2/114

Aballin.

Abyss Ant

So named because they hail from the plane of the Abyss.

3/114

Afanc

A whale-sized fish that makes whirlpools.

4/114

This shit is awesome, OP.

Al-Jahar

This book was published in 1994, which was Al-Qadim's second year of existence (and was supposed to be its last). There's a lot of other Al-Qadim type creatures here.

Al-Jahar are creatures that feed on the emotions of humanoids.

5/114

Where's my coin- imposter monster!

Capcha: this alearj
What the fuck capcha, is an alearj. Is that a D&D monster? It sure sounds like it!

>>16545230
I love Diterlizzi. It's a shame they don't use him any more.

Azer

A fire elemental kin. They wear clothes made of bronze or other metal.

6/114

>>16545246
I have it, I'm going in alphabetical order so I don't lose track.

Baelnorn

Good elf lich.

7/114

Baneguard

The spell to create these things was originally created by priests of Bane in FR. They cast magic missile.

8/114

Banelar

Nagalike servants of Bane.

9/114

Blazing Bones

Undead created by a mage or priest's miscasting of the contingency spell to prevent death by fire, causing them to turn into flaming undead.

I think the illustration is a fairly standard EVIL FLAMING SKELETON. What stands out in this one is the fluff.

10/114

Bone naga

Undead naga created by dark naga.

11/114

Brain golem

Created by ilithid, who else?

12/114

>>16545313
The hell's a Dark Naga?

Brain spider

Lives off brain matter of intelligent beings. Not a true arachnid.

13/114

I know I'd commission art like this if I ever needed illustrations. I think this kind of naive style is a lot more inspiring than the chunky, shiny, WoW-esque look they've gone for in the 4ed books.

>>16545340
What do you think of PF art? It seems pretty similar to 4E stuff, but with a bit of flair.

The stuff here is incredibly charming though.

>>16545323
>Use improvised weapons
>Get liquor bottle enchanted
>Have it refill itself once per day
>Make it as sturdy as adamantine

I think we can beat it, hauss.

>>16545331
A subspecies of naga. They're evil.

Campestri

The book's description is awesome: "Campestris are happy-go-lucky creatures with few cares or worries. The fungus creatures are a bit smarter than a domestic cat -- just smart enough to have developed a warped sense of humor and some rudimentary powers of reason. Each "herd" of mushrooms has a collective intelligence equal to about 6-7 . . . "

I imagine myconids keep these things as pets.

14/114

>>16545367
They're probably fun guys.

>>16545340
I think something's really lost with a lot of the CG stuff. It's very bland. But AD&D had some fuckterrible art as well - so it's not the edition, it's the individual artist.

Carrionette

Chaotic evil animated marionette or puppet.

15/114

>>16545347

Yeah, PF has a bit more glitz about it, which I think helps distinguish it from the broader fantasy RPG ouvre. Everything looks like its been really taken apart and designed from scratch rather than "Draw a dwarf with armor and an axe." IMO, your art should set your world apart from the rest of what can be a very same-y genre.

Chitine

Small race of webspinning humanoids. Use processed web as clothing, building materials, weapons, etc.

16/114

>>16545367
I fucking love that grin of theirs.

Chrysmal, earth elemental kin

Chrysmals wander around and turn stone into "ordered, living crystal." They're intelligent. The leaders are psionic.

17/114

Corpse Tearer Linnorm

Hideous and thoroughly feared linnorm.

18/114

Linnorm are Norse dragons. There's a lot of them in this Annual.

Crawler, Flameling and Spitter Elemental Vermin

Elemental vermin are pretty much exactly what they sound like they are. They scavenge for food on whatever plane they're on.

19/114

>>16545400
Cool, cool.

Also, huh, I feel as though I've seen some of this oddly enough.

Diterlizzi is the artist...? I'll copy down the name of the book.

Crypt Servant

Created from corpses or willing volunteers. They clean and repair tombs, polish valuables, light candles, and keep out intruders.

20/114


>>16545458
Yeah. Tony Diterlizzi.

I'm not a huge D&D guy, but I have never seen nor heard of most of these monsters. Was this book kind of a one-off, or were/are all these pretty established creatures I just haven't stumbled across yet?

Dark Tree

Evil, sentient jungle trees.

21/114

>>16545495
A little of both. This was an annual compendium to the Monstrous Manual, so it wasn't exactly a core book. As far as I've seen, it's the only AD&D book that was illustrated entirely by him. He seems to be the guy who's essentially responsible for the current designs of a lot of genre standbys like the rust monster and the displacer beast.

As AD&D became 3e, a lot of monsters were winnowed out and either never talked about or relegated to really obscure books. You stopped seeing setting specific monsters in the basic manuals, as well.

IIRC, the Kingmaker module for PF has an article written by Greenwood about how PF is making an attempt to resurrect some of the old D&D/AD&D monsters, like the carbuncle.


Death's Head Tree

Looks like a weeping willow. Requires blood to germinate, so they tend to grow near battlefields and gallows and the like. These trees tend to mark the sites of ancient battles and the sites of evil temples.

