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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9549463" data-attributes="member: 467">I am always amused when folks admonish D&amp;D for its take on mythological creatures, citing some personal knowledge of mythological when it is clear that they mean they read Bulfinch's in high school and maybe had one of those Time/Life hardcover series as a kid.Mythology is gloriously weird and relentlessly inconsistent. Actual mythological sources don't agree on much of anything, and most of what you &quot;know&quot; was distilled from the least offensive (to Victorian sensibilities) bits of 1000 tales.There is no &quot;true&quot; Mythology, and no hard canon. Gygax and Co. did what a thousand storytellers had done before them, and their &quot;gorgon&quot; is as valid as any other.And, as an aside, I think a few D&amp;D creatures will have filtered into the mythosphere and are forever part of that broad, grotesque Menagerie of weird crap humans created.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 9549463, member: 467"] I am always amused when folks admonish D&D for its take on mythological creatures, citing some personal knowledge of mythological when it is clear that they mean they read Bulfinch's in high school and maybe had one of those Time/Life hardcover series as a kid. Mythology is gloriously weird and relentlessly inconsistent. Actual mythological sources don't agree on much of anything, and most of what you "know" was distilled from the least offensive (to Victorian sensibilities) bits of 1000 tales. There is no "true" Mythology, and no hard canon. Gygax and Co. did what a thousand storytellers had done before them, and their "gorgon" is as valid as any other. And, as an aside, I think a few D&D creatures will have filtered into the mythosphere and are forever part of that broad, grotesque Menagerie of weird crap humans created. [/QUOTE]

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