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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9358423" data-attributes="member: 2209">Medieval is fairly vague so it might help to define Medieval for your purposes.Mostly for Medieval I think of heraldry types of beasts like a Griffin which seems not that changed.Maybe some King Arthur and knights of the round table stories so maybe Ogres and Hill Giants?Cocatrice and tarrasque? Cocatrice does not have the weird origins that actual myth gives them, or the poison stuff or the weasel vulnerability. Tarrasque does not have the maiden vulnerability and the myth one is much smaller without a lot of the D&D powers.Viking era Norse myth monsters like Frost and Fire Giants are generally 700-1000 CE oral tradition later written down so I would think they count.Greek stuff is from the ancient world so very pre-Medieval so the turning of the Minotaur and Medusa into D&D monster types instead of individual one offs and stuff like the Nymphs and Satyrs are sort of outside the medieval stuff for Europe until the Renaissance revival of them after the Medieval period, unless you count the Arabic world preservation of that type of stuff in which case it could be back in.Pre-Dracula vampire stories were very different so the Dracula based D&D one is different in a lot of ways from Medieval Slavic and other culture vampires of the period. Most are not handsome and charming.D&D Werewolves are fairly based on the wolfman movies which are different than a lot of werewolf stories in particulars dating back to Greek myths. Werebears are mostly like Bjorn in the Hobbit and some Norse berserker stories. Turning them into D&D communicable disease lycanthropes like werewolves is different, as well as the wolfman silver vulnerability.</blockquote>

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