1-4 humanoid heads grow at the ends of branches until they're mature, at which point they fall off and float away by their organic gasses, seeking the body of a warm-blooded creature to plant its seeds.

22/114

>>16545571
Misfit Monsters Redeemed is a great book.

PF just does monster redesign well. I just love reading their bestiaries.

Deceiver tasked genie

Servants to noble djinn and jann. "perverted to a life of deception, sworn to mask the face of the world. Their true form is difficult to judge. They are said to be tall and gaunt . . . and striking eyes, one blue and one brown."

23/114

Diterlizzi has some of the best MTG art. That vintage feel with old cards man, I have a deck with all Diterlizzi art that I bust out for nostalgia

Dragon-kin

Very distant cousins of dragons that "somewhere along the evolutionary chain developed humanoid features."

24/114

Diterlizzi makes people look so elegant and strange, even if they're hulking. This guy has a Jim Henson feel to him. I love it.

Dread

Exactly what they look like. They attack people. Created by wizards and priests as guardians. They follow simple instructions.

"Long ago, families who could not afford better, or could not bring themselves to trust hireswords, had dread created to guard their treasure vaults. Typically these were armed with magical swords, and many dread encountered are so armed."

25/114

Dread Linnorm

The only two headed Linnorm known. Firebreathing, destructive.

26/114

Dread wolf

Animated undead. Originally created by a renegade mage. A dread wolf serves as the eyes and ears of the mage who creates it.

27/114

Wolves are a staple of low-level adventures. This book dresses them up in a lot of different ways.

Crawler, earth elemental vermin

The last of the elemental vermin. I made a mistake with the last one.
>>16545454
is duster, flameling and spitter.


28/114

>>16545301
> Undead created by a mage or priest's miscasting of the contingency spell to prevent death by fire, causing them to turn into flaming undead.

GENIUS!

I think I just love everything that misinteprets your words and fucks you over. Like wish spells, genies and such.

Earth Weird

From the elemental plane of earth. Generally attacks without provocation. "It is unknown what keeps an earth weird alive. It is surmised that they must feed off the bodies of their prey, probably through the blood that leeches into the soil, fetilizing an already fierce opponent."

29/114

Electrum Dragon

Peaceful, philosophical dragons. Hobbies include trading, bargaining, and philosophical debate. Preferred hoard: artwork.

"Electrum dragons eat lichens, scrub bushes, and graze treetrops for tender young leaves. They also eat all manner of fish, fowl, and meat, especially enjoying the flesh of wyverns and griffons.

Some electrums have invented new spells and have sold or given them to humans and elves. In some places, electrum dragons are worshiped by primitive tribes or respected as sages."


30/114

Back when I was your age, we had electrum coins and we liked it!

Fang Dragon

Greedy, rapacious, and cunning. Body covered in spines. They like to travel far from their lair to find food and will bargain to avoid hopeless or difficult battles.

31/114

Feystag

Not as small as it looks. 4' tall at the shoulders. Bipedal standing, quadrupedal when running. Highly intelligent, can identify magical items with a pretty good success rate. Can and will activate identified magical items from up to 20' away.

32/114

Flame Linnorm

The most beautiful and rare of the Linnorm. Manipulates people and accumulates treasure. They eat domestic animals and earth, preferring their food to be on fire.

33/114

This is awesome OP, please continue.

Flameskull

Created, exceedingly rare, undead guardians. "Flameskulls do not reproduce, nor do they have any purpose in life beyond the guardianship for which they were created. Though they retain their intelligence, they often go insane from sheer boredom and may, if the DM wishes, exhibit erratic behavior. They always want to be entertained, and if freed from their guardianship by the destruction or pilferage of whatever they were set to guard, they do not hurl themselves to attack to achieve their own destruction. Instead, they try to accompany or follow the being(s) who freed them from guardianship. They typically float along, just out of reach, making smart comments and wanting to see everything interesting that is going on (including secret meetings, seductions, magical research, and other private matters). Flameskulls are utterly lonely and act accordingly."

34/114

Another "lol flaming undead" that is actually incredibly, amazingly awesome. AD&D had a lot of "monsters" that were like this. They weren't really there to be attacked, they were there for role playing. The talking bird is another good example, it comes up later.

This thing reminds me of the floating hand and eye that's my mage's tutor in our campaign.

Forest Linnorm

Egotistical linnorm. Hates all creatures above animal intelligence, especially "beautiful" creatures.

35/114

>>16545929

Foulwing

Grotesquely misshapen flying predators thought to originate on another plane. Savage and wanton, enjoy killing. Mildly empathic and lazy hunters. Clumsy fliers.

36/114

Frost Linnorm

The most territorial of the Linnorms. They do not rest until all intelligent beings and their settlements within their territories are destroyed. Spend a lot of time scheming before attacking.

37/114

Gambado

Colloquially known as "springing skulls of doom," which gives a pretty good idea of how they attack. Amoral. Buries itself up to its head and bursts out of the ground.

The skull is not the creature's head. Muscles on its face and jaw allow it to use the jaw of the skeletal head it wears.

