Not a Dead Communist

The mythic origins of griffons lie in Ancient Greece, if not earlier - a combination of the king of the beasts and the king of the birds. Th...

The concept of the mummy as an undead monster is really a 20th-century invention, beginning with the 1932 horror movie The Mummy . While mum...

T he first edition of AD&D includes a number of giant invertebrates, mostly insects. The idea behind these may be influenced by the ...

Brief Plug : I have a book describing a fantasy city out on DriveThru RPG, including over 70 locations that can easily be imported into othe...

Doppelgangers are one of those races that, were they really to exist, would surely have a significant effect on the world and be much on t...

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...