If anyone comes up with new and exciting ways to use vampires or half dragons or dire rats, you can bet that we'll print it.
Well then get ready for my vampiric half-dragon weredirerat, James. He's a critical threat name of Slithy McVerminstein and he's gonna blow your socks off. Literally, that's one of his highly-adapted-to-living-in-a-coinop-laundromat special attacks.
A good "oriental" style adventure with a Rakshasa villain in his original habitat might be quite interesting indeed.
I certainly think so. In fact there is a prop in the pile with my little ole name on it that is up this alley exactly.
Say no to blacklists!!! Down with McCarthy!!! I want my Dungeon Red Red Red!!! ;-)
(Dopplegangers should be on the list too, by the way...)
(Maybe one is. It's so hard to tell.)
Am I correct that there's a group of other adversaries who are NOT presently eligible for get-out-of-free cards (such as hags, dinosaurs, pirates, gorillas-for-Demogorgon, and the like)?
I not only understand the purpose for The List, I truly appreciate it. I can see what monsters appear in the published magazine each month, but I have no clue what monsters round out proposals already greenlighted for manuscripts or manuscripts making their way towards publication. So the heads-up is great. Advising would-be authors like me about dead ends keeps me from wandering down all of them. (Most of them.) (Some of them?)
But isn't the simple truth here that DUNGEON's editors find little appeal in any monster used in a pedestrian, expected, or (worse of all), hackneyed fashion? And isn't that underlying precept true for settings, NPCs, and storylines as well? Don't get me wrong. I still want to hear what folks are overusing. But isn't the real message simply be original?
he's gonna blow your socks off. Literally, that's one of his highly-adapted-to-living-in-a-coinop-laundromat special attacks.
Hey now, hey now. This is a family game we're running here.
Hey James...can dire corbies come off the permanent off-list?
In my new underdark pirate campaign world (that I have yet to run) I've made them ogre-sized stupid relatives of kenku that are used by their more intelligent kin as guards. :)
Hey James...can dire corbies come off the permanent off-list?
In my new underdark pirate campaign world (that I have yet to run) I've made them ogre-sized stupid relatives of kenku that are used by their more intelligent kin as guards. :)
Have dire corbies been stated for 3e by anyone except enworld and by me?
(Dopplegangers should be on the list too, by the way...)(Maybe one is. It's so hard to tell.)
Am I correct that there's a group of other adversaries who are NOT presently eligible for get-out-of-free cards (such as hags, dinosaurs, pirates, gorillas-for-Demogorgon, and the like)?....
Judging by James Jacob's avatar here on the boards, and other comments I've seen here, I don't think dinosaurs are really on the "banned" list. (At least not if used in a cool fashion, but that pretty much goes for any monster, banned or not)
Yay, toys are fun!
So at Dungeon we have a list of monsters/adventure ideas that we feel have been overused recently. While it is possible for us to green light an adventure that features one of these monsters/ideas, it is very unlikely. Every once in awhile we reevaluate "The List" and update it.
Which one of these deserves to come off "The List"?
Can I ask a question? What is the most current "List"? Is Malcanthet on that List?
Yay, toys are fun!
So at Dungeon we have a list of monsters/adventure ideas that we feel have been overused recently. While it is possible for us to green light an adventure that features one of these monsters/ideas, it is very unlikely. Every once in awhile we reevaluate "The List" and update it.
Which one of these deserves to come off "The List"?
BTW - I say get rid of vampires. The only Masquerade I want my party to experience is the one being thrown at the Duke's house.
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Jason Bulmahn
ON again, OFF again Dungeon Writer
Managing Editor of Dragon
The only thing I own that goes and is my TV.
So, I have re-named my TV, my Jason.
... gotta go watch some Jason, later.
Dinosaurs and Malcanthet are immune to the list.
Yay!
I like Dinosaurs too.
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Have dire corbies been stated for 3e by anyone except enworld and by me?Hey James...can dire corbies come off the permanent off-list?
In my new underdark pirate campaign world (that I have yet to run) I've made them ogre-sized stupid relatives of kenku that are used by their more intelligent kin as guards. :)
I haven't used them, but I do like them a whole lot. DOOM! DOOOOOOM!
Dinosaurs and Malcanthet are immune to the list.
Dinosaur nepotism! How revolting!
Dinosaurs and Malcanthet are immune to the list.Dinosaur nepotism! How revolting!
The man does have a Fiendish T-Rex as his avatar ;-)
The man does have a Fiendish T-Rex as his avatar ;-)Dinosaurs and Malcanthet are immune to the list.Dinosaur nepotism! How revolting!
It's only a model.
Clip-clop, clip-clop
GGG
Dinosaurs and Malcanthet are immune to the list.
Seriously? That is awesome. I enjoy both, although I have never actually used either in an adventure.
I was worried about using Malcanthet because I know she is a part of a current Adventure Path. I want to write an adventure where she just happens to be the deity worshipped by the main villain, not a part of the actual story.
Is that List the current List?
I voted for Jason. How can he be on the list in the first place? If someone is writing good adventures how can you say "Enough of this goodness! Make room for those of lesser quality!"? Seriously. Doesn't make any sense to me.
My second vote would be for dire rats. Regular rats, rat swarms, dire rats - they're all good. Sure, no one is surprised to bump into them at low level but hey, no one is surprised to bump into them in the back alley of the bar in real life either! Doesn't make them bad, ya know.
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I voted for Jason. How can he be on the list in the first place? If someone is writing good adventures how can you say "Enough of this goodness! Make room for those of lesser quality!"? Seriously. Doesn't make any sense to me.
Thanks for the praise. In reality, the Dungeon folks are just having a bit of fun with me. I might even have an adventure in an upcoming issue. Take that List!
Jason Bulmahn
Managing Editor of Dragon
I voted formians (so much for a secret ballot), because I never get tired of a good bug hunt. One of the very first adventures I ran was with a bunch of hivebrood (D&D Mystara) and ogres, and even a dusanu. I long await the day of revisiting that gem, exploding underground caves and loin-cloth barbarians, et al.
Loathe as I am to admit it, I'm still recovering from the vampiric onslaught in Vampires of Waterdeep...awesome, but vampires still have their place on the list.
If I could make a request, I'm less than savvy about kenku, and it might be personal. But after Three Faces of Evil, Weavers, and a mean one in Library of Last Resort, I think they deserve a nomination. Maybe fire giants, too. (And yet, I can't get enough lizardmen...go figure. Never thought I'd be able to say that sentence in context.)