Not a Dead Communist

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 ...

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...

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...