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Tuesday, 27 April 2021

D&D Monsters: Cloud and Storm Giants

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Cloud and storm giants are the most powerful of the standard races of giant in the D&D rules, the two final rungs on the ladder of incre...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021

D&D Monsters: Ettins

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The word "giant" entered the English language in the Middle Ages, coming from the Latin and Greek gigas via Norman French. Prior ...
Thursday, 25 March 2021

D&D Monsters: Frost and Fire Giants

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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...
Wednesday, 17 March 2021

D&D Monsters: Hill and Stone Giants

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Giants are a recurring figure in myth and folklore, appearing in the stories of just about every real-world culture. There's something f...
Tuesday, 23 February 2021

D&D Monsters: Bulettes

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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 ...
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Sunday, 31 January 2021

D&D Monsters: Stirges

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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...
Friday, 15 January 2021

D&D Monsters: Manticores

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