Lamia

[BOZ]

Does anyone know of any other sources for the Lamia in D&D? Right now we have Pathfinder as one secondary source, but if there are any others please let me know.

 

[JohnRTroy]

Does anyone know of any other sources for the Lamia in D&D? Right now we have Pathfinder as one secondary source, but if there are any others please let me know.

While I respect your work on Wikipedia and how you've improved D&D entries and took battle against an overly-aggressive "deletionist", in this case, since it's a legendary monster with it's own entry, and the Lamina is not as important to the game or its history as say, the Beholder or Mind Flayer, I actually have to agree it should be deleted. I certainly wouldn't want to see WP have an entry for every monster in the Monster Manual, especially when they are based on a Mythological creature with its own article.

 

[steeldragons]

For the lamia in D&D? The lamia has been around forever! I know it had an entry in the 1e Monster Manual....or did you know that already?

I can presume, therefore, that is was in the Monstrous Compendium and subsequent D&D monster manuals.

I know the "greater lamia" (or was it "Lamia Queen"?...the one with the snake lower body, which personally, I would have attributed to a "greater medusa" but that's neither here nor there) was in the original Fiend Folio.

As stated by the previous poster, the lamia is a "legitimate" creature of real world mythology. So...there you go, make it the monster of your dreams....or nightmares, as the case may be.

-SD

 

[JohnRTroy]

Boz actually needs sources to determine if it's worth keeping as an article on Wikipedia.

There's already a Lamia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(mythology)

There's also a Lamia in popular culture.

Lamia in popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm not sure there needs to be a separate article for Lamia (Dungeons & Dragons).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Wikipedia's deletionist policy birthed thousands of wikia wikis.

There doesn't seem to be much information beyond which Monster Manuals it was in. If there's no other info available, perhaps the info could be moved to the "lamia in popular culture" article.

 

[Dausuul]

There doesn't seem to be much information beyond which Monster Manuals it was in. If there's no other info available, perhaps the info could be moved to the "lamia in popular culture" article.

I'd agree with this. In general, I don't see the point of giving mythological monsters separate articles for their D&D versions--that should be just a subsection of the main article. Maybe for truly iconic D&D monsters, like dragons, a separate article would be justified.

 

[Alzrius]

Wow, a lot of people armchair quarterbacking on how these Wikipedia articles should be structured. BOZ, I hope you're not operating on a vox populi, vox dei model, since you're the one actually constructing and managing these articles.

Anyway, Pathfinder has some additional lamia material in some of its early adventure path releases.

Pathfinder #2: The Skinsaw Murders has stats for the lamia matriarch (see also here). Pathfinder #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast has stats for the kuchrima lamia, harridan lamia, and the artificially-created hungerer lamia (these are the other forms of lamia hinted at in the Pathfinder Bestiary).

Pathfinder #6 also talks about the lamyros (the collective name for lamia-kin), as well as their society and religion.

 

[Mark Hope]

There's a lamia that features pretty prominently in the Ruins of Andril adventure from Dragon Magazine back in the day - can't remember the issue number off-hand, though.

 

[cildarith]

Dragon #192 had an 'Ecology' article on the Lamia, but is was an April issue, so it may not have been entirely serious.

 

[BOZ]

Was that the one about its love life?

Wow, a lot of people armchair quarterbacking on how these Wikipedia articles should be structured. BOZ, I hope you're not operating on a vox populi, vox dei model, since you're the one actually constructing and managing these articles.

Anyway, Pathfinder has some additional lamia material in some of its early adventure path releases.

Pathfinder #2: The Skinsaw Murders has stats for the lamia matriarch (see also here). Pathfinder #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast has stats for the kuchrima lamia, harridan lamia, and the artificially-created hungerer lamia (these are the other forms of lamia hinted at in the Pathfinder Bestiary).

Pathfinder #6 also talks about the lamyros (the collective name for lamia-kin), as well as their society and religion.

Thanks - I'll have to look into that.

There's a lamia that features pretty prominently in the Ruins of Andril adventure from Dragon Magazine back in the day - can't remember the issue number off-hand, though.

Anyone else remember where this is from?