The 'classic' monsters: Who made 'em?

[Krug]

Interesting piece in Dungeon #100 (excellent issue, btw) and how Charlie Stross (whose website is at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/) came up with the Githyanki for the Fiend Factory monster column in pre-GW-inhouse-newsletter White Dwarf.

So what about other 'classic' D&D Monsters? Beholders? Illithid? F...F...Flumph? (The gnome made me say it!)

 

[Gez]

The Xill may be traced back to the Ixtl of Van Vogt's Voyage of the Space Beagle. The displacer beast's look comes from the Couerl of the same book, but its powers are different.

The Tome of Horrors lists the authors of each of the creature herein, including the Flumph.

 

[BOZ]

Interesting piece in Dungeon #100 (excellent issue, btw) and how Charlie Stross (whose website is at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/) came up with the Githyanki for the Fiend Factory monster column in pre-GW-inhouse-newsletter White Dwarf.

i remember reading an interview that a planescape fan did with him. he barely remembered creating the githyanki and githzerai (and slaad too?) and could only tell the guy a little bit about them.

 

[johnsemlak]

E Gary Gygax wrote an excellent piece on how he come up with all the different colored dragons (Black, Green Blue, etc.) in his Slayers Guide to Dragons

 

[BOZ]

So what about other 'classic' D&D Monsters? Beholders? Illithid? F...F...Flumph? (The gnome made me say it!)

well, gygax did the majority of them. but of course, there are a number of others that were not his creation... why not post a question on the EGG Q&A thread?

 

[D'karr]

Beholder - Terry Kuntz.

The Q&A with Gary has most of this information.

 

[Southern Oracle]

In one of her seminars at GenCon 2001, Jean Rabe talked about creating the froghemoth. She said she also was responsible for "converting" the dragons from 1st to 2nd edition.

 

[Mark]

(The gnome made me say it!)

Uh-oh...

 

[Piratecat]

Our own Plane Sailing made the shadow demon, the quillan and the stunjelly! I think I've mentioned to him that he could have created any number of goofy monsters, but the shadow demon makes up for all of them.

 

[Henry]

I think I've mentioned to him that he could have created any number of goofy monsters, but the shadow demon makes up for all of them.

AAAH! How dare you! The Shadow Demon was my 3rd favorite monster of all time, right behind the Beholder and the Mind Flayer! Of course, putting one on the D&D cartoon didn't hurt, either!

Was it just me, or did the D&D Cartoon seem like an advertisement for the Fiend Folio? There were Phantom Stalkers, Lolth, Shadow Demon, Bullywugs, and several others I cannot remember right now.