Monster Origins
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I did some pretty in depth hunting for Water Weird and could find nothing, however Weird as a type of unknown creature (by itself) does crop up occasionally, though nothing really specific (and I couldn't find any definitive sources)
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OK, one more word on the water weird (aside from my note from the other topic about weird being an obsolete noun meaning "spell"). The Shannon Appelcline document says
Water Weird. Though the water weird first appeared in print in the Monster Manual (1977), it was created by Ernie Gygax for the original tournament version of this adventure, in 1976.
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Release 9 is on the top post. I'm down to line 300, Ettin. Here are a few notes.
In the 1977 MM, it says brownies are perhaps the offspring of halflings and pixies. They aren't very similar to BFRPG brownie mechanically, and the name is from Scottish folklore.
These monsters need renames: bulette, choker, cloaker, couatl. For the couatl, "feathered serpent" seems natural and wouldn't be confused with the deity Quetzalcoatl (aka Kukulkan).
Len Lakofka described a brown dragon in Dragon #38, but it is different from the one in FG1.
The cold elemental and the lightning element are very similar to what MM II calls para- and quasi-elementals. And there's a quasi-elemental in Dragon #125 that's a mineral element that's' perhaps a match for the metal elemental.
Lastly, ettercap is a unique name, but it's an alternative for attercop, which seems like a natural swap for that monster name.
In the 1977 MM, it says brownies are perhaps the offspring of halflings and pixies. They aren't very similar to BFRPG brownie mechanically, and the name is from Scottish folklore.
These monsters need renames: bulette, choker, cloaker, couatl. For the couatl, "feathered serpent" seems natural and wouldn't be confused with the deity Quetzalcoatl (aka Kukulkan).
Len Lakofka described a brown dragon in Dragon #38, but it is different from the one in FG1.
The cold elemental and the lightning element are very similar to what MM II calls para- and quasi-elementals. And there's a quasi-elemental in Dragon #125 that's a mineral element that's' perhaps a match for the metal elemental.
Lastly, ettercap is a unique name, but it's an alternative for attercop, which seems like a natural swap for that monster name.
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Tolkien used Ettercap in the Hobbit as an insult Bilbo hurled at the spiders (it basically means roughly dunderhead, it's association with spider creatures is a misunderstanding of that passage of the Hobbit
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Bulette - landshark, earthshark
Choker - strangler
Choker - strangler
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Coatl: Quetzal. Its based on the deity, keeping the conection seems ok
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Choker should be fine, it's one common word.
Landshark would be my choice there.
Landshark would be my choice there.
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Tolkien used "Attercop", as Leon recommended. And it is indeed a word for spider, specifically a venomous spider. "Atter" cognate with "adder", "cop" cognate with "cob" as in "cobweb."
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