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    Grandmaster Greytalker

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    Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:29 pm  
    Blue Bugbears?

    I recently got the '83 WOG setting -- after having been relied on the '79 version for years.

    Anyway, not that this is really important but has anyone else ever made anything of, or even noticed that the Land of Black Ice encounter table is --

    01-15 Bugbears, Blue (same as normal bugbears)
    16-00 Use Standard Encounter Tables

    Blue Bugbears? Someone has to take a swipe at that.

    I searched the articles and even CruelSummerLord made no mention of them in his masterful
    On the Bugbears of the Flanaess: History, Culture and Nation.
    GreySage

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    Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:31 pm  

    Blue-nosed, I assume. Like hobgoblins. Maybe they have hobgoblin blood.
    Master Greytalker

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    Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:22 pm  

    LG has featured an intriguing take on the blue-black color of the bugbears, and other critters.
    It is more than just a bit of food-coloring. Cool
    Black Hand of Oblivion

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    Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:54 pm  

    Things turn blue when they get cold. So, blue bugbears.

    Think "The Beast" from the latest X-Men movie.
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    Grandmaster Greytalker

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    Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:46 pm  

    Samwise wrote:
    LG has featured an intriguing take on the blue-black color of the bugbears, and other critters.
    It is more than just a bit of food-coloring. Cool


    Was this in a LG Core adventure?

    I'm assuming that Gygax meant blue all over. It'd make good camouflage in the Land of Black Ice.

    Wasn't there some kind of arctic Goblin in Frostburn?
    Apprentice Greytalker

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    Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:42 am  

    smillan_31 wrote:
    Samwise wrote:
    LG has featured an intriguing take on the blue-black color of the bugbears, and other critters.
    It is more than just a bit of food-coloring. Cool


    Was this in a LG Core adventure?



    My sorcerer met blue-black creatures of various descriptions in an LG Core Special, and was adventuring with a character that had run into them in another Core Special. Without giving too much away, the blue-black coloration means that they have what I think is called the "Ice-Touched" template. Its effects are interesting, to put it mildly.


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    Think "The Beast" from the latest X-Men movie.


    I picture Dr. McCoy as being more like a dakon, myself...


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    Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:51 am  

    I suspect Philidor the munchkin, escapee from the Forgotten Realms has something to do with it.

    {And yes I know about the construct, Pelor-Corellon BS reason for that stupid NPC.}
    Journeyman Greytalker

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    Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:35 am  

    I was sure they were mentioned in the Greyhawk Adventures hardback, but all I found was a mention of "dark furred bugbears" in the writeup for Rigodurok. That may be what the blue bugbears are supposed to be.
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    Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:55 am  

    I always assumed the blue referred to their fur colour.
    I always imagined the predators in the land of black ice as being more on the extreme side (as in size and ferocity). The blue fur could of evolved as camouflage against such beasts...
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    Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:43 am  

    Yes the blue bugbears of the Land of Black Ice had blue-black fur.

    I think they, or equivalent blue ice goblins appeared in a recent Dungeon adventure aet in the Land of Black Ice. Look there for inspiration!
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