Help identify this picture please.

[Oryan77]

I ran across this image and I cannot find the source that it originated from. It's obviously a Wayne Reynolds illustration and looks like his stuff from the D&D 3.0 days. I assume it is from a 3rd edition D&D book but I can't figure it out. Anyone else know?

http://www.sfxman.com/ttboard/data/GALLERY7/mon456.jpg

[noce]

They should be silt horrors.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Have you tried reverse image search?

[Oryan77]

Well the image exists in the WotC Monster Manual 2 art gallery as Silt Horrors but I don't see that picture in the book itself and I can't find any official 3rd edition information on a Silt Horror. Strange.

http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ag/20020816a

[Bullet06320]

originaly from Monstrous Compendium - Dark Sun Appendix: Terrors of the Desert 2e

[DrMotives]

Basically giant cephalopods that swim through sand. Some of the classic Darksun monsters have made it into the generic monster books (Cloud ray, braxxit, half-giant), but most of them were too weird, I think.

[Oryan77]

I am familiar with Silt Horrors which is why I got excited when I saw this image and thought that there were official D&D stats for Silt Horrors in 3rd edition. That does not seem to be the case even though this image appears in the MM2 art gallery.

WotC is just messing with us then by floating that image around the internet? The image was not actually ever used in an official D&D book to represent Silt Horrors?

[Bullet06320]

maybe its something they worked on in the design phase, but never made it to publishing, got cut on the final edit or something

[Thurbane]

Well the image exists in the WotC Monster Manual 2 art gallery as Silt Horrors but I don't see that picture in the book itself and I can't find any official 3rd edition information on a Silt Horror. Strange.

http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ag/20020816a

maybe its something they worked on in the design phase, but never made it to publishing, got cut on the final edit or something

Yeah, this happens. Like this weird training dummy from the Tome of Battle art gallery that never got used.

http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/images/tob_gallery/99719.jpg

"Unofficial" 3.5 stats for Silt Horrors are available in Terrors of Athas (http://www.athas.org/products/toa).

[atemu1234]

Yeah, this happens. Like this weird training dummy from the Tome of Battle art gallery that never got used.

http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/images/tob_gallery/99719.jpg

"Unofficial" 3.5 stats for Silt Horrors are available in Terrors of Athas (http://www.athas.org/products/toa).

I am... very glad that did not get used.