Breaking News: Kuo-Toa Not Froggy Anymore

[Keenath]

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

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

And coincidentally, here's a sentient tree in Guild Wars:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Image:Sentient_Tree.jpg

How about a link to a screenshot of Treebeard? Mobile tree-people aren't anywhere close to being a Guild Wars invention.

 

[Keenath]

heh, yeah, I don't mind the idea of less human seeming fey existing, dryads and nymphs have a mythic history... (maybe the dryad picture is what it looks like 'naturally' but it has an alternate form? I can hope.)

I believe that IS correct -- I seem to recall a comment in a playtest report that didn't directly say, but implied, that dryads could "turn ugly" or some such thing.

That would fit with a lot of fae, actually -- that they look pretty until you get past the illusion and find out that they're utterly inhuman and possibly horrifically ugly.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Why are there so many fishmen in D&D?

 

[Lizard]

Why are there so many fishmen in D&D?

Why are there so many humanoids in D&D?
Why are there so many giants in D&D?
Why are there so many oozes in D&D?
Why are there so many killer plants in D&D?

Because it's D&D, dammit! And D&D is "the game where roughly 10,000 sentient races share the same world, and 95% of them all exist within a few miles of each other, at most."

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

3.5 kuo-toa looked like a kids "stretchable" toy frog, pulled out long, then trod on repeatedly, so it is like a sort of "squashed tin can"...it does, don't it?

 

[lukelightning]

I see sahuagin as more sharky and surface-going; they are the ones in the shallow waters near the surface.

Kuo-toa are deeeeeep sea fishy things. And why not froggy? There are many fish that look froggy.

Blip...dool.....POOLP!!!

I once commented to my brother that I thought it very odd that the Kuo-toa goddess had a human body. Why the heck would fish things worship something with a human body?

My brother pointed out the obvious: She's a horrible evil demon goddess, and her human body is there to inspire terror in the Kuo-toa.

"blurble blurble our goddess has the most beautiful face, such lovely feelers, and graceful pinchers...blurble blurble... but the hideous deformed body of a...gasp...human! blurbleblurbleblurble!"

 

[Aeolius]

Why are there so many fishmen in D&D?

To make me happy?

(edit: given the typical world has more water than land, one would expect more aquatic life than terrestrial. Plus in a typical ocean setting there are amphibious races that tend to stay in the shallows, deep-dwelling races that spend their time in the depths, and numerous races in between. 2,000 posts... w00t! )

 

[heirodule]

Admiral Akbar!

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

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.

I'd rather that they were more like the Grindylow from China Meiville's The Scar. Those mothers are scary.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Generally, they are there to murder you for daring to tread on their sacred territory.

But I guess 4e doesn't think scantily clad women are capable of being more than they seem....

There does seem to be somewhat more WYSIWYG in 4E, doesn't there?