Join Ed as he shares his experiences from the early days of D&D, TSR, and The Dragon Magazine.
Ed talks about some of the history and methodologies that went into him making over 100 unique monsters for D&D, and outlines the process of, and reasons behind, “ecologizing” even more.
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Do you have a favorite monster? Is it from any particular edition? How has it changed over the years?
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What I would give to read "Ed's Digressions"
love you Ed! the passion and skill at creating such a wonderful world is ever inspiring. I have been working on my own world for almost a year now and its tricky but satisfying work.
I like it
As a DM, the most fasicanting monsters are almost always the players. Whether it is against themselves or against other things, it is almost always the players.
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Ixitxachitl LOOKS like an Aztec word so I pronounce it like one.
I want the book of Ed's Digressions
Okay I love what you did with the Medusa there. Awesome. 😎👍
Loved the video, I create mostly playable races, spells, items and classes, but I have made a few monsters. I'll have to get back to that at some point, anyways I hope you have a great day. =^_^=
As a kulid, I would haunt the local library, checking out the bestiaries etc , and cobbled monsters together playing with my friends outside, of cpurse growing up preinternet, we also had tonthank the horror and sci fi movies, when I first discovered dnd, it was the monsters that drew me in as much as the game play
Ed, you and your lady Jenny were guests of honor at our small Houston convention 30 years ago and I love seeing that you are still as lively, imaginative, creative, and fun as ever! Still a fan after all these years. Cheers!
The Greatest creator in D&D was never paid staff for D&D the business…. what's that tell us?
I think lizard men became lizardfolk because they started missing the lizard women.
The ecologies were my favorite part of dragon magazine.
5:14 Hi Ed, could you explain for us why D&D uses Medusa’s name to refer to all gorgons or why it calls the metal bulls “gorgons”?
Dragon 106 was/is one of my favourite editions. Plethora of Paladins made for a steady supply of Paladins available to demi-humans
If I were given $50k to travel the world playing 5 straight weekends of D&D Ed would be tops on my list. Playing a wildmage in one of Ed's campaigns is on my bucket list of things to do before I pass on to the next world. ❤
It turns out that the real monsters were the friends that we made along the way.
Ed does this because Ed loves to create and educate
Ed reading your book the bordee kingdoms and its amazing!!! I wished you were would more awesome books like your knowledge is fantastic and thought provoking.
ty ed!
Ed is such a buddy. I would pay excellent money to play with him.
These are great.
Thank you Ed. I love the Realm you created
Did Ed make the 3E Jovok?
Every one of these videos are a precious gem to us storytellers. Thankyou so much for your efforts. I wonder if there's enough information to maybe discuss real life people's characters ending up in your material. Omin Dran, played by the also wonderful storyteller Jerry Holkins would be a good example. Maybe there's more? If you and Jerry have ever met or spoke about D&D and writing i would so have loved to be a fly on the wall for that. Keep it up Mr. Greenwood!
I think I enjoy monster ecologies even more than playing the game 🙂
inb4 AI art
as a druid once said, adventurers are the worst monsters
D&D monsters these days are just stat blocks these days
Your videos are amazing Ed. I feel lucky that you are sharing your stories with us.
I love this man so much
after watching this episode I bet Ed would get a kick out of the manga Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon).