Silly Monsters

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

Ah, yes. The umblepy. I forgot about that one. I'm pretty sure that they were based off of the big orange hair monster from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons.

That automatically makes me take a shine to it. Does it have damage reduction 15/Giving it a Perm using Dynamite Instead of Curling Irons?

And I for one always thought the Flumph was cool. I wouldn't with it. As to why it's lawful good...

I'm electing the vampiric manta rays from the Monster Manual 2 who's names are impossible to pronounce and appear to be generated by arbitrarily slamming a keyboard for my favourite silly monster. Either them, or the Famine Spirit, which fails to be horrifying and succeeds in wanting me to give it a hug. Several of the fiends in the 3e Fiend Folio have the same effect, but at the same time, others from that book are awesome looking.

 

[Sejs]

I'm electing the vampiric manta rays from the Monster Manual 2 who's names are impossible to pronounce and appear to be generated by arbitrarily slamming a keyboard for my favourite silly monster

In my group we always just called them "the Ickies" because, eh, it was close enough.

 

[demiurge1138]

The funny thing is that the name (ixitchatitl? maybe?) and concept were taken from Central American mythology, as was the ahuitzol, which might have been one of the monsters that DR's T might have been talking about (it's an otter, but it gouges out your eyes with a hand on its tail!)

Speaking of the 3e Fiend Folio, I'm not the only one who thinks that the century worm looks like a giant penis, am I? Please say I'm not hallucinating.

Demiurge out.

 

[Sejs]

It's not just you.


The century worm is a titanic ding-a-ling gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Somebody had other things on their mind while they were working on that piece.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

I'd vote for the Mooncalf from Nightfang spire. My group still giggle at that monster months later... even if it did eat one of them.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

There's an astoundingly similar thread on rpg.net that can be found here.

Unsurprisingly, many of the same conclusions were reached.

I love how everybody pretends not to know what monster they're talking about. It's like going to a porno shop in the South.

"Yeah, you know that one monster? What was it called? The green snake thing with a beak and four tentacles? Has, like, damage resistance? It's on some dumb page like '139' or something? Starts with a 'g' and ends with a 'k?' Anybody know what I'm talking about?"

"Oh yeah, I think they're 'gricks.' I used them last week...in my GURPS game...of course...and we played it...diceless...yeah...uh...yeah!"

 

[dren]

A lot of the monsters mentioned on this thread, I not only like but have used: the Abeill or bee people, the flumph, executioner's hood, phantom fungus, grell and grick. One of my old players used to dispise the giff. But given the right description and in the right scenario, most of these can be used as described.

A truly silly monster, probably the minature giant space hamster takes the cake for me. The Umblepy, is downright dumb. And I won't even comment on the century worm...for fear of using perjoratives.

 

[demiurge1138]

I don't know why either the grell or the grick get such hatred. Squid-snakes and floating brains are attacked while bipedal beetles with gaze attacks and mimics are ignored? I don't get it.

I can see a phantom fungus being used in the right situations, but I think people's issues with it stem from its genesis as "oh, we need a low CR monster that has an invisibility mechanic". That and the illustration is pretty silly. Never underestimate the impact of an illustration on a monster's percieved status (such as when Di Telrizzi helped make modrons cool).

Demiurge out.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

I don't know why either the grell or the grick get such hatred. Squid-snakes and floating brains are attacked while bipedal beetles with gaze attacks and mimics are ignored? I don't get it.

I can see a phantom fungus being used in the right situations, but I think people's issues with it stem from its genesis as "oh, we need a low CR monster that has an invisibility mechanic". That and the illustration is pretty silly. Never underestimate the impact of an illustration on a monster's percieved status (such as when Di Telrizzi helped make modrons cool).

Demiurge out.

Gricks rule. I ran one of the best tension filled encounters when the PCs landed on this tropical island covered with ruins. They follow one down until they get to this primitive ritual chamber covered with holes. Gricks start pouring out of them and after getting a bit of a dust-up and realizing that they're in over their heads they hightail it and spend a tense night hiding from prowling gricks.

"Grick, grick, grick." *the beak clicks* "Grick, grick, grick..."

 

[Feathercircle]

Let us not forget the Executioner's Hood.

Hope you're carrying a lot of booze.

Edit: I just remembered the Mek. Meks were 25 foot tall robots, supposedly created by an ancient race of sorcerers; essentially a “Mech”.
I couldn't find it in the AD&D books so I'm assuming it's from D&D rather than AD&D.

They're in my Mystara monstrous compendium, so presumably they made the jump to AD&D at some point.

Speaking of the 3e Fiend Folio, I'm not the only one who thinks that the century worm looks like a giant penis, am I? Please say I'm not hallucinating.

Demiurge out.

Unfortunatly, you're not... ::shudder::

Meanwhile, I'd like to nominate the paelyrion. A fiend... with bad makeup. I would really, really, like to take this thing seriously, but the lipstick and rouge sort of ruin that for me. As far as I'm concerned, they're only useful as an insult.

"Hey, you! The arcanaloth with all the damn silver piercings! You dress so godawful that you make a paelyrion look fashionable!"