Spiders in Drow of the Underdark

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Spiderboobies?

All this discussion of spider parts and spider porn disgust my grandma. Shameless, I tell you!


Edit: Just got a great idea! MM VI, the Compleat Book of Spiders! Every monster is a MMI critter crossed with a spider. Ooze spiders, plant spiders, dragons with spider legs, insect spiders, drow spiders -- wait, they've done that one -- goblin spiders, dwarf spiders ...

 

[Klaus]

Those just don't look like shoes to me.

I agree. Looks more like a segmented chitin-covered foot.

Either that or sapatons (armored shoes).

 

[Kae'Yoss]

All this discussion of spider parts and spider porn disgust my grandma. Shameless, I tell you!


Edit: Just got a great idea! MM VI, the Compleat Book of Spiders!

Just got a great idea, too: Let's never make such a book!

Every monster is a MMI critter crossed with a spider. Ooze spiders, plant spiders, dragons with spider legs, insect spiders, drow spiders -- wait, they've done that one -- goblin spiders, dwarf spiders ...

Spider Monkeys?

 

[IceFractal]

I don't demand perfect realism, but c'mon - I just went to google images, typed in "spider", and on the first page there were three diagrams and a number of pictures showing that spiders have two body segments. And also - legs coming from the abdomen - that's just stupid, it'd be like having arms growing from your neck. Nothing has legs growing from its abdomen.


And I think people would notice if they did this on a humanoid, fantasy or not. I mean, imagine a new species of Orc that was drawn with a second chest above the first one, legs attached directly to its stomach, arms growing from it's neck, and a sideways mouth.

That could be a cool monster, but it makes me think "horribly deformed aberration" instead of "fantasy humanoid".

 

[Klaus]

Now, in all seriousness, while I think the OP went a bit too hard on the illustrations, I do google up pictures of actual spiders when I have to >shudder< draw one, and I try to have some variety, instead of using tarantulas for everything.

Counter Collection: Untamed Woodlands and Counter Collection: Ancient Darkness both have several spider counters (they're Forest and Underground, respectively).

 

[Sound of Azure]

Compleat

I've been wondering about this for a while... what is up with that spelling? Is this one of those "cool" miss-spellings or something? [/spelling nazi]

 

[DMH]

I've been wondering about this for a while... what is up with that spelling? Is this one of those "cool" miss-spellings or something? [/spelling nazi]

It was used by WoTC for the title of 2 or 3 books back in the 90's. I have the Compleat Alchemist.

 

[pawsplay]

I've been wondering about this for a while... what is up with that spelling? Is this one of those "cool" miss-spellings or something? [/spelling nazi]

It used to be a conventional spelling, and it was "cool" well into the early 20th century to sometimes spell something that way to convey certain connotations. Complete can mean entire and well wrought as well as simply "all there."

Bard Games had a series of "Compleat" books as well.

Another place the word crops up is the "Compleat Knight," a phrase used often by writers of chivalric romances.