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[A'koss]

I say have the monsters on that page in the combat. So you have a manticore, medusa and minotaur in an epic battle with some adventurers.

That was actually my first thought, splashy fight scenes are cool. But I figured that would lead to some very oddball scenes with epic monsters fighting alongside low heroic tier beasties, colossal sized monsters in scenes with tiny monsters, deep sea monsters along with land monsters all because they're clustered together in the book...

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I also don't think we would get as much deviation as you would expect with having all the monsters in one big picture.

Since well, most likely that 1 page, or 2 pages will cover 1 monster and its variants.

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, the new roper looks downright nasty... certainly one of the best renditions I've seen. That said, I have one early request for the 5e MM - every monster must be illustrated in a battle scene against a group of PCs.

This is quite close to what was done in Savage Species, where the creatures listed close to each other (or with a similar theme) were shown in the same picture, so you had a mind flayer, an ogre mage and a medusa together, then a treant with a satyr, a nixie and a pixie, etc.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

Dunno, I used a lion picture pretty closely as a basis.

would you mind sending me the reference? maybe I'm just looking at the image wrong. its an old hag or young lady kind of thing.

 

[Blackrat]

Would someone post the pic here like all the others have been? I can't access WotC from my work ...

 

[Colmarr]

While I do like the roper's "circular" teeth, overall I find it far too reminiscent of the aliens in the Simpsons.

Thumbs down from me.

 

[starwed]

Why, in every group of three humanoid monsters, is exactly one female?

 

[Hussar]

At your service luminously challenged rodent.

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And the flavour text.

Art by Warren Mahy
This subterranean creature grabs victims with its tentacles and drags them within reach of its monstrous, toothy maw.​

 

[Blackrat]

Thanks Hussar.

While I do like the roper's "circular" teeth, overall I find it far too reminiscent of the aliens in the Simpsons.

Ah, I see your point. It just needs a glass dome .

 

[Gargazon]

Why, in every group of three humanoid monsters, is exactly one female?

So you know what a female looks like?

I imagine this would be the reverse for the Drow pic