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wadledo
2009-07-01, 11:02 PM
Exactly what it says on the tin, basically.
My two biggest are this:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/fb_gallery/83547.jpg and this:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50127.jpg

Anything that creeps you out immensely?
(And please, use spoilers.)

Colmarr
2009-07-01, 11:04 PM
Two words: Atropal Scion


http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/forgottenrealms/images/thumb/8/8f/Atropal_Scion_-_Jeremy_Jarvis.jpg/250px-Atropal_Scion_-_Jeremy_Jarvis.jpg

But other than that, how about the Slaymate:


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2199/2038111055_0ccd626570.jpg

Oops*, I mean this one:


http://www.d20.cz/data/C/4296/slaymate.jpg

* Yes, I know posting that was weird and/or nasty, but it was the first image that hit me after a google search for slaymate, and it struck me as so outright crazy that I just HAD to post it. I apologise.

Although, now that I think about it, the first picture freaks me out slightly more than the second one... :smallwink:

Djinn_in_Tonic
2009-07-01, 11:05 PM
Warning: Not for the faint of heart. It's not traditionally scary, but...well...judge for yourself.

http://www.headinjurytheater.com/dnd%20mom%20devil.jpg

Mystic Muse
2009-07-01, 11:18 PM
flesh jelly 3.5 D&D

Colmarr
2009-07-01, 11:27 PM
flesh jelly 3.5 D&D

Theburningfield means this:


http://lh4.ggpht.com/_WiKtqAJgWao/SIfV3X0rmRI/AAAAAAAABUA/KugWRHYYdhs/flesh+jelly.jpg

I'd never seen that before, but it IS disturbing.

Gaiyamato
2009-07-01, 11:34 PM
Can't say that any art has overly bothered me all that much.
The Atropal Scion is a really cool pic too. Was going to see if I could make something like it in a high enough campaign one day.

arguskos
2009-07-01, 11:38 PM
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/cor_gallery/89578.jpg
So yeah, this thing disturbs me mildly. Not much mind you, but enough. Also, a cookie if you can tell me what it is. :smallwink:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/pgtf_gallery/78872.jpg
Also, this picture of the deepspawn is creepy. Great monster, but scary.

AslanCross
2009-07-01, 11:42 PM
Theburningfield means this:


http://lh4.ggpht.com/_WiKtqAJgWao/SIfV3X0rmRI/AAAAAAAABUA/KugWRHYYdhs/flesh+jelly.jpg

I'd never seen that before, but it IS disturbing.

It's a giant living pimple. Favored minions of the Demon Prince of Acne.

Anyway, the Atropal Scion is one (definitely scarier than the actual Atropal).

-Kythons (BOVD). They are pretty freaky on their own, but I found the gore in the artworks more than a little unsettling.

-While the art wasn't used in a monster entry, the illustration from Heroes of Horror that features Grandmother and Uncle Chortle (a green hag in the form of a fat old human woman and a gray jester) at a table with a group of glassy-eyed cannibal children was very disturbing.

-The Wyste (MM2). Giant alien leeches. It didn't help that the artwork is coming from a really odd perspective. At first I thought it was the view from inside the pool where the wystes are swarming, but the more I look at it the more it looks like it's the view from above. And when you realize that each wyste is Huge-sized...

-Baalzebul's art from Fiendish Codex 2. Gastropods have always squicked me, but between the dark, eerie, misshapen ethereal face Baalzebul has in FC2 and the cartoonish drawing of him in BoVD, I find the FC2 art a lot more terrifying.

-The art for the Worm that Walks in Elder Evils, especially the art in the actual chapter. *shudder* I find it seriously creepy because it's vaguely humanoid, yet isn't. The 4E art of the same monster in Open Grave felt like it had a much more human face, so it didn't seem so scary to me.

-The Taunting Haunt (MM5). It's a clown. Clowns are scary. The Taunting Haunt in particular is grossly misshapen and has an utterly crazed expression.

I can't really post pictures since I'm at work, though.

FoE
2009-07-01, 11:43 PM
I'm never too freaked out by art. That said, if anything's going to give me nightmares, it's the bog hag.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/Monster_gallery/202.jpg

It's that second eye, the only thing left of the human face that the bog hag was wearing ... it's still staring at me ... still glaring at me with intense hatred as the flesh is peeled away and falls into the swamp below ...

wadledo
2009-07-01, 11:46 PM
It's the eye's that do it for me too.

Myrmex
2009-07-01, 11:47 PM
This one gives me the heeby-jeebies:

http://sonnywilkins.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/figure-meat.jpg

arguskos
2009-07-01, 11:52 PM
-Kythons (BOVD). They are pretty freaky on their own, but I found the gore in the artworks more than a little unsettling.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/alto_pendragon/hive/Kythons.png


-Baalzebul's art from Fiendish Codex 2. Gastropods have always squicked me, but between the dark, eerie, misshapen ethereal face Baalzebul has in FC2 and the cartoonish drawing of him in BoVD, I find the FC2 art a lot more terrifying.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/FC2_Gallery/101507.jpg


-The art for the Worm that Walks in Elder Evils, especially the art in the actual chapter. *shudder* I find it seriously creepy because it's vaguely humanoid, yet isn't. The 4E art of the same monster in Open Grave felt like it had a much more human face, so it didn't seem so scary to me.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/excerpts/ElderEvils/111210.jpg

Here, have some pictures. :smallwink:

EDIT: Just found the Jester and Granny picture.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/hoh_gallery/91960.jpg

Colmarr
2009-07-01, 11:57 PM
glaring at me with intense hatred as the flesh is peeled away and falls into the swamp below ...

You know, I alway assumed it was pulling the skin on. Not sure whether that's better or worse...

BenTheJester
2009-07-02, 12:05 AM
I always found Juiblex to be both fascinating and disgusting at the same time.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/alumni_Juiblex_fc1.jpg

although a gibbering mouther doesnt give its place either

http://www.iwozhere.com/SRD/images/MM35_PG126.jpg


Anything pseudonatural is a given

BraveSirKevin
2009-07-02, 12:11 AM
AD&D Invisible Stalker....:smalleek: Terrifying!

MCerberus
2009-07-02, 12:18 AM
I think the Carcass Crab deserves special mention for the freakyness. For those who don't know, it's a horrific pile of dead soldiers in various states of decay merged into a killing monstrosity. Its claws are jagged shards of rusted armor, and the spikes on its back are banners, polearms, and heads on a pike.

A deep cookie from the infinite darkness for the person to find a pic of it online. Crabby's from ECS.

Colmarr
2009-07-02, 12:26 AM
A deep cookie from the infinite darkness for the person to find a pic of it online. Crabby's from ECS.

What does a deep cookie taste like?:


http://nightmare.org/dnd/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3004&g2_serialNumber=1

Having seen that, it reminded me just how freaky I consider the Eberron Cadaver Collector to be (can't post a picture because I can't access the Wizards site from work).

Rhawin
2009-07-02, 12:26 AM
The Splinterwaif
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mmiii_gallery/83057.jpg
It just looks so unnatural for some reason.

Even worse is the Chelicera. I couldn't find a picture, but its from the MM3, and its basically the most horrid, terrifying, dreadful spider conceivable. And its dragging a human corpse.

MCerberus
2009-07-02, 12:32 AM
What does a deep cookie taste like?:


They say only the insane know on the final days of their life. The doomed regard the taste as that of a thousand screaming souls being devoured while an infinitely malevolent force laughs. Don't eat the deep cookie.

Thanks for finding it though. I only own the ECS so I've never seen the Eberron Cadaver Collector.

Zaq
2009-07-02, 12:36 AM
Let's see. Someone with more inclination than me can seek out the pictures of these beasties... I'll just list and describe 'em.

Psurlons, from MM2. I hate annelids anyway, and Psurlons are giant evil earthworms with arms and scary high intelligence. Terrifying.

Thoon Thralls, from MM5. The fluff is creepy to begin with (doomed thralls who will only know peace when ordered to explode by their illithid masters), but the picture just squicks me the hell out. Thoon Infiltrators aren't much better, but... who am I kidding, yes they are. Thoon Thralls are horrifying, just from the picture alone. I don't know what it is about the thick, veiny growth that terrifies me so much, but dammit, it DOES.