38/114

Garbug

Related to carrion crawlers.

39/113

Hilarious looking.

Giant Cobra

Dimly intelligent snake, lives for centuries.

40/114

Giant Nautilus

50' in diameter. From the Elemental Plane of Water, also present on the Prime Material. Referred to as the "Druid of the Deep" because of its philosophical inclination and preoccupation with maintaining The Balance within the deep oceans.

41/114

>>16545912
> Flameskull
Wait, isn't a dwarven one of them in the D&D 4e comic book?

>>16546000
I especially like the Snidely Whiplash moustache thing they've got going on.

oh shit this was my favorite book when I was a kid.. read it so much both front and back covers wore off.
Tony's art defined D&D.
Thanks for this OP.

>>16546040
Maybe? I've never read it.

Gibbering Mouther

Now a fantasy standby. Created creature. Usually kept as guards by mages or "obscene cults" (I wonder why). Reproduces via asexual fission once growing large enough. Can survive in the wild as a scavenger, but rarely forms reproducing populations outside of swamps.

42/114


I miss the veiled reference to perverted shit that was in early editions of D&D.

I think the heart tick is the most striking illustration from this book.

>>16546058
You're welcome. I'm having fun looking at this stuff again, too.

Gnasher

Fairly standard evil canid monster. Also has a winged variety, which is pictured here.

43/114

Gorynych

Evil, 3-wolf-headed creature. Not actually any kind of dragon. Has one intelligence spread across all of its heads.

44/114

>>16546090
That picture creeps me out, but it is very well-done.

Greelox

Intelligent creature, rumored to have cities in the demiplane of shadow (solitary on the prime material). Can speak any language it has heard for 1 hour continuously.

45/114

Grey Linnorm

Smallest of the Linnorm, uses its whiplike body to that effect in combat. Delights in the destruction of intelligent life. Scales and poison make for good spell components.

46/114

Hammer Golem

Created by dwarf priests. Stands 9' tall. Kills the fuck out of orcs when it sees them. Those designed specifically for mining have two pickaxes instead of one.

47/114

Harem Servant Tasked Genie

Serves as a guard for the women of a harem, also entertains and performs minor tasks. They like to work for mortals, because they are looked down upon by other genies - and protecting lesser beings who revere them builds their sense of self-importance.

48/114

Another Al-Qadim monster.

Heart Tick

Very rare. 6' in diameter. Leap onto humanoid prey and impales with legs, then proceeds to suck blood. Victims killed in this way become hosts for heart tick eggs, which hatch in a week.

49/114

It wasn't always easy to resurrect a character, so if you're toting around a dead party mate killed by one of these things, this could be a massive pain in the ass.

Helmed Horror

Animated suit of armor. Neither truly undead nor a summoned creature. Creation process is unknown, but takes a very powerful wizard. "Its orders cannot be changed once given, and loopholes may put its loyalty in jeopardy; instilling orders to a horror is as delicate as wording a wish spell."

50/114

House Hunter Mimic

It's a mimic - but it looks like a house. No, seriously.

51/114

Is the paraphrasing from the book helpful, or should I just forgo in order to post faster?

>>16546227

It helps. /tg/ is a patient board, take your time.

>>16546102
Wow, this one's kinda interesting looking. Not that they all aren't, but this one's got me thinking, do the three heads all always talk in unison, or can they talk individually? Do they nominate a speaker? Take turns?

Jacinth Dragon

Neutral dragon. Rarest of the nonunique dragon species. Only a dozen or so exist on any given world. Live in deserts in solitude, but can become "overly curious of visitors."

52/114

>>16546231
Okay, cool. Sometimes the scale and such is lost if it's not explained, and I think that's a disservice to a really great book.

>>16546232
I imagine it can decide to do any one of those things, though if it were to nominate a speaker, it's be playing pretend with itself. The creature only has one personality/intelligence.

Jade Dragon

Eastern-flavored cousin to the Emerald dragon. The text describes it as being winged, but Diterlizzi didn't seem to take it in that direction. Jade dragons refuse to eat humanoids and live off of forest life and vegetation exclusively.

53/114

Jarbo

Like a kangaroo rat, but 2' tall. Psionic ability to detect water over long distances.

54/114

>Detected possible malicious code in image file.
. . . Uhh . . .

Land Linnorm

Driven solely by greed, enjoys twisting humans for their own purposes. Prefers to live in hilly areas surrounding settlements.

55/114

Laraken

Distant relative to the nishruu, also feeds off of magic. Lives in swamps. Must stay wet, or it becomes "very uncomfortable."

56/114

Living Steel

Basically the T-1000. If two living steel encounter one another, they fight to the death. Reproduces asexually. Described as "tracking its enemies mercilessly until it or they are dead."

57/114


Terminator 2: Judgement Day was still a really fucking big deal when this book was published.

Man, why do all the best threads show up when I get tired.
Anyways, this is great stuff! I've always liked his artwork, and a lot of this is new to me.

