Monster sources

[BOZ]

Just checking; anyone know the original sources for the following D&D monsters? (I have an idea for each of them, but I want to see who knows more than I do.)

Archer Bush
Cave Fisher
Eye Killer
Symbiotic Jelly
Basidirond
Ascomoid
Death Watch Beetle
Trapper
Crypt Thing

 

[Morpheus]

Just checking; anyone know the original sources for the following D&D monsters? (I have an idea for each of them, but I want to see who knows more than I do.)

Cave Fisher

A4: In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords. Man, I loved that module...

 

[EricNoah]

My first memory of the ascomoid is Dragon magazine...

 

[cildarith]

Just checking; anyone know the original sources for the following D&D monsters? (I have an idea for each of them, but I want to see who knows more than I do.)

Eye Killer
Symbiotic Jelly

Eye Killer = White Dwarf #7

Symbiotic Jelly = White Dwarf #8 (where it was called Chaoticus Symbioticus)

Trapper = The Strategic Review #5

 

[BOZ]

My first memory of the ascomoid is Dragon magazine...

quite right: Dragon #68 - (Featured Creatures, E. Gary Gygax) - anyone know the month/year off hand?

 

[BOZ]

i knew cildarith would be by to lend a hand.

Eye Killer = White Dwarf #7

Symbiotic Jelly = White Dwarf #8 (where it was called Chaoticus Symbioticus)

Trapper = The Strategic Review #5

got month/year and authorship for those my friend?

 

[cildarith]

White Dwarf #7 = June/July 1978

White Dwarf #8 = August/September 1978

The Strategic Review #5 = December 1975

Dragon #68 = December 1982 (also includes the Basidirond)

The authors for the Eye Killer and Symbiotic Jelly are as listed in the back of the [1E] Fiend Folio.

EGG authored the Trapper, Ascomoid, and Basidirond.

 

[BOZ]

cool

 

[BOZ]

here are some clues to jog the memory. i found the following in these sources, let me know if you think they were in something previously - or if you know they were not.

Archer Bush (D&D module B3 Palace of the Silver Princess)
Death Watch Beetle (AD&D first edition Monster Manual II)
Crypt Thing – (AD&D first edition Fiend Folio)

 

[BOZ]

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