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Name of monster in rules compendium art
« on: November 04, 2009, 04:52:05 AM »
In rules compendium (can't recall the page offhand, sorry about this), there is this picture of a few adventurers fighting what appears to be a huge bipedal elephant with claws and an octopus-shaped head. Does anyone know what monster this is and where it originally appeared (since said book appears to use mostly recycled art)?  :)

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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2009, 06:26:27 AM »
if you mean page 131 thats Cthulhu, from d2o Cthulhu

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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2009, 09:44:19 AM »
Is it this picture?  I've seen this one elsewhere before:

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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2009, 01:21:01 PM »
Where would one find the stats for Cthulhu?

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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2009, 01:58:16 PM »
Where would one find the stats for Cthulhu?
The d20 Cthulhu book, I'd guess...
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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2009, 08:00:58 AM »
That's cthulhu? Seems quite different from how I originally envisioned him...(always thought he was more of just a giant squid).  :p
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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2009, 09:32:22 AM »
That's one artist's rendering of Cthulhu.  So far as I've seen, it's the most "muscular" version I've seen.

BTW, is that the picture you're talking about, Runestar?  I don't own the Rules Compendium, so I linked the picture I'd seen earlier that matched the description.
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Steve: You underestimate my power!
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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2009, 10:59:42 AM »
That's cthulhu? Seems quite different from how I originally envisioned him...(always thought he was more of just a giant squid).  :p

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The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu appear in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", and are based on the statues of the creature. One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have "yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings." Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, "represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."

When the creature finally appears, the story says that the "thing cannot be described", but it is called "the green, sticky spawn of the stars", with "flabby claws" and an "awful squid-head with writhing feelers." The phrase "a mountain walked or stumbled" gives a sense of the creature's scale.

So...  Tarrasque with the Half-Illithid and Half-Dragon templates  :hide
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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2009, 11:04:09 AM »
That's one artist's rendering of Cthulhu.  So far as I've seen, it's the most "muscular" version I've seen.

BTW, is that the picture you're talking about, Runestar?  I don't own the Rules Compendium, so I linked the picture I'd seen earlier that matched the description.
Yeah, that's the one. Spot on.  :)

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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2009, 11:04:20 AM »
How could anyone not recognize cthuhu?

Hmm... makes you wonder though... could the illlithid make a bunch of cthuhu-like critters Large etc... through cerebromorphosis or whatever its called.
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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2009, 06:19:08 AM »
So...  Tarrasque with the Half-Illithid and Half-Dragon templates  :hide

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« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2009, 10:30:37 AM »
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Mmmmm... Sounds fun. :D
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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2009, 10:48:24 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2009, 11:50:52 AM »
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« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2009, 12:11:25 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2009, 12:38:56 PM »
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Re: Name of monster in rules compendium art
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2009, 01:24:01 PM »
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