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Published: 2013-05-05 00:13:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 2674; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 11
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This, believe it or not, is an actual monster from older editions of "Dungeons and Dragons," and everything about it is ingeniously tragic, bizarre and hilarious.Even worth an entire article, which is here:
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Mhm, he reminds me strongly of a german cartoon character called Barbapapa - That show was plain dumb 'n derpy.
Did Gygax fall that low?
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If I were an evil overlord, magical variety, I could see myself keeping one or two of these around as conversation pieces. This brings up some logistical problems, however; First, would I need to look into sound-proofing whatever holding pen I kept them in? Second, if I kept multiples, would I need to keep them in separated pens, lest they incur accidental recursive matings and form some sort of Alkada Singularity? Finally, would an automatic culling device set up to control population trigger their "dying scream" and if so, would it be directed at the device itself or the designer of the device?
Decisions, decisions...
(you don't have these sorts of questions with the undead, I notice)
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I always imagined a suction cup like noise whenever it walked. Those original monster designs were far better than some of the ways they tried to revamp them.
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What you ought to do is do a redesign of this and make it the most powerful creature in Mortasheen.
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This thing looks like the sort of indistinct monster you'd find in squeezy-toy form in the bargain bin of a dollar store. Y'know, the kind made of rubbery, injection-molded whatchamahoozit material no doubt gathered from the sweepings of some Chinese toymaking sweatshop, melted into a multicolored ooze that probably causes ebola in the state of California, and sold in a plastic bag stapled to a flimsy cardboard tag with some badly-translated, nondescript name like "SCARY THING" or what have you.
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