Flumphs?

[woodelf]

Now I know that a lot of people are about to chime up with the cool things that were in the Fiend Folio like githanki and whatnot. But, really, guys ... bullywugs?

Hey! Bullywugs are way cooler than flinds or gnolls or orcs--or most of the other stock badguy humanoids, 'cept kobolds.

 

[MerricB]

Follow this link to see their original (Fiend Folio 1e) incarnation:

http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/flumph.htm

Cheers!

 

[FireLance]

A challenge to Eberron DMs: Explain why the Daelkyr made the flumph.

 

[el-remmen]

Next person to badmouth bullywugs is gonna get an old school hop attack from me. . .

 

[EricNoah]

[Homer Voice]
Mmmmm .... special hop attack....
[/Homer Voice]

 

[ephemeron]

I think the real reason flumphs attract jokes is that -- like a lot of other creatures in the original Fiend Folio -- they were introduced with a silly name and no backstory. If you take them seriously and give them a reason to exist, you can do interesting things with them. Gez has already shown one way to do this, and this vague idea of an ancient, ongoing war between flumphs-by-a-less-ridiculous-name and illithids occurs to me just now...

 

[Scarbonac]

Rumour has it that the rare and hard-to-find Son of a Portable Hole has a six-page section about flumphs...

The flumphonomicon it was called. A rare and esoteric treatise on flumphs and their kin, as well as some prestige classes, a clerical domain and other fell flumphic items.

In fact, I may have a moldy copy of the flumphonomicon somewhere around here...

aha, mind the mold.

(oh, and pardon the low-res version - to make it fit as an attachment I had to save it at 100 dpi instead of my usual 150-300 dpi)

Oboy.

That was awesome beyong the power of words to relate.

All hail the Mightymighty Flumph!

 

[Alzrius]

It doesn't help the flumph's case that they've long since been lampooned by even the people At TSR/WotC also. Dragon #246 had the "Ecology of the Flumph" by Johnathan M. Richard's famous Monster Hunter's Society, a group of humorous putzes who had previously done creatures such as gorbels and flail snails. The entire issue had random pictures of flumphs doing the shuffle, the foxtrot, etc.

 

[MetalBard]

Yeah, they're kinda dumb, but given some context they can be fun. Check out Dungeon magazine #118's "Box of Flumph." I can't wait to run that one on a new group of PCs.

 

[David Howery]

the only time I ever used a flumph in an adventure was in a not-at-all serious one I titled "Mechahamster vs. the Great Black Flumph of Doom"... both were the deranged products of overactive tinker gnomes...