Graph-Paper Evolution?! LOL

[HellHound]

Damn near choked on my morning soda...

This is from the news on the front page, the link to the Book of Ratings D&D Monsters, part 2

emphasis below is mine

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Gelatinous Cube

Gygax clearly had some sort of ooze fixation. He populated his little world with a goobery panapoly of spores, molds, and fungi, at least one variety of which has psychic powers. Huh. At any rate, closely edging out green slime for "Best Performance by a Nickelodeon Game Show Prop" is the gelatinous cube, a transparent, hallway-shaped, flesh-dissolving, uh. Cube. The sheer ridiculousness of it is impressive. Here we have yet another monster with no reason to exist in a dungeon-free ecosystem. It's genetically adapted to graph paper, for God's sake! Plus it conveniently fails to either digest or excrete metal, giving an adventurers a reason to kill it and scoop coins from its corpse. It's like some sort of living, deadly, mall fountain.
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Evolution is my friend...

Now we need Gelatinous Hexagonal Prisms that evolved in the land of GURPS...

 

[diaglo]

also from there:Owlbear

It's this big, owlish, bearish thing. Big deal. I can play that game too. "Watch out for the hawklion! Beware the vulturetiger!

the vulture lion was a monster in 1ed. it was in the DDG.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Now now, everyone knows that with the proper template (what use to be called a mold) you can make them any shape.

Fear the bunt cake shaped ones!

 

[alsih2o]

the graph apaer evolution line slayed me. that is quality funny!

genuinely inspired

 

[The_Gneech]

also from there:Owlbear

It's this big, owlish, bearish thing. Big deal. I can play that game too. "Watch out for the hawklion! Beware the vulturetiger!

the vulture lion was a monster in 1ed. it was in the DDG.

It's worth noting here, that the owlbear is from Native American folklore, if I remember correctly.

-The Gneech

 

[diaglo]

and the vulture lion was from literature

Michael Moorcock's Melnibonean Mythos

 

[Drawmack]

I want a gelatinous cube shapped like myself, that would be great fun at parties.

 

[der_kluge]

I liked in the first rating of D&D Monsters
http://www.bookofratings.com/dndmonsters.html

He describes Githyanki as emaciated Smurfs.

Funny stuff.

Too bad Brunching is no more.

 

[MarauderX]

How many times have you heard this with your homebrew critters?

"What kind of monster is OW MY HIT POINTS!"