Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons
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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, "monsters" are generally the antagonists which players must fight and defeat to progress in the game. Since the game's first edition in 1974, a bestiary was included along other game manuals, first called Monsters & Treasure and now commonly called the Monster Manual. Described as an "essential" part of Dungeons & Dragons, the game's monsters have become notable in their own right, influencing fields such as video games and fiction, as well as popular culture.
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Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons
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Carbuncle
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Bulette
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Death dog
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Displacer beast
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Otyugh
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Rust monster
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Stegocentipede
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Stench kow
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Grue, elemental
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White Dwarf reviewer Jamie Thomson commented on the death dog, which is "rumored to be a descendant of Cerberus".
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Described are the chagrin, harginn, ildriss, and verrdig. White Dwarf reviewer Megan C. Evans referred to the grues as "a collection of terrifying beasties from the Elemental Planes".
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Panther-like beast, that always appears to be three feet away from its actual position
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Horrible creatures that inhabit tangled forest regions, attacks with great claws and snapping beak
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Don Turnbull considered the devils the most prominent among the new monsters introduced in the Monster Manual: "they are all pretty strong and compare not unfavourably in this respect with the Demons we already know".
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Cubic scavengers, who cleanse living organism and carrion from the floor and walls of underground passageways
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Landshark burrows underground and feeds on humans, horses, and halflings. Originally inspired by a cheap plastic toy, the bulette was one of the first monsters specifically created for D&D, and has been included in every edition of D&D, although various aspects of the monster have changed from edition to edition. Author Keith Ammann called bulettes "brutes tailor-made to give your players jump scares" and found its preferences and aversions for the meat of different humanoid races "ludicrous". BoLS writer J.R. Zambrano found it "kind of goofy" and a "really fun monster to fight". It has appeared in several other media.
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Horrible undead creatures that drain strength merely by touching an opponent. Don Turnbull noted his disappointment that the shadow in the Monster Manual is of the undead class and thus subject to a cleric's turn undead ability: "I used to enjoy seeing clerics vainly trying to turn what wouldn't turn, when Shadows were first met".
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Subterranean creatures that are able to perfectly mimic stone and wood
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Evil subterranean creature that considers humanity as cattle to feed upon, draws forth brains with its tentacles
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Weird omnivorous scavengers whose diet consists of dung, offal, and carrion, always found underground. Don Turnbull referred to the otyugh as a "most interesting creation".
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Rule the convoluted planes of Hades, form larvae from evil persons they slay, and sell to demons and devils. Don Turnbull referred to the night hag as "splendid" and notes that the illustration of the night hag is the best drawing in the book.
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Subterranean inhabitants that eat ferrous metals such as iron, steel, and steel alloys
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Not from the material plane, breathes out scorching fire. Don Turnbull noted that the breath weapon of the "much-feared" hell hound has been altered from its previous appearance.
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Armadillo-like creature with a jewel in its head, counted among the saddest, lamest entries in Fiend Folio by artist Sean McCarthy, a hybrid creature with physiology resulting from maladaptation rather than evil.
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Undead humans that retain a semblance of life and seek to destroy living things. Don Turnbull noted that the mummy was revised from its previous statistics, and could now cause paralysis on sight .
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Lawrence Schick described the stench kow as "a monstrous bison that smells real bad".
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An obituary to Gary Gygax specifically highlights the Ki-rin as an example of the way in which D&D embraces world culture and folklore.
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Created with the use of powerful and arcane magic, formerly ultra powerful magic-users now non-human and non-living
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Race of lawful good aerial creatures that will aid humans if the need to combat evil is great
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Lawrence Schick described the stegocentipede as "a giant arthropod notable for its twin row of back plates "
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Bulette
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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, "monsters" are generally the antagonists which players must fight and defeat to progress in the game. Since the game's first edition in 1974, a bestiary was included along other game manuals, first called Monsters & Treasure and now commonly called the Monster Manual. Described as an "essential" part of Dungeons & Dragons, the game's monsters have become notable in their own right, influencing fields such as video games and fiction, as well as popular culture. The term monster in Dungeons & Dragons can refer to a variety of creatures, including traditional monsters such as dragons, supernatural creatures such as ghosts, and mundane or fantastic animals—in short, "an enormous heterogeneous collection of natural and monstrous foes." While many monsters are adapted from pre-existing myths and legends, others have been invented specifically for the game, sometimes having characteristics specifically suited to the mechanics of the game.
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Eldritch Wizardry
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Supplement I: Greyhawk
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Monstrous Manual , Polyhedron #133 , Tome of Horror , pp. 243–244 from Necromancer Games
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Eldritch Wizardry , Monstrous Compendium Volume Two , Monstrous Manual , psionic variant of the ki-rin in The Complete Psionics Handbook , third edition Oriental Adventures
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White Dwarf #8 , Best of White Dwarf Scenarios , Tome of Horrors
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Supplement I: Greyhawk , D&D Basic Set , D&D Expert Set , Dragon #109 "The Ecology of the Displacer Beast" , MC 1 – Monstrous Compendium Volume One , Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia , Monstrous Manual , Monster Manual , Monster Manual v.3.5 , D&D Miniatures: Harbinger set #41 , D&D Miniatures: War of the Dragon Queen set #29 , D&D Miniatures: Unhallowed set #37
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Dragon #1 , Dragon #74 "The Ecology of the Bulette" , MC2 – Monstrous Compendium Volume Two , Monstrous Manual , Monster Manual , Monster Manual v.3.5 , D&D Miniatures: Giants of Legend set #67
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