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Saturday, 30 July 2022
DW Monsters: Peladon
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The next story that we come to is The Curse of Peladon , which features no fewer than four different kinds of alien. Chief among them are th...
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
D&D Monsters: Mimics
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The 1E Monster Manual includes several monsters that are essentially animate traps of one kind or another - floors that try to eat you, cei...
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
D&D Monsters: Shambling Mounds
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The most obvious inspiration for the shambling mound is the DC horror character Swamp Thing, a plant-based monster popular enough to appear ...
Saturday, 9 July 2022
DW Monsters: Ogrons
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The remaining two stories of season 8 are: The Colony in Space – apart from their leader, the aliens here do not seem very diff...
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
D&D Monsters: Treants
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Although the idea of magical and possibly animate trees does exist in mythology and folklore, the idea of a race of such beings, in the form...
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
D&D Monsters: Xorns
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Xorns are an original creation of D&D, with no particularly obvious antecedents. The name was almost certainly chosen so that the 1E Mon...
Saturday, 18 June 2022
DW Monsters: Axos
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Moving on to season 8: · Terror of the Autons features one of the key races I covered at the start · The Mind of Evil ...
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