D&D 1E 1E Fiend Folio monsters in 4E Monster Manual!

[Mark Hope]

Bear with me on this. The CIFAL was actually an interesting monster, reminiscent of Frank Herbert's The Green Brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Brain. Like many original Fiend Folio monsters, it suffered from poor naming conventions. No one would want to use a monster called a Cybernetic Insect Formed Artificial Life!

Colonial Insect-Formed Artificial Life :\ ...

 

[jolt]

Two pages and no one's mentioned the absolute best FF monster ever?!?! Bah, I say. Bah.

Protein Polymorph FTW.

jolt

 

[Grazzt]

Two pages and no one's mentioned the absolute best FF monster ever?!?! Bah, I say. Bah.

Protein Polymorph FTW.

jolt

How about the Magnesium Spirit?

 

[A'koss]

Two pages and no one's mentioned the absolute best FF monster ever?!?! Bah, I say. Bah.

Protein Polymorph FTW.

No. No. No.

No.

Lava Children.

Alfred E. Newman F.T.W.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

The gods are with us! ... and him.

 

[JohnSnow]

No. No. No.

No.

Lava Children.

Alfred E. Newman F.T.W.

I...seriously...hope...you're...being...sarcastic.

'Cuz I was just about to say "Dear god...please, by all that's holy. NO Lava Children!"

I have seriously bad memories of trying to batter one to death with a torch. My DM thought they were "cool."

*shudder*

On a more serious note, lots of those monsters just OOZED cool. I wouldn't even mind the concept of Lava Children (as in, monster that's resistant to damage from metal weapons), as long as they ditch the crappy flavor.

Giant Striders and whatever those weird lizard critters were (firenewts?) that rode them would be pretty cool.

I think I've seen reference to the skeleton warrior. I wonder if there's any chance for the Giant Troll.

 

[Logan_Bonner]

I think Mike really should have said "monsters from the Fiend Folio that weren't already in the 3E MM."

STOP TRYING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THE GITHYANKI, MEARLS!

 

[IanB]

I would love to see the Algoid – favourite encounter as a player was against one of these bad-boys back in the day (1987).

I am pretty sure the algoid stayed around as the vine horror in 3e.

 

[Piratecat]

Awesome trivia: our newest admin Plane Sailing is the original author of the Quillan, the Stunjelly and the Shadow Demon in the 1e FF!

This pleases me much more than it probably should.

 

[mmaranda]

Good to see all you guys still active on these boards. It does seem Mr. Mearls should be stopped possibly even more so than Rich Baker?

I'm sure some of you will ahve your chance at D&D XP. Perhaps I'll even get to if he DMs the 4e Preview.