Monsters new to 3E?

[CRGreathouse]

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[Vanye]

IDoes this look accurate to everyone?

The grey render is very similar in concept to a monster that appeared in the FR Boxed Set Ruins of Zhentil Keep, but I don't recall specifically what it was called, maybe the mage render? Something like that, I think....

 

[Shemeska]

Ethergaunts were introduced in 3e.

 

[Razz]

The Darkmantle was a total re-work of the 2E Piercer. I read that somewhere on the WotC website on an article they recently had.

 

[SteelDraco]

I could have sworn that the Tojanda were from the Planescape monster book about the Inner Planes, but I don't have my copy here to confirm that.

 

[CRGreathouse]

The Darkmantle was a total re-work of the 2E Piercer. I read that somewhere on the WotC website on an article they recently had.

Ah, thank you -- I was able to track this down, since I knew what to look for. I missed that the first time around.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/alumni/20060927a

 

[Kunimatyu]

Does anyone else remember the quote about design principles on the new 3E monsters?

I'm not sure, but most of these have very little 'traction' as new monsters.

I do like the chuul and grick, but none of the others have really come up, and some are just downright awful, both in a flavor and mechanics sense.

 

[the Jester]

The grey render is very similar in concept to a monster that appeared in the FR Boxed Set Ruins of Zhentil Keep, but I don't recall specifically what it was called, maybe the mage render? Something like that, I think....

It was just called the Render back then, and it was unique.

I like it better as a species, personally...

The spider eater is very similar to the 1e giant wasp (or "wasp, giant" if you're precision-minded).

There are more in later books, of course, but I think that list about covers the 3e Monster Manual (1).

 

[Ion]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Sean K Reynolds designed the Krenshar for 3E to fill the low level fear monster gap.

 

[Remathilis]

If I'm not entirely wrong, the % of new monster would ROUGHLY be.

MM 8-10%
MM2 40-50%
FF 90-95%
MM3 100% (correction, probably 90-95%, forgot the 'Loths)
MM4 100% (not counting monsters who already appeared in MM in some form).

Those are rough numbers though...