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That's interestting. Gygax probably knew the contents of that book, at least indirectly. We'll probably never know what made Topsell change the gorgon into a bull-like creature.

My guess is that the D&D "gorgons" were inspired by the fire-breathing bulls (khalkotauroi) of the Argonautica.

Hahaha, we both had the same idea at the same time!

I guess the doppelganger is surprised that somebody saw it without a disguise (naked as it were). By the way: Although the associated verb of "Gänger" (gehen) can mean walker, it simply means "to go" in this case. Thus Doppelgänger is the one who goes double, not the one who walks double!

Thank God, the ridiculous square-tipped "sword" is gone.

I guess the camel is supposed to be the seraphic creature. It doesn't look very angelic to me, more like it's suffering from some kind of disease.

I was tempted to vote for Kyuss as well. He may not be well-known among D&D players nowadays, but he was always suitably "yucky" with all of his maggoty stuff.

To my knowledge, the German translation of Pathfinder uses squares of 1.5 meters, which is pretty much the same as 5 feet.

Yeah, Iuz should have been on the list. I voted for Vecna - at least one Greyhawk villain.

Maybe dragons, like dinosaurs, are actually birds.

Yeah, that's why I don't call these "dog people" (or are they reptilians?) "kobolds" in my campaign.

They shouldn't call them leshies, though. A leshy is something completely different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy

Don't forget about the vegepygmies! They go all the way back to 1st edition D&D and were always one of my favorite monsters.