Favourite DM Creature?

ADDF_Toxic · Post by **ADDF_Toxic** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:58 pm

Just wondering, what is your favourite Dungeon Master Creature.

Mine is couatl. It used to be Magenta Worms, on the old Atari ST, which led to my favourite colour being magenta, but now I changed it. I was on this site, looking at the creatures. I scrolled down and saw the couatl whipping around, and I thought it looked so sweet! I read in my handbook that it was one of the hardest creatures in the dungeon, and I thought that after I met one, I wouldn't like one anymore, but after I saw one flying over the pits in the pit room in level 5 at me(HOC l1), I still liked them.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:08 pm

Definitely the Dragon for me. It is so incredibly beautiful, and the Amiga sound effect when he moves used to give me shivers back in the day. The first time I saw a dragon was actually in CSB, as I started playing it before I finished DM. I explored the beginning of the KU way and fell through a pit. On the left side of the screen, I saw something like a red mouth with huge teeth and wondered what that was. I turned left and found myself face to face with Mongor himself! I sat in awe for a full two seconds, marvelling at his beauty and frightened how huge and majestic it looked. Then he bit me and almost killed one of my characters. This is one of my fondest memories of the games.

Post by **PaulH** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:14 pm

Knight

Post by **linflas** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:22 pm

Munchers : fast, small, poisonous, levitating. They can kill you in a few seconds.

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:44 pm

A tough one.

I like the Knights -- quite spooky, great sound and f*cking tough until you work out how best to defeat them.

The worms were also pretty good -- utterly terrifying the first time I played level 4.

Rock piles were great too -- look very innocent and then they leapt up and opened that great mouth with poisoned tentacles and really messed up your day.

The rats were cool too -- much tougher than they first looked.

I think the most disappointing characters were the ruster and Lord Chaos.

Florent · Post by **Florent** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:42 pm

I like the knights but with their CSB armor. Giant scorpions and Dragons are pretty cool monsters too.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:34 pm

Worms, Coatyls and Scorpions have all beenthe creatures I didn't want to fae as I progressed through a dungeon - knights too, I guess, but then they are placed in easy areas to fight them

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:35 pm

Another vote for the dragon here, I echo the statement about it's beauty and the fear it's footsteps bestowed upon me when I was young

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:48 pm

Oh yeah, and the Dragon for me too. Would have preferred one with wings though!

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:50 pm

I think that the Dragon in DM does not have wings is what it makes it so great. For me, the usual image of a dragon is that of a giant firebreathing winged beast. The Dragon in DM is more memorable this way because it does not fulfill this stereotypcial image completely.

ADDF_Toxic · Post by **ADDF_Toxic** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:18 am

Some of you were talking about CSB Creatures(not punishing you, just noting). And yes, those knights are hard. Actually, I don't think their hard. The first knight I met I led towards the stairs and went down, then up while waiting, so not really hard, just long time to kill. Most knights were behind borders. The other knight other than the one I fought by the stairs, not behind a border, I'm surprised I did it, but I brought him behind a border and turned around in a room, then ran out, trapping him behind the border!
And am I seeing the creatures name wrong? It says couatl in my handbook, but you guys are saying coatyl.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:20 am

That's a typo, Couatl is correct.

Post by **PaulH** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:21 am

You mean Beo? He just can't type! It is coualt, no cootal, er coaetltal, cltel, clot, cleetal.... damn.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:22 am

You sure it's not coital Paul?

Post by **PaulH** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:24 am

No... its clitoral ain't it?!

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:27 am

If that were true, I'd be playing even more DM.

Post by **PaulH** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:27 am

Look at the Russian spammers pages...

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:32 am

Now we finally know why they are here!

Post by **PaulH** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:35 am

Now we know why the mods keep them...

Only joking Gambit, good on yer for sorting it out.

Anyway, favourite monsters... Knights. DM version. Dragon looks nice but is a bit of a weed. A few materialisers can cause many problems and look pretty spooky. Scorpions are nicely drawn and make that noise like a cat being sick.

Post by **Ameena** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:24 am

Well, surprise, the Dragon is funky - once upon a time he was terrifying and eeek bugger it's the Red Dragon, arrgh run away and hide around a corner and zap him a bit! Now it's more woohoo, Dragon! Dieeeeeeee

His roar is still a bit scary though, since if you can't see him when he makes the sound, you could get a fireball up the arse...
Scorpy noises are still terrifying. The Flying Snakes didn't used to make any noise on the Atari but the noise they make in RTC is a bit scary. Black Knights aren't too bad since there's usually a door or monster barrier I can make use of. Spell Vines are a bloody pain. Screamers are kind of cute. Thieves are annoying. So are Rock Monsters. And Water Elementals. Ghosts are wussy, Purple Worms aren't too bad, not are Giant Spiders, Skellies and Mummies are okay, Generic Monsters are weird and I don't even bother with Stone Giants.
Well, I've listed nearly every mob in the game there now lol...oh, Lord Chaos is a goit too

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beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:58 am

PaulH wrote:You mean Beo? He just can't type!

Hey, I resemble that statement. Sorry, just had to state that as there was a danger of Ameena dragging this back on topic : )

What's 'generic monster'?

The only reason I ever kept attackign the dragon was cause of the one dragon steak I found earlier in the game. I used to think it was immortal - so sad when I killed it and it's cute lil BOOMING footfalls were no longer heard around the level - so, so sad *tear* I don't want to talk about it anymore...

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:30 am

Generic Monster is the ruster -- I think some editors called it that.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:36 am

Better than 'that owl-y armadillo-y crocodile-y useless thing with the weird blue forked tail'

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:21 pm

I like dragon!!

ADDF_Toxic · Post by **ADDF_Toxic** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:23 pm

You guys were arguing about couatl spelled different in DM than in that russian thing right? My brain was reading really really fast so that's all that I could interpret. Think of Trolins.
Shouldn't they be trolls!
afj;asfjl trollins dsafasdfasf
aldfjlsf trolls dlkajfds
kfjklafasdf trollins not trolls adsfjafjlksjadfl.

Jumbles of letters are argument statements.

ADDF_Toxic · Post by **ADDF_Toxic** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:24 pm

How freaky, someone added while I was typing!

Post by **Ameena** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:13 pm

Yeah Generic Monsters are otherwise known as Rusters (though I didn't find that out till I discovered RTC/this forum/the encyclopaedia). I tend to use the names given in my hint book since that's what I did way back when, when I was, like, six or whatever

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Giant Spiders don't have eight legs but I still call 'em that

. And I don't know why the slimy tentacle things are referred to as Flying Screamers. But that's what they're called in the book, so that's what I still call 'em today

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ADDF_Toxic · Post by **ADDF_Toxic** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:17 am

Hey, Adamo, do you speak Polish?
I can but I can't spell anything(except Dziendobry maybe, I think that's how to spell it, hello)

chacal · Post by **chacal** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:20 am

For my personal taste my favourite monster is the mummy. Maybe because it was the first monster I met and I was so scared ! I'm almost sure that this first mummy killed my whole team at my first DM experiance

(Who swithed off the light ????

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Otherwise Death knights are very nice... (In DM version for my taste) or should I call em Animated Armours ? (About them, are their items in some sort cursed, or is it an urban legend ? )

PS : Yes ADDF_Toxic it's "Dziendobry" or "Czesc"

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:23 am

When you examine their armor, it says that all items are cursed. This was meant to decrease the hidden luck statistic of the character that carried the item by 3, but I am not sure if this was really implemented. Check out the DM Encyclopedia for more info on the luck statistic.