Nilbog! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhh!!!!!

[doseyclwn]

Any stories?

 

[Halivar]

Isn't that the name of the town from Trolls 2 where the trolls were turning people into plants and eating them?

 

[demiurge1138]

Yes. Yes it is. But it's also the name of one of the craziest monsters to make it into the Fiend Folio. They're literally backwards goblins. The only way to harm them is to use healing spells, as they gain temporary hit points when hit with actual damage. And they have an aura that makes everyone within act completely oppositely to their normal personality.

And, if ever I was to run them, they talk like Bizarro.

Demiurge out.

 

[BOZ]

Bizarro Murphy: For the last time cretins, where is the Destruct-O-Beam?
Quinn: Look, we don't have one of those.
Murphy: Just give him the damn beans!
Quinn: We don't have a beam.
Bizarro Murphy: The Destruct-O-Beam is the most powerful destructive weapon ever wrought by man. Capable of vaporizing earth into... vapor.
Sparks: Why would we blow up the earth... where we are? Right now?
Bizarro Murphy: Because it's Bizarro.
Sparks: It's stupid.
Bizarro Murphy: Bizarro.
Sparks: Stupid!

 

[Wycen]

Bizarro Murphy: For the last time cretins, where is the Destruct-O-Beam?
Quinn: Look, we don't have one of those.
Murphy: Just give him the damn beans!
Quinn: We don't have a beam.
Bizarro Murphy: The Destruct-O-Beam is the most powerful destructive weapon ever wrought by man. Capable of vaporizing earth into... vapor.
Sparks: Why would we blow up the earth... where we are? Right now?
Bizarro Murphy: Because it's Bizarro.
Sparks: It's stupid.
Bizarro Murphy: Bizarro.
Sparks: Stupid!

Bizarro Murphy: Yes, Bizarro Debbie, take him away for interrogation, Bizarro style...

 

[BlueBlackRed]

NILBOG is the solution to a word puzzle in Might & Magic VI.
I spent two hours figuring out the puzzle in a dungeon that contained mostly goblins, only to find the solution was "goblin" spell backwards.

Kind of irritating.

 

[MDSnowman]

Bizarro Murphy: Yes, Bizarro Debbie, take him away for interrogation, Bizarro style...

Bizzaro Quinn: BIZARRO I LOVE YOU!

 

[mythusmage]

I first saw this in a very early issue of White Dwarf, then a D&D/RPG zine published in Britain.

 

[JustKim]

NILBOG is the solution to a word puzzle in Might & Magic VI.
I spent two hours figuring out the puzzle in a dungeon that contained mostly goblins, only to find the solution was "goblin" spell backwards.

Kind of irritating.

Good to hear someone else plays Might & Magic, I hope that puzzle didn't turn you off to the series. It's a lot less difficult if you read a scroll in the dungeon basement written by the "Drawkcab Monks", which tells what letter does what.

 

[the Jester]

Soooo... any stories?

C'mon, where are the old-skoolers??

(though I must admit that I don't recall fighting a nilbog off hand, and I've been a hardcore gamer since 1981...)