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Anemo and eolian, from the Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix.

Forgot the noviere eladrin, somehow. Fixed above.

OD&D stuff of dubious relevance: Blue imp - The Principalities of Glantri, page 94 Archon - D&D Master Set. They're almost completely different from AD&D/3e archons, but still celestial creatures. Flicker - D&D Immortal Set Jumper - D&D Immortal Set Notion - D&D Immortal Set Repeater - D&D...

Demarax (PSMC2), ghostlight (psmc2), delphon (Planes of Conflict), ratatosk (Planes of Chaos), ni'ath (Planes of Conflict), Thendar (Dragon #101), rummele (Dragon #94), hound of ill omen (1E Fiend Folio, Monstrous Compendium Annual 3) forchoreai (Dragon #101) - this critter might be the same...

Balaenas are in the Planar Handbook, as "elsewhales." The only eladrin types so far unconverted are the shiere and noviere. There are no unconverted archons or guardinals. The noctral is very similar to the owl archon in the BoED. Not exactly the same, but close enough that they should at...

I'm not. I'm all for inmates playing D&D. Good for them.

I assumed the oculus demon was one of the spawn of the beholder Great Mother, who is said to have mated with demons. The adventure isn't explicit, but it seems a reasonable conjecture.

Exactly. Everyone was arrogant. On Oerth, they believed they were the center of the multiverse and everyone outside the Flanaess is a primitive barbarian. In Spelljamming space, they disdained the pathetic "groundlings" who didn't know the glories of interstellar travel. On the planes, they...

That was irony. The paradigm was reversed on numerous occasions.

Sure, it requires some tinkering, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch - and perhaps it's more dramatic - for Soth to find out about his cheating wife while in Istar, mere hours from completing his goal. Maybe the PCs, in their ignorance, help the girlfriends intercept him. That makes...

The Dragonlance and Ravenloft articles are two of the strongest ones in that issue, I think, especially used together (because the PCs can meet young, uncorrupted Lord Soth in precataclysmic Istar, redeeming a cursed kender, then later on meet the magical Blessed Knight version of him from...

That's a rather extreme assumption. I didn't intend to imply that nothing should be completely alien. But neither does everything from the inner planes have to be a completely alien, incomprehensible enigma. Anthropomorphic glimmerskins interest me. Anthropmorphic xag-ya do not. Very true. But...

Intentionally so. Anthropomorphic creatures are more interesting to me. Why not? How does a fire elemental know what fire is unless it experiences contrast? A fire elemental may become mighty on its own plane, but the truly wise ones - yes, a pilgrimage to confront and destroy its antithesis...

The Glimmerskin it's an infinite star, a sea of meaningless light that goes on and on. Supposedly, there are settlements where creatures of flesh live protected from the sheer overwhelming intensity of life. I never saw them. Before I left the plane, I never "saw" anything. It's all light, no...

"Demons" is an almost meaningless term. It just means they're chaotic evil fiends. "Devil" only means lawful evil fiends. Loumaras aren't remotely related to tanar'ri, for example. By those loose standards, night hags, diakka, gehreleths, barghests, avari, hordlings and so on are all the same...

No, it's like saying FC1 should have been about tanar'ri and other demon types. Which is exactly what it was. Yugoloths are only one race of neutral evil fiend, just as tanar'ri are only one race of demon. FC1 was about more than one race of fiend. So was FCII, which covered non-baatezu devils.

Yes, although I think the author said the actual inspiration was the monster on the cover of the 1e Manual of the Planes (which became the astral dreadnought). The execution ended up pretty different from the astral dreadnought, but it's in tune with the spirit of Jeff Easley's art.

No, that was the Book of Daemons, a book of 1e to 3e conversions. This is something else, a list of named greater yugoloths that was on Planewalker.

Sure. I was surprised the change was made, but I don't doubt it happened.

Cam Banks was wrong about the Fiendish Codex I "getting Krynnish gods' alignments wrong," since it didn't list their alignments and you can't assume what their alignments are based on what plane they dwell in. There was no part of his statement that was correct. I do think the idea behind the...