#crypt thing

[randomspider]

when you know what you’re talking about but forgot the name

[crocutable]

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[twilightofthesandwiches]

Which Edition of D&D had the best design/artwork of a Crypt Thing?

First Edition

Second Edition

Third Edition

Voting ended onMar 14

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[oldschoolfrp]

Crypt thing.  (AD&D Fiend Folio, TSR, 1981.)

[kriegsmesser]

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[infravisions]

As written, the crypt thing is little more than monster-as-trap, and at that, the kind of trap that will severely test the players' patience with their DM: "Its special power is its unfailing ability to cast an improved form of a teleportation spell on a party....Distance and direction are determined individually for each victim teleported....The crypt thing can communicate in the neutral tongue, but if it is questioned on the disappearance of some members of the party, it will not reveal its power but will instead maintain they have been disintegrated." Having been wrestled to the ground by a player for much less fuckery than that, I'm not sure I'd pull this one. Instead, I like the idea of crypt things as a a wealthy cabal of travel brokers, collecting hefty tolls to move folk over long distances in the deep underworld, where teleportation beyond a few miles is risky for most magic-users. Their depots are encysted in solid rock, sealed off from all other tunnels and warded from scrying, as are the cells where they imprison travelers who are slow to pay... Crypt Thing Russ Nicholson Don Turnbull and Roger Musson, text Fiend Folio

[the-golden-void]