Update SRD - Critters

[Mindcrime]

Is it me, or are some critters gone....like mind flayers and yuan-ti.

If the yuan-ti are gone, I think Mongoose will have to rename mine and Legion's book to "Slayer's Guide to Se-Jing." Maybe the original will become a collector's edition. Now I just got to get my author copies, so I can lord it over the masses! (bwah-hah-hah...er, maybe not....)

It's cool that the monster stuff is official. It sucks about the dropped critters though.

It really sucks, the more I think about it.

Chris

 

[JohnRTroy]

I just went to the offical d20 web site on WoTC's site, and noticed all the Monster RTF that were posted are now gone.

Maybe they're brinning them back.

 

[Psion]

Um... yeah. I just visited the open gaming foundation site and the yuan-ti are in HTML docs there. Did they do a reversal?

 

[Blacksway]

It appears the SRD posted at www.opengamingfoundation.org has never changed.

The one at http://www.wizards.com/D20/article.asp?x=srd however has changed, and as everyone is pointing out, is giving 404 File Not Found errors at the moment (only the new stuff).

Oh, nope, they are back...

 

[Ghostwind]

Beholders are not in the revised SRD either. There were a small handful of monsters that Wotc considered to be IP and I has predicted a long time ago that they would not be included in the formal SRD as soon as I saw what had happened to the spell names.

The Open Gaming Foundation copies are not the formalized versions. Many are still draft copies. Ryan Dancey is in the process of bringing that stuff up to date, but it hasn't happened yet.

 

[Bendris Noulg]

That is strange, especially considering the Neothelid made the Psionic Creatures release.

What's up with that?

 

[Echohawk]

Missing creatures

Based on my first run through the SRD, the following creatures all seem to be missing:

- Beholder
- Carrion Crawler
- Displacer Beast
- Kuo-toa
- Mind Flayer
- Slaad
- Umber Hulk
- Yuan-ti

Anyone like to confirm/correct this list?

 

[philreed]

Damn.

Need to go through all of my PDFs and update them. And this changes some stuff I haven't released yet.

At least I never did a PDF on mind flayers. I was seriously thinking about doing one.

 

[der_kluge]

- Beholder - WTF?!?
- Carrion Crawler - *yawn*
- Displacer Beast - not a huge loss
- Kuo-toa - *yawn*
- Mind Flayer - I'm not a huge fan, anyway.
- Slaad - this is a loss
- Umber Hulk - This one is pretty sad..
- Yuan-ti - but this one!! THE NERVE!!!!!!!

 

[jmucchiello]

It appears the SRD posted at www.opengamingfoundation.org has never changed.

The one at http://www.wizards.com/D20/article.asp?x=srd however has changed, and as everyone is pointing out, is giving 404 File Not Found errors at the moment (only the new stuff).

Oh, nope, they are back...

The version at opengamingfoundation.org is the original gentlemen's agreement version. The version at Wizards is the released SRD, gotta conform to it.

Although they've said for years now that GA was just that and stuff could change between the pre-release and the actual SRD. They had to know that Mind Flayer, beholder, and other monsters in that list were being featured in d20 material. A heads up that they might disappear would have been helpful. This impacts my forthcoming Character Customization book, too.

Edit: Oh, yeah, and there go the yuan ti in the Tree of Knowledge.