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The small pics are really nice! The spider could need a background as it can not be used as a sprite. Would look strange as long as you do not at a cobweb or something like this...
By the way, how big are these Al-mi'raj?

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Hmm - unfortunately, huge spiders don't make webs... So that wouldn't work as a background... :(

Al-mi'raj are 3' tall at the shoulder (according to the Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio) or just 3' tall (according to the old Fiend Folio). So they are actually kind of big! Of course, we can interpret those sizes in various ways...

There is a new small pic today :D My new villain! ;) (I did this new one in the "slow and precisely"...)

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Ooh, aah. ;) She looks like a 'good' villain. Nothing like the ol' Princess of Hell to shake your PCs up. :D

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Yup. Not really devilish :D, but anyway, beautiful artwork again!!!

I am sorry that I have to expose my arthropod knowledge again :D, but this is not necessarily true. Certainly they do no built a nice net like e.g. garden spiders, but bird-eating spiders cover a huge area with signal threads leading to their hide-out. (I even plan to use this for one level in my adventure, not with a spider, but with a mutant that uses slime threads as signal transmitter.

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Glasya is always portrayed as being very attractive to humans sans the horns and wings that is. :)

I think that Uatu meant Huge Spiders - the AD&D monster - do not make webs.

BTW, Uatu, if you are looking for more undersea creatures to do icons for, the 1e Sea Lion is pretty darn cool. :)

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As usual Uatu, your work is amazing. Another MS-Paint drawn?

SilentThief

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Glasya (and her daddy Asmodeus) are supposed to be extremely attractive, with certain devilish features (Asmodeus has no wings (or tail?), though, for some reason, although he seems to lack pupils instead...), though; they look very nice, until they break and get angry or do something bad ;)

But yeah, Glasya was also done with MS Paint :D (I can't put this much detail into all my stuff...)

Anyway, yeah, huge spiders are basically modeled after the various wolf spiders (who also don't use webs, but they do use silk to line their holes).

Manikus: sea lions - didn't they have them in 2e, too? Was there any difference between the 1e and 2e versions?

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I had to go check on that. I was looking through the 1e MM when I saw it. It took me a while to find, as I started in the Monstrous Compendium, but it appears in the Monster Manual. It's basically the same beast, with most of the 2e text being taken straight from 1e, with the addition of a physical description that states it has the the head and forepaws of a lion (implying not scaly) but in the later text, it clearly states that all but the mane is covered in scales. The 1e picture supports this, but the 2e picture is the front-half of a lion and the back-half of a fish.

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Hmm - so, it is a fully-furry creature in 1e, then?

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Just the opposite - in 1e it's fully scaly except the head, but the picture in 2e makes the beast look furry from the 'waist' up. :)