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The movie Big Trouble in Little China (1986) features a Beholder-like monster whose main job is spying the protagonists. [ 45 ] Beholders appeared as a boss and recurring monster in the original Japanese version of Final Fantasy , but was renamed to "Evil Eye" and redesigned for the game's North American release to avoid copyright issues with TSR.
[21]: 134 [22] [23] Such groupings include humanoids, monstrosities, dragons, giants, undead, aberrations, fiends, celestials, fey, elementals, constructs, oozes and plants; and beasts. [16]: V–VII There is some flexibility within these groupings. For example, many kinds of creatures can become undead or can be used to form magical constructs.
Axehandle hound – a dog-like beast that reputedly subsists on axe-handles left unattended (United States & Canada) Black dog, also known as Barghest, Black Shuck, or Grim – associated with the Devil, Hellhound (Britain) Beast of Gévaudan – man-eating wolf, terrorized the province of Gévaudan (France)
The displacer beast appears in the first edition Monster Manual (1977), where it is described as a vaguely puma-like beast that always appears to be three feet away from its actual position. [9] David M. Ewalt , in his book Of Dice and Men , discussed several monsters appearing in the original Monster Manual , describing displacer beasts as ...
Giants were among the first monsters introduced in the earliest edition of the game, in the Dungeons & Dragons "white box" set (1974), including the hill giant, the stone giant, the frost giant, the fire giant, and the cloud giant. [6]
Except for the youngest dragons, they are described as quite large—usually at least as big as a horse, and often much larger. Most species are depicted to have wings and be capable of flight, and nearly all are quadrupedal. Almost all species of dragon are depicted as highly intelligent (at least as intelligent as a human being) and are able ...
Alfred Bulltop Stormalong; Amala - Pacific Northwest Coast; Antonine Barada; Beast of Bray Road; Bigfoot; Dzunukwa - Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology; Febold Feboldson; Flatwoods monster; Flying Head - Iroquois mythology
A gargoyle monster as depicted in the tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons. The gargoyle is a fantasy and horror monster inspired by the appearance of bestial grotesque statues in architecture - particularly those sculpted to decorate the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris during its 19th-century reconstruction, rather than actual medieval statuary.