D&D (2024) Quotes from the Monster Manual

[Umbran]

So it's N A U G H T Y W O R D

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[Black Dougal]

I love the quotes and trying to track some of them down to their original mentions/sources. I also enjoyed the Motorhead Easter Egg for the Azer.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

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My apologies to the board for writing the word 'naughty word'.

 

[SteveC]

Because, as we know, tweens never curse.

I don't think that's the point. There is a point about the age level that's appropriate for language. I know that I was reading D&D at age 9 and that would have made the book off limits to me at that age. I am forever grateful that some of the artwork didn't get it banned for me at the time.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Yeah, I'll be honest - I was surprised to see that in a book marketed for 12 and up.

I think the American PG-13 rating allows the F word to be said once in a movie, no idea how often the S word is allowed.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I love how absolutely obscure some of these references are. The crawling claw entry has a quote from the 2e Ravenloft supplement "Van Richten's Guide to the Created", for example.

I suspected it did, for the Slaad entry I actually checked the Planes of Chaos boxed set, and saw that they completely pulled the quote from there.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Is it naughty word or naughty word or something else?

Well if we use the Cockney Rhyming slang that Planescape often used for words such as "Berk" being "Berkely Hunt" which rhymes with something.

Then the appropriate Cockney Rhyming slang would be "Brad Pitt"

 

[Scribe]

 

[pukunui]

I think the American PG-13 rating allows the F word to be said once in a movie, no idea how often the S word is allowed.

Now I know that the 80s were a different time. However, Back to the Future is PG and it features the S word many times. It's the sort of thing you don't really notice when you're a kid yourself, but when you're sitting there watching with your own kids for the first time, they really stand out!

 

[TravDoc42]

I somehow missed in my first read-through that it's  the blob of annihilation, singular, like the tarrasque. All this talk about that flavour quote made me realize that!

Also, "The Blob lobs a slimy glob" is an EXCELLENT sentence.