The Travesty! The Horror! Male Medusae.

[Thornir Alekeg]

"Today on Wild Realms we will be examining the extremely dangerous reproductive habits of the Medusae."

 

[Voss]

Where's the option for "I'm so old school there's only ONE Medusa in my game. And she's an epic solo."? The plural of "Medusa" has always seemed really, really weird to me for some reason.

Personally I'm quite likely to do just that. The absurd number of sentient species running around D&D Land makes me cringe. So if there are things that I really want to use, but are inherently stupid or obnoxious in numbers, they get to be uniques. People cursed by the gods, botched experiments, what have you. The Minotaur, the Medusa, and so on.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

This. Unless they're just making male medusas the same as female ones. Then I'm unhappy. If it's a maedar (regardless of the name), then I'm happy.

Same here, Maedar were one of the first monsters that surprised me in D&D, and that I didn't think were lame, so if they're back, then that's cool. If it's just that some Medusae are dude with snake-dreads, then SIGH.

 

[Terwox]

Where's the option for "I'm so old school there's only ONE Medusa in my game. And she's an epic solo."? The plural of "Medusa" has always seemed really, really weird to me for some reason.

This, by the way. Not usually epic-tier though for me.

[Ramble]I tend to have Medusa as per the Greek myth, usually done up with some modern variation or another. In one, she was cursed to remain ugly until she could paint someone more beautiful than she once was -- but she always ended up painting self-portraits.

I guess I was hoping more people had an unnatural fascination with Medusa. Bummer I was wrong.[/Ramble]

I swear if they put a male Rusalka in the game though I'll probably have a nerdy aneurysm.

 

[Kishin]

Per http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36838

In the 4E Monster Manual, there are male medusae!

Well, I just saw my first house rule. Those guys are out, medusae are female. How about you?

There were male medusae implied in Eberron.

Seems like something a bit insignificant to get worked up over.

 

[Duelpersonality]

"Today on Wild Realms we will be examining the extremely dangerous reproductive habits of the Medusae."

Right you are, John. And we'll also be...John? John? *knock, knock*

 

[Kwalish Kid]

Honestly, we in the fantasy community have got to start taking a good, hard look at the way gender is used in our media. There really isn't any good reason that I can think for continuing to have female-only medusae.

 

[Tervin]

If I had a problem with male medusae I would not even call it a houserule to ignore them. I mean, it is not like people will even notice if some creatures never show up in my campaign. Ok, someone could summon something I don't care for - but that would be from outside of my reality and only be around temporarily.

In truth though, I promote equal opportunity in the "turning to stone" business. Or whatever it is a medusa does these days.

 

[IanB]

Honestly, we in the fantasy community have got to start taking a good, hard look at the way gender is used in our media. There really isn't any good reason that I can think for continuing to have female-only medusae.

Absolute agreement. There's a large segment of female-only monsters that could stand a bit of examination in this vein.

 

[Aeolius]

Absolute agreement. There's a large segment of female-only monsters that could stand a bit of examination in this vein.

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