(TFT) fleshing out monsters

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

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Dear Michael (& others)
I guess another idea along the ecology line is this: when I was DMing AD&D
the old Monster Manual would gve a description and then soemtimes suggest
monsters which would hang out with a particular monster (eg. a frost giant
would have winter wolves, hobgoblins occasionally used carnivorous apes,
whatever). 
I guess we could throw up a few ideas of what monsters chum around together
and why for TFT and work from there. 

e.g. dwarves using earth elementals to scout through rock and stuff, maybe
some clever dwarf wizard/mechanician got a metallic earth elemertnal and
made a sentient drill-being (sorta like the mole out of thunderbird 2 pod
6) --hey.....maybe I'll make one....

but seriously, existing ones include

bugs chum around with, well, other bugs.
stone beetles and am bushes
reptile men and riding lizards

I've got stats somewhere for giant boars (for orcs to ride) and giant
weasels - which live in hilly pastural landscapes, so maybe some ingenious
hobbit husbanders somewhere use them for guards ....

thoughts?<

I like that alot! 

I'd love to see more articles along the lines of the "Ecology" articles
that were done on Giants and Trolls a while back..

Even Orcs and Lizard Men have only been given superficial treatment for
TFT....

I'd also like to see treatments on the types of groups that would be around
a particular monster - again, similar to the way the D&D Monster Manual did
things. For example, if you meet a Stone Beetle, how many are you likely to
meet? How many will be 'children' or 'females'? Are their attributes
different? Etc.

Michael
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