, Smoke Demon, Typo, Mind Drain, Ibem, Black Leech, Black Monk, Black Orc and Death Snake. Note that these creatures (and the ones in the follow-up article in issue #5) are not original to White Dwarf, but a compilation of D&D-compatible critters that first appeared in even more obscure sources, including Dungeoneer, Alarums & Excursions, News from Bree and Owl & Weasel.

Holy crap that sounds cool. I don't suppose you have a scan of that article?

 

[Echohawk]

No, but I have a scanner. Mail me .

 

[Garnfellow]

Echohawk,

Thanks to your help, I've posted a conversion of the death snake from issue 4 to my site:

http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/deathsnake.html

 

[Shade]

Excellent work as always, Garnfellow!

 

[Echohawk]

Thanks to your help, I've posted a conversion of the death snake from issue 4 to my site:

As well as trying to sneak in a conversion of the acrophid, I see . I've added both of those additions to the Frilond site to my index.

 

[Garnfellow]

Thanks for the kind words!

I just uploaded the conversion of the birch spirit:

http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/birchspirit.htm