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[Thread Game] D&D Monsters A-Z

Richards

Legend
Ethereal Marauder:

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Johnathan
 

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Echohawk

Shirokinukatsukami fan
Yep, the Astral Dreadnought's first appearance was, I believe, on the cover of the AD&D 1E Manual of the Planes (which ended up being rather odd, as the creature wasn't mentioned at all in the book's interior).
It did get mentioned inside, but at that time it was still an ethereal dreadnought. The section on illusions/phantasms, on page 19, says: "An illusionist creates a phantasmal force of a large ethereal dreadnought (see the cover of the book)." When the artwork was reused for 1991 AD&D Trading Card #261, it became an astral dreadnought. As far as I know, it is one of only two creatures given statistics for the first time on one of the Trading Cards.
 








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