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Saturday, 14 March 2020
D&D Monsters: Medusae
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While the exact details of the myth evolved over time, in the best-known version of the Greek original, Medusa was one of three monstrous ...
Saturday, 18 January 2020
D&D Monsters: Dryads
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Looking again at D&D creatures derived from Greek myth, we come to the dryad. In the original myths, dryads are a type of nymph, or fe...
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Sunday, 22 December 2019
D&D Monsters: Zombies and Skeletons
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As I have noted previously, undead in D&D represent at least three different broad categories of being: mindless corporeal, sentient c...
Saturday, 9 November 2019
D&D Monsters: Satyrs
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Like centaurs , minotaurs , and harpies , satyrs have their origins in Greek myth. The original versions are wild nature spirits and, in p...
Thursday, 25 July 2019
D&D Monsters: Minotaurs
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Minotaurs are another creature with their origin in Greek myth. In the original, there was, of course, only one Minotaur, trapped in a lab...
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
D&D Monsters: Wights
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The word "wight", as D&D books are always eager to remind us, originally just meant "person". It was common enough...
Thursday, 23 May 2019
D&D Monsters: Harpies
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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...
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