Insectoid

[Mephisto of the FoS]

Undead exoskeletal remains of an insect. May be of the Giant Ant, Giant Tick, or Stag Beetle varieties. The entry's illustration is that of the Drow Vampire for some reason (a typo).

Was there ever a correction to this?

[alhoon]

Eh? Where was that definition?

[Mephisto of the FoS]

Eh? Where was that definition?

The one I sent is from Mistipedia referring to this

Skeleton, Insectoid
Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p101

[Igor the Henchman]

No idea if they ever corrected it. I remember finding it pretty funny

Anyway, I was never too bothered by it, it's not too difficult to just imagine a generic bug.

[Mephisto of the FoS]

it's not too difficult to just imagine a generic bug.

Good thing we don't even have to imagine

[alhoon]

I think it's more like a tri-kreen, it doesn't say insect, it says insectoid. Or how were those ant-people with four hands?

[Mephisto of the FoS]

I think it's more like a tri-kreen, it doesn't say insect, it says insectoid. Or how were those ant-people with four hands?

Description from Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p101

Skeleton, Insectoid
These nightmarish automatons are the animated exoskeletons of dead insects.

The compendium has the stats for a Giant Ant, Giant Tick and Stag Beetle exoskeleton.

But I think I found why they placed a drow vampire for the monsters picture by mistake.

Insectoid skeletons are created with the use of a special version of the animate dead spell. It is believed that this spell was created by a drow necromancer, but the truth of that supposition is unknown.

[alhoon]

Animated exoskeletons? That... doesn't sound blasphemous. Does the insect has to be dead or it could have just grown out of its exoskeleton?

[Mephisto of the FoS]

Animated exoskeletons? That... doesn't sound blasphemous. Does the insect has to be dead or it could have just grown out of its exoskeleton?

Dead...

Insects do not have an internal skeleton like we do, known as an endoskeleton. Rather, the outside of their bodies is their skeleton, an exoskeleton made of a substance called chitin.

I think you misinterpreted exoskeleton for exuviae left behind during ecdysis.

Exuviae are the remains of an exoskeleton and related structures that are left after ecdysozoans (including insects, crustaceans and arachnids) have moulted.

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa. Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed.[1] The remnants of the old, empty exoskeleton are called exuviae.

Process of ecdysis of a cicada (the thing left behind is an exuviae not an exoskeleton).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecdysis#/ ... ated-2.gif

But what you thought could be maybe used to create a kind of insect boneless (instead of soft easy molded skin they have a crispy thin layer, easy to brake).