Unconverted Polyhedron creatures

Garnfellow · May 17, 2007

Echohawk said:
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.

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.

Echohawk · May 17, 2007

I haven't checked 16, 17 or 18 yet, but I will once they arrive. And I'm sure 34 will eventually show up on eBay...

Garnfellow · May 17, 2007

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.

Echohawk · May 17, 2007

I think the tympanix is new -- I don't think it has appeared elsewhere.

Garnfellow · May 18, 2007

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.")

Echohawk · May 18, 2007

Garnfellow, please could you check on which page in issue #19 the viper vines appear? And do you know if those are the same viper vines that later appeared in Bane of Llewellyn (C5) or the Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix (MC11)?

Garnfellow · May 18, 2007

Echohawk said:
Garnfellow, please could you check on which page in issue #19 the viper vines appear? And do you know if those are the same viper vines that later appeared in Bane of Llewellyn (C5) or the Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix (MC11)?

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 · May 18, 2007

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!

Echohawk · May 20, 2007

I've added the composite mummies, ghast-lord, ices and tymphanix to the unconverted list, as well as the bole-skeleton, bole-wight, bole-zombie, dreamweaver and semi-lich.