>>16545246

Lock lurker

Looks like a normal coin. Bane of thieves, often used to guard against them. Has razor-sharp teeth and a lightning-fast stinger of up to 2 feet long, kept hidden in the ethereal plane when not in use. Sting causes slow and paralysis. Also popular with thieves as an assassination tool.

58/114

Loup Du Noir

Lycanthrope that transforms into a wolf by donning a special pelt. Only has a human and wolf form. Cannot transform without pelt. This trait is genetically heritable. Loup Du Noir tend to become seduced by the power they gain in their wolf form, and over time often become afflicted by an irresistible urge to change.

59/114

Loxo

Semi-nomadic, generally peaceful elephantine humanoids. Ironically, they are noted as being talented ivoryworkers and do business in trading their own tusks. They enjoy a variety of food, which they eat in massive quantities. They frequently travel to different areas and plant fruit trees and grains to maintain the health of their grazing lands.

60/114

Lythlyx

Eel-like creature. Lives for hundreds of years. Tends to be found spiraling in the air or in the water, dancing in a particular place for years at a time. They are as "thick as a human thigh."

"Lythlyx are aggressive, but attack apparently at whim, sometimes ignoring easy prey and going after stronger or more numerous creatures."

61/114

Magebane

Inhabits tombs, ruins, and caverns. Silent, immune, and invisible to psionics. It shadows a chosen mage undetected, and has a 60% chance of stealing all or part of the mage's spells when cast, either negating it entirely or weakening its effect.

62/114

Any of his stuff from Planescape is just...

...it's just great.

>>16545159
God what a dickish monster your loot is going to kill you in your sleep.

>>16545777
Heh, it's funny that the sage-dragon has a bit of a gut, that's what staying home reading instead of pillaging and ravaging the countryside does to you.
I just love Diterlizzis style, it's so evocative.

Marrashi

Evil spirit of pestilence, sometimes agreeing to serve a wizard of evil genie in exchange for treasure or the opportunity to spread contagion. Reproduces by striking victims with a special taklif arrow, who die within a day and become a Marrashi if not treated within 6 hours. Marrashi prefer to use their arrows on human or demihuman prey.

63/114

Messenger Tasked Genie

Once djinn, now serve all genies equally. Prefer to flee from fights. "They cannot stand to be kept waiting and are prone to pacing, fingertapping, and other nervous. Being tied up is a form of torture that can sometimes (10%) force a messenger genie to undertake a mission for creatures to which a messenger genie owes no service."

64/114

>>16546406
The sage is for the belly and not for the eye.

Metagolem

Hollow construct that has been given magical life. Animated by elemental spirits, but given intelligence and the ability to speak. "They have no society as such, but they do seem to bear a strange fondness for others of their kind. Occasionally, several metagolems can be found relaxing together in worlds particularly prone to violent lightning storms." Will often join parties of adventurers if it will advance the achievement of the task its master has given.

65/114

Midgard Linnorm

Possibly the sole offspring of Loki's child, the Midgard Serpent. Possibly immortal. Sages hope it is a unique creature.

66/114

Miner Tasked Genie

Once dao, created by evil wizards. Now serve the dao in their mines. Survive by eating stone.

67/114

Nightshade

Elemental spirits of poisonous plants such as mistletoe, hemlock, foxglove, and belladonna. Vaguely resemble dwarves. Capture and sacrifice trespassers to their high queen. Exceptionally greedy, but only for magical potions and poisons.

68/114

Nishruu

Amorphous, mistlike creature that feeds on magic.

69/114

Fucking Nishruu. Killing my wizard.

Noran

Subterranean petrified treant-like creature. Fights with its whiplike branches, which it also uses to load its hollow trunk with small rocks. Can "spit" rocks out of its trunk for considerable damage, decent range, and with good accuracy.

Prefers its food bruised and bloody for easy digestion.

70/114

Oathbinder Tasked Genie

Reshaped efreet. Serve as maintainers of oaths between their master and any other sentient being. Doles out punishments in accordance with that laid out by the broken oath.

Experts on contracts, oaths, vows, and obligations. More than happy to debate or split hairs on the minutia of absolutely any topic.

71/114

Ophidian

Large snake with humanoid arms and hands. Can change color at will, as a chameleon. Occasionally enslaved by yuan-ti, sometimes serve naga or make alliances with lizardfolk.

Ophidia can create additional ophidia by biting a humanoid creature. An ophidia created in this way gradually loses the memories of its previous life.

72/114

Opinicus

Benevolent desert-dwelling psionic camel. Has the face and hands of a monkey, lion's mane and tail, and eagle wings. Natural creature. Tend to live in or around ruins, though they sometimes venture to champion good causes. Enjoys playing pranks and making jokes.

73/114

OP, do you have a digital copy of this book that I can snag?

Ormyrr

Amphibious, weapon-loving creatures. Hibernate in mud or go out to sea during winter. Lives in lake bottoms, hunting on land. Fascinated by magic but utter failures at using it themselves, despite their constant efforts.

Ormyrr dream of someday flying by either growing wings, breeding wings into the species, or stealing enough magical flight items that every ormyrr may possess one. Wyvern and other winged species breeding attempts have been disastrous.

