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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 492908" data-attributes="member: 5278">Nothing productive could possibly come from this post, but I just have to get it off my chest:First of all, I loved MM2, but...What's with all the Disney-esque, funny-animal-type  "monsters" in MM2? We already had the humanoid bull (minotaur), horse (centaur), tree (treant), fish (vast numbers of 'em! Sahuagin, merfolk, triton...), lizards (lizardfolk, troglodytes), lion (lamia), spider (aranea, dryder, ettercap), snake (yuan-ti), toad (kuo-toa), tiger (rakshasa), goat (satyr) and beetle (umber hulk) from MM1. Note that this list doesn't even include celestials, fiends, elementals (humanoid dirt, water, fire and air!) or the were-animals!In Monsters of Faerun we got the humanoid deer (hybsil), more lizards (abasi), frogs (bullywug, siv), more humanoid spiders, trees, hyena (gibberling), pterodactyl (pterafolk), panther (quaggoth), yet more fish (good grief!), scorpion (stinger), and another lion (wemir).Then comes MM2, starting with the humaoind bees (!)(abeil), followed by humanoid alarmclocks (automatons, clockwork horrors), rhino/porcupine (braxat), cemetary (corpse gatherer), bats (desmodu), bacteria (germlaine), squid (kopru), leech (leechwalker)... By then I started thinking their had to be some inside joke here I just wasn't getting! As I read on I was shaking my head more and more often... There came the two-trunked humanoid elephant, (just what my campaignworld was missing... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ), the humanoid fungi, the humanoid/insectoid fish/squid genetic marvel (morkoth), the humanoid pineneedles (aptly named needlefolk!), the humanoid version of Willy the Whale (appearantly freed), humanoid centipede (ormyrr), mantis (thri-kreen) and finally the long-awaited humanoid yak! I'm still convinced that must be a joke! I just don't get it...To round off the book they reprinted another humanoid scorpion. Hurrah.Did I miss any? I'm sure I did... Nevermind.Now I'm gonna take the much-needed half humanoid/half animal template MM2 thankfully included and make me a humanoid duck and a humanoid mouse... Look for Ducksville D20 in game stores soon! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />edit: spelling</blockquote>

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