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Wotc_Mark 11-30-05, 02:47 PM	One of my favorite classic television specials for the hollidays is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It was produced in stop motion animation by Rankin-Bass in 1964. It is based on the 1939 poem of the same title written by Robert L. May and featured the famous song adapted from the poem by May's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks. It was recently digitally remastered. So what does this have to do with D&D ??? I have been looking over our past holliday specials on the D&D website and have been thinking about what might be fun to post as a special holiday article. And it hit me ... the island of misfit toys... which comes from the aformentioned rudolph special. If you would like to help us with our holiday special article and stat out a few of the characters, creatures, or toys from that special please feel free to do so and send them to me at markjindra@hotmail.com ... this isn't a contest and you won't get any reward except to possibly see your name in lights (well the light of your monitor anyway)... We are hoping to include this as an addon to Nicholas the Gift-Giver's Northern Palace, which we did a few years back... http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20021225x Wikipedia has a good amount of info and is worth taking a look at... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_(television_special) Some characters I wouldn't mind seeing statted would be ... - Sam The Snowman - Hermey the Misfit Elf - Yukon Cornelius - Tall Elf - Head Elf - The Bumble And from The Island of Misfit Toys... - King Moonracer - Misfit Elephant - Charlie-In-The-Box - Misfit Doll - A misfit cowboy who rides an ostrich. - A train with square wheels on its caboose. - A toy boat that sinks rather than floats. - A squirt gun that shoots grape jelly - A bird with the characteristics of a fish who swims instead of flies - An airplane that can't fly. All should be given a D&D twist... for instance a a hand held crossbow that acts as create food & water 3 times a day but only creates jelly... Or a toy lightening rail that can't stay on the track or shocks the children playing with it... Some of these are possible magic items some are monsters, some are npc's. I'm looking forward to see what you folks come up with. Happy Holidays. MJ
Caemin Pah 12-01-05, 10:25 PM	- A bird with the characteristics of a fish who swims instead of flies Sorry, no stats, but an interesting tidbit about the above quoted.... Anyone else noticed that at the end of Rudolph when Santa is flying across the sky and the elf is dropping the toys with unbrellas? Well, the elf takes a look at the above quoted bird, then at the umbrella and pitches the bird out of the sleigh WITHOUT the unbrella !!!! So, I honestly believe that the bird should be statted as Street Pizza Bird. :D :D :D
Airsucker 12-02-05, 12:43 PM	- A bird with the characteristics of a fish who swims instead of flies Wouldn't that be a penguin? :blink: