Not a Dead Communist

Both frost and fire giants, as portrayed in D&D, are loosely based on the jötunn of Norse myth. In the original myths, this was a rathe...

Giants are a recurring figure in myth and folklore, appearing in the stories of just about every real-world culture. There's something f...

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...