Neglected Monsters

[shilsen]

The antwerp gets no love.

(500 Nightchilde Points if you get the reference)

That's because the Two Guys from Andromeda wiped them out. Can I have my points to go now?

More on-topic...

Anyone ever run into an Astral Dreadnaught? I haven't ever used one of these suckers in any of my games. And I don't think I've ever seen a behir used (though it does have a pretty cool mini). Or a rast.

Never used or run into an astral dreadnaught, but I think there were some dead rasts in RttToEE. And I have fought a behir in 2e, IIRC. Nasty.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I used a behir once. The dwarf ftr/brb with a greataxe got swallowed, and much to his chagrin he had no light weapons

After that, they all started carrying around daggers and handaxes and such.

 

[Gez]

Antwerp? Ain't it a city? (Also known as Antwerpen and Anvers.)

The Astral Dreadnought is a monster I'll definitely use ASAP. But planar adventuring is relatively niche.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Sadly, the umber hulk is underused in WotC material. (Obviously, as non-OGC it's seldom-if-ever used outside of Wizards' products.) It's an intelligent monster that's just so easy to underestimate. With its burrow speed it can really surprise players, and with their social habits... they just have lots of possibilities.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Sadly, the umber hulk is underused in WotC material.

For some reason it often seems to turn up dead or dying in WotC illustrations - it must be the most killed monster in the books! (Ember and dead UH, psychic warrior demonstrating deep impact)

I think the UH lost its love when it's physique was slimmed down from the old (Hulk) version to the current (Popeye) version. Who wants to use bug versions of Popeye?

Cheers

 

[Voadam]

Anyone ever run into an Astral Dreadnaught? I haven't ever used one of these suckers in any of my games. And I don't think I've ever seen a behir used (though it does have a pretty cool mini). Or a rast.

Ran into an astral dreadnought in an old campaign before 3e. Ran into a behir in Banewarrens.

I don't really care for the rast or ravids so I'm not disappointed I haven't run into them or used them.

 

[Zweischneid]

Anyone used Grey Renders?

Most certainly. Like hinted at in the Monster Manual (3.0 that is) I played the whole King Kong story of Grey Render bonding to a Player Character, following the group around, brining in food and protecting him from any real or imagined harm. Great, great fun indeed. I can highly recommend that chap.

 

[Warrior Poet]

. . . And I have fought a behir in 2e, IIRC. Nasty.

The first behir I remember was in the old Dungeonland modules from 1st edition, the ones based on Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland and Through the Lookinglass books. The classic hookah-smoking caterpillar is a behir.

Nasty is right.

Actually, for truly weird gaming, those modules rocked. The Mad Hatter, the March Hare, heck, as I recall, the Carpenter was like a 12th level fighter or something, and the Jack (Knave) of Hearts was like an 18th level thief (it's been awhile since I've flipped through those, so I may be messing up some of those numbers), and the Tortoise was a polymorphed Dragon Turtle (talk about a monster you don't see much of . . .), etc.

Thanks,

Warrior Poet

 

[Mourngrymn Dasha'r]

Anyone ever run into an Astral Dreadnaught? I haven't ever used one of these suckers in any of my games.

I was forced to run into one in this current campaign I am in. My character's bright idea at solving a trap sent him temporarily into the astral plane where, low-and-behold, and Astral Dreadnaught just happened to be passing by. So it decided to see what I was doing bothering his area of influence. Luckily just before he decided to remove my from my misery my party finally found a way to get me back, but not before a good insanity hit me for thinking about being lost or eaten in the void of astral space. It was a good palm sweaty experience.

 

[The Lemon Merchant]

Some of my nominations would include Perytons (Classic D&D; are these even in D&D anymore?)

I believe these guys are in Monsters of Faerun