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Time for another sneak preview on BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules – this time, the creature list as it stands now. By the way, the use of the word “creature” is deliberate because it no longer seems appropriate to call them “monsters” by default, given that any one of them might be a player character under the BLUEHOLME™ Compleat Rules.
As you are no doubt aware, some of the creatures in the list are there because they have appeared in John Holmes’s other writings. The insectoid dreenoi from the Starguard game, for example, which are included with the kind permission of John McEwan himself; or the species mentioned in Holmses’s fiction like half orcs, dark (or black) elves, and centaurs. The green grabbers are the ingenious interpretation of two monsters from Holmes’s Fantasy Role Playing book by the inestimable Zenopus. Some are creatures that show up elsewhere in the Blue Book but are not detailed in the monster section of the same.
So, at present the list stands at a tad over 100, not counting those creatures that have multiple types such as white, black, brass and red dragons, or the many species that come in normal, large and giant-sized varieties. The intent is not to bloat the list, but to stick closely to the source material. I’m sure I’ve overlooked some, so if you know of any please let me know and give me the source reference and your name, and your fame will be assured with your inclusion in the contributor’s roll call!
If you want to provide me with a complete creature including stats and a short description in your own words (please do not use copyrighted text!), and it is included in the Compleat Rules, you’ll not only be mentioned in the acknowledgements but you will also receive a contributor’s copy of the Compleat Rules PDF when it is released.
Ye Compleat List of BLUEHOLME™ Creatures:
- Allosaurus
- Angel
- Ape, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Ant, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Bandit
- Basilisk
- Bat (colony, giant)
- Bear (normal, large, giant)
- Beetle, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Berserker
- Black Pudding
- Blink Dog
- Bugbear
- Cat, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Cave Creeper
- Centaur
- Centipede, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Chimera
- Cockatrice
- Crab, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Deep One(frog people)
- Demon
- Djinni
- Dolphin
- Doppelganger
- Dragon (white, black, brass, red)
- Dragon Turtle
- Dreenoi
- Dwarf
- Elemental (air, earth, fire, water)
- Elf (high, wood, dark)
- Feline (cat people)
- Fish, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Gargoyle
- Gelatinous Cube
- Ghoul
- Giant (hill, stone, fire, cloud, mountain)
- Gnoll
- Gnome
- Goblin
- Golem (flesh, rock, stone, iron)
- Gorgon
- Green Grabber
- Green Slime
- Grey Ooze
- Griffon
- Half Elf
- Halfling
- Half Orc
- Harpy
- Hell Hound
- Hippogriff
- Hobgoblin
- Horse (light, medium, heavy, draft)
- Hound (normal, large, giant)
- Hydra
- Invisible Stalker
- Kobold
- Kraken
- Lammasu
- Lamia
- Leech, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Lich
- Lizard, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Lizard Folk
- Lycanthrope (wererat, werewolf, wereboar, weretiger, werebear, wereshark)
- Mammoth
- Manticore
- Medusa
- Merfolk
- Minotaur
- Mule
- Mummy
- Naga (snake people)
- Nixie
- Nymph
- Ochre Jelly
- Octopus, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Ogre
- Old One
- Orc
- Otyugh (replaces displacer beast)
- Owl Bear
- Pegasus
- Pixie
- Purple Worm
- Raptor (normal, large, giant)
- Rat (swarm, giant)
- Rust Monster
- Sand Worm
- Sage
- Satyr
- Scorpion, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Screecher (replaces shrieker)
- Serpent Folk
- Shadow
- Skeleton (lesser, greater)
- Snake, Constrictor (normal, large, giant)
- Snake, Poisonous (normal, large, giant)
- Soldier
- Spectre
- Spider, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Stirge
- Tick, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Toad, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Triceratops
- Troglodyte
- Troll
- Tyrannosaurus
- Unicorn
- Vampire
- Weasel, Great (normal, large, giant)
- Wight
- Wolf (normal, large, giant)
- Wraith
- Yellow Mould
- Zombie
Dreamscape Design 
Perhaps you can take an opportunity to rectify one of the greatest failures of the basic editions and throw in stats for a normal, non-blinking dog?
Well I would – if I could find a citation from one of Holmes’s writings … 😉
Say, there IS a (non-blinking, non-hell hound) dog in Holmes’ writings and I completely missed it before now. In Maze of Peril p. 48, Boinger and Zereth find the statue of a dog cowering under a bed (poor guy was the victim of a small basilisk).
Okay, you’ve convinced me! ;-P
Oh, and I just found camels and sand worms in The Adventure of The Lost City (part one)!
All of this and more (Including some fantastic Old ones) were penned and inked by a Joel Carrol, I’ve used his artwork in my own pages since he had been asked to commission some Classic Monsters- I’ve created a large two headed Ettercap which I refer to as an Ettin-cap or the dreaded two headed bi-polar bear. Love to play yest the compleat rules- I’ve been playing the Basic for many months now with several groups and am curious about these additional uses
I’m currently updating the creatures chapter of the Prentice Rules to align with some changes in the Compleat Rules. Thanks for the heads-up about Joel Carrol, I must have a look at his work.