Brain Golems, from the Fiend Folio. If you can't see what's horrifying about a stumpy, humanoid-shaped brain, something's wrong with you.

I'm none too fond of the pictures of the Tsochari, from Lords of Madness.

The Odopi, from MM3, is also pretty horrific, but it's pretty cool as well. I'm on the fence about whether it's more terrifying than it is awesome or vice versa. It's a big (Huge, in fact) orange ball of arms, with eyes in the palms of its many, many hands. It reminds me a little bit of the Eyes of Valmar, from Grandia II.

Teron
2009-07-02, 12:38 AM
The carcass crab is actually just a "normal" giant crab that glues stuff to its shell. Full info here (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/eb/20040511a), if anyone's interested.

The splinterwaif is just twisted. As I recall, it turns children into bramble and eats them.

TheThan
2009-07-02, 12:57 AM
No images in books really scare me. I guess because I know their all-just pictures. However the closest I think was the vampire clown from D20 modern. My natural dislike of clowns combined with that mouth full of teeth was slightly unsettling. I’m too tired right now to bother digging up a pic, I’m sure someone else can though.

Berserk Monk
2009-07-02, 01:10 AM
I'm never too freaked out by art. That said, if anything's going to give me nightmares, it's the bog hag.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/Monster_gallery/202.jpg

It's that second eye, the only thing left of the human face that the bog hag was wearing ... it's still staring at me ... still glaring at me with intense hatred as the flesh is peeled away and falls into the swamp below ...

That thing looks like something out of bizzaro Scooby Doo.

Alleine
2009-07-02, 01:14 AM
While some of the creatures are creepifying, Most of them just sort of instill a sense of disturbing fascination.

Then there are things like the century worm that make me want to throw up.

MisterSaturnine
2009-07-02, 01:15 AM
That thing looks like something out of bizzaro Scooby Doo.

It's Scooby Doo in the MONSTER ZONE.

Where MONSTERS dress up like PEOPLE to almost get away with crimes.

Luckily, we've got Scoob-Sothoth and the gang to save the day!

JMobius
2009-07-02, 01:21 AM
Never liked this thing:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm4_gallery/98713.jpg

Starscream
2009-07-02, 01:25 AM
Don't know if "terrified" is the right word but these things:
Bloodhulk:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm4_gallery/98668.jpg

gross me out. Just the feeling that if I poked one it would pop and I'd get covered in nasty stuff.

Incidentally, looking through my books to figure out what those things are called made me think that we should also have "Monsters who are supposed to be scary but who's art made you want one as a pet".

Many more examples there in my case.

arguskos
2009-07-02, 01:29 AM
Don't know if "terrified" is the right word but these things:
Bloodhulk:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm4_gallery/98668.jpg

gross me out. Just the feeling that if I poked one it would pop and I'd get covered in nasty stuff.
Nasty stuff meaning blood? Cause, that's what's inside them. :smalltongue: The name sorta gives it away.

Trizap
2009-07-02, 01:33 AM
y'all are pansies. none of these even came close to creeping me out, sure they are kinda weird but they don't seem scary.

Starscream
2009-07-02, 01:36 AM
Nasty stuff meaning blood? Cause, that's what's inside them. :smalltongue: The name sorta gives it away.

Well yeah, but they look kind of like big zits, so I'd imagine pus and stuff too. And as undead there are probably still organs and things in there that would splatter all over.

There aren't many things found within the human(oid) body that I would care to be showered with, come to think of it.

Kaiyanwang
2009-07-02, 02:38 AM
Cannot post pictures now, but.. Atropal from ELH. A deity born dead..

Fishy
2009-07-02, 04:17 AM
4E's Lamia is made of awesome. http://www.madeofawesome.net/images/uploads/Lamia.jpg

I think it's the little twitching legs you can see on her 'hand', and that gleefully psychotic smile. You're going to die in the most nauseating way possible and she's going to love every minute of it. Not really the way you were hoping for the romantic evening to end.

AslanCross
2009-07-02, 04:42 AM
although a gibbering mouther doesnt give its place either

http://www.iwozhere.com/SRD/images/MM35_PG126.jpg


The updated art for the updated Gibbering Mouther in Lords of Madness is a lot creepier.

http://wizards.com/dnd/images/lom_gallery/88140.jpg

Coidzor
2009-07-02, 04:43 AM
^: Aslan... Agreed. http://www.headinjurytheater.com/dnd%20cadaver%20collector%20awesome.jpg

Someone wanted to post the cadaver/corpse collector's art but couldn't earlier, right? I don't personally find it all that... but whatevskies...

...I'm kinda confused now as to what a lamia is supposed to be. Years of JRPGs have taught me that they're the snake equivalent of mermaids, only evil. ...I should look them up...

Definitely a nice touch though, I agree.

AslanCross
2009-07-02, 04:45 AM
...I'm kinda confused now as to what a lamia is supposed to be. Years of JRPGs have taught me that they're the snake equivalent of mermaids, only evil. ...I should look them up...

Honestly I have no idea where WOTC pulled that one. It's up there with the Gorgon that happens to be a stone bull that breathes poison gas. <_<


This one gives me the heeby-jeebies:

http://sonnywilkins.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/figure-meat.jpg

That looks like a Drew Tucker artwork. Drew Tucker's art has been creeping me out since Magic: The Gathering.

Fishy
2009-07-02, 04:55 AM
Wikipedia to the rescue! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(mythology))

From greek mythology, Lamia was a queen who was cursed and became a baby-eating demon. In folklore, she became a fey-thing who would eat kids who didn't behave, which is what the 4E lamia does oh so well.

The snake thing comes from John Keats, in 1819.

Coidzor
2009-07-02, 05:02 AM
Wikipedia to the rescue! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(mythology))

From greek mythology, Lamia was a queen who was cursed and became a baby-eating demon. In folklore, she became a fey-thing who would eat kids who didn't behave, which is what the 4E lamia does oh so well.

The snake thing comes from John Keats, in 1819.

Though to be honest, is she really going to be attracting very many kids in that getup. :smallwink: ... ... Actually, come to think of it, given the sheer volume of adventurers due to the turnover rate... Wouldn't most of the people she would be luring away to nom on be adventuring types? Kind of a risky lifestyle choice, that...

Kris Strife
2009-07-02, 05:10 AM
Warning: Not for the faint of heart. It's not traditionally scary, but...well...judge for yourself.

http://www.headinjurytheater.com/dnd%20mom%20devil.jpg

Minus the spikes and purpleness, this is actually a pretty good depiction of my stepmom... Now that I know she's got a D&D equivelant, I can have fun by using it as a DM.


It's Scooby Doo in the MONSTER ZONE.

Where MONSTERS dress up like PEOPLE to almost get away with crimes.

Luckily, we've got Scoob-Sothoth and the gang to save the day!

I would so watch that show.

horngeek
2009-07-02, 05:24 AM
The things from Feindish Codex I that stitch up people.

Yeah. Those.

TricksyAndFalse
2009-07-02, 07:39 AM
The only artwork that ever terrified me was the Rotgrub from AD&D's Monster Manual

Rappy
2009-07-02, 07:49 AM
The tumor fiend and night terror from Menace Manual unsettle me. It doesn't help that the night terror looks like it was drawn while on drugs.

Arcane Copycat
2009-07-02, 07:49 AM
Although the picture itself didn't disturb me, I have an.... extremely active and vivid imagination, sow when I read 4e's Open Grave and read about how Forsaken Shells reproduce... euch

Tengu_temp
2009-07-02, 07:50 AM
Century Worm never actually terrified me, but I know it will terrify someone if I post a picture here, so here you go.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50103.jpg

afroakuma
2009-07-02, 08:07 AM
Can we get names and sources for some of the unlabeled ones, perhaps?

Irreverent Fool
2009-07-02, 08:12 AM
AD&D Invisible Stalker....:smalleek: Terrifying!

Beat me to it.

For those that have never seen it, here's the picture:



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SoD
2009-07-02, 08:20 AM
Minus the spikes and purpleness, this is actually a pretty good depiction of my stepmom... Now that I know she's got a D&D equivelant, I can have fun by using it as a DM.


...your stepmum has wings?

Fri
2009-07-02, 08:21 AM
Century Worm never actually terrified me, but I know it will terrify someone if I post a picture here, so here you go.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50103.jpg

Holy crap. You're the high priest of nightmare fuel, kinda like chtulhu, Tengu. You're not exactly the most disturbing thing ever, but you herald them.

The Rose Dragon
2009-07-02, 08:27 AM
Century Worm never actually terrified me, but I know it will terrify someone if I post a picture here, so here you go.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50103.jpg

It's not terrifying, it's just... sexually suggestive.

Belial_the_Leveler
2009-07-02, 08:29 AM
I knew it reminded me of something-I just couldn't put my finger on it. :smalltongue:

T.G. Oskar
2009-07-02, 08:36 AM
I'm never too freaked out by art. That said, if anything's going to give me nightmares, it's the bog hag.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/Monster_gallery/202.jpg

It's that second eye, the only thing left of the human face that the bog hag was wearing ... it's still staring at me ... still glaring at me with intense hatred as the flesh is peeled away and falls into the swamp below ...

I dunno... Perhaps it's just me, but I find it a bit...erotic?

I really feel sorry for the hag. She had to rip that tastilicious skin off just for the camera.

In that line of thought, http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/lom_gallery/88126.jpg

How about the Tsochari? They get into your skin and finally replace you, very slowly. It's like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" all over again, except a bit slower. That one is the scary shot of them all, if only because it has the thing literally seeping out of the face, or perhaps the mouth, of the character.

Then again, I don't feel much fazed at that one either. More like something I'd want to add to a campaign of mine ;)

Fri
2009-07-02, 08:45 AM
It's not terrifying, it's just... sexually suggestive.

Exactly

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afroakuma
2009-07-02, 08:57 AM
arguskos: you owe me a cookie for posting Ityak-Ortheel the Elf-Eater.

Recaiden
2009-07-02, 09:07 AM
The only artwork that ever terrified me was the Rotgrub from AD&D's Monster Manual

The same for me. The only one.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/rotgrubs.jpg

Same. And I was afraid of Kythons until I saw that ridiculous picture.:smallbiggrin:

Serpentine
2009-07-02, 09:24 AM
It's not terrifying, it's just... sexually suggestive.
I knew it reminded me of something-I just couldn't put my finger on it. :smalltongue:I'd hate to see what's in your pants :yuk:
:smalltongue:

DamnedIrishman
2009-07-02, 09:25 AM
I'd hate to see what's in your pants :yuk:
:smalltongue:

You already have seen what's in their pants...

Premier
2009-07-02, 09:51 AM
You fine folks want disturbing fantasy art?
Partake. (http://www.keiththompsonart.com/index.html)

13_CBS
2009-07-02, 09:56 AM
You already have seen what's in their pants...

What, this? (http://www.wizards.com/global/images/legendology_dnd_article12_picMain_en.jpg)

Oh Snap! :smalltongue:

fangthane
2009-07-02, 10:09 AM
Nothing in the D&D books has really creeped me out, ever - some are a little offputting but that's about it. Heck, I consider some of the things I've developed to be far more disturbing than anything in the sourcebooks I and my gaming group own. I suppose the closest I've come to being 'terrified' by art was when I was exposed to Lovecraft at around age 9 or so. Well, perhaps reading the Le Guin Earthsea books* at age 5-6 and having nightmares about shadow people for two years (Oh, you bet I had a night-light heh) qualifies too. I started reading some very disturbing content at far too tender an age. :smallbiggrin:

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be freakshows.
Don't let 'em read Lovecraft and think horror's mush;
Make 'em read Hardies and Potter and such.

*looking back at them more recently, there's really nothing in them that I find even remotely disturbing now, but I clearly remember being afraid that the shadows were coming to get me when I was little. Go figure, eh?

FoE
2009-07-02, 11:03 AM
No images in books really scare me. I guess because I know their all-just pictures. However the closest I think was the vampire clown from D20 modern. My natural dislike of clowns combined with that mouth full of teeth was slightly unsettling.

You mean this guy?

http://www.wizards.com/d20modern/images/d20m_gallery/610_088190_99.jpg

If you had a fear of clowns, I could see why. Those dead eyes and mouth full of needle-like teeth are creeping me out a little.

Overlord Nicy
2009-07-02, 11:43 AM
3.5 Ettercap. If I know I'm opening to the page, do so slowly, and focus on it, I'm fine. But you won't believe how many times I've nearly thrown the book being caught off-guard by it.

Myrmex
2009-07-02, 11:48 AM
That looks like a Drew Tucker artwork. Drew Tucker's art has been creeping me out since Magic: The Gathering.

It's actually Francis Bacon's Figure With Meat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_with_Meat). I've always been enamored with his gory, visceral (literally) art. Time Magazine recently listed him in their top hundred most important people in the 20th century or something like that.

Enormously influential artist.

Myrmex
2009-07-02, 11:52 AM
The same for me. The only one.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/rotgrubs.jpg

Same. And I was afraid of Kythons until I saw that ridiculous picture.:smallbiggrin:

They got a spell called Infestation of Maggots in the Spell Compendium.
Looks like this:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/spellcomp_gallery/92242.jpg

The Rose Dragon
2009-07-02, 11:58 AM
I'd hate to see what's in your pants :yuk:
:smalltongue:

You've never watched the Wall, then?

Kris Strife
2009-07-02, 01:17 PM
...your stepmum has wings?

Oh, minus the wings too... Sorry, seeing someone I knew as a D&D monster was a bit of a shock. :p

KIDS
2009-07-02, 01:40 PM
The first picture from the OP really is one of the most scary that I've seen in D&D (assuming that it is in D&D). It has a bit of a disturbing... gangrenous touch to it, I'd say, making its jaws terrifying.

wadledo
2009-07-02, 01:43 PM
The first picture from the OP really is one of the most scary that I've seen in D&D (assuming that it is in D&D). It has a bit of a disturbing... gangrenous touch to it, I'd say, making its jaws terrifying.

It's one of the dire animals from frostburn.

Zeuglodon, that's it.

Blackjackg
2009-07-02, 01:51 PM
I'm going to join the growing camp that says the only really upsetting picture was the AD&D Rot Grub. Though that Bog Hag was pretty unsettling too.

hamishspence
2009-07-02, 02:01 PM
The real Zeuglodon (genus name Basilosaurus) wasn't quite that ugly.

But then, it wasn't a polar animal either- it was (based on the fossil evidence) a warm water creature.

Xenogears
2009-07-02, 02:23 PM
Minus the spikes and purpleness, this is actually a pretty good depiction of my stepmom... Now that I know she's got a D&D equivelant, I can have fun by using it as a DM.

I always referred to that particular monster as "Jabba the Slut"

arguskos
2009-07-02, 02:27 PM
arguskos: you owe me a cookie for posting Ityak-Ortheel the Elf-Eater.
Ah ha! Someone does know of him. Here, have some cookies:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/bloodydoves/cookies_and_milk_martini_compressed.jpg

AslanCross
2009-07-02, 04:45 PM
It's actually Francis Bacon's Figure With Meat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_with_Meat). I've always been enamored with his gory, visceral (literally) art. Time Magazine recently listed him in their top hundred most important people in the 20th century or something like that.

Enormously influential artist.

He must have been Drew Tucker's influence, then.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=2468&type=cardhttp://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=2460&type=card

On the subject of M:TG art, I always found this to be creepy.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=1745&type=card

Draxonicar
2009-07-02, 04:51 PM
3.5 Ettercap. If I know I'm opening to the page, do so slowly, and focus on it, I'm fine. But you won't believe how many times I've nearly thrown the book being caught off-guard by it.

How? they're ADORABLE: http://beholderclub.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/ettercap.jpg

Chubby spider people scare you?

Yora
2009-07-02, 04:59 PM
I think older images are creepier.

waterpenguin43
2009-07-02, 05:00 PM
I found Ragnorra:http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ElderEvils_Gallery/111193.jpg to be a rather disturbing being.

