Art Requests

[manikus]

Nice work. I am totally with you on the sizing. (Unless of course your polar bears wear armor...then they can be bigger. )
Both of these awesome critters are going to live near a little town called New Virdigris where some folks who went by the name of the Silver Blades used to live.

[Uatu]

Armor - you mean like robot suits? (Not sure of any other armor that would nearly double your girth!)

Hmmm... New Virdigris, eh? Sounds familiar! (Gotta get my free displacer cloak...) Looking forward to seeing your finished game, in any case! (I do like wintery campaigns.)

Another size discrepancy I found in MMII was the anklosaurus (one of my favorite dinosaurs since childhood) - but this time, the MMII gave a smaller size than the normally accepted figure (maybe that was the accepted figure back then).

[manikus]

Hmmm...robot suits...maybe in gold and red... No, actually I was thinking of the polar bears in the "His Dark Materials" series. It's a great universe, movie not withstanding. (I'm referring to The Golden Compass, in case folks don't know. The other two books are The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.)

I was always a big fan of the triceratops. I have a bunch of 3D models of dinosaurs...maybe when I get some time, I'll have to do some renders. Just thinking about it takes me to my happy place.

[Uatu]

Oh, THAT bear Yeah, it sure does seem huge from the posters anyway...

Ha ha... Well, after the anklosaurus, the triceratops was a pretty high-ranking dino on my list, too (My favorite prehistoric critter of all is the glyptodont, though - kind of like a mammalian anklosaurus.)

But anyway... New icon for today was the yuan-ti (halfbreed). As the descriptions seem to specify half-humanness, I made the standard icon half scaled and half not-scaled (because yuan-ti halfbreeds only have two snake characteristics at once (i.e. snake head, snake tail)). However, since EVERYBODY seems to draw yuan-ti as fully scaled, I also made a version that has three snake characteristics (i.e. snake head, snake tail, snake scales) since that may be the one that people want to use...

But, anyway

[manikus]

Very nice looking snake people. I seem to recall a game or two (table top) where there were the traditional yuan-ti and some that were more snake-like having gone through many rituals and doing stuff to gain favor with whomever it was they were worshiping. This was quite possibly at the DMs discretion, but it always stuck out in my mind as making them seem much more complex and interesting than they had seemed before. I gues that's one of my favorite things about AD&D is that the DM can do whatver she wants and as often as not comes up with a pretty good reason for it.

Dinos- I was pretty fond of stegosauruses and iguanadons, as well as the triceratops. With the iguanadons, it was the way the claw stuck out perpendicular to the to the forefeet that made it look as if they had an opposable thumb.

[Uatu]

Actually, the yuan-ti are pretty complex as they are already - the multiple forms and so on... (Not gonna do icons for all of them )

I liked stegosaurus a lot, too - but not iguanadon! Sounds like a, well, big iguana or something...

[manikus]

I never was too fond of the name iguanadon. Of course, it's just a family name and there are many individual species, such as Callovosaurus, Camptosaurus, Craspedodon, Kangnasaurus, Mochlodon, and Muttaburrasaurus. (This short list comes from wikipedia.) There are a bunch more, not to mention the duckbilled varieties.

[Uatu]

Muttaburra... what?! Must be related to the cockaburrasaurus (you know, the one that sits in the tree and eats all the gumdrops...)

Ah - I remember the duckbills now. I also seem to remember an opposable thumb of some sort...

[manikus]

All of the iguanadon family had the thumbs with big claw going on. There has been speculation that it was for defense, but I suspect they were for holding nice juicy mangoes, or sabretooth mangoes? proto-mangoes?

[Uatu]

Yeah, probably the mangos - how useful would a thumb be in defending yourself, anyway?