What's the quintessential D&D monster?

[Gnarlo]

The Gelatinous Cube.

As the Book of Ratings states, it's genetically adapted to graph paper!

Add another vote for teh cube.

 

[Liolel]

I'll vote for the beholder and of course the Gelatinous cube. Those two are the classic monsters that D&D didn't steal.

 

[The Kender]

The Gelatinous Cube (Generally pernounced like Jello-atious in my campaign ^_^)

 

[Dr_Scarabus]

C'mon guys - the Crypt Thing.

Has there ever been a more Gygaxian monster than one that teleports you to a random dungeon level, just cuz it can???

 

[FoxWander]

How could everybody forget the Flumph!!! You just can't beat an intelligent floating frisbee with tentacles. And don't forget some of them had levels in cleric! It is so sad that they didn't make it into 3E. I'd want them as a player race.

 

[jgbrowning]

Carrion Crawler.

joe b.

 

[Imperialus]

What about the Tarrasque?

 

[Tallok]

Yes, tarrasque is good, but mine might have to be green slime, as I read a song from one of my brother's old polyhedron mags that was a Christmas song parody about green slime. A few years ago, I knew all the words

 

[Drakmar]

I would have to say the Beholder.. after all none of the other monsters made it into the D&D moofie.

 

[der_kluge]

Duh - Bullywugs, of course!