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It may seem weird for an air elemental to wear armor, but Archons need it to bind their forms together! Air Archons are essentially living wisps of tornadolike wind, and are the fastest of their archon kin. They fly, wreak havoc, and use chain whips as their primary weapons. Plus, you really have to aim for the armor to harm one, as its body is insubstantial otherwise.
Although silver dragons live generally solitary lives, these ice-breathing creatures are warm and caring to their young, as a clear illustration of
Metallic dragons are good! And Silver Dragons are some of the goodest of them all. Noble, wise, beautiful, they are actually fairly likely to ally with the players - Silver Dragons have enough of a sense of justice to help out. They breathe frosty cold as a breath weapon, similar to evil White Dragons.
Chimerae in Dungeons & Dragons swap out the snake head for a dragon head. This one is part Black Dragon.
One of the more obscure demon types in Dungeons & Dragons, the Cerebrilith is a psychic fiend that devours first your mind and then your brain! Although their brains are exposed through the bone cages over their foreheads, Cerebriliths are not fragile little creatures - far from it, they were a pretty good addition to the D&D bestiary, especially as enemies of psionic heroes.
Cerebriliths especially hate intelligent mortals, and go out of their way to attack them. This makes them similar to many of the people I know down here in the South.
Creatures of darkness, Shadow Dragons are lords of the underworld caverns. They are not of this world, nor are they fully made of matter as we understand it, and are capable of sinking into any shadow and reemerge from any other, teleporting in the darkness behind this dimension.
A Dragonne is a fancy little beast that is somewhere between lion and brass dragon. More importantly, it looks like a TON of mythological monsters and heraldric symbols without actually being any of them! Is it a manticore? A shedu? A lamassu? A chimera? A dragon? The Tarrasque? Who knows!
It's actually one of the nicest-looking minis, aesthetics-wise. This is probably mostly because of that metallic sheen.
There are a few kinds of desert dragons in D&D. lightning-spitting Blue Dragons are the most well-known, but Brown Dragons can not only blend in with their sandy surroundings, they also breathe either acid or blinding blasts of sand based on which edition or sourcebook you are reading. I love their design, too, and the way they seem to match up with a desert environment.
Another classic D&D monster, the Dire Wolf is roughly the size of a horse, covered in spikes, and as intelligent as a human.
But Dire Wolves were a real thing... and they were kind of small. And they are extinct now. OH WELL!
The Dire template in D&D can be added to almost any naimal - so yes, there are Dire Weasels, chickens, bears, monkeys, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
Field sketching for signs in topographical detail taken from the Royal Air Force Pocket Book of 1937 (3rd Edition)
Everything has pointless variants. Rimefire Griffons are tougher Griffons who are icy. And fiery. And pretty white. So there!
Actually, it is kind of pretty. I like it.
So, D&D took Gorgons and called them Medusae (Medusas? Medusases?), and then took the Catoblepas and called it a Gorgon, and then also made a Catoblepas, too.
Gorgon Bulls appear to be made of metal, and breathe a poisonous gas that can petrify people. And, uh... well, there you go. Dungeons & Dragons and mythology.
Not all ghosts were humans in life. There are things in this earth that mankind has never dreamed...
I want to rig up one of these (or maybe a picture, since the real one is just that shadow beholder miniature) right in front of someone's face at night, and see what happens. The perfect alarm clock!
Albert Einstein's lesser-known brother, Jimmy, had his share of mental problems.
ANYWAY.
Derro are probably related to dwarves. Maybe. Or gnomes. Or they are just their own little kind of crazy. These tiny little subterranean folks have one defining racial trait: They are crazy. All of them. Every last one of 'em. As loony as a three-headed teamster.
But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Dragonspawn are weird draconic hybrid mutants, sometimes barely resembling their original Draconic roots. Greenspawn Razorfiends seem somewhat insectile, and use their razor-sharp wings as weapons.
Not everything has to make sense! Digesters are like dinosaurs, except not at all, and they spew acid over stuff for no good reason. Raaawr, Digester!
So I started off my spring vacation to NYC with some old photos of the 1939-1940 World's Fair and made a set: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/albums/721576643620... I will conclude my 2016 trip with some more souvenir shots from that N.Y.W.F. and then newer ones from the 1964-1965 one -
Fighters " The Way of Champions " 3rd Edition
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Fighters " The Way of Champions " 3rd Edition
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Fighters " The Way of Champions " 3rd Edition
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Fighters " The Way of Champions " 3rd Edition
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(Keep perusing 5-10 more beyond this pic for more pages with photos from 1939) I took photos from the pages of "Official Guide Book" for the preceding black & white, hand-held shots for the next few days' uploads -
Fighters " The Way of Champions " 3rd Edition
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Fighters " The Way of Champions " 3rd Edition
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Fighters " The Way of Champions " 3rd Edition
- Centre Sportif de Differdange - Differdange - 03.06.2017 © claude piscitelli