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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zander" data-source="post: 524714" data-attributes="member: 1364">I was surprised to learn from <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33375" target="_blank">this thread</a>  that the rust monster and bulette were originally plastic toys that Papa G discovered in the 1970's. He turned them into D&D monsters, but they didn't start out that way (I always assumed they had).Here are a few more bits of D&D trivia:The cover illustration of the later printings of the 1E PHB depicts a wizard casting a spell with some sort of small demons flying around him. The wizard's hood is curved all the way around at the top. But originally it was indented. They painted in the very top so that it wouldn't look like he had horns. If you look closely, you can see where the alteration was made. The French edition shows the original painting.The 2E wizard spell cards came out in Japanese before they came out in English. The Japanese ones were published separately for each level. TSR (USA) didn't know about the Japanese version (until I told them) and had their lawyers check that it was licenced (which it was).The joke in the D&D movie about female dwarves having beards and this being something to hang onto was originally in the 2nd series of the British comedy series Blackadder. The programme's writer was British comedian Ben Elton who plays D&D. Any more trivia about D&D out there?</blockquote>