Not a Dead Communist

As I have noted previously, undead in D&D represent at least three different broad categories of being: mindless corporeal, sentient c...

Like centaurs , minotaurs , and harpies , satyrs have their origins in Greek myth. The original versions are wild nature spirits and, in p...

Minotaurs are another creature with their origin in Greek myth. In the original, there was, of course, only one Minotaur, trapped in a lab...

The word "wight", as D&D books are always eager to remind us, originally just meant "person". It was common enough...

Harpies are one of a number of D&D monsters that owe their origins to Greek myth. However, the story is not quite as simple as that, s...

1E The term "undead", as used in D&D actually refers to (at least) three different categories of being. First, there are t...

In the real world, "lycanthrope" is just another word for "werewolf"; the word literally means "wolf-man" in A...