Anyone know who owns Bullywugs?

[Aeolius]

I believe the Pathfinder Bestairy is published under the OGL - that link is to the Pathfinder d20 SRD - and so the critter would be available under the terms of that license.

and thus a version is found in the Grand OGL Wiki

 

[steeldragons]

Great! Thanks, again.

Looks like Boggards it is!

Boggard legs for everyone! On the house! Extra butter.

--SD

 

[ExploderWizard]

You could also just make your own bullywugs up and stat them. With very little research I have found some possibilities:

Plavadians- plava is "frog" in Sanskrit"

Prawlings- praw means "to jump" in the proto Indo European language

Since bullywugs are much like amphibious goblins there is that bit of folklore to mine names from as well:

Froschgobelins- merge German "frog" with Old "goblin".

Erlkingfrauki- for a more Nordic flavored goblin-frog.


Be creative and have fun with this stuff

 

[steeldragons]

You're right, ExploderWizard. There's no reason I can't make up my own.

I've created a bunch of races and cultures (regions, deities, etc. etc.) for Orea...froggy goblins shouldn't be too hard.

 

[samursus]

froggy goblins= FROBLINS!!! (tm) <-----hee hee

I'll sell you the name for 1....milllllllion dollars!

 

[El Mahdi]

I have a small stable of bullywugs in the back yard. They make a mess, I can tell you!...

I bet it just makes you hopping mad, too!

 

[Huw]

Anyone know where the name comes from? Is just one of the Gygaxes said "what if we take a polliwog, but make it a bully?".

Anyway, here's my suggested replacement name: ranakin. I was going to go for ranaman, but that sounds like a cheesy superhero.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Puddocks is what I call them in my Britain-analog region. It's Scots for frog.

 

[Aeolius]

Woolybugs?

 

[rogueattorney]

There have been a number of third party products that have poorly "disguised" TSR/WotC IP by using fairly obvious alternate names.

"Dunfalcon" as the name of the big city in the various Castle Xagyg products springs to mind immediately.

The old Judges Guild adventure, In Search of Kelandar's Gold, used Sahuagin, but referred to them as "Sagfian," except for the one time the editor forgot to make the change.

And in Goodman Game's Points of Light products, I highly suspect that "boglings" are a replacement name for bullywugs.