Jan 30 2012
So after ragging on the mongrelman a while back, I’ve wound up drawing one of those silly “mash-up” beasts after all: the peryton. According to the Monster Manual, the peryton is, “the result of the same type of experimentation as brought about the owlbear.” Experimentation, eh? One hopes the deer was on the receiving end …
Jan 23 2012
There were a number of interesting “O” Dungeons & Dragons creature choices for this week’s AlphaBeasts, but once I crossed the osquip in the Fiend Folio my mind was made up. Partially I think it’s because he’s clearly the ancestor of the watery-beer-shilling “Spuds MacKenzie,” commercial icon of the 80s. The osquip is the original …
Jan 16 2012
I started off not really liking this creature design, but looking at it now, I think this is one of the best AlpahBeast drawings I’ve done. N is for Neo-Otyugh The original art for this is for sale here. You can follow the other “N” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning …
Jan 09 2012
None of the “M” D&D creatures I saw really jumped out at me this week, so I decided I’d select the most abjectly ridiculous creature I could find instead. While I settled on the Morkoth from the original Monster Manual, the Mongrelman from the Fiend Folio was a close runner-up. Mongrelman is one of those …
Jan 02 2012
This week’s “L” choice was an easy one to make. As a kid I drew tons of D&D stuff, but for some reason this little guy was my favorite. As he appears in the 1979 edition of the game, though, he’s a bit of an odd bird. Lizard men appear in two locations of the …
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