|
|
Post by Ghul on Sept 30, 2010 14:17:43 GMT -6
Rob,
In the preface of the Monster Manual, Gary writes "...Terry Kuntz, who was never thanked for his prototypical beholder, a revised version of which was included in GREYHAWK..."
I was wondering if you had any recollections of what your brother's beholder was like, if different than the one we are all familiar with.
Cheers,
Jeff T.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2010 21:33:18 GMT -6
Though I wrote a special insert for Dragon: Monster Ecologies, Paizo Publishing, about that paizo.com/dragon/products/issues/specialIssues/v5748btpy7vq1&source=rss I will say that Terry's beholder differed substantially due to his coverage of it as first presented through short story form, which detailed its ecology and family. Yes, beholders had a family structure; and in Terry's conceptualization these were ill-understood, and rare, creatures, living out waning existences in forlorn and out of the way areas. For instance, in his SS it's located on a mountain, where its family is encountered. Upon receiving the material from Terry, EGG genericized it, IMO making it rather lackluster by comparison. |
|
|
|
Post by geoffrey on Sept 30, 2010 23:41:46 GMT -6
That sounds like an interesting short story!
|
|
|
|
Post by rossik on Feb 9, 2013 15:15:22 GMT -6
very nice!
Terry also told me this (after asking if he always imagined the beholder as a flying orb):
"Yes. However, the origins of its magic, and its floating capability, is bio in form. Actually, players use what they want. Play a beholder as a wizard's incantation or a cleric's god-given ways. It's up to you."
|
|
|
|
Post by DungeonDevil on Sept 28, 2019 16:41:21 GMT -6
Though I wrote a special insert for Dragon: Monster Ecologies, Paizo Publishing, about that paizo.com/dragon/products/issues/specialIssues/v5748btpy7vq1&source=rss I will say that Terry's beholder differed substantially due to his coverage of it as first presented through short story form, which detailed its ecology and family. Yes, beholders had a family structure; and in Terry's conceptualization these were ill-understood, and rare, creatures, living out waning existences in forlorn and out of the way areas. For instance, in his SS it's located on a mountain, where its family is encountered. Upon receiving the material from Terry, EGG genericized it, IMO making it rather lackluster by comparison. The link just leads me to the main page of Paizo. Does anyone have a better link? |
|
