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Monster ENCyclopedia: Scarecrow
Look away! Don’t meet its gaze! The scarecrow began as unintelligent creation, animated by evil clerics.
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Remorhaz
One of D&D’s hottest creatures lives in the coolest climes. Arctic explorers might place “burned alive” low down on their list of risks, but that’s exactly what will happen if they run into a remorhaz.
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Quickling
Don’t blink or you’ll miss this entry in the Monster ENCyclopedia series.

D&D General Monster ENCyclopedia: Peryton

Whether they are magical hybrids, alien invaders or creatures warped by a curse, perytons are single minded in their pursuit of their victims.
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Nightmare
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D’s history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. We have now reached the second half of our alphabetical tour and the “N” creature is the preferred steed of evil villains from Warduke to Lord Soth—the nightmare. Origins The English word...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Lamia
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D’s history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. We are covering one creature from a hypothetical Utterly Complete Monster Manual for each letter of the alphabet, and the letter “L” entry is dedicated to the lamia. Origins In Greek mythology...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Kraken
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D’s history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. For the letter ’K’ we’re taking a look at one the largest and oldest of all D&D creatures—the kraken. Origins The first mention of the kraken in D&D is in 1976, when it appeared in Supplement IV...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Jackalwere
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D’s history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. The ENCyclopedia series is busy with an alphabetical browse through the creatures of Dungeons & Dragons, with an article on one monster for each letter A-Z. We’ve reached the tenth letter in the...
Monster ENCyclopedia 
Monster ENCyclopedia: Ixitxachitl
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D's history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. The ENCyclopedia series is busy with an alphabetical browse through the creatures of Dungeons & Dragons, with an article on one monster for each letter A-Z. For the ninth letter of the alphabet...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Hook Horror
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D's history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. The ENCyclopedia series is busy with an alphabetical browse through the creatures of Dungeons & Dragons, with an article on one monster for each letter A-Z. The eighth letter of the alphabet is...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Galeb Duhr
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D's history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. The ENCyclopedia series is busy with an alphabetical browse through the creatures of Dungeons & Dragons, with an article on one monster for each letter A-Z. We have reached the letter "G" and the...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Flumph
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D's history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. As part of an alphabetical browse through a hypothetical Utterly Complete Monster Manual we are picking one monster per letter. The infamous flumph is our choice for the letter "F". Origins...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Ettin
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D's history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. For the fifth installment in the series, we have reached the letter “E”, and this time it is the turn of the ettin. Origins The word ettin comes to us from the Old English word eoten, which means...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Drider
The first appearance of the drider was in the Lolth-centric Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits.
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Catoblepas
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D's history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. As the third entry in this series originally, this article continues the progress through the alphabet and looks at a creature beginning with C — the catoblepas. Origins The catoblepas was first...
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Monster ENCyclopedia: Barghest
This is a series of articles about specific monsters from D&D's history. Each entry takes a look at the origin of one D&D creature, and tracks its appearances and evolution across different editions. This was originally the second entry in the series, following the aarakocra. Although the creature immediately following the aarakocra in a hypothetical Utterly Complete Monster Manual would be...

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