Forrestfire
2009-07-02, 07:35 PM
The Ulgurstasta really freaks me out:

http://nightmare.org/dnd/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=257&g2_serialNumber=1

... and from the same book, we also have the Terlen, a flying shark that walks twice as fast as a human:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50129.jpg

... again from the same book, the Quth-Maren is a skinless intelligent zombie that's out to get everyone:

http://www.dungeons-and-dragons.de/drachengriff/quthmaren.jpg

... from the Fiend Folio yet again, the Ocularon wants your eyes:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50119.jpg

... Lucent Worms are scary too. I think it's the partially digested adventurer that does it:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50104.jpg

... The Chwidench is simply a mass of clawed, hairy spider legs; they are drow that failed one of Lolth's tests. Sadly, the internet doesn't yield a picture to post. Huh.

... The Bloodthorn:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50121.jpg

... The Bloodbloater ooze still gives me nightmares:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50178.jpg

EDIT: Wow... I cracked open the Fiend Folio to find the name of the Quth-Maren, and 15 minutes later, this post was born. Fun book.
............EDITed EDIT: Spoiler'd (sorry :smallredface:)

Logalmier
2009-07-02, 07:57 PM
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84770.jpg

This one isn't so much horror as just "Ick."

Thane of Fife
2009-07-02, 07:58 PM
The Living Wall illustration in my 2e Monstrous Manual used to scare me so badly that I'd skip over the entire K-M section if I was reading it late at night.

Gralamin
2009-07-02, 07:59 PM
Arachnophobia + Any Realistic looking spider art = Enough Said.

Starbuck_II
2009-07-02, 08:29 PM
Does any picture of Mialee the elf count?
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mic_gallery/100486.jpg

Mantis people scare me.

Malacode
2009-07-02, 08:35 PM
The Spellscales from Races of the Dragon. Awesome race, hideous art. Then again, not really terrifying. More dissapointing, and mildly suprising.

T.G. Oskar
2009-07-02, 08:38 PM
Does any picture of Mialee the elf count?
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mic_gallery/100486.jpg

Mantis people scare me.

I know it's a wee bit back, but the Tsochari intro has a Tsochar...entering into Mialee?

Probably the stuff of nightmares. Bonus icky points for being an illustration of Lukacs.

Draz74
2009-07-02, 09:15 PM
Does any picture of Mialee the elf count?

I vote you win the thread.

FoE
2009-07-02, 09:26 PM
Does any picture of Mialee the elf count?
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mic_gallery/100486.jpg

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

THE BLACK GOAT OF THE WOODS WITH A THOUSAND YOUNG!

Dixieboy
2009-07-02, 09:28 PM
They got a spell called Infestation of Maggots in the Spell Compendium.
Looks like this:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/spellcomp_gallery/92242.jpg
Now my skin itches :smalleek:

Vortling
2009-07-02, 10:29 PM
Nothing terrifying, but the worms coming out of the skin picture makes my skin crawl.

AslanCross
2009-07-02, 11:16 PM
I vote you win the thread.


My vote as well. That said, there are a couple of pictures of Mialee where she isn't hideous. The Prismatic Bow illustration from Complete Mage, for example. She actually looks like a woman there.

Coidzor
2009-07-02, 11:21 PM
My vote as well. That said, there are a couple of pictures of Mialee where she isn't hideous. The Prismatic Bow illustration from Complete Mage, for example. She actually looks like a woman there.

I always wondered why they made her so ugly and alien when elves are supposed to be pretty. :smallconfused: I think I've seen one where she was somewhere approaching a woman...

Colmarr
2009-07-02, 11:21 PM
My vote as well. That said, there are a couple of pictures of Mialee where she isn't hideous. The Prismatic Bow illustration from Complete Mage, for example. She actually looks like a woman there.

And the high-level Mialee in the DMG (levitating with the cape of stars and ioun stones) is seriously cool.


http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dmg35_gallery/tn_DMG35_PG39_WEB.jpg

Kris Strife
2009-07-03, 08:24 AM
I always referred to that particular monster as "Jabba the Slut"

Oddly enough, I also refer to my step mom as looking like a female hut with a wig and legs.

Djinn, what book is that thing from anyways? Google only turned up articles on mom's flipping out about D&D being Satanic/Harmless/Whatever/

Starbuck_II
2009-07-03, 11:00 AM
I always wondered why they made her so ugly and alien when elves are supposed to be pretty. :smallconfused: I think I've seen one where she was somewhere approaching a woman...

Though, third party, the D&D PSA's on Youtube show Mialee as a woman(because the actor is a woman).
She is actually cute but apparently Asian (that surprised me).

quick_comment
2009-07-03, 11:03 AM
I always wondered why they made her so ugly and alien when elves are supposed to be pretty. :smallconfused: I think I've seen one where she was somewhere approaching a woman...

She is a wizard. Im sure that charisma is her dump stat

Draxonicar
2009-07-03, 01:05 PM
She is a wizard. Im sure that charisma is her dump stat

Still, don't elves get a natural cha bonus?

hamishspence
2009-07-03, 01:08 PM
nope- Dex. Or Int, in the case of Sun elves.

While there are a few non-fugly pics of Mialee, they are few and far between.

Starscream
2009-07-03, 01:39 PM
I've seem some Mialee fanart that was pretty flattering:


http://www.enworld.org/Pozas/Pictures/Iconics/mialee.jpg


As for canon artwork, I thought she looked cute in Unearthed Arcana when they were showing her with various Gestalt combinations.

Strange how no one ever complains when a male character in fantasy art isn't attractive. Or when they wear armor that actually covers them.

Avilan the Grey
2009-07-03, 01:42 PM
Now my skin itches :smalleek:

The very similar spell (name wise at least) for the Swedish game "Drakar & Demoner" was much nastier: worms much bigger. and UNDER your skin. Eating you.

hamishspence
2009-07-03, 01:45 PM
Tsochari are pretty disturbing.

# "I've got you, under my skin..." #

KazilDarkeye
2009-07-03, 01:48 PM
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but my neighbour was absolutely terrified by the Demonhive (MM4). I think he has some sort of phobia.

Athaniar
2009-07-03, 02:03 PM
... Lucent Worms are scary too. I think it's the partially digested adventurer that does it:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50104.jpg


That's probably the most nauseating of the bunch. Yick.

hamishspence
2009-07-03, 02:04 PM
I'm not a big fan of Hellwasps (Fiend Folio- large black and red wasp, which swarm-attacks you, crawls inside you, and animates you. No thanks.)

Thats more for nature than looks though.

Coidzor
2009-07-03, 02:06 PM
I've seem some Mialee fanart that was pretty flattering:


http://www.enworld.org/Pozas/Pictures/Iconics/mialee.jpg


As for canon artwork, I thought she looked cute in Unearthed Arcana when they were showing her with various Gestalt combinations.

Strange how no one ever complains when a male character in fantasy art isn't attractive. Or when they wear armor that actually covers them.

It's not that she's unattractive. No one cares that Ember or Alhandra aren't really traditionally beautiful (and thankfully no one has mentioned wanting to bone Lidda in the pet thread either...) Mialee just stands out as just... looking weird half the time for not fitting the conception of elves as beautiful thing of the viewers that have this facet of her representation stick in their minds.

Though that probably is the best photo of her I've seen...

Still has those weird unnecessary ...textured/padded bust-area-thing on her clothing that just... seem to only underscore her... usually quite aerodynamic build. Always wondered what the artist was thinking with those.

The Rose Dragon
2009-07-03, 02:09 PM
Still, don't elves get a natural cha bonus?

Star Elves and Drow do.

Shpadoinkle
2009-07-03, 02:20 PM
Yeah, most pictures of Mialee make her look awful. One of the few where she looks good, though, is in Tome and Blood where she's depicted as a Candle Caster. Must be because of the limited light.

http://www.dumpyourphoto.nl/files/upload_images/14508/14508.JPG

hamishspence
2009-07-03, 02:30 PM
Player's Handbook 2: Page 138: Mialee The Mercenary, has a certain style- looking over one shoulder, pointing a flaming sword at the viewer.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ph2_gallery/97152.JPG

This one.

First time I've posted an image on net.

DamnedIrishman
2009-07-03, 02:36 PM
I know it's a wee bit back, but the Tsochari intro has a Tsochar...entering into Mialee?

Probably the stuff of nightmares. Bonus icky points for being an illustration of Lukacs.

There's a picture in the murky depths of the internet of Mialee being 'entered' in an entirely different sense by some sort of sentient, tendriled plant.

