I don't want my blog flagged by too many filters. Please avoid profanity and vulgar language. (For instance, that GOG is selling the particular game I'm playing is relevant that Steam is having a sale this week on other games is not.) This also includes user names that link to advertising.Ģ. Do not link to any commercial entities, including Kickstarter campaigns, unless they're directly relevant to the material in the associated blog posting. I welcome all comments about the material in this blog, and I generally do not censor them. But saying that there are few creatures representing original D&D IP, and that the vast majority of D&D monsters come from earlier fiction and mythologies, is just wrong. Now, you could argue that none of these monsters has become as iconic as the beholder, and you could have a point (though there may be others-the gelatinous cube?-that come close). A lot of monsters that were original D&D IP were released as open content, including quite a few original monsters that were new to third edition: the allip, destrachan, digester, girallon, gray render, grick, mohrg, phantom fungus, spider eater, tojanida, and yrthak. but that's not just because it was original D&D IP it's because it's one of the few monsters WotC considered particularly iconic and wanted to reserve for their own use.
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 2 MANUAL
Now, the beholder was one of the few monsters in the third-edition Monster Manual that wasn't released as open content.
in fact, the first-edition Monster Manual was probably the monster book with the lowest proportion of original monsters.) D&D has a lot of original monsters the beholder is far from alone in this regard. (I'd say the first-edition Fiend Folio has more original monsters than mythological ones. (Well, mostly the name comes from a story by Lord Dunsany, but he didn't describe it it was D&D that made gnolls into the hyena men we know today.) And, like I said, that's just in the first Monster Manual later books added a lot more. Heck, even the gnoll, though it's been copied by plenty of other games, was a D&D original. Just in the original 1E Monster Manual, there's the ankheg, the blink dog, the carrion crawler, the eye of the deep (though that's a beholder relative), the gelatinous cube, the intellect devourer, the ixitxachitl, the morkoth, the otyugh, the quasit, the remorhaz, the roper, the sahuagin, the shambling mound, the umber hulk, the xorn. D&D has a lot more original creatures than you're giving it credit for.
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