Flumphs?

[Psychic Warrior]

The thing that inspired overwhelming hate for me iof the flumph was the fact that, in their original Fiend Folio description, flumphs could be rendered helpless by flipping them over.

I remember an old Dragon magazine cartoon that showed 4 good uses for the flumph - Spare wheel for the wagon, decorative hat, sun protection at the beach (as an umbrella) and lightly toasted they taste just like chicken.

 

[woodelf]

well, he's in his 20s. by younger, i just meant that he was too young to remember D&D before 2nd edition.

So, too young to have seen the original Star Wars films (AD&D2 post-dates RotJ), and therefore doesn't know what *good* Star Wars is like.

Hey, I enjoyed Ep I, and am old enough to have seen ESB and RotJ in the theatres!

No accounting for taste.

Yugi-crack of not excusable though...the fact that you know how to spell it makes me think someone here is a closet card flopper.

Nope. Just careful with my facts. I don't even understand the appeal of CCGs. And, in general, i'm really not a fan of competition, and the more game-like an RPG is, the less i enjoy it. I'm the only RPer i know who doesn't play *any* other sorts of games (CCGs, computer/console/arcade, boardgames, card games, "traditional" games--none of them appeal to me).

 

[woodelf]

This from a guy called wood elf!

Well, actually, the "woodelf" moniker is actually *not* a game reference (and i probably would never have used it if i'd had any idea they were one of the big factions in WH40K, and i'd therefore be regularly bugged by people assuming i'm a fan of (1) WH40K and (2) wood elf troops in same)--it's a real-life reference. I've just kept the handle because so many people know me by it, by now--and because i've never thought of anything better. Now that you mention it, i don't think i've ever played an elf in D&D (or any other RPG).

 

[Khayman]

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. (...)

Case in point: the athach? Still haven't figured out a use for those buggers yet.

But nothing beats a farting, barfing LG gasbag for sheer wackiness. It's the Edsel of gaming, if the Edsel was also a minivan.

 

[BOZ]

So, too young to have seen the original Star Wars films (AD&D2 post-dates RotJ), and therefore doesn't know what *good* Star Wars is like.

not in the theaters perhaps, but then i didn't get to see any of them in the theaters either (until they were re-released in the 90s, though altered) despite being old enough to (i remembered when my parents came back from seeing Empire - i was not a happy 5 year old).

VCRs have long been the saviors for those of us who, for whatever reason, didn't get the chance to see a movie in the theater enough times to satisfy us for all time.

 

[Klaus]

Case in point: the athach? Still haven't figured out a use for those buggers yet.

But nothing beats a farting, barfing LG gasbag for sheer wackiness. It's the Edsel of gaming, if the Edsel was also a minivan.

In the very good adventure Beyond All Reason, by Todd Secord (www.fierydragon.com), there's an Athach man who's in love with an Ettin woman and they have an Ethach son, with two heads and three arms. In module it's said that if you have a hard time picturing the Athach and the Ettin together, you should wait until they embrace...

 

[DMH]

Erik has already stated that he's not a fan of the Monster Hunters, but I think there's at least a possibility he might still tweak the format somewhat, possibly even to include fiction.

Well even if you didn't use the monster hunters, there is always those two gnomes and the human (I like those stories, but can't remember their names at all :\ ).

And didn't also write the ecology of the owlbear?

 

[Gez]

In the very good adventure Beyond All Reason, by Todd Secord (www.fierydragon.com), there's an Athach man who's in love with an Ettin woman and they have an Ethach son, with two heads and three arms. In module it's said that if you have a hard time picturing the Athach and the Ettin together, you should wait until they embrace...

With three arms, the Athach can wrap his arms over each one of the ettin's three shoulders (well, do you have a better name than "third shoulder" for the space between both necks?)...

 

[Richards]

Originally posted by DMH:

Well even if you didn't use the monster hunters, there is always those two gnomes and the human (I like those stories, but can't remember their names at all ).

And didn't also write the ecology of the owlbear?

Yes, "The Ecology of the Owlbear" was the first "Ecology" article I ever wrote. I just about died of anticipation at the time, because it got bumped to the "next issue" -- twice!

As for the two gnomes and the human, those would be the Shandrilla, Javorik, and Federico "Ecology" articles. I actually have two more of them already written, submitted, rejected (by Jesse Decker, because he had changed to the "no fiction" format after I had sent them in), and in the "waiting for the right Dragon editor" pile (along with two Monster Hunters "Ecology" articles and a standalone one). The Shandrilla ones involve the chuul and the destrachan (in that order, as the storylines are sequential).

Perhaps some day.

Originally posted by Erik Mona:

There's little doubt that Johnathan Richards will outlast us all.

I can be patient when I need to be.

Johnathan

 

[Ace]

Flumphs may seem not serious, but all they need is the extraplanar subtype and they're OK.

IMC, flumphs are strange natives from a weird alien world, a realm of fungi, verminoids, and other weird creatures. (Take Dendri from Beyond Countless Doorways, turn it into a giant Dagobah-like bog, replace all vegetal life with their fungal equivalent, and have it as the native world of creatures like myconids and vegepygmies, and, yes, flumphs, in addition to the "verminoid" formians and ettercaps. Remove all true humanoids. You have a good approximation of that place.)

YANK!

Thats a great idea