Shade
Monster Junkie
I just posted the following news item to the CC:
A special valentine
This latest batch is special, as all of these conversions were submitted by BOZ and myself to Dragon Magazine (and one to Dungeon Magazine) before the print version came to end. While they never saw publication, some of the other creatures from the same articles did. When the magazines were moved to an online format, we resubmitted them, but have not heard anything back in over 6 months. It seems the focus of the online Dragon is to preview 4th edition now, so we decided to post them. In a way, it is a homecoming for these creatures. We hope you enjoy them.
The draknor, gohlbrorn, voor larva, and eater of knowledge were packages as part of our very first published article, "Monsters of the Mind" in Dragon Magazine #337. The draknor is one of my all-time favorite creatures, and I lobbied hard for its inclusion but it was probably too high in level (and too high in word count!) to make the cut.
The archer bush, quickling, Moilian heart, and vampire moss were intended for the Creature Catalogue, along with a few other creatures that ultimately made the cut for Creature Catalogue VI (cave fisher, maedar, obliviax, and scarecrow). I was really hoping the quickling would make the cut, as it's long been my favorite fey and I thought it turned out very well.
The leprechaun was intended for the Wandering Monster feature in Dungeon Magazine. We did manage to get one creature into this feature (the black willow in #149). The leprechaun update was alot of fun, particularly including the variants.
The final creature, Gruaglothor, wasn't actually submitted, as the Dragon staff never asked for his stats. But since the rest of the ferrous dragons did get published, I thought I'd round out this batch of 10 with the Supreme Dragon.
A special valentine
This latest batch is special, as all of these conversions were submitted by BOZ and myself to Dragon Magazine (and one to Dungeon Magazine) before the print version came to end. While they never saw publication, some of the other creatures from the same articles did. When the magazines were moved to an online format, we resubmitted them, but have not heard anything back in over 6 months. It seems the focus of the online Dragon is to preview 4th edition now, so we decided to post them. In a way, it is a homecoming for these creatures. We hope you enjoy them.
The draknor, gohlbrorn, voor larva, and eater of knowledge were packages as part of our very first published article, "Monsters of the Mind" in Dragon Magazine #337. The draknor is one of my all-time favorite creatures, and I lobbied hard for its inclusion but it was probably too high in level (and too high in word count!) to make the cut.
The archer bush, quickling, Moilian heart, and vampire moss were intended for the Creature Catalogue, along with a few other creatures that ultimately made the cut for Creature Catalogue VI (cave fisher, maedar, obliviax, and scarecrow). I was really hoping the quickling would make the cut, as it's long been my favorite fey and I thought it turned out very well.
The leprechaun was intended for the Wandering Monster feature in Dungeon Magazine. We did manage to get one creature into this feature (the black willow in #149). The leprechaun update was alot of fun, particularly including the variants.
The final creature, Gruaglothor, wasn't actually submitted, as the Dragon staff never asked for his stats. But since the rest of the ferrous dragons did get published, I thought I'd round out this batch of 10 with the Supreme Dragon.
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And too bad the online Dragon won't do old submissions (like mine) Now, according to some discussions, there were supposed to be 12 (count 'em, 12!) ferrous dragon species originally. Which, by coincidence, is also the total number of species each I have for the chromatic, gem, and metallic dragon families in my Grand Dragon Project proposal submission (pretty ambitious, eh?). And there are the rock dragons as well. Maybe I ought to dig my hands back into that rock dragon thread Krishnath started and revive the stalled pyrite dragon, as well as get started on the limestone/marble dragon.