I won't post it.

Coidzor
2009-07-03, 02:40 PM
There's a picture in the murky depths of the internet of Mialee being 'entered' in an entirely different sense by some sort of sentient, tendriled plant.

I won't post it.

That's hilarious in idea though not entirely unexpected... Oh god.... Krusk X Kyuss rule 34....I'm sitting here giggling madly right now.....:smallbiggrin: My morbid sense of curiosity requests where you managed to find out about that....

Yora
2009-07-03, 02:52 PM
Yeah, most pictures of Mialee make her look awful. One of the few where she looks good, though, is in Tome and Blood where she's depicted as a Candle Caster. Must be because of the limited light.

http://www.dumpyourphoto.nl/files/upload_images/14508/14508.JPG
I'm totaly convinced it's an iside running gag within the contracted fantasy artist community. There are dozens of pictures, all done by different artists, and she always looks horrible. :smallbiggrin:

SurlySeraph
2009-07-03, 03:03 PM
That's hilarious in idea though not entirely unexpected... Oh god.... Krusk X Kyuss rule 34....I'm sitting here giggling madly right now.....:smallbiggrin: My morbid sense of curiosity requests where you managed to find out about that....

What -
I don't even -
That's not -
No. Just no.

Xenogears
2009-07-03, 03:38 PM
Oddly enough, I also refer to my step mom as looking like a female hut with a wig and legs.

Does she also have the ability to hurl insults that magically cut to the heart of your insecurities? How bout disfiguring fingernails? Cuz if she does then I think she IS this monster.....

Keld Denar
2009-07-03, 04:15 PM
Strange how no one ever complains when a male character in fantasy art isn't attractive. Or when they wear armor that actually covers them.

Thats because Krusk got a pimp cloak in Complete Scoundrel.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/compscoundrel_gallery/102037.jpg

Tukka
2009-07-03, 04:54 PM
Among the creepier-looking monsters I've stumbled upon is the deadly dancer in the Tome of Magic.


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/3685688424_f6e6096c99.jpg?v=0

hamishspence
2009-07-03, 04:56 PM
Tome of Magic has a lot of slightly disturbing ones- the tooth bear, the logakron devil.

Coidzor
2009-07-03, 05:01 PM
Does she also have the ability to hurl insults that magically cut to the heart of your insecurities? How bout disfiguring fingernails? Cuz if she does then I think she IS this monster.....

I shudder at the poor fool to breed with such a thing though. Or what its spawn must be like. Cambions of some sort, right?

Krusk's Pimp Suit: Awesome.

Yora
2009-07-03, 05:08 PM
Among the creepier-looking monsters I've stumbled upon is the deadly dancer in the Tome of Magic.


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/3685688424_f6e6096c99.jpg?v=0
Creepy. But not in the icky slimy way.
I think it's pretty cool.

AslanCross
2009-07-03, 05:31 PM
I always wondered why they made her so ugly and alien when elves are supposed to be pretty. :smallconfused: I think I've seen one where she was somewhere approaching a woman...

Charisma was her dump stat.


It's not that she's unattractive. No one cares that Ember or Alhandra aren't really traditionally beautiful (and thankfully no one has mentioned wanting to bone Lidda in the pet thread either...) Mialee just stands out as just... looking weird half the time for not fitting the conception of elves as beautiful thing of the viewers that have this facet of her representation stick in their minds.

Though that probably is the best photo of her I've seen...

Still has those weird unnecessary ...textured/padded bust-area-thing on her clothing that just... seem to only underscore her... usually quite aerodynamic build. Always wondered what the artist was thinking with those.

Actually, there are a couple of really good illustrations of Alhandra and Ember.

http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ph2_gallery/97114.jpg
Even though she's completely covered up and her helm of brilliance covers her face almost entirely, I find the way her face is done there attractive.
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/dmag_gallery/100220.jpg
Can't figure out who she looks like, but Ember looks like someone famous here.


And the high-level Mialee in the DMG (levitating with the cape of stars and ioun stones) is seriously cool.


http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dmg35_gallery/tn_DMG35_PG39_WEB.jpg

Yeah, I mostly liked the high-level character art in PHB2.

Anyway, found the Complete Mage Prismatic Bow:

http://wizards.com/dnd/images/compmage_gallery/100504.jpg

Ron Spencer's women are usually hot, though he has one other artwork of Mialee where she's hideous. (Magic Item Compendium, somewhere toward the back.)


Oddly enough, I also refer to my step mom as looking like a female hut with a wig and legs.

Djinn, what book is that thing from anyways? Google only turned up articles on mom's flipping out about D&D being Satanic/Harmless/Whatever/

It's the Paeliryon from Fiendish Codex 2. I know it appeared in an older book (I think it was MM2). It's a high-level devil, slightly lower than the Pit Fiend. They're schemers, manipulators, and masterminds.

Shademan
2009-07-03, 05:49 PM
hang on everyone, let the friendly neighborhood perv dig trough his coffers and see if he can't find some things depicting mialee... Yeah! here we go. looks pretty good... to bad these boards are PG 13 or something.

yes... there is D&D porn.

anyways! Monsters that scare us!
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm2_gallery/88268_620_50.jpg
TRY to imagine this thing IRL.
nasty...

The Rose Dragon
2009-07-03, 05:59 PM
It's the Paeliryon from Fiendish Codex 2. I know it appeared in an older book (I think it was MM2). It's a high-level devil, slightly lower than the Pit Fiend. They're schemers, manipulators, and masterminds.

It first appeared in Fiend Folio, where it was an Epic-level threat IIRC.

AslanCross
2009-07-03, 06:02 PM
This illustration is more awesome than gross, IMO, but I feel really sorry for Krusk. Look at that guy's expression.
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/lom_gallery/88128.jpg


It first appeared in Fiend Folio, where it was an Epic-level threat IIRC.

Ah yes, found it. It was CR 22 in FF, but only CR 18 in FC2. They took out a lot of its 9th level (Sp)s, though it has significantly more HP in FC2.

Keld Denar
2009-07-03, 06:27 PM
Look at that guy's expression.
That the "I have tentacles, and you know what I'm gonna do with them" look, right?

AslanCross
2009-07-03, 06:28 PM
That the "I have tentacles, and you know what I'm gonna do with them" look, right?

Doesn't help that they're spiky.

Dhavaer
2009-07-03, 06:42 PM
There's a picture in the murky depths of the internet of Mialee being 'entered' in an entirely different sense by some sort of sentient, tendriled plant.

I won't post it.

There's another, better drawn pair of images of the same thing but with an illithid with extra-long tentacles instead of a plant. Also includes a drow, a dwarf, a halfling and a medusa.

Quirinus_Obsidian
2009-07-03, 06:46 PM
This:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96071.jpg

And This:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96076.jpg

And lastly this:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96083.jpg

All from the same book. this thread really needs some hotness.

This:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/completechampion_gallery/104710.jpg

Kris Strife
2009-07-03, 07:23 PM
Does she also have the ability to hurl insults that magically cut to the heart of your insecurities? How bout disfiguring fingernails? Cuz if she does then I think she IS this monster.....

Yeah, pretty much. Considering she told me she wished I was dead when I was like 11 years old... And its not hard to disfigure someone with your fingernails. <.<


Doesn't help that they're spiky.

o.O I wonder if thats supposed to be V...

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0020.html

bibliophile
2009-07-03, 07:55 PM
Thats because Krusk got a pimp cloak in Complete Scoundrel.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/compscoundrel_gallery/102037.jpg


Compare Ember in the above to the below pic. Is it just me, or are there similarities?


http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/catwoman/halle_berry/catwoman.jpg

BRC
2009-07-03, 08:07 PM
Compare Ember in the above to the below pic. Is it just me, or are there similarities?


http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/catwoman/halle_berry/catwoman.jpg

There are indeed, but Ember's Catwomaning is no match for Krusk taking levels in Pimp.

AslanCross
2009-07-03, 08:22 PM
There are indeed, but Ember's Catwomaning is no match for Krusk taking levels in Pimp.

Or Devin's gleaming golden codpiece.

Keld Denar
2009-07-03, 08:41 PM
Or Devin's gleaming golden codpiece.

