tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post8255531276020574411..comments2024-03-28T17:48:19.196-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: Monstrous Mondays: Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium for 5eTimothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-86913067864194268882022-05-31T20:08:58.095-05:002022-05-31T20:08:58.095-05:00Well, the Puppeteer Parasite is lifted straight fr...Well, the Puppeteer Parasite is lifted straight from Star Trek episode Operation: Annihilate. Presumably they're susceptible to intense UV radiation to complete the obvious steal.<br /><br />The Yggdrasti apparently hates other living creatures, so I imagine they team up with constructs and undead a lot. No doubt their greatest nemesis will turn out to be giant space beavers, because those stupid hamsters can't be the only spelljamming rodent out there. Although if we're sticking to Norse myths, it ought to be giant space squirrels.<br /><br />Star Lancers look like rejected Everblight artwork from Privateer Press. Similarly, the Clockwork Horror art belongs in some C-list manga. Very uninspired work on both of those.<br /><br />I wonder how angry an edritch lich is going to be when it reforms as an otyugh? And between this entry and the goon balloon, what's with the rhyming obsession?<br /><br />Interesting to note that the flavor text mentions both Wildspace and the Astral Sea, as well as Greyspace. Wonder if the Astral Sea is replacing the Phlogiston/Flow as "interspheric space" between systems? Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com