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The mind flayer was ranked fourth among the ten best mid-level monsters by the authors of Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies. They referred to this unique creation of the D&D game as the "quintessential evil genius" and the "perfect evil overlord". [56] Games journalist David M. Ewalt found them "one of D&D's most popular monsters". [8]
Characters as diverse as Denethor, Théoden, Beorn, Gollum, and Frodo have been seen as possibly exemplifying conditions including paranoia, bipolar depression, schizoid personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dissociative amnesia. Tolkien's depiction of Frodo's mental suffering may derive from his own wartime experience.
A mental disorder that causes adults who receive a head injury to develop a brain tumor that causes them to act like infants, while still possessing the physical traits of an adult. However, the victim of this disorder must not receive any more blows to the head or the effect will become permanent. Head pigeons Invader Zim ("Dark Harvest")
A.V. Club reviewer Nick Wanserski praised the "thoughtful" look on kobolds provided in Volo's Guide to Monsters: While "such staples as orcs, goblins, and kobolds [...] often get lumped together as a dull monolith", the many details here give "a lot of personality to an otherwise easily forgettable monster." [16]
A drawing of kobolds, reptilian humanoid beings that appear in Dungeons & Dragons. Examples of reptilian races in fantasy games are the Lizardmen from Warhammer as well as Lizardfolk, Dragonborn and Kobolds of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game .
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A dragon's personality varies by individual, but dragons of the same subrace tend to have similar mindsets. This is not always true; several exceptions exist in official D&D material. Dragon subraces encompass all Dungeons & Dragons alignments, going from lawful good paladin-like gold dragons to the cruel and very greedy chaotic evil red dragons.