74/144

Pasari-Niml

Tool-using, telepathic insectoid predator. 4'-6' in length. Calipha (hive queens) have beautiful, humanlike faces and bloated mothlike bodies.

75/114

More Al-Qadim, I believe.

Pearl Dragon

Seminomadic lovers of rocky coasts. Spend most of their days hunting for pearls. Can stay underwater for over an hour without surfacing. Hoard tends to contain massive amounts of pearls. Prefer to stay away from humans.

46/114

>>16546694
Isn't it up somewhere? I'd check Google.

>MEAT hatshop

(Someone archive this when it's mostly done. I don't have time/bandwidth to save all this now.)

>>16546705
If I ever make an evil wizard, he'll have a soft-spot for those fellows.

Petty Faerie (squaker, stwinger)

Squeaker: Believed to have been created by a wizard spell gone wrong. Tiny humanoids with disproportionately large heads and spindly bodies. Attack only to annoy and aggravate prey by throwing rocks and branches, with no apparent strategy, and without concentrating on a single target. Society operates with antlike precision, but to what ends no one knows.

Stwinger: "Nauseatingy cute." Do not fight, exist only to have fun. They believe the most fun thing one can possibly do is to swing from the beard of a dwarf (though other beards will also suffice.)

Can cast charm in a 40' radius via pheremone to help convince a person to play with them.

77/114

Psionic Lich

Just what it says on the tin. A psionic variant of lich.

78/114

Pteraman

Vicious and mean-tempered pterodactyloid humanoid creatures. Enemies to goblins, pterodactyls, and pteranodons.

79/114

Rain Linnorm

Vain to the point of demanding credit for its atrocities. Feels more powerful in accordance with the heinousness of its acts. Tends to live on hills, retreats to its lair when the weather turns pleasant. Wyrm and older rain linnorms have been known to control weather when too long a period has passed between storms.

80/114

Woah. Excellent, thank you anonymous.

Rautym

Evil subterranian, hairless, eyeless psionic monkey. "The rautym are an anomaly. No one is sure of their origins, but most know that disturbing a circle of dancing ratyum is a sure way to invite destruction."

81/114

At first I thought this might have to do with the movie Congo, but that film was released a year after this book.

Saluki

Exactly the real-world animal. Notable here for being a favored breed of the jann. "Their pedigrees are rigorously maintained, allowing owners to breed only from the finest stock."

82/114

More Al-Qadim. I like that setting a lot.

>>16545367
Look at the grin on those mushrooms.

What, exactly, is the name of this book?

>>16546807
>Lich with a mustache

Sandman

"The sandman's name describes it exactly: It is a manlike biped made entirely of sand, held together by magical cohesion." Serve as slave-takers for the dao, used to great effect due to their ability to capture people unharmed. Any creature coming within 20 feet of a sandman must save vs spell or fall asleep (90% resistance for elves).

83/114

>>16546903
Name's in the first post. Monstrous Compendium Annual Vol. 1.

Sea Linnorm

Vicious linnorms who view land-dwelling races as a threat to sealife. Frequent capsizers of ships.

84/114

Shadeling

From the demiplane of shadow. Human-sized, shapeless, flowing sentient shadows in natural form. Duplicates a victim's shadow, then takes its material form (including weaponry, and physical abilities) and attempts to slay its victim. Remains in the guise of its victim for a number of days before returning to true form and finding a new victim.

Multiple shadelings are incapable of cooperation, and will all attempt to steal the same form without any apparent hierarchy.

85/114

Shimmering Wraith

Nonliving energy created by combined forces of the negative energy plane and the quasi-elemental plane of lightning. Apparently non-sentient.

86/114

Singing Tree

Lures creatures to rest near it, then drains them of blood to feed itself. Each oddly-shaped leaf sings with a melodic voice, blending into a beautiful, calming chorus. When particularly hungry, the tree itself sings as well, adding a bass accompaniment.

87/114

Skum

Bred by aboleth over thousands of years from humanoid stock to serve as beasts of burden. "Unnecessary parts" such as hair, vocal cords, lungs, external ears, etc have been removed and useful features such as a tail and teeth and claws were added.

Aboleth cannot transform captive humanoids into skum, but can change them so their offspring will.

88/114

Snow Troll

Artic variant of troll.

89/114

>>16547025
Man, so much better than those monkey-things.

Spectral Wizard

Undead who have retained their ability to cast spells, created through a unique spell. They generally continue to perform the work that they did throughout their life. Typically neutral evil.

90/114

Spellweaver

Powerful, telepathic, nonhuman spellcaster from an alternate prime material plane. Humans communicating with spellweavers telepathically often become inflicted by temporary insanity.

91/114

Spiderstone Golem

Or Obsidian Golem. Created by drow to serve spellcasters. Each is inhabited by the spirit of an unknown tanar-ri servant of Lolth, to ensure that the creations are not used against her or her church.

92/114

Stone Snake

A snake composed of segments of stone. Consumes scavenged mineral matter. Stone snake egg yolk is a prized ingredient for ink used for inscribing the stoneskin spell.

