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The Cute, Friendly Side to the Monster Manual

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ShubNecktie
01/12/09

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I think the link is www.monsterisle.net

The article's link took me to www.monsterisle.com

Looking forward to seeing the list of monsters!
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Annalee Newitz
01/12/09

@ShubNecktie: Fixed!
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shazawn
01/12/09

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I sure hope some Lovecraftian creations made their way into this book, but I doubt it. I'd love to see a bunch of kids dealing with some Deep Ones or even great Cthulhu himself, only to come away a bunch of gibbering, insane children.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/12/09

@shazawn: I see that my pleas for shoggoths have not been solitary.
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Themindtaker
01/12/09

@shazawn: How would you be able to differentiate that from the ones already out there? I mean, isn't the only way to tell if someone shorter than you is a kid that they're incoherently gibbering, manic, and sticky?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/12/09

@Themindtaker: ... I think you just stumbled upon the greatest coverup of all time.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/12/09

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Wow! A Catoblepas reference! One of my most fav monsters. Why? Stone breath. Freakin awesome. But no shoggoths?
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Pope John Peeps II
01/12/09

@crashedpc: Oddly enough, that scaled bull thing with the stone breath is called a "Gorgon" in the old monstrous manual. Or so's I recall?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/12/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Really? I thought Gorgons were supposed to be ladylike with snakehair, based on Greek myth. Then again, you may be referring to something else entirely.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
01/12/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Yeah, the Catoblepas in the MM was some thing with a warthog head on a very long neck with a death stare.

The Greek Catoblepas, though, just had the body of a buffalo and the head of a hog, so it's pretty accurate, I guess.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/12/09

@braak: I'm trying to figure out how they sounded. "Moo" or "oink" or "moink"? Or maybe just "HISSS" cause that's the last thing you'll hear before you turn into a lawn ornament.
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Smeagol92055
01/12/09

@crashedpc: Why no Shoggoths, indeed? And I see there's no love for any colours from out of space, either.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/12/09

@Smeagol92055: I think trying to print a picture of vegetation destroying indescribable colours would probably destroy a few children's minds.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
01/12/09

@Smeagol92055: Or those rugose cones. Man, how can you have a book of monsters and no rugose cones?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
01/12/09

@braak: There are no such things are rugose cones there is no great race of beings from the planet yith you will come with us.
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