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The bulette is a creature original to D&D. Like the owlbear, it's based on a plastic toy from Hong Kong, in its case probably meant ...

The strige is a creature of Roman myth, derived from the earlier Greek strix . It was said to be a nocturnal bird, albeit one that hung ups...

Manticores are creature not of Greek, but of Persian, myth. The name literally means "man-eater", and it's at least possible t...

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...