93/114

Stone wolf

Animated stone creature. Appearance of a stone wolf varies upon its creator.

94/114

Suwyze

Exceptionally intelligent, philosophically-minded, creature that appears to be composed of sensory organs such as antennae, tendrils, and feelers. Favored by mages for security. Curious and disdainful of the guard duties to which it is typically assigned. Often fails to notice threats when deep in contemplation.

95/114

Metalmaster (Sword Slug)

Can mimic vocal sounds previously made in its presence, but frequently mimics an inappropriate sound for the particular occasion. Able to magnetically attract and repel metallic items to/from its body at will.

96/114

Talking Bird

Intelligent, long-lived bird. Purportedly created to help the worthy by giving advice and answering questions. Occasionally lives near a singing tree, which does not harm the talking bird.

97/114

Tatalla

Also referred to as "the eye," in reference to its singular, protruding eye. Typically used as assassins. Society is organized as a thieves' guild, will often work in cooperation with illicit societies.

98/114

Tuyewera

Undead monster created by evil clerics in jungle villages using the corpse of a man slain by death magic spells. The corpse's legs below the knees and tongue are removed prior to enchantment, and an ancestral spirit of a wizard or priest possesses the body.

99/114

Ulitharid (Noble Illithid)

Elite mind-flayers favored by the elder brain.

100/114

Undead Dwarf

Created to protect dwarven burial sites, typically found wearing ceremonial arm.

101/114

>>16547187

>>16547183
Why? What is the advantage?

Undead Lake Monster

Presumed to be unique.

102/114

>>16547200
What's this from? Maybe Pathologic?

>>16547213
Morrowind

>>16547206

I think it's part of the creation ritual. Tuyewera are able to drain breath from an enemy and grants it immunity from all weapons.

They're pretty horrendous in general. "They are little more than despicable machines made to do their misguided masters' bidding."

Vampire Moss

Hangs from branches and waits for creatures to pass beneath in order to feed.

103/114

Vampiric Wolf

Undead, vampiric wolves created by corrupting ceremonies performed on normal wolf pups by evil clerics.

104/114

>>16547230
Okay, thanks.

Werebadger

Dwarven lycanthropic badger.

105/114

>>16547260
>werebadger
>greatest monster ever created
FTFY.

Werejaguar

Lycanthropic jaguire. Good at infiltrating humanoid societies. They tend not to marry, but do have preferred mates.

106/114

Whipsting

Rocky ledge predator. The ball-like center body is studded with numerous eyes hidden within the flaps of its skin. Underside contains a large, suckerlike mouth with three serrated teeth arranged in a triangle, capable of moving independently of one another and gnawing through plate armor.

107/114

Wind Walker

From the elemental plane of air. Servants to djinn, used to sculpt clouds and herd rain.

108/114

>>16547294

Hurry up with the last 7! I have to get to bed for work in the morning.

Winged Cat (Greater)

Peaceful large feline with fur-covered wings (15' span).

108/114

>>16547305
I'm trying!

Winged Cat (Lesser)

As a greater winged cat, but housecat-sized.

109/114

I wish I could meet Diterlizzi, and have him draw a tophat on my Verdant Force.

Windghost

"They are flying cones, the large base (their head) foremost." Capable of manipulating magic-dead zones to envelop itself or enemy spellcasters.

110/114

>>16547321
>>16547317
Haha, fantastic.

Xantravar (Stinging Horror)

"The stinging horror is a silent, deadly predator that inhabits swamps, salt marshes, and remote seacosts with tidal caverns. A xantravar's body is actually two wine-red to gray mottled, teardrop-shaped, rubbery bulbs, 6 to 7 feet long, ending in strong, corded muscles that can drive home the two hollow bone strings at the base of each bulb with great force. Above the stings, eight eyes ring each stalk. The bulbs are of the same size, linked by a curious glowing energy field that varies in length from a 2-foot norm to a maximum vertical separation of up to 12 feet and horizontal separation yup to 20 feet."

111/114

>>16547200

MORROWIND
FUCK YEAH

>>16547255
If you're still around whoever posted this, its called an Ascended Sleeper, for future reference.

Xaver

Intelligent creature that appears to be a sword, with six-faceted green eyes that resemble gems around the blade's hilt. They scuttle about on their retractile, wormlike legs. Consumes ferrous metal and alloys, as a rust monster.

112/114

Zombie Wolf

Undead created when wolves starve or freeze to death near undead-infested areas such as graveyards and necropoli. Often have gaping wounds or missing limbs. "A zombie wolf cannot howl like its living counterparts, but it does occasionally throw back its head and utter a strangled cry from rotting vocal chords."

114/114

I need the top seven monsters from this. So vote.

>>16547412
>112
>>16547398
>114

is there one missing OP?

>>16547429
No, looks like I accidentally made 108 twice.

>>16547398
Some of the AD&D monsters are so wack.

Great thread bro. Seriously, this was awesome. One of those threads that really makes you have faith in /tg/, that reminds you why you keep coming back. You did a great job out here tonight, soldier.

