Breaking News: Kuo-Toa Not Froggy Anymore

[hong]

Yeah, I can see the Greek gods lining up to bang one of those....

Maybe it's the age in which we live. In the late 1970s, before the Internet, we got our porn where we could, and the 1e MM (And 1e D&DG...you know the picture I mean...) was a lot better than National Geographic. Now, with that niche well and truly filled, we get THAT for Dryads.

Insert some lame pun using a double entendre of 'wood' here.

Ah, so I'm not the only one whose 1E MM had nipples on the succubus!

 

[catsclaw227]

No, Shadeydm is right to worry. This is the dryad:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/WorldsMonsters_Gallery/103573.jpg

I thought this was the Blackwoods Dryad. Not just the dryad. I imagine that there are a few dryad types and there may still be a scantily-clad dryad to guile the silly humans.

 

[Toben the Many]

Sweet! Other than Tony DiTerlizzi's interpretation of the Kuo-Toa (which made them really look fishy), this is my favorite incarnation of them yet! Yes, yes, yes!

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.

 

[hong]

I thought this was the Blackwoods Dryad. Not just the dryad. I imagine that there are a few dryad types and there may still be a scantily-clad dryad to guile the silly humans.

Well, it's captioned just "dryad" in the book. Where does the Blackwoods bit come from?

 

[lukelightning]

I like my kuo-toa beeing partly froggy with a chance of eel. But not fully froggy. They should be some sort of "is it a fish person? amphibian person? what the heck!" creature.

We already have fishy people, sahuagin. Oh, and locathahs.

 

[Piratecat]

Bill Slavicsek has clearly failed to understand the reason for having scantily clad human females in the woods.

So bad guys can sacrifice them to Blibdoolpoolp?

 

[AllisterH]

IIRC, the kuo-toa are being tied more heavily with aboleths. Apparently, they are some lesser devoted slave race that lives and breathes for the aboleths. Aboleths don't have to even use their mind-powers apparently since from birth, young kuo-toa are slavishly devoted to the aboleths.

Chance of kuo-toa PC? Next to zero unless you're thinking we somehow get a kuo-toa version of Drizzt (although I doubt the sex appeal will be there... )

 

[Wolfspider]

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

HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Too true...too true....

 

[DaveyJones]

Chance of kuo-toa PC? Next to zero unless you're thinking we somehow get a kuo-toa version of Drizzt (although I doubt the sex appeal will be there... )

this is what i imagine too.

although, you could go guppy style. with brightly colorful males and fan tails vs the drab females.

 

[Wolfspider]

Sweet! Other than Tony DiTerlizzi's interpretation of the Kuo-Toa (which made them really look fishy), this is my favorite incarnation of them yet! Yes, yes, yes!

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.

Odd that you praise the "new" fishy kuo-toa and then diss the 3rd edition monsters because they are too Cthulhu-ed out, considering that the piscine Deep Ones are among the monst famous of Lovecraft's monstrous creations....