Grell...what book is it in?

[VirgilCaine]

I recall reading a post from Monte Cook that said some monsters were included in the MM for just that purpose. It was in a thread about the Phantom Fungus, which he said was mostly there to provide a low-level monster with invisibility (and being a plant, allowing the druid to use his plant-spells).

Ethereal Marauder, for one.

 

[DMH]

My unpublished "Ecology of the Grick" (which demonstrates genetic ties to the grell) has been posted over in the Story Hour forum. You can find it here:

You are the dude of ecology articles. When they dropped your format, they did a diservice to many of the readers.

Why don't I see your name in the fantasy section of Borders? Seriously.

 

[BOZ]

heck yeah!

 

[Zander]

Originally, it was in the 1st edition AD&D Fiend Folio.

While it's true that the first book to feature grells was the 1E FF, that wasn't their first appearance. Grells made their debut in White Dwarf #12. They were invented by Ian Livingstone, co-founder of Games Workshop.

 

[Quasqueton]

Spurred by this thread, I looked up the grell again in my old FF. I used to love that full-page illustration of the monster attacking a party of adventurers. I used the monster a couple times in my old AD&D1 campaigns.

I saw the D&D3 grell in the MMII (and in the RttTEE), and noticed they had "upgraded" it with some paralyzation powers. Didn't have that in the original AD&D1 version. Then I turned the page and found an extra couple paragraphs for the grell on the page after the full-page illo. What?! All these years I didn't know about this.

The grell description stops with a paragraph end, then there is the full-page illo. I never knew there was more to the monster after that illo. After about 25 years, I have finally noticed this.

Quasqueton

 

[diaglo]

see if you can find PKitty's Grell Monk somewhere on the internet.