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Blibdoolpoolp - "BLIP-idy - ''bloop" Pronounced no so much speaking but
making water drop/air bubble noises, the 'idy' sounding like an echo of
the 'blip' and a long pause before the 'bloop'.

Otyugh - "Oh-t'-yukh" The "Oh" is like when you get fart bombed in an
enclosed space, t' is like spitting, and yukh is a more gurgly yuck, and
it must be pronounced with a look of extreme disgust, and may include
holding your nose.

Neo-Otyugh - is pronounced as the above proceeded by "NO!", "Naw", or
"N'eew" recoiling in an exclamative protest against the smell.

Juiblex - "Gooey-Blekh"

Ixitxachitl - "EE-vil-Man-tah-ray"

Bulette - "La'and-sha'ark." "Michael Boobley" or "Bull-et" are also acceptable.

Svirfneblin - "Sven-*'EFFIN'*-bling" or "SMURF-Nebb-Lynn." "Smurf" for
short.

Maglubiyet - He prefers to go by "Lou." His enemies call him "Maggie"
but his mamma calls him "Maggie-Louie-eye-ette" when he's in trouble.

Asmodeus - "Dee" to his friends, "Moe" to his enemies, but his mamma
calls Him "Ahz-Moe-Dee-Us" when he's in trouble.

Sahuagen - "ahWOOOgaa" as an old timey cartoon siren noise they make
looking at beautiful women with their eyes popping out, or "Sha'ark-me'en"

Asimar - "Ahss-Ihmar" all short vowels. No comment.

Yuan-Ti - "WantTea"

Catoblepas - "Cammel-toe-*BLEEP*-us"

Chimera - "Chimmi-CHONGa"

Kuo-toa - same as "Kowtow"

Xvart - "EE'vile-SMURF"

Drow - "D'row" like cow with a d' in front. Sometimes "Duh-row" with the
row sounding like a cat noise, "Purple People," "Spider 'effers," "Bad*
Elves" *Bad being replaced with Evil, Rotten or Whip with equal frequency.


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On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:24:44 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Let's see, we used:

Blibdoolpoolp - "BLIP-idy - ''bloop" Pronounced no so much speaking but >making water drop/air bubble noises, the 'idy' sounding like an echo of
the 'blip' and a long pause before the 'bloop'.

It's "Blib", not "Blip". Get it right or she'll snap your head off
with her claws. ;-)

The first bits of the name never caused me problems. "Blib-dool" is
pretty easy. The "-poolp" at the end is a bit trickier, especially
after the "Blipdool-" starter; the whole name is definitely a
mouthful. It doesn't help that, looking at the name in text, all the
letters tend to blend into one another.

Otyugh - "Oh-t'-yukh" The "Oh" is like when you get fart bombed in an >enclosed space, t' is like spitting, and yukh is a more gurgly yuck, and
it must be pronounced with a look of extreme disgust, and may include >holding your nose.

We always pronounced it Oaty-ugh, with a hard g at the end. (Their
cousins were the same, except with a Neo at the start.

I always liked the Otyughs. They were such a wonderful combination of ridiculous, terrifying, and gross (I'm fairly sure were at least
partly derived from the garbage monster in Star Wars). My favorite
encounter with them was when one of the beasts --after a hard fought
battle-- had a morale failure and then the PCs intimidated it
throughout the rest of the adventure. Something about a two-ton sewage
eating monster cowering in the corner always brought a smile to my
face. Poor oaty-ugh.

Bulette - "La'and-sha'ark." "Michael Boobley" or "Bull-et" are also >acceptable.

While everyone in our group all _knew_ it was officially pronounced
"Boo-lay", I don't think any of us ever called it anything but a
"Boo-let". Why put all those letter t's in there if you weren't going
to use them, after all?

But, yeah, "landshark" was equally as common... interspersed with the
expected "plumber man", "candygram" and "flower delivery" snarks. And
lots of 'daah-dum, daah-dum' musical effects ;-)

Svirfneblin - "Sven-*'EFFIN'*-bling" or "SMURF-Nebb-Lynn." "Smurf" for >short.

Sa-verf-NEE-blin (or sometimes "sverf-nee-BLING, for no other reason
than we all liked some extra bling in our games, and because they
always seemed a bit obsessed with gemstones).

Sahuagen - "ahWOOOgaa" as an old timey cartoon siren noise they make
looking at beautiful women with their eyes popping out, or "Sha'ark-me'en"

Ah, the cursed sahuagin. Eventually, we got to sow-hoo-ah-jin... but
not before a lot of previous failed attempts and a lot of cursing.

Xvart - "EE'vile-SMURF"

This one never came up. ;-) I don't think I've ever used them in an
adventure. They always seemed like pallette-switched goblins to me; a
monster added primarily for the saking of saying you've added a new
monster to the roster even though it is functionally the same as an
existing beastie. I know I've _considered_ adding xvarts... but in the
end I just picked goblins instead.

