D&D 5E What's the origin of the Nightmare?

[KorakiSaros]

Edit: Heh, actually the D&D Nightmare pre-dates the Magic one. It's likely the Magic one is inspired by D&D, rather than the other way around.

Also, it is the title of Piers Anthony Xanth book from 1983. Those books are all about the puns, so maybe it's just a play on words that occurred to two people at the same time.

That looks a lot like the Japanese demon horse which Pokemon's Ponyta is based on

 

[KorakiSaros]

Edit: Heh, actually the D&D Nightmare pre-dates the Magic one. It's likely the Magic one is inspired by D&D, rather than the other way around.

Also, it is the title of Piers Anthony Xanth book from 1983. Those books are all about the puns, so maybe it's just a play on words that occurred to two people at the same time.

That looks a lot like the Japanese demon horse which Pokemon's Ponyta is based on

 

[KorakiSaros]

Sorry for Necrothreading but I was here researching for my fantasy novel as this came up when I searched origin of Nightmare.

 

[ccs]

Sorry for Necrothreading ~

Nobody believes Necromancers.