Breaking News: Kuo-Toa Not Froggy Anymore

[Desdichado]

Overall, I'm very pleased with the new look of monsters in general. I did not like the 3rd Edition version of monsters at all. I mean...AT. ALL. For me, the 3rd Edition monsters looked all Cthulhu-ed out and stuff. The displacer beast looked like it was from Venus, and the Choker looked like it walked out of the pages of CoC.

Loving it.

Yeah, contrary to popular belief amongst intarwebz users, 3e art was actually D&D's roots check.

 

[DaveyJones]

I think that being a 'Siamese fighting fish-people' samurai would be awesome. It's like you come with a built-in kimono.

right. them too.

i always pictured the sea devils aka sahuagin as the deep ones. all spiny and devoid of color.

the kuo-toa aka fishmeng should be like spotted rockfish or groupers

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

At which point the Kua-toas will be renamed "Fishborn" and they have breasts, tastefully covered by kelp and sea shells.

Every oddball race sounds better with "born".

Starborn
Fireborn
Iceborn
Devilborn
Feyborn
Frogborn
Bloodborn
Desertborn
Hillborn
Dinoborn
Warborn
Wolfspiderborn
Unsafersexborn

 

[Turjan]

I'm not sure why looking like a scaly human with a fish head is supposed to be an improvement for kuo-toa. This is not Star Trek where you have to put a mask on a human actor. I don't see this as very imaginative.

On the other hand, if kuo-toa are some humans or other humanoids that had been turned into fishy slaves by their aboleth masters, it's fitting. Let's see how this will turn out.

 

[arscott]

Though there may be multiple types of dryad in the MM, it's just as likely that "Black Woods Dryad" is just a name used to differentiate the current mini from Dryads in previous sets. That sort of thing happens all the time in DDM.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I have to say, that art is a pretty vast improvement, even if they could stand to have a fin or two. Good god the 3E art for them was hideous.

As for the Star Trek comparison, that's extremely unfair. They're barely humanoid, weird warped things, not just "a guy in a mask" (unlike, say, many of D&D's monsters). Even the proportions are inhuman.

 

[Drkfathr1]

This. I assumed that the mini name represented a type of Dryad, not necessarily a dryad from a specific region.

I could be wrong. Maybe they have a shape-change ability to go super-hot when in charm-mode.

They will in my campaign!

 

[Cthulhudrew]

The new Kuo-Toa- the aquatic version of the new Troglodyte!

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

I prefer the 3e version by far (heck, I never even equated it to being froggy, just fishy and grotesque). It's not even a contest.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

Grotesque and ugly is the point.