Holds up a hand.
I have a question, Mr. Zagyg!
It is: How the heck can anyone remember? I played 1e in the early 80's - haven't played it since. And I wasn't the DM! I HAVE NO IDEA what rules we used or didn't use!
Though, I can tell you that I bought 2e the day that it dropped, and played it...
ALL of it? From what I've seen, they've recently upped the variety of styles they present. Hopefully there will be some stuff you like within the contents of the books, even if you're not a fan of the previewed stuff. I guess we'll have to see.
This is not a real entry, because I would never use AI art for a real entry, but I never found the time to make the Statblock (or do some real art), but for your amusement:
The Pumpkin Spice Beholder
I think it would be lame to enter an AI image in the Pumpkin Spice contest, but I was thinking of working on this Monster, but never go around to making its statblock:
If so, why wouldn't you just make up that sentence or two? Are you trying to test it "as written" or something?
I would expect their approach to be to poke around each cave entrance, where the DM can give hints about what might be in there.
I don't think that they are expected to randomly pick...
When we started this thread, so many pages (and a few years) ago, the AI had no idea what a Griffon was. But it does them fairly well, now. Here's a pretty one:
Team Lake
"Whye do yhu brringz zsa Ouhtcasst here? He duhz not belongh." demanded the Lizardfolk Chief. He appeared willing to parlay, but the circumstances of their arrival put him on edge. Even more than him, who stood mostly calmly, as if a fight would please him every bit as much as a...