gloomymarshes said:Gorgon/medusa are from greek myth too, although the name gorgon was used to refer medusa and her 2 sisters. I kinda forgot where the petrifying cow part came from.
Griffon is greek too. As are the harpies, and the hippogriffs.
The kraken can be traced back to natives of the south pacific, I think. With sailors spreading the word around about them.
Allanon said:Lycanthrope, Wereboar The tale of Circe, from Homer's Odyssey?
Lycanthrope, Werefox North American Indian mythology?
Phoenix "A wonder-bird, which according to Herodotus flies once every five hundred years from India to Egypt, burns itself there on a pyre and arises renewed from the ashes." -- Fabulous Beasts and Demons, by Heinz Mode.
johnsemlak said:That's a great site. We must link that on in the D&D links section.
Tonguez said:As to literary apparently the Displacer Beast comes from a Sci-Fi book,
Wippit Guud said:As far as I can remember, previous versions of vampires didn't bite? (correct me if I'm wrong, people). So they needed a different way to have some sort of drain effect - voila, level drain.
Col_Pladoh said:Just a minor point of order:
It is a fact I read and borrowed names and ideas from all manner of sources for creating new monsters for the AD&D game--mythology, folklore, fairy tales, and authored fiction. Be that as it may, the presentation of the several hundreds of such creatures and races I created for the game is unique and appllicable only to the D&D game system.