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One of my favorites: By Peter Andrew Jones

Even classicer: By Ken Kelly

Interesting question. Let's start with the classics. By Jeff Dee By Gary Williams

Fair points. I've just always thought their removal was a copyright issue. I also didn't realize that Mr and Mrs Beaver weren't 6' long/tall. Hmm..., curiouser & curiouser.

[This was probably cut from later publications because it's from The Chronicles of Narnia] Well, technically speaking, the giant stag is in MCC1. That is, unless one takes this section to mean that there is a Giant Wild Stag, which would then have AC 5, 6 HD, D 2d3/2d3/4d4, and ML 7-9 (which...

Interesting thought. I guess the word "undead" automatically implies that something must be dead first before it can be undead. Hmm... It's a bit nitpickey, but one might consider what a "living creature" is. For example, is a dryad a "living creature"? If not, then there's always the birch...

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Have to check whether 2E says anything about default death monster poison but I also believe it remains schtum on the subject. Also: The poison table in the 2E DMG is obviously a derivative of the one in the 1E DMG, which explicitly states that it is for purchased poisons. The 2E DMG seems to...

Well..., um..., not quite. :) There actually is a fourth option, although its details are perhaps a bit lost in time. I do believe that the iron golem (or its predecessor) was invented by Robert J. Kuntz back in 1972, as per the Greyhawk blog of the august Grodog. And it may well be that that...

Brilliant! Merritt! That suddenly rings a huge bell!

Fair enough. I suppose it’s the whole “to giant or not to giant” aspect of monsters throughout the history of OD&D/BD&D/AD&D, as well as the rules watering down as the game developed, that are to blame here. Anyway, I suppose the spitting cobra being in 4E sort of makes the whole point moot...

Dunno whether they're myth-accurate - there seem to be many myths involving the water horse // kelpie - but there's a Water Horse in Dragon 48, a Water Horse in HR3, and a/an Aughiski/Each Uisge/Cabyll-ushtey in Imagine 17.

Some more BD&D monsters I don't think are in AD&D - dunno about later editions, by the way. Killer Bee: Although described as "giant bees" in B/X, I don't think they are the same as the AD&D EX2/MM2 Giant Honeybee.* Driver Ants: Mentioned and statted out in MTA2/MTA4 as Giant Driver Ants...

MCC1 = Monstrous Manual, as per the Acaeum TSR Stock List. I see. It is a complicated issue. Made even more complicated by the fact that there isn't a real-world African spiting cobra, but that there is a real-world giant spitting cobra. Wherefore we could argue that "African" is meant to be...

Oh dear. Wild bore? Quarterling? Mouth harpy? Rock and roll baboon? I guess EGG and Mr. Mentzer had a good laugh about that. :)