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[A'koss]

I like it, though to fit with my world, gonna give him worn and dirty worker-clothes instead of the padded armour and a crude gasmask.

A poster on Gleemax thread pointed out the use of the term "gloom" again in-reference to the Shadowfell. Could this be a nickname for it, or as I hope a aspect of the Shadowfell, like say the Shadowfell version of Ravenloft's fog.

Possibly, but when I hear the term "gloom", my first thought is of the cool epic level, shadow-jumping Gloom.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Yeah, because, of course, we all know that Tolkien was a geek and plagiarized his description of the Balrog upon Diablo...

After all, Blizzard has never copied stuff from elsewhere, their work is 100% original, as people who played warcraft after Dune 2 could tell you.

Listen, <deleted for propriety's sake>, Tolkien didn't design the Balrog they used in the movie, did he? Pretty sure it was just "shadow and flame", not "a big hulking thing with batwings and ram's horns and flame-spikes coming up from the tail, and skin like magma".

And the fact that I'm slamming on it as a boring design doesn't mean I think it was the new hotness when Blizzard did it. As it happens, I hated it then too.

 

[frankthedm]

Listen, <deleted for propriety's sake>, Tolkien didn't design the Balrog they used in the movie, did he? Pretty sure it was just "shadow and flame", not "a big hulking thing with batwings and ram's horns and flame-spikes coming up from the tail, and skin like magma".

And the fact that I'm slamming on it as a boring design doesn't mean I think it was the new hotness when Blizzard did it. As it happens, I hated it then too.

Does not look a damned thing like

Even diablo's bestial form in the second game has only superficial semblances to the Weta Balrog thanks to the forward swept horns. Which are not a new thing for fiends .

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Looks like there are Dark Stalkers as that Dungeon article mentions them.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

The Dark One... A native to the Shadowfell

Okay, what do you think of that thingie?

He looks... unpleasant. He might want to stab me with his sword. I'd prefer not to meet him in a dark alley, or worse, in a cavern in the Shadowfell Underdark.

 

[I'm A Banana]

He looks pretty nice. The kind of characters I would kind of goad my PC's into forcibly allying with. Dark, dangerous, probably unpleasant, but there's Something Worse in the wings.

I'd be surprised if we didn't see both dark stalkers and dark creepers in the MM.

 

[LordArchaon]

This Dark One is the new monster I like the most to date!
I assume it's a shadow fey. It has a lot of the "real gnome sighting" in Argentina, appeared in the news some time ago, and it brings out the same new concept of unsettling creature... It can be the center of a whole adventure path alone.
Maybe one in which the point of light were the PCs start doesn't know of any kind of monsters, never seen anything supernatural or the like...

 

[AllisterH]

Originally, they're from the 1e Fiend Folio. In 3rd edition, they are also in the Fiend Folio.

Would you believe I have both the 1E and 3E Fiend folio and my reaction was "They're from WHERE?"

Geez, wonder if they will actually make an impression on me this time around...

 

[Dragonbait]

This Dark One is the new monster I like the most to date!

Actually, the Dark One and Dark Stalker are both from 1ed.

I really like the new look. It combines the goblin-like features of the early version with the imp features on the 3ed version. Very well done.

 

[Mirtek]

Looks o.k. for a dark creeper. Hopefully Dark one is the entry name and the little guy gets to keep his Dark creeper name.

Wasn't Dark Ones always the collective for Dark Creepers and Dark Stalkers?