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When I ran a 3e version of B1 a couple of years ago, the players had a lot of fun at Z and R's expense. Those sessions very much resembled an episode of "DM of the Rings." Girlfriend? Total beard.

I think you are right that there is a certain loss of flavor in many 3e monsters, though I am conflicted since the amateur game designer in me really appreciates having templated abilities -- that is, abilities with standard, unified mechanics. I'm currently working on an index of monster...

Does anyone know which of the original modules had Hurlothrumbo (great name check, by the way)?

Has this creature ever been updated? There seems to be something funky in its sizing. It's listed as a Medium creature, but its Space in the 3.5 update is 10 ft., the advancement line starts at Large, and all of the text describing its tactics seems to indicate a fairly big creature. Also...

Alas, I got very few of them at my local hobby shop back in the day. Instead, I am haunted by a picture in an old TSR catalog from the early 80s. The picture was part of an ad promoting the Dragon's UK sister, the White Dwarf. And the picture was of a huge stack of White Dwarf magazines, with...

A really good question. A successful conversion has to balance game mechanics and flavor, and sometimes it's easy to lose one or even both elements in the translation. I find that most mechanical elements translate very smoothly from one edition to another. But there are some definite...

Ghouls, ghouls, ghouls, and more ghouls.

Nice. Lots of names there I haven't seen in many years. Man, that AOL group was an excellent community.

Maybe a couple of books a year, and on average maybe a booster of miniatures a month.

That's what I'm talking about!

More like ten or more years ago for me, back on the good old AOL Greyhawk forum. Some really good discussions from back in the day on this very issue. I wonder if any of those threads were saved?

No, I don't think Open content trips up many publishers these days. In fact, one could easily turn out several years worth of releases just using stuff in the SRD and nothing else. Just running through the major humanoids would be a book a month for over a year. I think the problem is the same...

Google.

I have never, ever understood why a third party PDF publisher has not seized this product niche and shook hard. It seems like this could be a HUGE market. Consider: this is one area where an electronic file is far superior to a hard copy. It is extremely time-consuming to make classed creatures...

Ahem. You are obviously unfamiliar with Necromancer Games's Tome of Horrors series, as well as Green Ronin's Book of Fiends -- some of the best and most influential d20 monster books out there.

Rather than have these innate bonuses come from class levels, maybe a slightly better way to enact this concept would be to have the big six all act fundamentally as bonded/leveled/growth items: items that grow in power along with the characters. The more time spent with the item and the more...

Does anyone know which designer contributed what monsters to this book? I'm curious, for example, which ones Mike Mearls added.

Check RPG.net -- there was a thread in the general forum within the last three weeks that had some details. Basically, don't look for it anytime soon.

*Swoon* I am so in.

I don't think there has ever been a "perfect" game book, nor do I think we will ever see one. And I don't think that perfection should be the expectation. But that said, I do think WotC falls far short of the mark when it comes to stat blocks. If I were just using monsters straight out of the...