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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 9553071" data-attributes="member: 6799257">There goes my hope to see them return to 5E, maybe get a miniature at long last...I am pretty sure Medusae are immune to petrification. Even in movies like Clash of the Titans, the reflective shield is used to see the Medusa in it, not to have it reflect her gaze.And hilariously, then D&D went and used the Gorgon name for a completely unrelated bronze-scaled Bull creature that can also petrify things... The idea taken from an old book on animals (that has a lot of made-up fantastical ones). [ATTACH=full]392334[/ATTACH]I think since Stehno and Euryale were immortal, they could possibly go on and have more offspring. The game Titan Quest explain the presence of a lot of Gorgons this way.There is still only one Tarrasque. As far as I know, it can regenerate from even a loose scale of it, the only way to kill it would be to destroy all the remains and cast Wish on it. Even so, it usually comes back, much like the Godzilla that it is partially based on. Usually, parties can only hope to trap it, cause it to go back to sleep, or - more likely - use some sort of powerful teleportation or plane-shift magic to take it somewhere else, so it becomes some other unfortunate universe's problem. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I am pretty sure that was implied to be a joke. (Probably Volo is responsible for that... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)Feels kinda odd to get angry about this NOW, when D&D is like, 50 years old. You are a bit late to the party. They could have also been called Stehnos and Euryales... and funnily, there ARE fantasy games where those are also not names, but subspecies of Medusae. Thing is by now, it is not just D&D that calls Gorgons Medusae, but several video game franchises and other RPGs. JRPGs in particular, but Heroes of Might and Magic as well.  And the name Gorgon has been used for another, unrelated but also petrifying monster by D&D, so they cannot really re-use that. (See above). And Pathfinder and Heroes of Might and Magic has got those as well! Even Magic the Gathering calls them Medusae. At least they were that in Theros.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.minisgallery.com/index.php?id=5624&task=image&imageName=medusa[/URL]The funny thing is, D&D 5E did have a male "Medusa" since Princes of the Apocalypse... The Elemental Earth Cult prophet, Marlos Urnrayle! He even got a Nolzur's miniature, bundled with the Medusa. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Mind you his snake hair and petrification powers were a gift from Ogremoch, and he was a Human originally, but he looks the part.[ATTACH=full]392336[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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