D&D 5E The Flumpf Is Back

[DMZ2112]

Yeah, this must be the same kind of humor that makes the Pathfinder goblins funny, because I do not get it. Am generally unimpressed when someone thinks a meme is clever enough to cost money.

 

[GravyFingerz]

That's ... Great news for someone I'm sure.

 

[GravyFingerz]

Wasn't there a Dragon article or personal anecdote where one of the 3e team had a setting where the nobility had flumphs tied to strings and took them out in public like balloons?

 

[Patrick McGill]

Wasn't there a Dragon article or personal anecdote where one of the 3e team had a setting where the nobility had flumphs tied to strings and took them out in public like balloons?

That's actually REALLY cool. I can see a campaign in the Vancian vein doing as such.

 

[ephemeron]

As far as some of us are concerned, flumphs never left.

(My avatar was inspired by a thread from my first period of participating on this site... which was close to a decade ago now. Wow.)

 

[tsadkiel]

Wasn't there a Dragon article or personal anecdote where one of the 3e team had a setting where the nobility had flumphs tied to strings and took them out in public like balloons?

I think that was PirateCat, actually.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

One of the attitudes I've hated in the more recent products of the game was that every "monster" had to be deadly serious, something to fight at a certain level for 5 rounds and somehow had to make sense. This killed off creativity and many fun things about the game. Having the Flumph back is a sign that it won't be completely like that recent trend anymore.

 

[Alphastream]

Viva the Flumph! From Fiend Folio to Monster Manual, baby! Sweet!

Next stop, the cover of 6E!!!! Nothing can stop us now! (I mean, unless someone flips us over, but that would never... oh, geez.)

 

[GX.Sigma]

One of the attitudes I've hated in the more recent products of the game was that every "monster" had to be deadly serious, something to fight at a certain level for 5 rounds and somehow had to make sense. This killed off creativity and many fun things about the game. Having the Flumph back is a sign that it won't be completely like that recent trend anymore.

I agree. I definitely get the sense that they're bringing back:

1. Monsters don't have to be things you fight
2. Monsters can be silly
3. Monsters can be weird and mysterious and... well, "Gygaxian."

 

[MarkB]

It's entry is only 8 words long: "This Monster is too silly for most games."

Actually it's 10. "Refer to the 'playable races' chapter in the Player's Handbook."