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The Runelord of Greed, karzoug ruled the Thassilonian realm in the far, far past. Now, I haven't REAd Rise of the Runelords, but if I understand correctly...
...He will return. And things will go BADLY.
(By the way, that face is hilariously awful!)
Why is it considered an insane, otherworldly aberration when it's just like a big crawdad? Chuuls are... well, that. Big crustaceans. Cool. Considered aberrations. Probably served as gourmet cuisine.
Though they are fairly low on the infernal food chain, Vrocks, otherwise known as "Wrath Demons," are powerful soldiers, enforcers, and even steeds for other demons. They may look like vultures, but they have quite a few surprises - intelligence, magic, and even poisonous spores underneath their feathers!
As Slaad Bosses, Death Slaads are fierce, man. They're smart, they wear clotyhes, and despite all their crazy magic power, they like cutting people in half with their weapons. Yeah, when you see one of these guys, you're pretty much in trouble.
Another classic D&D monster, the Owlbear comes from the same line of thinking as the Octupusbat, Dogshark, and the Ducksnake! I may have made those up.
SUPPOSEDLY, Owlbears came from a little plastic dinosaur the same as some other monsters, but I have not seen the source toy. Still... still, these guys are kind of cool and omnipresent in the mythos. There are three OWblear minis - the first, which looks like a sloth with a beak; this one, which looks like a gorilla with a beak; and the third, which actually looks like a bear. This one has the best overall sculpt and paint, though.
And yes, officially, Owlbears were created by a mad scientist wizard. They ate him and ran into the wild to breed. And now theya re everywhere. Like rabbits in Australia.
The smallest of the trolls, Forest Trolls are human-sized "Giants." They are also rather crafty, making up for their lack of raw strength by using poison-tipped weapons.
Customizing is pretty easy. Just create a 320x240 image, rotate it clockwise and save it as a BMP. Then rename it "splash.bmp" and copy it to your TomTom ONE.
you may think you are seeing four Berbalangs, but you're really seeing only one! Berbalangs are strange gargoyle-creatures. In older editions, the real Berbalang hibernated under ground and sent astral projections of itself around. In recent editions, a Berbalang is capable of splitting itself into four copies, each with 1/4 of the original's health. This makes them extremely irritating to deal with.
Also, the original non-D&D source is a Malaysian cannibal ghoul vampire. Nice!
Most devils are... I don't know, intimidating. Lemures are the lowest of the low, barely-processed souls turned into nearly-brainless evil sludge. Sometimes stronger devils are turned into Lemures as punishment, because wow.
'Course, one of them could still wreak havoc among normal humans, but nobody ever thinks about thar!
Some of the stranger, slimier aberration monsters, Caublorn are a race of deformed psychic beings who mostly keep to themselves, gathering knowledge. They are very, very rarely encountered, despite their amazing levels of foreknowledge.
Elder Nightwalker, Nightwalker, and Bodak, all at once! It almost looks like they posed for it, too...
As far as orc soldiers go, the drudges aren't exactly high-ranking. But they enjoy clubbing things, so it evens out in the end.
Technically, minotaurs have been playable throughout Dungeons & Dragons, just with a few extra rules. In 4th edition, they made the smaller medium-sized minotaurs into regular player characters! So hey, I'm all for more monsters!
The great thing about Ropers isn't just how easy it is to mistake them for stalagmites, it's how they are smart enough to know this.
Skalmad isn't just a troll - he's their king! A visionary who united his savage race, Skalmad also stole the eye of a fae Fomorian, grafting it into his own skull to increase his power. He is intelligent, strong, and powerful, and has plans to destroy the city of Moonstair. Can he be stopped?
These were originally monsters specific to Eberron who pre-existed Foulspawn, but soon got rolled into the category.
Dolgrims are mutated goblins, created by essentially mashing two goblins together. They are of two minds about everything!
Also known as "Psion Killers," Psionic Sentinels are p-sychic crystal constructs designed specifically to assassinate... well, psychics. They are the first, last, and best defense against psionics.
Skalmad is the King of the trolls, and he is wrathful. If you get in his way, his Evil Eye will disable you, and he will cut you to pieces with his mighty greataxe.
The wizard-priests of the Yuan-Ti serve Zehir through hideous rites and sacrifices. They also apparently do this in pitch darkness.
These used to be human.
Foulspawn are what happens when the twisted influence of the Far Realm warps normal mortals into horrible, foul creatures, each one more horrible than the last. When Foulspawn were solidified as a concept, several older creatures with the same idea - like the Dolgrim and Dolgaunt - got folded into their ranks, and it absolutely fit without a problem.
Released elemental archons: Fire, ice, earth, air, water.
Unreleased: Lightning. And I think maybe mud or mercury or something, but I'm not sure.
Earth Archons almost seem to make sense with the armor, except that you have to think the thick rock is mor durable thban thin metal. But again, the armor is what gives it life and holds it together, and those stones actually change shape to an extent.
See, the mini is of the "Shadow" ghost, but when I light it up, it's not so shadowlike anymore!
Pretend it's like a phantom made of rags or something.
Is this really a "Salamander variant?" It's a Salamander, just holding a different kind of weapon. That would be like saying that a man with a monkey wrench is a subspecies of the man with a hammer.
Or maybe it is. Racism has gotten pretty boring these days.
First created in the Runelord's flesh vats, the Shriezyx are gigantic deformed spider-creatures, long since detatched from their original purpose. They creep and infest the caverns and sewers and ruins underground, ambushing and devouring prey.
An Invoker bridges the gap between arcane and divine classes... sort of. it's a divine class that behaves just like a spellcaster, including through the use of a rod or staff, but no holy symbol.
Interdimensional spiders might not be the kind of thing you think about on long, lonely nights, but rest assured... they think about YOU.
One of the horrific children of Typhon and Echidna, the CHimera was a horrible combination of lioness, she-goat, and snake, with a fiery breath that could incinerate any who dared oppose it. It was eventually defeated by Bellerophon, who rode on Pegasus to get close enough to decapitate the creature.
Li'l elementals that look like imps but aren't, Mephits come in all types - fire, water, ice, earth, air, dust, smoke, ash, sand, mud, oil, mercury... yeah. They generally look imp-ish, but not allllways. Awesome little guys, ain't they? I love how the earth one is trying to look tough despite being half a hobbit's size.
A sphinx is maybe Greek or Egyptian, and has the body of a lion with maybe the face of a woman or a man or a cat, and maybe wings or maybe not. And Persians believed in them, too. Maybe it has riddles and is mean, or maybe it's a benevolent guardian and very similar to lammasus (and Cherubim!). Or maybe not. Ancient mythology is awesome like that.
In D&D, a Sphinx is a lot closer to the Greek version, especially with their love of riddles. They are also ambiguously good or bad.
The least of the green dragonspawn, Sneaks are like tiny lizardmen - they're great with poison, but they really are the peons of Tiamat's servants.
Also known as Fang Dragons, Spike Dragons, or Stone Dragons, Gray Dragons are some of the more vicious and brutal chromatic dragons out there. They are covered in spikes, their split tails are like barbed whips, their fangs like spears, their armor greater than most shields, their breath a caustic, acidic ooze... and they can turn yout o stone, too. In older editions, they had no breath weapon or special power, but Tiamat eventually invested them with a few abilities. Gotta watch out for these dudes or they will tear you to pieces. Or melt you. or petrify and shatter you.
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As cyclopes are the weaponsmiths of the Fomorians, they are quite capable of arming themselves. The Hewer is one who recognizes that what is a tiny hand-axe for him is a mighty body-splitting cleaver for others - so why overdo it?
No, not the successful video game series! It's a theme, I tell you! A theme!
Arcane magic versus trollish might - who will win?
The first of the elemental archons designed, Fire Archons were inspired by a Dreamblade game piece - namely, the Flame Harrower. This would not be the only time that would happen.
There is only one kind of werecreature that Orcs approve of. Hilariously, they don't seem to realize the name pun between Orc and Pork. Poor, poor Orcs.
Scan from the 1961 book "Karlsruhe - Ein Bildband" by Erich Bauer - rare thing, given I found this at an English house in 2014..
Bad dragons are colored, good dragons are metal!
That came out wrong. Uh, look at it this way: A yellow dragon is bad. A bronze dragon is good! Bronze dragons live near the sea, and breathe an odd type of gas that repells everything it comes in contact with. In the shift from 3rd to 4th edition D&D, bronze dragons remained, but were no longer "core" metallic dragons - the original five included brass, bronze, and copper, so 4th edition shifted it a bit to give more metallic variety. New bronzes showed up in an expansion pretty soon, though, rendering it kind of moot. Bronze dragons are some of the kindest and most benevolent of metallic dragons, and actually take interest in humans. Also, they look really cool.
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Next in the one-eyed ranks of the Cyclops kingdom are the Hewers, spear-wielding warriors who do not mind the extra range that their weapons give them.
One of the chief big bads of D&D's Eberron setting, Lady Vol is a lot of things at once. Dragonmarked nobility. Elf. Half-dragon. Undead lich. Military leader. Cult leader. Minor goddess.
Born in secret as part of an ill-fated attempt to end the eternal rivalry between elves and green dragons, Erandis was instead seen as an abomination, and her Dragonmarked house was nearly eradicated. Her mother transformed her into a lich, and Lady Erandis Vol, last member of the House of Vol, went on to pretty much become one of the worst people alive. This is why you do not turn your children into deathless abominations.
Lady Vol has typical villainous machinations, just like any D&D baddie. She also seeks revenge for her life and house - though instead of taking it out on elves and dragons, she's conquering everybody. Lady Vol leads the Order of the Emerald Claw, one of the few unambiguously evil lal-human organizations in Eberron (since the setting TRIES to be somewhat less cut and dry), and also secretly leads the Blood of Vol, a death-worshipping cult that surprisingly isn't ALWAYS easy (some practitioners are a little ignorant about what it's all about). Vol has enough followers to have attained a divine rank, too.
All that, and she can't afford a good wrinkle cream. Great pope hat, though.
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Hwa-Lan 3rd edition
HwaLan[화란(化鸞 : Becoming a Lan-bird)]
The head compatible with all 60cm-class bodies. (SD13,SDgr,SD17)
화란 리뉴얼(점토 베이스)
퍼스트 화란의 점토 헤드를 깎아서 그 위에 새로 구축.
이제서야 도면의 느낌에 더욱 가깝게 되었다고 한다.
이전보다 좀 더 나이가 들어버린 것 같기도.
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