Hey, hen you are that good, even your Ding Ding can have some Bling Bling!

DamnedIrishman
2009-07-03, 09:21 PM
yes... there is D&D porn.


That's nothing. There's OOTS porn. There's OOTS Belkar-on-Oracle porn.

YOU CANNOT UNSEE IT!

afroakuma
2009-07-03, 10:01 PM
...any chance we could get back on topic? :smalleek:

I'm here to get freaked out by monsters, not by... *hem*.

T.G. Oskar
2009-07-03, 10:39 PM
Ron Spencer's women are usually hot, though he has one other artwork of Mialee where she's hideous. (Magic Item Compendium, somewhere toward the back.)

Sorry for the slight derail, but since there's apparently no thread for this. Allow me to rebuke your point with an already provided image of your own:


http://wizards.com/dnd/images/dmag_gallery/100220.jpg
Can't figure out who she looks like, but Ember looks like someone famous here.[/spoiler]

Lucio Parrillo makes all women hot. And I don't mean just hot; DAAAAARN they're good-looking. I sadly haven't seen Mialee getting the Parrillo treatment. Or Alhandra. Just look at that Ember, you'll let her hit you so you can counter with your Karmic Strike Kundalini build!

Now, if you desire to have a contribution...


There's a picture in the murky depths of the internet of Mialee being 'entered' in an entirely different sense by some sort of sentient, tendriled plant.

I won't post it.

I dare you to post it. Or at least send a PM. I have a difficult time getting icked by an image.

Dhavaer
2009-07-03, 10:51 PM
I dare you to post it. Or at least send a PM. I have a difficult time getting icked by an image.

Google 'Rule 34 Dungeon and Dragons' and you should find it pretty quickly. It looks like it was drawn in crayon, and Mialee is absurdly and uncharacteristically curvy.

Edit: I just tried this and just googling 'Rule 34' will get you there quicker.

Starscream
2009-07-03, 11:40 PM
There are indeed, but Ember's Catwomaning is no match for Krusk taking levels in Pimp.

I refuse to touch my library's copy of the Book of Erotic Fantasy for hygiene reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's an actual Pimp class in there.

You'd get Weapon Proficiency: Backhand and the ability to wear like 8 magic rings at once.

Dhavaer
2009-07-04, 12:01 AM
I refuse to touch my library's copy of the Book of Erotic Fantasy for hygiene reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's an actual Pimp class in there.

You'd get Weapon Proficiency: Backhand and the ability to wear like 8 magic rings at once.

There's not, but there is a Sacred Prostitute PrC.

Coidzor
2009-07-04, 03:52 AM
Or Devin's gleaming golden codpiece.

The less said about that, the better.

Also, warforged lesbians are scary. Oh god.

V: ...Varsuvius as a "woman"... Hailey's Nose... No, you cannot unsee these things. Or Helga and Roy's little sister.

Kris Strife
2009-07-04, 04:05 AM
That's nothing. There's OOTS porn. There's OOTS Belkar-on-Oracle porn.

YOU CANNOT UNSEE IT!

I can with enough alchohol!

Shademan
2009-07-04, 04:25 AM
Lucio Parrillo makes all women hot. And I don't mean just hot; DAAAAARN they're good-looking. I sadly haven't seen Mialee getting the Parrillo treatment. Or Alhandra. Just look at that Ember, you'll let her hit you so you can counter with your Karmic Strike Kundalini build!


hm... we need a thread for the vixens of D&D.
Ember... thought she looked good in the Phb but hot damn! these later pictures of her... gets a perv-thumbs-up.

and Kris... no... it is impossible to unsee it. now I cry myself to sleep every night.

as for staying on topic:
this is creepy in so many ways...albeit in the wrong ways...
http://diterlizzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dat.jpg

Coidzor
2009-07-04, 04:38 AM
as for staying on topic:
this is creepy in so many ways...albeit in the wrong ways...
http://diterlizzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dat.jpg

I'm not following what's creepy about that one... It looks like a bit of a goofy goblin with an ethnically offensive caricature nose...:smallconfused:

Though if you start that hotties thread it'll definitely draw most of the derailment away from this thread and the thread that I made spawned off of this one....

Shademan
2009-07-04, 04:40 AM
it was more the "lookit at the weird early edition goblin. lookait! HAA!" thingie...
buuut anyways. yes, we need that thread.

Vizen
2009-07-04, 06:01 AM
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/dmag_gallery/100220.jpg
Can't figure out who she looks like, but Ember looks like someone famous here.

Beyonce, maybe? I looked at that and thought Beyonce. For sure.

Dhavaer
2009-07-04, 06:02 AM
I was thinking Grace Jones (?) from Conan the Destroyer, myself.

Yora
2009-07-04, 06:11 AM
He did paint female shifters with the face of Mel Gibson. :smallbiggrin:

Coidzor
2009-07-04, 07:47 AM
Oh dear lord... Really? ...... yerg....x.x

AslanCross
2009-07-04, 07:48 AM
He did paint female shifters with the face of Mel Gibson. :smallbiggrin:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/pgte_gallery/95051.jpg

The resemblance is uncanny.

Coidzor
2009-07-04, 08:07 AM
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/pgte_gallery/95051.jpg

The resemblance is uncanny.

Oh god, especially since those two are twins... Well, I guess that answers who he'd get it on with in Eberron...

Amiel
2009-07-04, 10:23 AM
I wouldn't say terrifying so much as deeply disturbing.

Necrotic burst; who needs bubble wrap when they have this!
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84725.jpg

Wither limb; loose weight the easiest way!
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84726.jpg

Angel of Decay; probably shouldn't have mixed my shaving gel with the flammables
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84733.jpg

Blood Amniote
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84737.jpg

Desiccator; Arr!
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84747.jpg

Forsaken Shell
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84753.jpg

Grave Dirt Golem
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84756.jpg

Necromental
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84762.jpg

Plague Blight
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84764.jpg

Wheep
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84779.jpg

Manifestation of Dahlver-Nar; I think those are maggots...
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96039.jpg

Manifestation of Eurynome
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96043.jpg


http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96102.jpg

Gath-Mal; boy, she's really let herself go
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96141.jpg

This one is profoundly, profoundly disturbing
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96128.jpg

Kris Strife
2009-07-04, 11:01 AM
Hey, Amiel, wanna post the names of these things too? Some of them look kind of neat, but I only recognize the Libris Mortis ones.

Oh, by the way, I showed that demon thing to someone who's seen my stepmom, he found the resembelence uncanny too. :smalltongue:

Coidzor
2009-07-04, 11:17 AM
Hey, Amiel, wanna post the names of these things too? Some of them look kind of neat, but I only recognize the Libris Mortis ones.

Oh, by the way, I showed that demon thing to someone who's seen my stepmom, he found the resembelence uncanny too. :smalltongue:

At this point, I was worried what your wife was going to end up looking like. Then I realized you said step mom and was... relieved to say the least.

Now I'm wondering what happened to your parent to want to... make a marriage bed with such a creature. :smalleek:

DamnedIrishman
2009-07-04, 12:01 PM
I dare you to post it. Or at least send a PM. I have a difficult time getting icked by an image.

I'm not posting anything that will get me banned...

Check your inbox, and may God have mercy on your soul.

:smallwink:

bibliophile
2009-07-04, 12:08 PM
I'm not posting anything that will get me banned...

Check your inbox, and may God have mercy on your soul.

:smallwink:


Please tell me you found that image on accident.

Kris Strife
2009-07-04, 01:56 PM
At this point, I was worried what your wife was going to end up looking like. Then I realized you said step mom and was... relieved to say the least.

Now I'm wondering what happened to your parent to want to... make a marriage bed with such a creature. :smalleek:

Corsets made of reinforced concrete, 8 inch thick spider threads and high tensil strength plastics.

TSED
2009-07-04, 02:02 PM
Please tell me you found that image on accident.

I'm unsure if I should ask you to forward it to me or not.


I really am.


EDIT:: I really am [unsure].

bibliophile
2009-07-04, 02:08 PM
I'm unsure if I should ask you to forward it to me or not.


I really am.


EDIT:: I really am [unsure].

He hasn't sent it nor do I want him to, I've just read the description.