(Although technically, in my campaign world, xvarts are part of the 'goblinkin', which is just one interelated family of humanoids that
expresses itself in different body shapes dependent on its
environment. So technically I guess I have, in a sense, used xvarts
;-)

Drow - "D'row" like cow with a d' in front. Sometimes "Duh-row" with the
row sounding like a cat noise, "Purple People," "Spider 'effers," "Bad* >Elves" *Bad being replaced with Evil, Rotten or Whip with equal frequency.

We varied between 'droh' (long O sound) and 'drow' (rhymes with cow).
I tended towards the former, well knowing the official pronounciation
was the latter, but wanting to differentiate my dark elves (who
weren't really dark) from the standard ones. Elves in my campaigns had
all sorts of varied shades, and the dark-skinned ones weren't
necessarily drow.

So I guess, "droh" for elves in my campaign, "drow" when talking about
Drizzt Do'Urden's kinfolk.

I'm starting to go off the rails here, time to stop.

But you haven't gotten to trolls yet! Trohl, trawl, or truhl; the
world needs to know!

(They were just tall, rubbery, regenerating goblinkin in my world ;-P)

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On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:24:44 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

[snip]

Bulette - "La'and-sha'ark." "Michael Boobley" or "Bull-et" are also >acceptable.

I always called them a bull-EHT; the stress is on the last syllable.

Svirfneblin - "Sven-*'EFFIN'*-bling" or "SMURF-Nebb-Lynn." "Smurf" for >short.

Yeah. Good luck with that. "Deep gnomes." That's what they're called.
Someone was winding the players up that day.

They all read Nietzsche.

[snip]

Asimar - "Ahss-Ihmar" all short vowels. No comment.

My name is ahs-weep-pay! (Sp: Asswipe)

Yuan-Ti - "WantTea"

Juan Ti-hote.

Catoblepas - "Cammel-toe-*BLEEP*-us"

This is commonly just simply referred to as Gygax's bullshit monster. No
death save for its death stare? What the hell is that?!

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My group just got into an extended discussion on how to pronounce
Erinyes. One of the players had even studied ancient Greek. I didn't have
the heart to tell them all it's plural, and what we actually encountered
was a single Erinye.

Many were surprised that there is a pronunciation in unabridged English dictionaries.

Ancient Greek guy and I came to the conclusion that the beginning sounds
like heur, as in "heuristic." So heur-ihn-ee-ihs and heur-ihn-yuh. The
Greek lettering indicated a leading "H" aspirate, but huhyur-in-yee-ees
sounded like Beavis and Butthead.

Frankly, I wanted to start calling her "urine fleas" or "ear in knees."
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Zag

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and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:36:05 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:24:44 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Let's see, we used:

Sahuagen - "ahWOOOgaa" as an old timey cartoon siren noise they make >>looking at beautiful women with their eyes popping out, or "Sha'ark-me'en"

Ah, the cursed sahuagin. Eventually, we got to sow-hoo-ah-jin... but
not before a lot of previous failed attempts and a lot of cursing.

That is pronounced Sa-HWAH-ghen. I have this on good authority. I
pronounced it sah-HOO-ah-ghin for years, though.
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Zag

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and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton
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On 11/24/2025 7:51 PM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:24:44 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

[snip]

Bulette - "La'and-sha'ark." "Michael Boobley" or "Bull-et" are also
acceptable.

I always called them a bull-EHT; the stress is on the last syllable.

Svirfneblin - "Sven-*'EFFIN'*-bling" or "SMURF-Nebb-Lynn." "Smurf" for
short.

Yeah. Good luck with that. "Deep gnomes." That's what they're called.
Someone was winding the players up that day.

They all read Nietzsche.

[snip]

Asimar - "Ahss-Ihmar" all short vowels. No comment.

My name is ahs-weep-pay! (Sp: Asswipe)

Yuan-Ti - "WantTea"

Juan Ti-hote.

Catoblepas - "Cammel-toe-*BLEEP*-us"

This is commonly just simply referred to as Gygax's bullshit monster. No death save for its death stare? What the hell is that?!

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My group just got into an extended discussion on how to pronounce
Erinyes. One of the players had even studied ancient Greek. I didn't have
the heart to tell them all it's plural, and what we actually encountered
was a single Erinye.

Many were surprised that there is a pronunciation in unabridged English dictionaries.

Ancient Greek guy and I came to the conclusion that the beginning sounds
like heur, as in "heuristic." So heur-ihn-ee-ihs and heur-ihn-yuh. The
Greek lettering indicated a leading "H" aspirate, but huhyur-in-yee-ees sounded like Beavis and Butthead.

Frankly, I wanted to start calling her "urine fleas" or "ear in knees."

Urine fleas sounds about right.

I remember reading somewhere it was like Aaron-Ye The plural being
Aaron-Ye's
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