Arcturion said:That's an interesting tidbit. Ever get the official Burmese name/term for the creature?
Chinthe?
Arcturion said:That's an interesting tidbit. Ever get the official Burmese name/term for the creature?
Arcturion said:That's an interesting tidbit. Ever get the official Burmese name/term for the creature? Dragonne by itself sounds rather, well, plain to my ears (presumably by mixing dragon and lion/leonne together) and it's somewhat troublesome mixing up dragonne with dragon (in the more conventional sense of the word). I'm always interested in the origins of words and terms as far as language and history go.
On a somewhat related but side note, I got a chance to handle a real Burmese dha once; very interesting sword. My experience in ancient weaponry lies mostly with Japanese-style swords, but have seen some Chinese- (daos and jians) and Korean-inspired pieces (used for gumdo). Always neat to see how various neighboring cultures influenced one another, not just in language, but also customs, clothing, food, and things like warfare.
On a completely unrelated note, noticed that you're from NYC (what part of the city, by the way?). I'm from Brooklyn, born and raised, before I joined the military. Small world.
Col_Pladoh said:Sadly, the preliminaries for kobolds slipped past me, as the OAD&D depiction is not correct.
Cheerio,
Gary
I confess it was my decision to give them wings. It was to make them more mobile and thus more dangerous.Huw said:I have a question, assuming Gary's not get sick of them.
Wings on the chimera and manticore. Did you make them flying, or was there some other source?
Thanks.
there were virtually no fantasy figurines being produced when Chainmail Fantasy Supplement tabletop battles were being played, and so that is where the conversion of dime store toys into monsters began. I made a 90mm Elastolin Viking figire into a blue giant with a club, a stegosaurus into a winged red dragon, 60 mm plastic Indians into ogres, etc. Jack Scruby began casting orc, so we had real miniatures for them--the Orcs of the Vile Rune whose symbol was a fist with a raised digit. We had a giant ant, but that's about it.Contrarian said:Gary, I have a question about how playing with miniatures did (or didn't) affect the choice of monsters in the early D&D games.
We all know by now that you found the rust monster in a bag of toy dinosaurs. I'm wondering, were you using the toy dinosaurs in your game? It that why there are so many different dinosaurs in the original Monster Manual?
What about giant insects and animals? Can we blame any of those on conveniently-available toys? (My understanding is that there weren't a lot of fantasy monsters available in lead during the early D&D years, so you must have improvised a lot, right?)
CloseThurbane said:I'm guessing giant animals/insects/arachnids would have been inspired by movies such as Them, Monster From Green Hell, The Giant Gila Monster, The Black Scorpion, The Deadly Mantis & Tarantula...not to mention various literary sources - Robert E Howard used giant critters as adversaries for Conan in more than one story.
The Green Adam said:In one of my earliest campaigns my players encountered a Lurker Above and then later on a few adventures later a Trapper. Not knowing what the latter was called they identified it a Lurker Below. They still call it that to this day.
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Ah sure...rossik said:gary, i dont get what you mean...
Col_Pladoh said:Ah sure...
Kobolds were not meant to look like canines, nor have some reptillian features. they were patterened after the Teutonic kobolds, forest goblins.
Cheerio,
Gary
JeffB said:Something along the lines of this, Gary?