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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6681434" data-attributes="member: 57383"> Here goes then!Here's the most complete version from the 2nd Edition AD&D MC1. There's also a 1-line condensed version in the "Fish" entry of the 2E Monstrous Manual, but it doesn't have anything that isn't in the following: <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Ray CLIMATE/TERRAIN: FREQUENCY: ORGANIZATION: ACTIVITY CYCLE: DIET: INTELLIGENCE: TREASURE: ALIGNMENT: NO. APPEARING: ARMOR CLASS: MOVEMENT: HIT DICE: THAC0: NO. OF ATTACKS: DAMAGE/ATTACK: SPECIAL ATTACKS: SPECIAL DEFENSES: MAGIC RESISTANCE: SIZE: MORALE: XP VALUE: </td><td> Pungi Shallow tropical waters Rare Solitary Day Carnivore Non- (0) Nil Neutral 1-3 7 Sw 12 4 17 1-12 1-4 each See below Nil Nil L (15′ wingspan) Unsteady (5) 975 </td></tr></table>                Rays, also known as sea bats, are native to warm tropical shallow waters. They are broad, flat creatures, with eyes on the upper, dark colored surface of their body and the mouth and gills on the lighter underbelly. Their pectoral fins are huge, which gives them a batlike appearance, and they use their short tail as a rudder. They feed on mollusks and crustaceans and only rarely attack humans, with the exception of the malevolent ixitxachitl. These long, flat creatures bury themselves in the silt and sand of the sea floor in order to surprise their prey.Pungi RayThe tropical pungi rays conceal themselves in the sand of the ocean floor with their terrible back spines protruding. Their spines are greenish or brown, resembling plant growth so closely as to be 90% undistinguishable from normal seaweed. Pungi rays are 15 feet across and 6 feet long. Their back spines are in a 3 foot by 4 foot area, with one spine per square foot (12 in total). Any creature stepping on a pungi spine must save versus poison or die instantly. A footstep on a pungi ray equals one attack; if a creature fell on a pungi ray it would suffer 2-8 spinal attacks. If a pungi ray is attacked it will try to swim away. Originally found in MC1 - Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989).The following is the 1st edition AD&D version: <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>RAY FREQUENCY: NO. APPEARING: ARMOR CLASS: MOVE: HIT DICE: %IN LAIR: TREASURE TYPE: NO. OF ATTACKS: DAMAGE/ATTACK : SPECIAL ATTACKS: SPECIAL DEFENSES: MAGIC RESISTANCE: INTELLIGENCE: ALIGNMENT SIZE: PSIONIC ABILITY: Attack/Defense Modes:</td><td> Pungi Rare 1-3 7 12” 4 0% Nil 1 to 12 1-4 each See below Nil Standard Non- Neutral L Nil Nil</td></tr></table>Pungi Ray: Another of the tropical rays, the pungi is found only in relatively shallow bottoms. The creatures conceal themselves in the sand, with their terrible back spines protruding. These spines are greenish or brown, resembling plant growth so closely as to be 90% indistinguishable from normal seaweed. Pungi rays are some 15′ across and 6′ or so long. Their back spines are in an area of 3′ by 4′, with an average of 1 such spine per square foot, or 12 spines altogether. The spines vary from 1′ to 2′ in length. Any creature landing on a spine must save versus poison or be killed instantly. A footstep upon a pungi ray will equal 1 attack; if a human fell across a pungi ray he would suffer from 2-8 spine attacks. If a pungi ray is attacked it will try to escape by flight.Originally appeared in Monster Manual (Gary Gygax, 1977).There's also an original D&D version in the Blackmoor Supplement (1975) and another version in Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar (1996), but I don't have either of those sources immediately to hand.Still, I might dig them out just to see if there's any useful extra data in them.</blockquote>

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