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Well, the liver thing was really part of his torment... I imagine that when he was freed, Zeus took that power away.

I haven't looked at the original DMG, but I remember reading a revised version of that table by Gary Gygax in his collumn in a very early issue of The Dragon... somewhere around issue 20-25.

Right, I meant nupperibos (which aren't really baatezu, but... eh) and dretches (larvae would be the equivalent to lemures and manes). Which are both still significantly less powerful than hordlings, yeah. Thinking about it a little more, I think that hordelings were supposed to have been...

Wow... :D Just one thing: Their alignment has always been listed as Neutral Evil. 'Faces of Evil: The Fiends', a flavor-intensive Planescape accessory, suggests that they are the NE equivalent of the LE lemures and the CE manes: petitioners that were just so much more devoted to NE than most...

I strongly agree with the thing about smilodons' environment, due to the fact that they were in fact limited exclusively to the warm plains of areas like California, Mexico, and Argentina.

My vote's for Prometheus, too. We could use an epic good guy after all this evil. ;)

Also, the Cifal was converted by dndchick and later appeared in an issue of Dragon Magazine. Not sure which one.

I think the ettin/jotun connection is more or less right, though ettins as two-headed giants come from Scotland. I recall reading a Scottish fairy tale called 'The Red Ettin' featuring a giant with not two but three heads. Also, I might note that 'ettin' is the word from which Tolkien derived...

As far as I can tell, treants are just Ents (from LotR) with a different name, because Tolkien Enterprises keeps a stranglehold on its material. From what I've seen from older D&D products, treants started out much more Ent-like but became more tree-like as time went on.

If it's of any help, Boz, the krolli, too, was also in the Savage Coast MC under 'Lizard-kin'.

One other reason for gnolls' abundance in other games is probably because D&D is the most popular fantasy medium to rip off, and because TSR didn't have much of a legal department for its first few years. ;) I don't think the gnome/troll concept was a universal thing... as far as I'm aware it...

I don't think that the Extraplanar subtype is necessary, since H'Calos is from outer space, which is, according to MotP (and Spelljammer, going back a little), still part of the Material Plane.

As far as I can tell, gnolls were created by either Dave Arneson or Gary Gygax (probably Dave). I know of know stories involving hyena-men, and I imagine that any culture who would tell stories involving them (ie, Africans) would not call them by such an Anglic-sounding name as 'gnoll'.

Went and added the Aleithan dwarves from WotC's 'Psionic Beastiary' feature.

Good idea, Krish. I'll do just that. :)

I've put this off for a while... Added the Amitok.

I agree with making 'em Humanoids rather than Monstrous Humanoids... I mean, the gnoll is far more animalistic than the rakasta, but it's still a regular humanoid.

Mm, well, there was one female Dwarf mentioned by Tolkien: Thorin's sitster, Dis. And assuming that the Appendices represent knowledge collected by Bilbo Baggins, I suppose she would have been known to some outsiders.

Ahh, I see, regarding the classes. Good idea. :) I think that a lot of people really overestimate the presence of magic in Middle-earth... unlike, say, Faerun or the Flanaess, the average mortal inhabitant of Middle-earth has never seen magic employed, and may not even believe it exists, and...

I think it looks pretty good. :) One thing, though. By 'Craftsman' do you mean 'Expert', or is that a different class from a non-WotC source? And yeah, I love MERP too, mostly just to read... but since I got interested in it sometime after ICE went belly-up, I find it nearly impossible to find...