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ajkkjjk52
2011-08-04, 06:27 PM
So, I have a visual stuck in my mind, a picture of a monster, but try as I might I can't think of what the monster's called or where I saw it. I *think* it's from a D&D sourcebook, since I don't know where else I'd see a drawing of a monster, though I suppose in theory it could be from a M:tG card or something. I've flipped through all my monster manuals to no avail, so I'm turning to this forum as an act of desperation.

It's a reptilian or draconic humanoid, very thin of body and face. In place of arms, it has tentacles (4, IIRC) and I think it was wearing robes.

Does this wring any bells for anyone? I can picture it in my mind, but have no idea where I saw it, and I want to use the visuals for a homebrewed monster.

Thanks in advance.

erikun
2011-08-04, 06:39 PM
Sounds like a Yuan-Ti Anathema:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/art_preview/20080605_114884_0.jpg

Beyond that, I don't know. I'm not that familiar with draconians.

ajkkjjk52
2011-08-04, 08:13 PM
No, that's not it...

Thomo
2011-08-04, 08:30 PM
http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/mtgcom/arcana1000/PlaneswalkersScorn.jpg

Is it this guy?

magusoftheCore
2011-08-04, 08:33 PM
http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/mtgcom/arcana1000/PlaneswalkersScorn.jpg

Is it this guy?

that has arms :smalltongue:

ajkkjjk52
2011-08-04, 08:43 PM
No. I'm beginning to think I may just be crazy.

flumphy
2011-08-04, 08:44 PM
This guy, maybe?

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs16/f/2007/190/8/8/Thrall_of_Demogorgon_by_nJoo.jpg

awa
2011-08-04, 09:14 PM
okay i want to know what that thing is it looks awesome

ajkkjjk52
2011-08-04, 09:19 PM
Afraid not. *sigh*

I swear, I've looked through every 3.5, 4.0, and Pathfinder book. I must be dreaming it.

Or it's not from D&D...

ajkkjjk52
2011-08-04, 10:37 PM
Well, with some crude photoshop I've rendered my mental image from the chopped up bits of a few other monsters.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/527/unknownmonsteredited1.jpg

Now does anyone want to tell me what the @#$@!$% this is?

If not, I might just clean up the photoshop and use this for my players.

erikun
2011-08-04, 11:06 PM
No clue, sorry. This is probably my last guess.

http://www.thecrux.cc/Submitted_Images/demogorgon_statue.jpg

Dr.Epic
2011-08-04, 11:17 PM
Sounds like a Yuan-Ti Anathema:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/art_preview/20080605_114884_0.jpg

Beyond that, I don't know. I'm not that familiar with draconians.

WOO! That guy is like made of snakes!

BillyBobJoe
2011-08-04, 11:39 PM
Well, you aren't imagining it, because I KNOW I've seen something like that before. Sadly, I couldn't tell you what it is.

Eldan
2011-08-05, 03:36 AM
It wouldn't be Demogorgon (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=demogorgon&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=845&bih=793), I assume? He's mostly reptilian, but I assume you'd have mentioned his quite distinctive heads.

NikitaDarkstar
2011-08-05, 03:47 AM
I'd google to look around, but well to be honest, there's no way in hell I'm typing in anything involving "Tentacles" in google, I value the last shreds of my sanity to much for that. ^^;

But seriously that photoshop doesn't look half bad, cleaning it up and using that isn't a bad idea.

Prime32
2011-08-05, 06:01 AM
A dolgaunt?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ersF53wzhq4/R6OjxomiKxI/AAAAAAAAASg/JeqpYEOynnI/s400/dolgaunt.jpg

Doorhandle
2011-08-05, 06:11 AM
Sounds like a Yuan-Ti Anathema:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/art_preview/20080605_114884_0.jpg

Beyond that, I don't know. I'm not that familiar with draconians.

Off topic, that is about the Fourth most metal thing I've seen, and seeing as I have finished brutal legend, that is saying something.

Cerlis
2011-08-05, 06:52 AM
i keep thinking on hercules and men in black there where various monsters that where mostly humanoid but had tentacles for arms.

