Silly Monsters

[Tav_Behemoth]

Gelatinous cubes are the iconic D&D monster for me.

The first time I ever played D&D, a friend's mom helped us all roll up characters: 3d6, no re-rolls, first level heroes straight out of the blue box Basic Set. Needless to say, half of us were well below average in all sorts of important ways, like having 1 hit point.

We walked down a dungeon corridor and right into a gelatinous cube. No one could see it, none of us had any idea what was going on, many of us died before the DM told us to burn it with our torches. It was all gloriously vivid in my mind.

Those of us that survived brought our characters over to play with the big kids, who were going through Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, where poison gas in every room caused something like 1 hit point every turn. We lived long enough to see just one of the illustrations. That was glorious too!

 

[demiurge1138]

Now, gelatinous cubes are pretty silly, but what about the black pudding? Why, exactly, are they puddings? Was Gygax traumatized by some Jello Instant when he was young? Was he really reaching for a synonym for "ooze"?

Needless to say, large vats marked "pudding" have turned up in kitchens in games I DM several times.

Demiurge out.

 

[Chris Tavares]

Now, gelatinous cubes are pretty silly, but what about the black pudding? Why, exactly, are they puddings? Was Gygax traumatized by some Jello Instant when he was young? Was he really reaching for a synonym for "ooze"?

Needless to say, large vats marked "pudding" have turned up in kitchens in games I DM several times.

Demiurge out.

On a recent business trip to England, I discovered that there is an english breakfast sausage called "black pudding", and it looked a lot like a more solid version of the nasty creature we all love.

At least that's what I tell myself.

And no, I didn't try one.

 

[AIM-54]

Oh, the gelatinous cube. In a relatively recent adventure we ran into these creatures in a sewer crawl. My character (a half-orc monk with an intelligence of 6 and a wisdom of 20) managed to fail both the reflex save to avoid it in the first place (he had improved evasion at this point, no less) and the fort save against the paralyzing poison. Having lost all physical senses, he had clearly transcended to Nirvana and was rather upset when the party "rescued" him. It should be noted that the Paladin also managed to get absorbed by the damn thing.

 

[drakhe]

Probably gross for some but .... it realy is.....

On a recent business trip to England, I discovered that there is an english breakfast sausage called "black pudding", and it looked a lot like a more solid version of the nasty creature we all love.

At least that's what I tell myself.

And no, I didn't try one.

For those among you who might not realise: the black puding sausage is actualy made with blood, no joke! The basic ingredients for black pudding are bread crumbs, onion and blood. Depending on geography other ingredients might be added (generaly different kinds of vegetable and or herbs). The sausages are eaten cooked or baked. In Belgium (where I live) it's also a very well liked delicacy, eaten with apple sauce or on bbq. We also have a white version (but duno what goes into them).

So next time you fight a black pudding, just imagine the thing in sausage skin andstart the barbeque

 

[Macbeth]

The blues, from Psionics Handbook (not sure if their in the Expanded Psionics Handbook). They're not normal goblins, their PSIONIC goblins. And they're blue.

 

[Munin]

their PSIONIC goblins. And they're blue.

Smurfs?

 

[Macbeth]

Smurfs?

PSIONIC Smurfs.

 

[jmucchiello]

Seriously, though, I love gelationous cubes. It's a classic D&D monster, right up there with beholders and displacer beasts.

Don't you mean right up there with the rust monster? Hmmm, party has a lot of cool metal stuff.... I'll attack them with this flat lizard thing with a propeller on its tail that eats rust!

 

[Pyrex]

I can hardly believe the thread got this far and no one mentioned the Disenchanter Beast.

And of course we need the Disenchanter, because the rust monster only eats metal magic items...