Monster Manual II Art Gallery!

[BOZ]

In keeping with the non-gender-specific naming scheme of 3E ("lizardfolk" instead of "lizardman," "merfolk" instead of "merman" and "mermaid," etc.), the creature will be a "Spawn of Kyuss."

BOOOOOO!!!!!

 

[BOZ]

Does anybody know anything about the doomguard creature? Is it just the ps faction(OOO i hope so), or just a creature named doom guard? I remember they were in Lord of hte iron fortress, but i didn't check it out.

my best guess is that it's a ravenloft creature, an animated suit of armor.

 

[Nightfall]

You're just the only one fanatical enough about the Scarred Lands to notice.

That may be so Meepo. But not too long ago, a source of mine told me that there WOULD be some Creature Collection monsters IN this book. I have very little reason to doubt him since he is in a position to know such things.

Knight Otu,

You know, looking at it now, it's possible. Course I'm wondering if they added in the Lighting Hawk...

 

[Grazzt]

my best guess is that it's a ravenloft creature, an animated suit of armor.

Yeppers- you are correct, Boz-man.

 

[Nightfall]

I remember Doomguard from my old 2nd edition copy of Monstrous Compenidum HC.

 

[jrtyler]

And this isn't all the monsters, it's just the Huge ones, I think...

I think you're right about it not being all the monsters. If nothing else we know the Yak-Men are back (from the D&D Fight Club entry at WotC) and I didn't see a picture for them.

John Tyler

 

[orbitalfreak]

The front page of the article says 150+ illustrations, and a quick count of the images in the article brings up 132. Counting pictures in which multiple creatures appear, total figures depicted is around 148-151 or so (I lost count). I'm pretty sure that there's a few more works of artistry that we're left to discover when the book hits the shelves.

As for the Gem Dragons, they look bad. Maybe if the image was bigger and I could see more detail, I might would change my mind; as of right now, though, they are many leagues away from the quality of the 10 Main Dragons in MM1.

 

[Celebrim]

"...I might would change my mind; as of right now, though, they are many leagues away from the quality of the 10 Main Dragons..."

Haven't they always been many leagues away from the quality of the 10 main dragons?

Seriously though, how many dragons does one campaign need anyway? If you've got 30 dragon species, where do they all fit? What is the minimum size of a viable dragon breeding population, especially assuming that every so often, a group of humans, dwarves, and elves comes along and bumps off an adult dragon?

 

[Marshall]

Re: Disappointment in the Monsters

Greetings

Looking through the art work, and I was distracted from the beauty by how many monsters that are in other 3rd ed. publications already. Reprinting materials was(is?) one of the major flaws from old wizards/TSR works.

Noticed that too. Disappointing. Could have put in more of the critters overlooked in MM1 and instead just reprinted a collection of other source and Web-Enhanced material.

Wheres the Brownie? Wheres the Mercury Dragon? or Yellow Dragon?

 

[Aitch Eye]

And this isn't all the monsters, it's just the Huge ones, I think...

When they said "size-Huge art gallery," I think they were referring to the size of the gallery. Unless they've really reworked the sylph and the spriggan. [edit: I guess the minimum 4 extra feet needed to get the spriggan's giant size up to huge the might not be all that incongruous . I was thinking of the illustration of the size differences rather than the actual ranges.]

Seriously though, how many dragons does one campaign need anyway? If you've got 30 dragon species, where do they all fit?

Why would all of them have to exist in a single campaign to be useful? Does every other monster in the books have to exist in every campaign? I always assumed that people would pick and choose what they liked. I could personally do without most of the chromatic dragons, so it's nice to have the choices; particularly the linnorms.