Keep your Orderite memes off of NMA please, McRae
I remember buying that Monster Manual when it came out.
But, ehm, this is from multiple monster manuals. Which one do you mean?
Anyway, saw those articles a while back (this one and
part II). Funny stuff. The Duckbunny is easily the scariest.
I love the D&D penchant for just cross-breeding random animals. Like monkey bees or the owlephant
There's nothing wrong with the Beholder. Or indeed the gelatinous cube. The gelatinous cube being a mount is a bit much, tho'
Some of the ideas are fairly interesting as well. Monsters basically consisting of sentient junk (the
Raggamoffyn), stuff like that, it could work if implemented better.
Also, including Spelljammer is cheating