{"id":3857,"date":"2012-01-09T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2012-01-08T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T21:19:21","slug":"m-is-for-morkoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"M is for Morkoth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em>, the Mongrelman from the Fiend Folio<\/em> was a close runner-up. Mongrelman is one of those dopey “mash up” creatures that has one limb from a different creature:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Throughout the AlphaBeasts project, I vowed not to redesign any of the creatures, but if I’d allowed my self to modify the Mongrelman and give him a celery stalk arm and Patrick Duffy for a leg, like Scuzzlebutt<\/a>, I’d have drawn the Mongrelman instead. Anyway, I settled on the Morkoth. I’m clearly not the only person<\/a> to find this creature design pretty silly.<\/p>\n

M is for Morkoth<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The original art for this is for sale here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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For reference, here’s the original Morkoth from the Monster Manual<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can follow the other \u201cM\u201d entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts<\/a> hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http:\/\/alphabeasts.tumblr.com\/<\/a>. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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