Gold eating monsters

[BOZ]

i think so... i'd have to look it up. i think it was in the original Fiend Folio, and probably Monstrous Compendium Annual 1.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I think I remember that too, it and the one that hid in piles of gold coins and attacked when you picked it up. Probably Fiend Folio but it's been years since I got rid of the 1&2e books I had.

 

[Echohawk]

i think so... i'd have to look it up. i think it was in the original Fiend Folio, and probably Monstrous Compendium Annual 1.

Yes, and in City of Delights in between those two appearances.

 

[BOZ]

indeed!

 

[Shade]

Where can I find this gold that eats monsters?

 

[Mortis]

Didn't there used to be a Gold Bug or somesuch, that was a magical bug that looked like a coin, but started eating the other coins if you put it in your pouch? Might have been a FR creature, if I remember correctly...

Reminds me, a little, of the horde scarab in the Draconomicon. Does that eat gold?

Regards
Mortis

 

[Thurbane]

According to Echohawk's D&D Monster Index, the Goldbug appeared in City of Delights (1993) and was reprinted in Monstrous Compendium Annual Vol. One (1994).

...nowadays, he lives in the creature Catalogue: http://www.enworld.org/cc/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=555


...looks like I was thinking of a different creature, though, it doesn't actually eat gold. I think the one I am thinking of was in one of the old (1E) Dragon Magazine creature features...

 

[SparrowR]

my first ever D&D campaign had some fake coins that ate other coins, the DM called them ecanocytes (E-can-o-site) not sure if that's how you spell it. basically you put them in your bag and it eats all your gold.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

I think I remember that too, it and the one that hid in piles of gold coins and attacked when you picked it up. Probably Fiend Folio but it's been years since I got rid of the 1&2e books I had.

Yep - looking at my old Fiend Folio - the Goldbug looks like a gold piece but doesn’t seem to eat gold. But it was really quite nasty.

“When disturbed it inflicts a poisonous bite like that of a large spider, inflicting 1-4 hit points of damage on the victim who must also save versus poison or die.” !!!

 

[Mad_Jack]

Well, there's always the xorn -it likes to snack on gems and precious metals...