T.G. Oskar
2009-07-04, 02:47 PM
Well, he sent it to me, whom asked for it at the first instance.

As I said him, hopefully in a very mature way.

The whole pic is hilarious. Pretty funny, nothing icky in the sense of causing repugnancy at all.

So I don't see the point of it. Except for a thing or two which add to the fun.

Oh, and...I saw the other one. The one that's supposed to require Brain Bleach. I mostly saw it as a "Belkar had it coming", but I was disappointed by the expression of his face...

Oh dear, I think I said too much, right? That thing is supposed to be the stuff of nightmares, and here I am, saying things with a straight...um, I dunno? Well, I can't say face since I'm behind a screen, and neither tone as this is written. Perhaps "intention" is the word?

Coidzor
2009-07-04, 02:51 PM
Oh dear, I think I said too much, right? That thing is supposed to be the stuff of nightmares, and here I am, saying things with a straight...um, I dunno? Well, I can't say face since I'm behind a screen, and neither tone as this is written. Perhaps "intention" is the word?

Even tone. And yeah, tone and mood apply to writing. :smalltongue:

Though, I must say that I found the belkar pron to be silly and nothing more. It was Hailey's nose and... Varsuvius as a woman in the nude lineup that made me cry. on the inside at least, metaphorically.

Ninetail
2009-07-04, 03:01 PM
Very, very disturbing:


http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20%20senmurv%20gay%20pride.jpg

bibliophile
2009-07-04, 03:02 PM
Terrifying?

It's

trippy....

waterpenguin43
2009-07-04, 03:03 PM
Very, very disturbing:


http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20%20senmurv%20gay%20pride.jpg


Cute, but probably causes epilepsy if you move the page a lot.

Ninetail
2009-07-04, 03:20 PM
Terrifying?


No, just disturbing. And maybe definitely silly.

T.G. Oskar
2009-07-04, 03:27 PM
Very, very disturbing:


http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20%20senmurv%20gay%20pride.jpg


Why so? It has the colors of the banner of the LGBTT co-operativism socio-economical movement! It just happens to miss the male/female/combined twin cypresses symbol around!

I don't see it disturbing. I see that such monster is willing to cooperate in being happy mauling evil creatures and helping good people! I see nothing wrong in that.

TSED
2009-07-04, 03:39 PM
Well, he sent it to me, whom asked for it at the first instance.

As I said him, hopefully in a very mature way.

The whole pic is hilarious. Pretty funny, nothing icky in the sense of causing repugnancy at all.

So I don't see the point of it. Except for a thing or two which add to the fun.

Oh, and...I saw the other one. The one that's supposed to require Brain Bleach. I mostly saw it as a "Belkar had it coming", but I was disappointed by the expression of his face...

Oh dear, I think I said too much, right? That thing is supposed to be the stuff of nightmares, and here I am, saying things with a straight...um, I dunno? Well, I can't say face since I'm behind a screen, and neither tone as this is written. Perhaps "intention" is the word?

I've spent a lot of time on the internet too, so I find most people require brain bleach for things that really aren't all that bad. It's kind of a sadomasochism though, because you go "ha I've seen it all nothing can phase me now."

Every now and then something proves you wrong and you go back to being humble, but until then...

tribble
2009-07-04, 04:06 PM
I refuse to touch my library's copy of the Book of Erotic Fantasy for hygiene reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's an actual Pimp class in there.

You'd get Weapon Proficiency: Backhand and the ability to wear like 8 magic rings at once.

Your library has the Book of Erotic Fantasy? :eek: I'm not even sure if mine has El Cid...

TSED
2009-07-04, 04:08 PM
Your library has the Book of Erotic Fantasy? :eek: I'm not even sure if mine has El Cid...

I, ahem, 'found' a pdf copy of it.

It's hilarious. Sometimes it's squicky (wait the wax-golem was made to WHAT?!) but most of the time it's a lot more mild than you'd expect.

And a lot of the stuff is about purity, to boot.

ColdSepp
2009-07-04, 04:29 PM
I'm not posting anything that will get me banned...

Check your inbox, and may God have mercy on your soul.

:smallwink:

Forward it to me, please... I need to know.

AslanCross
2009-07-04, 05:09 PM
This one is profoundly, profoundly disturbing
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96128.jpg

Sweet Silver Flame, I'm going to have nightmares about that. It doesn't help that Mialee is particularly ghoulish in that pic.

Spiryt
2009-07-04, 05:14 PM
Sweet Silver Flame, I'm going to have nightmares about that. It doesn't help that Mialee is particularly ghoulish in that pic.

Maybe I failed my Spot/Intelligence check, but what's so terrifying about that picture?

AslanCross
2009-07-04, 05:23 PM
Maybe I failed my Spot/Intelligence check, but what's so terrifying about that picture?

The implications of it all. Since it's Mialee.

Keld Denar
2009-07-04, 05:49 PM
I was just reading through Dragon Magic looking for something for a different thread, and I came across Mialee on fire (not really) after casting Firestride Exhalation. That was kinda neat. She didn't look that bad. Maybe we just need to immolate her more to make her more attractive. If I can find it on the wizards site, I'll link it in the dungeons and dames thread.

On a side note, my Draconic Heritage Sorcerer with Draconic Breath is TOTALLY TAKING THAT SPELL!

lulz.

TheCountAlucard
2009-07-04, 06:30 PM
On a side note, my Draconic Heritage Sorcerer with Draconic Breath is TOTALLY TAKING THAT SPELL!Bursting out of a spray of acid is cooler. :smallcool:

Starscream
2009-07-04, 07:57 PM
Very, very disturbing:


http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/d&d%20beasts%20%20senmurv%20gay%20pride.jpg


I think I saw that airbrushed on a van once...

Dixieboy
2009-07-04, 08:59 PM
I, ahem, 'found' a pdf copy of it.

It's hilarious. Sometimes it's squicky (wait the wax-golem was made to WHAT?!) but most of the time it's a lot more mild than you'd expect.

And a lot of the stuff is about purity, to boot.'tis actually a pretty good book if you want to have smex in your campaign.

But some of it just comes off as a joke.
Sex powered mages and voyeur seers anyone?

Dhavaer
2009-07-04, 09:03 PM
'tis actually a pretty good book if you want to have smex in your campaign.

But some of it just comes off as a joke.
Sex powered mages and voyeur seers anyone?

3x Tantric + Orbs of Enlightenment + Rod of the Erotic Spirit. Female wizards, wu jen and beguilers rejoice, for having sex for an hour each day will give you +10 to your intelligence. Joke or not, some of it is very poorly balanced.

Dixieboy
2009-07-04, 09:07 PM
Ah, but imagine being stuck in a dungeon with only your Half orc barbarian teammate (with 3 charisma) fighting trolls

Now

Is it really worth it for +10 int for a day? :smalltongue:

DamnedIrishman
2009-07-04, 09:46 PM
The Mialee picture spreads through the forum, subtle like swine flu...

Faleldir
2009-07-04, 10:03 PM
'tis actually a pretty good book if you want to have smex in your campaign.
For those of us not in the know, can you put skill points in Sex? Which ability modifier does it use?

RebelRogue
2009-07-04, 10:17 PM
For those of us not in the know, can you put skill points in Sex? Which ability modifier does it use?
Perform (Sexual) is "just" another Perform skill, so Cha is the relevant one.

Dixieboy
2009-07-04, 10:21 PM
Perform (Sexual) is "just" another Perform skill, so Cha is the relevant one.

Curiously enough it's a perform skill that uses INT if i remember correct :smallconfused:

Edit: No perform (Sexual technique) is still Cha

RebelRogue
2009-07-04, 10:25 PM
Curiously enough it's a perform skill that uses INT if i remember correct :smallconfused:
You remember wrong: It is indeed Cha-based.

Dixieboy
2009-07-04, 10:27 PM
yes, i just noticed looking through the book.
Though with a feat it becomes Con based.

I love the new use for appraisal :smallbiggrin:

Also having a good perform (Sexual technique) skill can net you a diplo bonus :smallwink:

Dhavaer
2009-07-04, 10:39 PM
Ah, but imagine being stuck in a dungeon with only your Half orc barbarian teammate (with 3 charisma) fighting trolls

Now

Is it really worth it for +10 int for a day? :smalltongue:

The barbarian might not enjoy it much either; remember what the Rod of the Erotic Spirit actually is. And you have to use it for an hour. Poor, poor barbarian... :smallamused:

wadledo
2009-07-04, 10:48 PM
......I can honestly say that this is not what I intended when I made this thread, but I partialy approve.

Starscream
2009-07-05, 12:19 AM
3x Tantric + Orbs of Enlightenment + Rod of the Erotic Spirit. Female wizards, wu jen and beguilers rejoice, for having sex for an hour each day will give you +10 to your intelligence. Joke or not, some of it is very poorly balanced.

Considering how many wizards use Charisma as their dump stat, I'm not sure this is something your teammates will be queuing up for. I picture it being like when they draw straws to determine who stands watch.

Cleric: Fighter, you take first watch.
Fighter: Score!
Cleric: Bard, you get second.
Bard: Sweet!
Cleric: Rogue, get a good night's sleep. Then tomorrow...you know.
Rogue: Aw, man! Fighter, Bard, if a monster comes in the night, just let it eat me.
Wizard: Oh, c'mon. I agreed to wear the Paper Bag of Disguise, didn't I?
Fighter: Cleric, how come you never get this job?
Cleric: Vow of Chastity, losers!
Bard: Rassin' Frassin' Book of Exalted Deeds.

I am in so much trouble for this post...

Coidzor
2009-07-05, 12:33 AM
Considering how many wizards use Charisma as their dump stat, I'm not sure this is something your teammates will be queuing up for. I picture it being like when they draw straws to determine who stands watch.

Cleric: Fighter, you take first watch.
Fighter: Score!
Cleric: Bard, you get second.
Bard: Sweet!
Cleric: Rogue, get a good night's sleep. Then tomorrow...you know.
Rogue: Aw, man! Fighter, Bard, if a monster comes in the night, just let it eat me.
Wizard: Oh, c'mon. I agreed to wear the Paper Bag of Disguise, didn't I?
Fighter: Cleric, how come you never get this job?
Cleric: Vow of Chastity, losers!
Bard: Rassin' Frassin' Book of Exalted Deeds.

I am in so much trouble for this post...

... ... I love you, man. :smallbiggrin:

Dhavaer
2009-07-05, 01:05 AM
Considering how many wizards use Charisma as their dump stat, I'm not sure this is something your teammates will be queuing up for. I picture it being like when they draw straws to determine who stands watch.

Cleric: Fighter, you take first watch.
Fighter: Score!
Cleric: Bard, you get second.
Bard: Sweet!
Cleric: Rogue, get a good night's sleep. Then tomorrow...you know.
Rogue: Aw, man! Fighter, Bard, if a monster comes in the night, just let it eat me.
Wizard: Oh, c'mon. I agreed to wear the Paper Bag of Disguise, didn't I?
Fighter: Cleric, how come you never get this job?
Cleric: Vow of Chastity, losers!
Bard: Rassin' Frassin' Book of Exalted Deeds.

I am in so much trouble for this post...

This is why I rarely dump charisma. That said, the BoEF has an Appearance stat and ways to raise it. Elves get a +4, so Mialee is clearly some kind of ugly subrace.

quick_comment
2009-07-05, 09:32 AM
I got it! Mialee is really super hot, and because she doesnt want to distract her teammates/be a tempting target for the BBEG, she casts alter self all the time to turn herself into a super ugly elf

Amiel
2009-07-05, 09:35 AM
Hey, Amiel, wanna post the names of these things too? Some of them look kind of neat, but I only recognize the Libris Mortis ones.

Sure thing, mate!

Done and done :)


Oh, by the way, I showed that demon thing to someone who's seen my stepmom, he found the resembelence uncanny too. :smalltongue:
Do you, perchance, mean any of these images?
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96043.jpg
or http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96141.jpg
O_O


Sweet Silver Flame, I'm going to have nightmares about that. It doesn't help that Mialee is particularly ghoulish in that pic.

Particularly ghoulish and overtly masculine. Such monstrosities were not meant to happen! :(


Maybe I failed my Spot/Intelligence check, but what's so terrifying about that picture?
Mialee, who is female and an elf, looks blatantly masculine in that picture. There is no hint of femininity, no indication at all that she is female. The only viable explanation is along the lines of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.


The Mialee picture spreads through the forum, subtle like swine flu...

You're just jealous you didn't think of it first :P


http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ud_gallery/52076_CN.jpg

http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ud_gallery/52065_CN.jpg

http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ud_gallery/52097_CN.jpg

It isn't so much the creatures as the art itself that is terrifying
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ud_gallery/52106_CN.jpg
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ud_gallery/52107_CN.jpg
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ud_gallery/52108_CN.jpg

Coidzor
2009-07-05, 09:36 AM
This is why I rarely dump charisma. That said, the BoEF has an Appearance stat and ways to raise it. Elves get a +4, so Mialee is clearly some kind of ugly subrace.

Speaking of which... the succubus or what have you on the cover of that publication is just one part uncanny valley two parts bad art....x.x

Kris Strife
2009-07-05, 11:14 AM
Do you, perchance, mean any of these images?
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96043.jpg
or http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96141.jpg
O_O

No, I meant this one.


Warning: Not for the faint of heart. It's not traditionally scary, but...well...judge for yourself.

http://www.headinjurytheater.com/dnd%20mom%20devil.jpg

Although the second one you put up is also a pretty good approximation too. :smallyuk:

Dhavaer
2009-07-05, 03:05 PM
Speaking of which... the succubus or what have you on the cover of that publication is just one part uncanny valley two parts bad art....x.x

It's a Greater Succubus.

DamnedIrishman
2009-07-05, 05:02 PM
You're just jealous you didn't think of it first :P


If the Mialee pic is swine-flu, then I'm the one sneezing all over the place...

Besides, there's much worse stuff out there.

The Rose Dragon
2009-07-05, 05:09 PM
Manifestation of Dahlver-Nar; I think those are maggots...
http://wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96039.jpg

Those are teeth.

Tiki Snakes
2009-07-05, 05:11 PM
Those are teeth.

They're....*shudder*

horus42
2009-07-05, 06:05 PM
Huh. I look through this thread and think to myself, "Who in their right mind would want to live in a world where horrors like these are common?" Then I'm reminded of my own hypocrisy, since my favorite Clan in V:tM is the Tzimisce, whose only purpose is to fleshcraft/shapeshift into maddening horrors like these. Oh well...

erikun
2009-07-06, 07:49 PM
This guy.


Aumvor the Undying
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/cor_gallery/89570.jpg


If I remember the description correctly, he's a lich who increases his power by killing powerful adventurers, zombifying their bodies, infusing them with negative energy, then eating them. :smalleek: I'm pretty sure my search for a permanent Death Ward effect was due to the idea that this guy even existed.

While slightly less creepy, I thought the Ethergaunt were a pretty cool concept, even if the idea ultimately never went anywhere.


http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50118.jpg
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50357.jpg

Direct link becuase DeviantArt doesn't like hotlinking, and to give credit where credit is due.
http://boudicca.deviantart.com/art/Ethergaunt-64562778

wykydtron
2009-07-08, 03:00 PM
This guy.



While slightly less creepy, I thought the Ethergaunt were a pretty cool concept, even if the idea ultimately never went anywhere.

[spoiler]
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50118.jpg
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50357.jpg

Direct link becuase DeviantArt doesn't like hotlinking, and to give credit where credit is due.
http://boudicca.deviantart.com/art/Ethergaunt-64562778


That Ethergaunt is amazing. :smalleek:

Cicciograna
2009-07-08, 03:31 PM
This guy.


Aumvor the Undying
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/cor_gallery/89570.jpg


I was up to post this image myself.
Picking again from the same source...

I always found Kezef a bit disturbing...
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/forgottenrealms/images/thumb/7/79/Kezef.jpg/250px-Kezef.jpg

I'd like to mention the Atropal again, 'cause it's especially horrifying.

Then, we have the...

Forsaken Shell, unknown source...
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/OpenGrave/120031.jpg

Finally, speaking of good-looking elves, I think that Elven Chain Mail from DMG fully compensates for Mialee...

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dmg35_gallery/DMG35_PG221_WEB.jpg

I find the wearer...really sexy...