Do ogres look more like shrek..orcs like LotR?

[Remathilis]

Ogre

Troll

Mindflayer

Etc. Etc. I got most of my mythical imaging of D&D monsters from video games. Zelda, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, etc all shaped my view on these things as much as LotR or any movie did.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Ogre

Troll

Mindflayer

Etc. Etc. I got most of my mythical imaging of D&D monsters from video games. Zelda, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, etc all shaped my view on these things as much as LotR or any movie did.

Yup! Them's the ones!

 

[rgard]

Orcs for me always looked like the orcs that the Greg and Tim Hildebrandt painted:

http://www.timefold.com/brosimages/siege.jpg
http://www.timefold.com/brosimages/captured.jpg

My ogres looked like the old early 80s Ral Partha sculpts.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Wik]

I tend to expand upon the images in the MM. I don't really reference movies, because with a few exceptions, I like the D&D take better. I *do* us a bit of mythical references. Mostly, when I present monsters, I like to do the "Jurassic Park" approach - showcase the monster like it's a principle actor. In that first T-Rex attack scene, everyone's looking at the monster. That's something I like.

I also try to make it a point to describe more than just their appearance. I pick one other sense to expand upon - the sound they make, what they smell like, the static charge that makes your hair stand up, whatever (I hope you don't have to taste the monster!)

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

I'd say Games Workshop, New World Computing, Squaresoft and TSR influenced my view of monster appears (in order of importance, though not chronology).

WETA orcs don't look at all right to me.

Kan't see da red wunz go fasta wif dem gits. An dey don't calls 'em GREENSKINS for nuffink, wot?

 

[The_Gneech]

My orcs generally look like those painted by Angus McBride:

http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo/images/mcbride/angus018.gif

...which the LotR movies captured pretty closely. So it would be closer to say that the movie orcs look like mine, than the other way 'round.

My ogres look like the one in Time Bandits:

http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/ogre.jpg

-The Gneech

 

[frankthedm]

A lot of us grew up on fantasy not from books, but from movies. When you think of ogres now, do you think of shrek? Do the orcs in your mind look like the ones from LotR? Do your medusae carry bows and surround themselves with statuary like from Clash of the Titans? Are all of your giant snakes right out of Conan movies? Will you use things from Pan's Labyrinth?

How much has movie fantasy affected your D&D game and your imagination in descriptions?

Are you a movie-gamer or a book-gamer when it comes to how you gained your "fantasy" experiences?

jh

Orcs: Vary greatly in appearance, depending on game world. LOTR movie is just one option.

Ogres: More Human looking than 3e, I use the look of warhammer ogres. The Ogre with Table from herasy miniatures is a great example.

Dire animal: Look fiercer than normal animals, but no bone ridges or horns. {Unless they are fiendish.

Medusa: I like snake bodies over bipedal legs. They poison their arrows with snake venom.

 

[IanB]

Mine look like DDM figures.

 

[Doug McCrae]

I also try to make it a point to describe more than just their appearance. I pick one other sense to expand upon - the sound they make, what they smell like, the static charge that makes your hair stand up, whatever (I hope you don't have to taste the monster!)

My last PC, a drider, had a bite attack. Not once did my GM describe how a monster tastes. Very remiss of him.

 

[Banshee16]

A lot of us grew up on fantasy not from books, but from movies. When you think of ogres now, do you think of shrek? Do the orcs in your mind look like the ones from LotR? Do your medusae carry bows and surround themselves with statuary like from Clash of the Titans? Are all of your giant snakes right out of Conan movies? Will you use things from Pan's Labyrinth?

How much has movie fantasy affected your D&D game and your imagination in descriptions?

Are you a movie-gamer or a book-gamer when it comes to how you gained your "fantasy" experiences?

jh

I tend to have my fantasy as more serious....medusa resemble more the traditional greek depiction.....a shapely woman, with snakes for hair. Ogres actually look more like the cave troll for LotR for me. The orcs and goblins look like those from LotR as well.

As to faerie....those from Pan's Labyrinth are actually rather neat. But we really don't see many of them....basically, the small stick-bug one that turns into a pixie, the satyr, and the king and queen of the underworld, who are basically Sidhe. I like the idea of Fae as more supernatural, inhuman creatures with a cold, inhuman beauty to them.....maybe more in line with Pan's Labyrinth or Raymond Feist's "Faerie Tale" than "Midsummer Nights Dream".

Banshee

Banshee