I'd probably have included most of the missing monsters with slight changes to fit the B/X paradigm and power level. The rest either use rules not in B/X or were probably just cut for space or preference. Xorn: Tri-symmetry and ability to pass through solid rock how cool is that?! This could be in B/X and there isn't anything that fills their niche. Troll (regenerating kind): It's getting back up! This *is* in B/X. Rust Monster: Critter that can't hurt you but destroys all your equipment! This *is* in B/X. Rot Grub: 1hp trash monsters that are more feared than the big trash monsters! This could be in B/X and there isn't anything that fills their niche. Roper: Hungry stalagmite with sticky strength sapping tentacles! This could be in B/X and there isn't anything that fills their niche. This would be a very deadly foe in B/X and the salamanders probably already cover this. Remorhaz: Many-legged arctic worm with special abilities and massive damage potential. Rakshasa: Masters of illusion and deception, immune to magic! They'd have to be toned down some to be beatable in B/X. Purple Worm: 100' long worms that swallow whole and have a deadly sting! This *is* in B/X. Owlbear: Not all that exciting, but how fundamentally D&D! And they get used so much in modules. Otyugh: Garbage monster! This could be in B/X and there isn't anything that fills its niche. These could be in B/X and there isn't anything that fills their niche. Naga: Spellcasting serpents with human heads. Mind Flayer: Telepathic/psionic, brain eating Cthulhoid humanoids! If you abstract out the psionics, these could be in B/X. Mimic: Monsters disguised as treasure chests! This could have been in B/X and there isn't anything to fill its niche. Gelatinous Cube: A creature created explicitly for standard dungeons that makes no logical sense! This *is* in B/X. for your convenience! These *are* in B/X. Doppelganger: Shape-shifting, mind-reading humanoids! Yes, they may be a little generic, but you couldn't have D&D without them. Displacer Beast: Tentacled panthers with reality distortion fields! This *is* in B/X. ![]() Demons, Type I-VI: The specific forms and enumeration is very D&D! The specific spells they can use in AD&D aren't in B/X, but the spells don't really make the monster, the description does. ![]() Carrion Crawler: Octopus faced giant worm! This *is* in B/X. Black Pudding: Huge blob that eats everything and is really hard to hurt. ![]() And the "fake" beholder that acts like a land mine! This might have been hard to include without some of the spells. Beholder (and Gas Spore): Floating mass of eyeball rayguns! Problem is it has several powers not in B/X spell lists. Ankheg: Giant acid spitting cockroach! This could have been in B/X but the niche is already filled by the giant beetles. I would have called these the icons of D&D: Others are mythological beasts, and some are just not things I would ever use. Some yes, but many are very generic and appear in just about every fantasy game. I wouldn't consider the set you picked as the iconic AD&D monsters, either. Gvaughn1 wrote.iconic monsters from the Monster Manual.
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