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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. :)

I suppose a major reason could have been settings, with AD&D being Greyhawk (sort of, anyway), Forgotten Realms, and Heroic Fantasy, and BD&D being The Known World, some Blackmoor, Pellucidar, and Pulp Fantasy/Swords & Sorcery?

I'm curious. Could it be argued that the BX/BECMI/RC91 Spitting Cobra (1 HD, 3' long) is not the same as the African Spitting Cobra that is mentioned in MCC1 Snake - Spitting (4+2 HD, 8' long)? Admittedly, MCC1 is a bit of a mess, but shouldn't the latter actually be Giant African Spitting...

Easily done. 3/3 for 7E, 6/6 for later editions. :)

Unless stated otherwise, "monster poison" was lethal in 1E. Source: Gary Gygax, Dungeon Masters Guide (TSR, 1979)

Here’s some more blasphemy* involving attempts to describe Vance’s grue**: Source: Erol Otus, Booty and the Beasts (FAE, 1979) * I consider all attempts to make something of anything by Jack Vance to be blasphemy. Yes, that’s you, The Dragon 26, The Dragon 29, White Dwarf 6, and White Dwarf...

Agreed. And even more so because: From: here And the illustrations didn't help either (IMHO, YMMV, and all that).

:cool: . Missed that. But doesn't that still leave the various Martians in D&D-UWA? Source: Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons. The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures (TSR, 1974) In relation to this, the Thark almost made it into AD&D (as Greenman), as did the White Ape and the...

Getting the hang of it. Firenewt and therefore Firetoad Wight. (Cool one!) Red Dragon Arcane Ooze Sea Hag Can't do any more coz now I've read all of the spoilers. Pretty miffed that I couldn't solve John Lennon. :unsure::mad: