30 Years of Very Stupid Monsters
People get paid to do very strange things. In few professions is this more apparent than in the tabletop gaming industry, wherein for the last thirty-some years authors have been paid to sit in basements and put pen to paper describing creatures that would put even the most opium-addled of medieval bestiaries to shame. As evidence, headinjurytheater.com presents their article “Celebrating 30 Years of Very Stupid Monsters.” From the biclops to the owlephant, collected here are these some of the stupidest creatures ever to appear in Dungeons & Dragons (and perhaps all fantasy as a genre). One of the best mentioned is the Fiend Folio's senmurv, which comes with the totally apt comment “If the furry community ever chose a Gay Pride mascot, I swear, this would have to be it.”
Hit the link to check out this hilarious gallery of shame.
Lectric Lich
Posted to Tabletop Gaming on 16 September 2007
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He seems to take major issue with things that look like other things. And while he briefly writes off the real-world parallels, they seem to be pretty obvious here.
I mean take a pitcher plant for instances. As a bug, a pitcher plant is a giant jug of tasty goodness that exists solely to eat you. So why shouldn't a fantasy world have human-sized equivalents?
And if you have a DM that puts killer walls, floors and ceilings in the same room, you have a problematic DM.
I realize it's hyperbole for the sake of humor, but it's all a little silly.