[Tangental] Out of the Brunching Ashes, a RatingsPhoenix arises

[Pielorinho]

The Brunching Shuttlecocks is dead. Long Live the Book of Ratings!

And there couldn't be a more appropriate kickoff set of ratings: D&D Monsters, Part I.

An excerpt:

Displacer Beast

As far as I know, the idea of a six-legged panther with squid tentacles that looks like it's somewhere other than it really is originated in the mind of D&D creator E. Gary Gygax, possibly as the result of blunt trauma. Not that I'm complaining. The displacer beast is an excellent example of synergy; a panther with squid parts is considerably more intimidating than a squid strapped to a panther. My main complaint with the name. Not only is it alarmingly prosaic, shouldn't it be called a "displacing beast"? We don't call flying fish "flyer fish." We don't refer to the Ukrainian burrowing elk as a "Ukrainian burrower elk." On the other hand we do have leafcutter ants and nipple-kisser voles, but it just sounds wrong to me. B+

Hee hee hee!
Daniel

 

[Teflon Billy]

Brunching Shuttlecocks are gone

This is a sad, sad day.

 

[MythosaAkira]

Yep. Though I enjoyed the obscure M*A*S*H reference on their debriefing page...

 

[Pielorinho]

One bump and one bump only, for today's crowd -- the D&D ratings are pretty great, and I love to share .

Daniel

 

[Kweezil]

Book of Ratings is good, but it lacks the joy of Bandwidth Theatre. I went to BrunchingShuttlecocks as soon as I saw this post, but alas, they seem to be gone.

"Those who question the word of Lore shall be tied naked to steel scaffolds and beaten with cement-filled milkjugs!"

"Can't move... being crushed by... 11-HD aberration."

 

[KB9JMQ]

Brunching Gone ????
A sad day indeed.

I had a feeling it was coming since the updates had been so sporadic in the last few months

 

[Psion]

Beholders are much cooler than that. Their array of eyes is a veritable snack machine of doom, provided said snack machine was stocked with deadly magic rays. And Funyuns. Gotta have Funyuns.

Get in my .sig!