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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7698140" data-attributes="member: 996">I suspect everyone knows this, but the point of that was that newspapermen (what we used to call bloggers back in the day) would punch up a headline &amp; sell papers without technically committing libel/slander/whatever by making it a blatant lie of some sort, with a question mark at the end.&nbsp; Like &quot;Did Bush Plan 9/11?&quot;&nbsp; or &quot;Clinton Leads Lesbian Coven in Black Mass?&quot; or &quot;New D&amp;D Has Fighters Casting Spells?&quot; No.&nbsp; (See?&nbsp; Doesn't work, because the headline isn't in the form of a lie.)Slightly more seriously, though, they are all visually deceptive:&nbsp; Treants can pass for trees, 'Cubes are transparent, Mimics &amp; Displacer Beasts it's right there in the name.Still not seriously, I want to say that they're all ripped off too - Treants from Tolkien, Displacer Beasts from an obscure sci-fi story as PF took advantage of by licensing the original 'choerl' or whatever it was.&nbsp; There's gotta be some kind of hungry monster that disguises itself as an everyday object that predates D&amp;D.&nbsp; But, while the ochre jelly and black pudding have obvious B-movie antecedents in the Blob and giant amoeba in Angry Red Planet (which features a badly done scene of an astronaut suspended in it's cytoplasm), I can't think of anything quite as quixotic as the 'Cube...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7698140, member: 996"] I suspect everyone knows this, but the point of that was that newspapermen (what we used to call bloggers back in the day) would punch up a headline & sell papers without technically committing libel/slander/whatever by making it a blatant lie of some sort, with a question mark at the end. Like "Did Bush Plan 9/11?" or "Clinton Leads Lesbian Coven in Black Mass?" or "New D&D Has Fighters Casting Spells?" No. (See? Doesn't work, because the headline isn't in the form of a lie.) Slightly more seriously, though, they are all visually deceptive: Treants can pass for trees, 'Cubes are transparent, Mimics & Displacer Beasts it's right there in the name. Still not seriously, I want to say that they're all ripped off too - Treants from Tolkien, Displacer Beasts from an obscure sci-fi story as PF took advantage of by licensing the original 'choerl' or whatever it was. There's gotta be some kind of hungry monster that disguises itself as an everyday object that predates D&D. But, while the ochre jelly and black pudding have obvious B-movie antecedents in the Blob and giant amoeba in Angry Red Planet (which features a badly done scene of an astronaut suspended in it's cytoplasm), I can't think of anything quite as quixotic as the 'Cube... [/QUOTE]

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