Unconverted Polyhedron creatures
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Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
Now that I compare the stat blocks in Polyhedron #129 with MC11, it does appear that way. The stat blocks are nearly the same, but there are some differences. Not significant enough to warrant a separate conversion though, so I'll drop them from the list.
Was Polyhedron #129 the first time saurials/lacerials appeared in print? And if so, I wonder why were they renamed in their subsequent appearances?
As a complete aside, I've just noticed that the Table of Contents for MC11 has page numbers. For a set of unnumbered loose-leaf pages. That's not very useful!
Was Polyhedron #129 the first time saurials/lacerials appeared in print? And if so, I wonder why were they renamed in their subsequent appearances?
As a complete aside, I've just noticed that the Table of Contents for MC11 has page numbers. For a set of unnumbered loose-leaf pages. That's not very useful!
Shade
Monster Junkie
Echohawk said:
I'm not sure...I'd normally turn to you for such information.
I'd hazard to guess that they were simply renamed for the Malatra/Living Jungle campaign setting. The first saurial appearance I can remember was in Curse of the Azure Bonds (good ol' Dragonbait).
Echohawk said:
No, it isn't!
Garnfellow
Explorer
I think I have all of the first 30 issues or so, and I think there are a few more critters I could add to the list. There's an icy elemental thingie from James Ward, for sure.
In general, the magazine was a little meh to me -- lots of Gangbusters, Boot Hill, Top Secret, and Gamma World support, and I never played those games. A few issues had some extremely cool adventures, though -- Mentzer's "Great Bugbear Hunt" and the "Bigby's Tomb" mondules were really cool. And Dave Cook had one with eveyone's favorite demon prince of slime.
In general, the magazine was a little meh to me -- lots of Gangbusters, Boot Hill, Top Secret, and Gamma World support, and I never played those games. A few issues had some extremely cool adventures, though -- Mentzer's "Great Bugbear Hunt" and the "Bigby's Tomb" mondules were really cool. And Dave Cook had one with eveyone's favorite demon prince of slime.
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
Garnfellow, if you could check issues #19 and #34, that would be very helpful. Other than those two (plus #87 and #100) I either have each issue, or the issue is in the post on its way to me. I know there are a few omissions in the above list, but I am updating it each time I track down another Polyhedron.
Garnfellow
Explorer
Echohawk said:
I definitely have 19 somewhere in the vault, but the Acaeum's description of issue 34 doesn't ring any bells (http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/periodicals/polyhedron.html).
There's another monster I know of from either 16, 17, 18, or 19 -- Bob Blake's version of a bloody bones undead.
Garnfellow
Explorer
I went through a cache of Polyhedrons in the 20s and 30s. Turns out I do have issue 34 -- no new monsters in there.
Issue 30, Jeff Grubb's "The Ravager [Part I]" adventure has a ghast-lord, a variant ghast. (8 HD, clerical spellcasting.) The second part of the adventure in issue 31 has composite mummies -- variant mummies with the heads of Egyptian-type animals. That adventure also has something called a tymphanix, native of the Elemental Plane of Earth. Never heard of this one before, so I'm not sure if it's new or not.
Issue 30, Jeff Grubb's "The Ravager [Part I]" adventure has a ghast-lord, a variant ghast. (8 HD, clerical spellcasting.) The second part of the adventure in issue 31 has composite mummies -- variant mummies with the heads of Egyptian-type animals. That adventure also has something called a tymphanix, native of the Elemental Plane of Earth. Never heard of this one before, so I'm not sure if it's new or not.
Garnfellow
Explorer
I found and checked my cache of issues 1-23, though issues 15 and 16 were missing. Man, I've got to get my magazines organized.
Anyway, I found a few more critters:
Issue 2: gagertral, in Jean Wells' "How to Create Monsters for the D&D Basic and Expert Games."
Issue 18: bloody bones (master and minion), in Bob Blake's "Llywelyn's Tomb"
Issue 19: viper vines, in Bob Blake's "And the Gods will Have their Way"
Issue 21: ices, in James M. Ward's "Encounters"
Issue 22: men - amazons, in Gary Gygax's "Marlgoyles [sic] and Monster Manual II."
(Also worthy of note -- this issue features Zeb Cook's module "In the Dark Hours [part 1]," which has several interesting bits of demon lore, include an artifact "The Crown of Juiblex" and mentions a demon named Emix, "a favored demon in Juiblex's guard.")
Anyway, I found a few more critters:
Issue 2: gagertral, in Jean Wells' "How to Create Monsters for the D&D Basic and Expert Games."
Issue 18: bloody bones (master and minion), in Bob Blake's "Llywelyn's Tomb"
Issue 19: viper vines, in Bob Blake's "And the Gods will Have their Way"
Issue 21: ices, in James M. Ward's "Encounters"
Issue 22: men - amazons, in Gary Gygax's "Marlgoyles [sic] and Monster Manual II."
(Also worthy of note -- this issue features Zeb Cook's module "In the Dark Hours [part 1]," which has several interesting bits of demon lore, include an artifact "The Crown of Juiblex" and mentions a demon named Emix, "a favored demon in Juiblex's guard.")
Garnfellow
Explorer
Echohawk said:
I believe it was on page 19 -- the last inside page of the module.
I have no idea where my copy of C5 is (again, I really need to get organized), but I am pretty confident this is the same monster that's in Polyhedron 19 -- it's the same author, after all.
Garnfellow
Explorer
I've uploaded a conversion of the bloody bones from issue 18 to my website:
http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/bloodybones.htm
Enjoy!
http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/bloodybones.htm
Enjoy!
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