Not a Dead Communist

The rust monster is, like the bulette, a creature inspired by a cheap plastic toy bought in Hong Kong. The original toy apparently looked li...

The remorhaz is another creature original to D&D, and one of the few such that is honoured with a proper name rather than a descriptive ...

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...

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

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 ...