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<blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1993993" data-attributes="member: 1014">The Flumph is hated for many, many reasons.1) It was in the original Fiend Folio a collection of monsters, many of which were ... dubious.2) It looked silly.&nbsp; Imagine a flat wheel with two eyestalks on the top hub and tentacles on the bottom hub.&nbsp; Not exactly the same kind of scary that a Balrog might have.3) It was horribly broken.&nbsp; 1st edition D&amp;D gave experience points based on the hit die of the monster (there were modifications, but those aren't that important right now).&nbsp; The Flumph had 4 hit dice.&nbsp; But its attacks were pretty meager.&nbsp; I forget exactly how much damage they could do, but it was something like 1d4 per attack.&nbsp; So there was no reason that a 1st level party couldn't kill one of these things and get lots and lots of experience points for very little risk.So it looked dumb.&nbsp; It was in a collection of a lot of other dumb things.&nbsp; And no DM in his right mind would use it because it was essentially free exp.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.&nbsp; But, really, guys ... bullywugs?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BiggusGeekus, post: 1993993, member: 1014"] The Flumph is hated for many, many reasons. 1) It was in the original [i]Fiend Folio[/i] a collection of monsters, many of which were ... dubious. 2) It looked silly. Imagine a flat wheel with two eyestalks on the top hub and tentacles on the bottom hub. Not exactly the same kind of scary that a Balrog might have. 3) It was horribly broken. 1st edition D&D gave experience points based on the hit die of the monster (there were modifications, but those aren't that important right now). The Flumph had 4 hit dice. But its attacks were pretty meager. I forget exactly how much damage they could do, but it was something like 1d4 per attack. So there was no reason that a 1st level party couldn't kill one of these things and get lots and lots of experience points for very little risk. So it looked dumb. It was in a collection of a lot of other dumb things. And no DM in his right mind would use it because it was essentially free exp. Now I know that a lot of people are about to chime up with the cool things that were in the [i]Fiend Folio[/i] like githanki and whatnot. But, really, guys ... bullywugs? [/QUOTE]

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