Question about the original Boggart

[Thomas Jones]

The boggart that appeared in the Monster manual 2 back in the day was very different from their counterparts in the current Pathfinder setting. They looked like small hairy men (the original illustration look like Rob Zombie covered in fur). They were also children of willow-the whisps. Aberrations/energy creatures whose offspring look shaggy human males, which is an strange an interesting concept. I know they were covered in one of the ecology of articles the narrator suggested the boggarts looked like the the ancestors of the whisps and they the whisps evolved to the point where they didn't need humanoid bodies. IIRC the nararitor feared that it might be the fate of humans and demi-humans to evolve into such creatures. Does anyone know what the inspiration for them and what was the idea behind them.

[Cevah]

wikipedia indicates they originally appeared in Dragon #54, p28

Dragon Vol. VI, No. 4 wrote:

Created by Roger E. Moore

FREQUENCY: Very rare
NUMBER APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: 3
MOVE: 12”
HIT DICE: ½
% IN LAIR: 10%
TREASURE TYPE: J, K, L on individual
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 7-3
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Spells
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Never surprised; save as 9th-level cleric
MAGIC RESISTANCE: As above
INTELLIGENCE: Average to low
ALIGNMENT: See below
SIZE: S (1½’ tall)
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
Attack/Defense Modes: Nil

When, for any reason, an alignment change brownie, the formerly lawful good creature is transformed into a boggart, or "boggie." Boggarts are solitary little creatures, with extraordinary senses and dexterity (just as the they are not surprised and have 18 dexterity with a capabilities) and may also become effectively invisible in naturral terrain because of their skills at hiding.
Boggarts do not possess the same spell powers as brownies do; three times a day a boggart may shapechange, hideous form that will cause a save vs. fear, at +2, for it. In their normal shape, boggarts are small, hairy folk, something like a miniature bugbear. They have dark tan brown fur, with light nut-brown skin on their hands, feet (soles only), and faces.
Boggarts enjoy creating mischief, but can be and aren’t very wise at all. A randomly encountered boggart can be chaotic neutral (60%), chaotic evil (20%), true or neutral evil (5%). Evil ones may be found as servants of assassins. Neutral (with respect to good and evil) boggarts can sometimes be found living with families in cottages, more or less as pets, occasionally harassing the occupants with (usually) harmless practical jokes.
Boggarts speak only their alignment tongue, boggart (a corrupted form of the brownie language, understandable by 50% of all brownies) and common. The change from brownie-to boggart is reversible only by a
Wish spell. If a brownie was a familiar to a lawful good or lawful neutral magic-user before the change, he will become hard to manage (at best) in boggart form and will run away

/cevah

[Thomas Jones]

Here is a link to the one from MM2 (along with some commentary)
http://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-dnd-modron/2/

[Humphrey Boggard]

Back in those days I too had a rich, flowing mane of fur. Funny how times change.

[Thomas Jones]

Humphrey Boggard wrote:

Back in those days I too had a rich, flowing mane of fur. Funny how times change.

Ok, that made me LOL.

Love the username BTW

[James Jacobs]

I'm a little confused... because as far as I know... we've not done a boggart for Pathfinder yet.

Boggards are the closest in spelling, but they're not boggards—we call them boggards because they live in bogs. Nothing to do with the mythological boggart creature.