Now, I'm going to bed. Just one last work from the bard himself.

>>16547448
Np, just checking. Do you seriously want a vote?

>>16547468
OP didn't ask, but I did. And yes.

Is there an archive for these?
I don't feel like "save image as" 114 times right now and "down them all" doesn't save the names..

>>16547462
You're welcome! Sorry I kept you awake. Stay safe driving to work or whatever it is you do drowsily tomorrow.

These are great. Some of them are just really characterful. Others sound and look like awesome monsters to use. Thanks for sharing.

>>16547483
File > Save Page As

>>16547483
http://www.mediafire.com/?ui3vzfw8vjtnza0

Here you go. All the files are named properly, so that should help.

>>16545571 Deaths Head Tree
>>16546332 Lock Lurker
>>16546532 Nightshade
>>16546212 Helmed Horror
>>16545496 Dark Tree
>>16545395 Carrionette
>>16547398 Xaver

I think those are my faves, was a difficult decision though.

Do you intend to more of these?
It would be greatly appreciated.
:3

>>16547534

Dear sweet bless, thank you. This shall be preserved for future generations.

>>16547550
Thanks

>>16547554
This is the only book I've seen so far that was completely illustrated by Diterlizzi. Some of the subsequent Annual Volumes had passably decent artwork, but none with td's style.

Originally, I was just going to dump his art, because it's beautiful, but the monsters are so damn interesting - and it's kind of sad they were lost to time, so I started summarizing their descriptions as well.

I guess I could do another later on, but I'd have to find a good book. I'll see what I can do.

>>16547424
I like:
>>16545301 Blazing Bones (lore)
>>16545367 Campestri (lore and art)
>>16545571 Death's Head Tree (lore and art)
>>16545912 Flameskull (lore)
>>16545983 Gambado (it's like a hermit crab, but with skulls - and it kills you!)
>>16546332 Lock Lurker (lore and art)
>>16546998 Singing Tree (lore)

>>16546705
I also really like the Ormyrr.

>>16547560
You're quite welcome.

>>16547605
>>16547554
Hm. Makes sense.
Thanks regardless, highly enjoyable thread.

The art's delicious. I think that if you can keep consistent art duties to a single artist in a book it does a lot for it.

>>16547631

I might be able to do another later. Check out these little dudes. They're called Kercpa. This is pretty representative of the art in the Annual II. It's not Diterlizzi-level imagination-spawning, but it's decent. The entries are still worth a glance.

>>16545571
>As far as I've seen, it's the only AD&D book that was illustrated entirely by him

Ahem.

>>16548201
Hahaha.

You know, I actually knew perfectly well about the Planescape books he illustrated when I wrote that. They're absolutely gorgeous, too. I think I'm just sleepy and on my way to losing coherence and thought.

>>16548248
OK, carry on then. Thanks for the dump!

btw Tony D also has some illustrations in the MC Annual #3, but iirc they are all reprints of Planescape MC art.

>>16548268
Yeah, I saw those. I've been scrounging around in what I have, and Volume 1 is the best of it. I'm going to see what I can do with the Planescape stuff, but a lot of it is unworkable since it's multipage or has text on top of it - not to mention the scan quality is really quite poor.

>>16548299
Yeah, sometimes I wish I had a better scanner, because the copies floating around the net were scanned back in like 2000.

>>16545384
>fun guys
>fungus
iswydt

>>16548321
I just want you to know you have a beautiful, beautiful bookshelf full of fucking treasure.

This is great, OP. Thanks, you are bro-tier.

I personally like the Pearl Dragon, the Spectral Wizard and all the freaking Linnorms. Masterful.

Have a Cat Lord. Mmmmm, Cat Lord.

Thanks for being awesome, OP. Diterlizzi was my favorite, at least until they stopped hiring him over at Wizards (which is understandable, since he has his own successful franchise now, and doesn't need the work). I bought the Blood War box set just for that amazing poster he made.

Hey, OP, is there any chance you can put all this junk on rapidshare? I'm a big fan of it Diterlizzi's work, but I'm about to run out to see a client for the day. I'd like to be able to just grab it when I get back.

>>16549664
It already is.

>>16547534
>http://www.mediafire.com/?ui3vzfw8vjtnza0

>>16549664
See
>>16547534

>>16546807
I like the Psionic Lich best. He's just so dapper!

>>16549710
>>16549708

Thank you, thank you. I was just glancing through and didn't see anything.

Holy hell, this is a large thread. Must wade through and pic out my faves later.

Awesome thread, OP. DiTerlizzi basically shaped my mental image of what D&D looks like.

>>16549741
His boots are far too large for his emaciated legs, poor guy.

>>16550985
That's what his psyonic powers are for.

Post more Diterlizzi art please!
Or is there a comprensive archive already?

>>16551151
Not sure if there's a "definitive" collection. From what I've seen, in addition to the Monster Manual & Planescape stuff, he's also done a fair amount of art for a couple adventures and a fair amount of stuff for Dragon & Dungeon magazine. His website has some D&D related stuff too

He also did a LOT of work in oWoD Changeling, especially the 1e Player's Guide and main rulebook.

