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[[Image:Gargoyle.jpg|thumb|300px|Gargoyles as depicted in the Dungeons and Dragons ''Stormreach'' MMORPG]] | |||
In the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] fantasy role-playing game, the '''gargoyle''' is a grotesque winged [[Monstrous humanoid (Dungeons & Dragons)|monstrous humanoid]] creature, with a horned head and a stony hide. | In the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] fantasy role-playing game, the '''gargoyle''' is a grotesque winged [[Monstrous humanoid (Dungeons & Dragons)|monstrous humanoid]] creature, with a horned head and a stony hide. | ||
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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the gargoyle is a grotesque winged monstrous humanoid creature, with a horned head and a stony hide.
A gargoyle is usually chaotic evil. A gargoyle has the ability to hold itself so still that it appears to be a statue.
Variants
The marine gargoyle is known as the kapoacinth.
The margoyle, or marlgoyle, is a more horrid form of gargoyle.
References
- Baichtal, John. The Dragon's Bestiary: Four Guardian Gargoyles Dragon #223 (TSR, 1995).
- Cook, David, et al. Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (TSR, 1989).
- Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual (TSR, 1977).
- Stewart, Doug, ed. Monstrous Manual (TSR, 1994).
- Williams, Skip, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook. Monster Manual (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).