Complete "Ecology of" listing?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Before I send off a spec letter to Dragon magazine proposing doing some ecology of article ideas I've got, I'm sure I saw a listing out there, somewhere in the ether, of all the ecology articles that have come before.

My Google kung fu is apparently weak, though, since I can't find the link now. Anyone know of such a listing?

 

[BOZ]

not all of them, but this should put you a ways towards your goal:

72 Piercer
73 Catoblepas
74 Bulette
76 Beholders
77 Unicorn
78 Mind Flayer
79 Treant
80 Doppleganger
81 Basilisk
82 Peryton
83 Stirge
84 Trapper
85 Ixitxachitl
86 Slithering Tracker
87 Dryad
88 Rust Monster
91 Leucrotta
92 Ettin
93 Eye of the Deep
94 Chimera
95 Cockatrice
96 Gulguthra (Otyugh & Neo-Otyugh)
97 Gorgon
99 Will-o-Wisp
104 Ochre Jelly
106 Maedar
107 Sea Lion
108 Pernicon
109 Displacer Beast
114 Remorhaz
115 Harpy
116 Minotaur
117 Ankheg
119 Korred
120 Gas Spore
122 Rot Grub
123 Giant Leech
124 Gelatinous Cube
125 Greenhag
126 Shade
127 Yeti
131 Aboleth
Hook Horror
132 Aurumvorax
133 Carnivorous Ape
134 Red Dragon
135 Cave Fisher
137 Carnivorous Plants
139 Spectator
142 Kech
146 Dragons (2E)
151 Kappa (Kara-Tur)
Yuan-Ti
152 Umber Hulk
153 Manticore
155 Satyr
156 Behir
157 Wemic
160 Gibbering Mouther
161 Griffon
164 Iron Cobra
167 Su Monster
172 Galeb Duhr
173 Flind
187 Dakon
190 Acteon (D&D)
192 Lamia
197 Giant Scorpion
214 Neogi
Owlbear
215 Amphisbaena
218 Bird Maiden (Al-Qadim)
219 Black Pudding
221 Crystal Spider (Dark Sun)
222 Penanggalan
223 Chitine
224 Lammasu
227 Osquip
232 Roper
235 Troglodyte
239 Stirge
240 Nymph
242 Mongrelman
244 Sphinx
245 Steeder
246 Flumph

 

[reiella]

246 Flumph

Ok, I'll bite,
WHat exactly was the ecology of the Flumph?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Thanks, one of the two I wanted to do is on the list but long, long ago. Hmm.

 

[Richards]

Originally posted by reiella:

Ok, I'll bite, what exactly was the ecology of the Flumph?

"The Ecology of the Flumph" was the fourth to feature the Monster Hunters Association, a group of (mostly) wizards who hunt down unusual creatures specifically to make magic items from their remains. The footnotes in the article hinted at possible genetic ties between the two known types of flumph (the standard white flumph and the spellcasting green flumph) and other creatures such as bellabras ("tanglers") and even grell. It also specified that the green spellcasting flumph is the "normal" type, while the white flumph is a deviant mutant offspring that breeds true.

Johnathan

 

[Piratecat]

And he should know, 'cause he wrote it!

Just one of the reasons I secretly stalk him.

 

[Richards]

Here's the full listing, to the best of my knowledge. "DA#" refers to a Dragon Annual; I plugged them in where they fit as far as when they were published.

072 - Piercer
073 - Catoblepas
074 - Bulette
075 - Mimic
076 - Beholder
077 - Unicorn
078 - Mind Flayer
079 - Treant
080 - Doppleganger
081 - Basilisk
082 - Peryton
083 - Stirge
084 - Trapper
085 - Ixitxachitl
086 - Slithering Tracker
087 - Dryad
088 - Rust Monster
091 - Leucrotta
092 - Ettin
093 - Eye of the Deep
094 - Chimera/Gorgimera
095 - Cockatrice
096 - Gulguthra
097 - Gorgon/Gorgimera
099 - Will-o-wisp/Boggart
104 - Ochre Jelly
106 - Maedar/Medusa
107 - Sea Lion
109 - Displacer Beast
114 - Remorhaz
115 - Harpy
116 - Minotaur
117 - Anhkheg
119 - Korred
120 - Gas Spore
122 - Rot Grub
123 - Giant Leech
124 - Gelatinous Cube
125 - Greenhag
126 - Shade
127 - Yeti
131 - Aboleth
131 - Hook Horror
132 - Aurumvorax
133 - Carnivorous Ape
134 - Red Dragon
135 - Cave Fisher
137 - Carnivorous Plants
139 - Spectator
146 - Dragons (AD&D 2nd Ed.)
151 - Kappa
151 - Yuan-ti
152 - Umber Hulk
153 - Manticore
155 - Satyr
156 - Behir
157 - Wemic
160 - Gibbering Mouther
161 - Griffon
164 - Iron Cobra
167 - Su Monster
172 - Galeb Duhr
173 - Flind/Gnoll
187 - Dakon
190 - Actaeon
192 - Lamia
197 - Giant Scorpion
214 - Neogi
214 - Owlbear
215 - Amphisbaena
218 - Bird Maiden
219 - Black Pudding
221 - Crystal Spider
222 - Penanggalan
223 - Chitine
224 - Lammasu
227 - Osquip
232 - Roper
235 - Troglodyte
DA1 - Wyvern
239 - Stirge
240 - Nymph
DA2 - Shambling Mound
242 - Mongrelman
244 - Sphinx
245 - Steeder
246 - Flumph
251 - Wererat
252 - Ghoul
DA3 - Steel Dragon
254 - Cyclopskin
257 - Firenewt/Giant Strider
258 - Flail Snail
260 - Aspis
261 - Dark Naga
262 - Jermlaine
DA4 - Gray Ooze
266 - Xixchil
267 - Carrion Crawler
269 - Pseudodragon
270 - Gorbel
271 - Bag of Devouring
272 - Hydra
273 - Hippocampus
275 - Darkmantle
276 - Sheet Phantom
DA5 - Feyr
282 - Purple Worm
300 - Mummy
301 - Troll
309 - Hobgoblin
312 - Drider
314 - Salamander

Note that "Stirge" is listed twice (issues 83 and 239) - that was due to an editorial oversight, the editor of Dragon at that time having given approval for a second author to write an "Ecology of the Stirge" without realizing that the stirge had already received that honor many years previously.

So, Whizbang Dustyboots, which monsters were you looking at writing up?

Johnathan

 

[el-remmen]

I love those old articles, and I am always making little ecology notes about monsters for my own setting, which is why I don't think there is anything wrong with their being duplicate ecologies - what might not work for one setting might spark ideas for another - as different authors/DMs have different outlooks on the same creature.

For example, in Aquerra manticores are the descendants of old line of men who made some fearsome and horrifics pacts with some fiends. I slapped the fiendish template on them and gave them a few levels of psionics (as the ancient line of men were latently psiconic) and boom a new look and feel for an old and familiar monster making it unique to the world.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So, Whizbang Dustyboots, which monsters were you looking at writing up?

One of the two I was looking at was the Behir. I'm not sure I grasp the logic of an article published 10 years ago negating another one from being released, but we'll see what happens when I send in the spec letter. It's their magazine, and not mine, after all.

The other one isn't on the list, so I don't want to spoil it until they tell me no.

 

[Richards]

Fair enough.

Johnathan