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Originally Posted by Smeazel
Just for the record, the Abominations aren't exactly new. They're actually taken from the 3E Epic Level Handbook. (Well, the only two Abominations from the 4E Monster Manual that were listed as Abominations in the ELH are the atropal and the phane, but the category of Abominations comes from the ELH, anyway--and the ELH contains seven more varieties of Abomination that didn't make it into the 4E MM (maybe some of them will be in the MM2), but the category of Abominations was in the ELH, anyway). The Abominations aren't the only monster from the 4E MM to be taken from the ELH, either... I don't have either book in front of me right now, but off the top of my head, there's the black slaad, the gibbering orb, and the larva mage (in the ELH, it was called a "worm that walks", but it's pretty clearly the same monster by a different name).
Possibly you already knew all this and I misinterpreted what you meant by calling the Abominations a "new category", in which case I apologize...
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Actually, the Black Slaad dates all the way back to 1st edition - it first appeared in White Dwarf magazine and debuted as an official AD&D monster in the 1981 Fiend Folio. I have a vague recollection the Worm That Walks was recycled as well, the monster comes from an HP Lovecraft story originally.