Killer Angel
2011-08-05, 09:05 AM
It wouldn't be Demogorgon (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=demogorgon&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=845&bih=793), I assume? He's mostly reptilian, but I assume you'd have mentioned his quite distinctive heads.

That was my guess too...
Other than those already listed, I've got a vague reminiscence of something nasty, usually lurking in the Styx, but can't recall its name.

Welknair
2011-08-05, 09:54 AM
Is anyone else struck by the sudden realization that we have way too many monsters?

DeadManSleeping
2011-08-05, 10:20 AM
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/art_preview/20080605_114884_0.jpg

"Yo dawg..." :smallwink:

Thyrian
2011-08-05, 10:21 AM
I think you mean we don't have enough monsters, (you made a small typo).

After looking through every single book I have on Dnd, if it's not Demogorgon I can only assume a very cultured Aboleth wearing a robe.

Keld Denar
2011-08-05, 10:26 AM
I can only assume a very cultured Aboleth wearing a robe.

Needs more monacle! And a cumberbun! And possibly a bowler?

Swooper
2011-08-05, 10:53 AM
Could this be something from Arcana Unearthed/Evolved? There's this race of gaunt draconic humanoids called Mojh that your photoshopped pic reminded me of. They don't have tentacles but maybe the picture you remember is a variant or a template or something?

Is anyone else struck by the sudden realization that we have way too many monsters?
This. Also, D&D monster designers are way too much into tentacles. :smalleek:

hangedman1984
2011-08-05, 11:08 AM
This. Also, D&D monster designers are way too much into tentacles. :smalleek:

pfft, tentacles are awesome

SQUIDDLY-DOOM!!


edit: also your photoshop reminds me a lot of this user's (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/member.php?u=5103) avatar

Cornelius Grim
2011-08-05, 12:53 PM
pfft, tentacles are awesome

SQUIDDLY-DOOM!!


edit: also your photoshop reminds me a lot of this user's (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/member.php?u=5103) avatar

Tentacles are the best things that ever happened to my D&D character! Illithids...

Oh, huh. That user you linked has the same date of birth as me. Neat.

The closest thing I can think of that looks like that (awesome) photoshopped picture is a Yuan-TI Anathema and someone else got that. Sorry, pal. :smallfrown:

BrowncoatJayson
2011-08-05, 01:47 PM
Is it Froghemoth?

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8040/froghemoth.jpg

Thin of body and face reminds me of the Arcane from Spelljammer:

http://www.dotd.com/mm/arcane.gif

Tiki Snakes
2011-08-05, 03:25 PM
Well, with some crude photoshop I've rendered my mental image from the chopped up bits of a few other monsters.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/527/unknownmonsteredited1.jpg

Now does anyone want to tell me what the @#$@!$% this is?

If not, I might just clean up the photoshop and use this for my players.

It does sound familiar, but it could just be because it's how our secret overlords look a generally good concept for a creature, and easy to imagine.

Nice 'shop.

Killer Angel
2011-08-05, 06:34 PM
Is it Froghemoth?


I officially thank you for the F.
I forgot about it, and I've used it once, against a party, looong time ago. Nasty beast.

Doorhandle
2011-08-05, 10:33 PM
And in pathfinder, with the right soruces, a druid can summon one

NASTY.

Greenish
2011-08-06, 12:38 AM
Eyrunome?

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96043.jpg

A bit farfetched, but first thing that popped into my head from "tentacles in place of arms".

Yora
2011-08-06, 06:59 AM
There are a lot thin reptilian humanoids with tentacles for arms in D&D. :smallbiggrin:

EccentricCircle
2011-08-07, 11:16 AM
Is anyone else struck by the sudden realization that we have way too many monsters?

thats not actually possible. there can never be too many monsters!

The Tygre
2011-08-07, 11:37 PM
Is anyone else struck by the sudden realization that we have way too many monsters?

I- I don't understand. Too? Many? Monsters? Too many? Many monsters? Too monsters? Could you say it slower? :smalltongue:

Serpentine
2011-08-08, 01:10 AM
I was reminded of the spellweaver:
http://www.thegenji.com/nwn/portraits/po_spellweaver_h.jpg