OSRIC-A retro-clone, its Monsters of Myth supplement substitutes the Beholder and Bullywug with the Oculethe and Batrachian, respectively. The Planet Algol blog substitutes the Grell with the Beaktopus. Labyrinth Lord-A retro-clone, including the Advanced Edition Companion, it substitutes the Beholder, Carrion Crawler and Displacer Beast with the Eye of Terror, Carcass Scavenger and Phase Tiger, respectively. Other monsters inside the product include the "brain golem," "master brain," and "neo warbeast " the latter two are renamed from the elder brain and neothelid, respectively.Ī list of OSR analogues to non-OGC monstersĪdventures Dark & Deep Bestiary-A retro-clone, it substitutes the Beholder, Carrion Crawler, Displacer Beast, Mind Flayer and Umber Hulk with the Sphere of Many Eyes, Corpse Creeper, Couerl, Cthonoid, and Wenge Goliath, respectively.īasic Fantasy Roleplaying Game-A retro-clone, including supplements Basic Fantasy Field Guide and Sword & Board, it substitutes the Displacer Beast, Mind Flayer, and Yuan-Ti with the Displacer, Thulid and Naga, respectively.Ĭastles & Crusades-A retro-clone, it substitutes the Beholder and Carrion Crawler with the Prysmal Eye and Fleshcrawler, respectively. In the second product, the "brainlasher" is a thinly-veiled reference to the mindflayer. The snaketongue are renamed "snake-tongued," malisons to "hybrids," while the word abomination remains the same (though they range in size from large to huge). As with the illujan counters above, they had to change the names for copyright reasons. Other renames include the "displacer panther," "ogdoad" (slaad), "kthonoa," "gheenzai," "gheenki," "gaze tyrant," "underground brute," "ursidowl" (owlbear), and "brain eater."įorbidden Monsters of Foree-The "wan-ti" is a generic mispelling of yuan-ti first used by Skirmisher Publishing in their Forbidden Monsters of Foree: Wan-Ti Snakemen minatures which are meant to be stand-ins for yuan-ti. The most recent version of the feat-based psionics rules in those books, as well as most of the other new psionic monsters, is inclued in Edition Pi, but the Molokai psionics setting itself is on the backburner.įierydragon Counter Collections-In the 4e Fierydragon counter collections, "illujan" is substituted for "yuan-ti", "malicious" for "malison," "serpentongue" for "snaketongue," and "abominated" for "abomination," due to the copyrighted nature of the names, but these are otherwise meant to be stand-ins for the yuan-ti, unrelated to the original conception of the illujans. They aren't listed above because these books are no longer offered on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG and can only be acquired by contacting Daemoneye directly. Psycholus and Dwarven Slave-These are substitutes for the Mindflayer and Duergar, which appeared in Lands of Molokai, Psionics Companion, Psionics Companion 3.5, Academe Mentus, and Psionics Ascendant by Daemoneye Publishing. A few of them are actually supposed to be related to the classic monster, but can't use the name for copyright reasons.īeholder, Gauth, Carrion Crawler, Displacer Beast, Githyanki, Githzerai, Kuo-Toa, Slaad, Thri-Kreen, and Umber Hulk Many of the monsters are fairly close reproductions of the classic monster, even coming close to a straight-up rip-off in some cases, while others try to be their own thing and take the inspirational idea in new directions with varying levels of originality, and some are merely rough approximations that can wildly vary in similarity. This list is by no means complete, and I'll probably be adding new additions every now and then for a while to come. The Book of Forbidden Lore is not listed, obviously. The following list is what I have so far, including rules for both 3.5, Pathfinder, and Edition Pi. For a while now I've been collecting a list of substitutes for monsters that are considered WotC IP.
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