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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paragon Badger" data-source="post: 368971" data-attributes="member: 6334">Here are random (and less than serious) thoughts/desc. on every monster in the Monster Manual 2, just because I have nothing better to do right now. (Who needs sleep?)MonstersAbeil- My first reaction was “I already have lawful ant people why do I need lawful bee people?” However, after reading the entry I think I actually like these guys better. The soldiers Stormwing attack (6d6 in 40’ burst) just rocks. Plus they have better colors…Ash Rat – Cool little monster, more amusing if they named it fire shrew…Asperi – Skywalking cold subtype horses. Can I get one as a mount?Automaton – Hey, Chainmail monsters! Nice to see lower CR constructs but where are the creation rules?Avolakia- Lovecraft-type aberration. Their saving grace is their cool, “We maintain undead as moving food stock” routine.Banshee – Save or die. You either love it or hate it.Bladeling – Spiky goblin-like humanoids from Acheron. Seems bleh to me.Blood Ape – Apes that can enlarge themselves to Huge size. The jungles got a bit more dangerous.Boggle – They like to steal shiny objects. So this is like an ugly Kender?Bogun – Vegetable constructs! For those that think Homunculi are icky.Bone Naga – Look the dark naga got a new friend!Bone Ooze – Gargantuan ooze with tons of bones floating inside it. Finally an ooze that will scare my PCs!Braxat – A rhino/beetle with psionics?!? Umm… at least it hits hard.Breathdrinker – It looks like you and steals the breath from your lungs. Cool monster, so-so art.Bronze Serpent – A big scary bronze snake. Cool moster, cool art.Catoblepas – I don’t know what the heck this thing is, but death rays from the eyes! Ouch!!!Celestials – A satyr and a werewolf from Elysium. Useful for some planar ally.Chain Golem – A personal favorite. It slices, it dices. It is a freaking moving blender!!!!Chaos Roc – A colossal bird with prismatic spray. Don’t piss it off!Cloaked Ape – Take a monkey and cross it with a flying squirrel.Clockwork Horror – Their robots trying to take over the world. I like robots trying to take over the world. I can see an Electrum  and the Adamantine Horrors reconstructing Pinky and the Brian scenes.Cloud Ray – BIG desert flying manta rays. So cool. If you’ve seen Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust you’ve seen these guys.Corollax – A bright parrot that can do color spray. The first thing I thought of is a Bird of Paradise from Magic: the GatheringCorpse Gatherer – An animated graveyard that seeks to gain more bodies. This sucker just has a lot of nasty potential.Crisom Death – A favorite from 2E. But no mention of the possibility of this being a type of vampire that lost it’s physically body and survived.Darktentacles – Is this where Evard got his inspiration?Deathbringer – The undead general. His negative burst could be nasty with undead allies.Demon – A bunch of chainmail monsters (Abyssal Maw) then some interesting demons. My favorite is the everburing Palrethees, a demon that failed his BATs (Balor Apptitude Test)?Desmodu – Duna-duna-duna-duna! BATMAN! Sorry failed my Will save.Desmodu Bat – Big bats the Desmodu grow.Devil – Cool wasp devil thingy in here, the rest aren’t shabby either.Dinosaurs – Alright!!!! Plesiosaur, Allosaur, Ankylosaur, Quetzcoatlus, Seismosaur, and Spinosaur. Lost World here we come!Dire Animal – Mostly stuff from Masters of the WildGem Dragons – (Images of Amethyst telekinesising PCs, off walls, flash through head) Manical laughter follows. BADD will be happy.Dread Guard – Also known as Stygian Warrior in Myth 2: SoulblighterDune Stalker – Desert Monster, bleh.Effigy – Cool art. Don’t let this thing control you.Elemental Weird – Seers rock!Ehter Scarab – Ethereal vermin. whooppee…Ethereal Doopleganger – Just like a material doopleganger, only ethereal…Ethereal Slayer – Now this is an ethereal monster. Amubsh the PCs when they try to be sneaky and ethereal there way out of a problem.Famine Spirit – Open up and say “Ahhhh!”Felldrake – Chainmail monsters but cool ones.Fiendwurm – One day I’m an earthworm but now I’m really big, have a portal to the Abyss in my gut, and REALLY bad heartburn. Unless you have some Bigby-sized Tums don’t bug me.Fihyr – Look it’s a Feyr!Firbolg – Another giant with big swords.Fire Bats – “They propel themselves by expelling heated gases from tubes within their bodies…” Not quite a flumph but getting there.Flesh Jelly – A big blob o’ skin. Gross yet effective.Fomorian – U – G – L –Y You don’t need no alibi, you ugly!Forest Sloth – They aren’t slow and aren’t docile. Sloth is a misnomer here, think prehistoric sloth.Frost  Salamander – Ice lizards are cool… (pun intended)Galeb Duhr – Another 2e favoriteGamboi – Blue monkeys!Giant – Mountain giants are big.Glimmerskin – Pop goes the hero! Postive energy overload is soooo amusing…Golems – Stained glass, Brass, and Dragonflesh. Don’t let a dragon know you are making a dragonflesh golem.Gravecrawler – A intelligent slug they turns flesh to stone and sees dead people. Interesting potential.Gravog – a really big and hungry lemur?Greevise – It’s a Venus flytrap gone bad.Grell – They’re back…Grimalkin – A shapeshifting cat with 8 Int. Do they still like catnip?Grizzly Mastodon – More prehistoric fun.Half-fiend, Durzagon – What happens when a duergar gets a succubus drunk.Hellfire Wyrm – I’m thinking Shivan Dragon here. It’s from the Nine Hells and would make a great campaign villain.Hook Horror – Cool monster, so-so art.Immoth  - An ice giant, literally.Ixitxachiti – How do you pronounce that?Jahi – Possesion undead style!Jermlaine – Awww, look at the wittle little evil thingys… (My fiance’s reaction)Juggernaut – Now I know this is from Magic: the Gathering!Julamus – More blue monkeys!!!!!!!Kopru – Weird underwater monsters.Leechwalker – Ugh, a ball of leeches in humanoid from.Legendary Animals – More stuff from Masters of the Wild.Leviathan – The whale that ate Pittsburgh…Linnorms – A personal favorite fairy tale monster. These are large and in charge.Loxo – An elephant-man. The desc. doesn’t match the art exactly.Marrash – Looks like a Gnoll with wings.Meenlock – Shudder- These used to be humans? Ouch.Megalodon – Even more prehistoric fun.Megapede – My fiancé hates these things.Moonbeast – Lovecraft-type monsterMooncalf – I think this is from a WotC adventure.Moonrat – Rats that are intelligent during the full moon. The art for this speaks volumes.Morkoth – An underwater aberration. Who’s arm is sticking out of it’s mouth?Mudmaw – A croc with a weird mouth…Myconid – Alright!!! Mushroom people!!!Needlefolk – A plant person. Don’t squeeze the needlefolk.Neogi – Spelljammer favorites.Nethersight Mastiff – Because the shadow mastiffs weren’t enough.Nightmare Beast – The name says it all.Nimblewight- rapier-wielding constructs that hide among the living. Potential here.Ocean Strider – A killer whale giant. Cool art.Orcwort – Possibly my favorite monster from the book. It’s a tree that can move and make orc shaped “fruit” that goes out to grab some food (think people) for the tree.Ormyrr – I’d call this an aberration.Phase Wasp – Ouch those magic missles sting… (Another bad pun)Phoenix – D*** near unbeatable. Thank your lucky shoes this is NG. Of course if some evil DM decided there was an evil version…Planetouched – Aren’t lawful and chaotic planetouched already covered?Psurlon – An earthworm person. I’ll pass.Ragewind – Another blender.Raggamoffyn – This win the award for cutest name.Rampager – A big strong thing that hates metal. Regard beware.Reason Stealer- I eat intelligence. This would have starved on some people I know….Red Sundew – I guess they had a plant quota?Rogue Eidolon – These are freaky. I love the art.Rukarazyll – They should just say this is from the Far Realms.Runic Guardian – Shield Guardian 3000Shadow Spider – Anything from the Plane of Shadows can’t be nice.Sirine – Wins the award for 2nd cutest babe in the book. (See Sylph)Spawn of Kyuss – Wormy undead.Spell Weaver – I like the multi spellcasting ability.Spellguant – Magic items bewareSpirit of the Land – This is a cool idea. Are your PCs not being ecofriendly?Stone Spike – Is this a Chainmail monster?Swamplight Lynx – Lynx were underrepresented.Sylph – The winner of the Miss Monster Manual 2 crown.Tempest – A intelligent thunderstorm. Cool concept, I wouldn’t want to fight it.Teratomorph – Weird, just weird.Thri-keen – Dark sun favoriteTwig Blight – From the Sunless CitadelVaporighu – From Gehenna and hungryWindghost – Lovecraft-type monsterWyste – Lovecraft-type monsterYakfolk – Don’t underestimate the yakfolk they have some nice tricks up their sleeves.Yugoloth – Nice to see the ferrymen here.TemplatesCaptured One – For the Raggamoffyn abilityChimeric – a bleh template for me.Death Knight – Do I really need to comment on this one?Half-Golem – I kinda of like this idea.Monster of Legend – When you want to use a monster but need to bump up the CR. Great art.Spellstitched – Undead + Magic = PainTauric – This is so cool. Take X humanoid + X animal/beast/vermin and spit out a result.Titanic – Titanic Badger anybody?Warbeast – When the typical old Dire Badger won’t do for your gnome paladin whip out the Warbeast Dire Badger (O’ Doom)OGCRazor Boar – Don’t cross these in a forest or anywhere else.Scorpionfolk – Isn’t this already covered by the Stingers?Well that wraps it up. If you’d like a more specific/serious opinion I might try after I get some sleep. ;-)  All in all I think the MM2 is a good book overall. But both the art and monsters are hit or miss.</blockquote>

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