He stopped working on Magic: The Gathering just after the Tempest block, unfortunately, but he still did some excellent work on cards there, as well.

he also did the artwork for the Spiderwick chronicles... with the spin-off film if you want to see his work in CGI

very henderson, and all round awesome

>>16545912

Wait.

Was Morte from planescape torment one of these guardian skulls?

If so, hells yeah!

Great read, OP. This is my favourite Annual from AD&D as well, and one that has seen constant use from my since the 90's.

By the way, guys, if you want a copy of the book, Noble Knights often has used copies in pretty good conditions (got my copy of the third Annual from them, as well as a lot of books from the late AD&D era I missed back in the day).

>>16548321 here again.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=wtrv5jhf

I uploaded the comic that came in Hellbound about a year ago, for anyone who wants to see some more Tony D art. For some reason the Hellbound scan doesn't have the comic.

>>16552407
>Was Morte from planescape torment one of these guardian skulls?

He wasn't on fire, was he? I always thought he was just a mimir, but then someone told me he was actually a skull made of bone.

Thank you for doing this.

>>16553008
He's a petitioner of Baator. Pillar of Skulls.

>> Electrum Dragon
>>Peaceful, philosophical dragons. Hobbies include trading, bargaining, and philosophical debate. Preferred hoard: artwork.

OH SHIT SON! I now have a BBEG for my next camapign: A sophisicated, tea-sipping dragon-gentlemen who sends his cronies to steal some valuable and rare artwork for him.

bump

>>16546357
Weird that these made it into the annual, since they were already int the Forgotten Realms Monstrous Compendium volume II.

This thread is awesome and you should feel awesome.

Think this deserves an archive, actually.

>>16557272
No. We only have a finite amount of resources for archival so we don't waste them on image dump threads. Besides, the OP provided a convenient download link.

>Wake up, thread's still here.
>betterthanexpected.jpeg

>>16557301
Yeah, there's no need to archive. The images are all packed up nice and neat and the annual is readily available by a number of sources. This is just me going "Hey look at all of this neat old shit!" It might have taken me a while to finish, but there's no OC here.

>>16547158
My goodness, that excellent bird has spectacles.

>>16546867
>At first I thought this might have to do with the movie Congo, but that film was released a year after this book.

>implying the book wasn't made before the movie

>>16559283
I don't know. I considered that, but the novel was published in 1980 and it seemed unlikely to that it would still be a big enough deal to have an entry based off of it 14 years after the fact.

But maybe it was. Or maybe it's from OD&D or 1e, was based off of the novel and then got carried over into AD&D?

Whatever is the case, that thing is really strange.

I always loved this book.I remember looking at it in the store and saying to myself that the whole book was by the guy from Planescape .

My favorites were always the Bound Genies My highest level wizard ever had a huge fortress-tower built and staffed by them.

>>16546000
I love how derpy this thing's expression is. I can't imagine fighting something like that without laughing.

Bump for DiTellizi art

What is this thread doing on page 14? Back to page 1.

Bump to the front.

Bump for the bump god.

bump for goodness

Buuuuuuuuump

This thread's still alive? Nice.

>>16575554
I know, right?

>>16575554

I felt in love to that picture.

>this thread
needs more Sluagh

and satyr

Sidhe-it, nigga.

and one more bump, for the kiddies

>>16577992
>>16578014
What are those?

>>16578645
Old Changeling: the Dreaming artwork. Fuck the haters, the game was awesome.

Bump fu suckas, cause fuck 40k.

Bumping with some Spiderwick art, if you give me time I can scan some pictures from the Field Guide and the Fairy book...

Here a Dwarf Gargoyle, me thinks...

Another Gargoyle

It's really cool. A consistent aesthetic is nice and it really works for some of the monsters.

>>16578720
The game was awesome as long as you kept staring lovingly at the DiTerlizzi art.

More C:TD

>>16581142
I agree. C:TD will always have a special place in my memory for WoD.

That said though, Changeling: The Lost is pretty fucking cool.

>>16581384
Agreed. That game is gorgeous and fuck-awesome.

Even /without/ DiTerlizzi art.

>>16581442
Yeah, I was unsure about it when I first heard they took Changeling and went 'Grim's Fairy Tales' on it... then I started reading through it, and reading up on Character Creation, and I my mind was blown with possibilities. It also helped that I started reading Charles DeLint novels... and it seems the C:TL pulls a hefty amount of theme pulled from those as well.

>>16581463

Grimm's Fairy Tales are essential in faerie games for two reasons:
1) It adds the dark element that the Irish-inspired stuff somehow misses, despite dark stuff like fomori and Balor being part of that mythos
2) It adds non-faerie "fae" critters to the mix and makes the line between types and archetypes a little blurry
3) More cannibalism

DiTerlizzi's art made Planescape awesome

bumpin

rise from your grave!

/tg/ I am disappoint. Why is this on page 11 but there are over 9000 40k posts above it.

just split off a 40k board, this shit has got to stop.

Necrobump.