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The flail snail is an enormous gastropod with six tentacles on its head, each tipped with a mace-like club. |
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CJ Miozzi included the flail snail on [[The Escapist (magazine)|The Escapist]]'s list of "The Dumbest Dungeons & Dragons Monsters Ever (And How To Use Them)".<ref>http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/tabletop/11356-The-Dumbest-Dungeons-Dragons-Monsters-Ever-And-How-To-Use-Them.4</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:13, 13 September 2016
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the flail snail is a type of monster.
Publication history
The flail snail first appeared in the original first edition Fiend Folio (1981).[1]
The flail snail appeared in second edition for the Greyhawk setting in the Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix (1990),[2] The flail snail was further detailed in Dragon #258 (April 1999) in "The Ecologies of the Flail Snail: The Price of Flailure".
Description
The flail snail is an enormous gastropod with six tentacles on its head, each tipped with a mace-like club.
Reception
CJ Miozzi included the flail snail on The Escapist's list of "The Dumbest Dungeons & Dragons Monsters Ever (And How To Use Them)".[3]
Other publishers
The flail snail appeared in the Tome of Horrors (2002) from Necromancer Games.[4]
The flail snail is fully detailed in Paizo Publishing's book Misfit Monsters Redeemed (2010), on pages 28-33.[5]
References
- ^ Turnbull, Don, ed. Fiend Folio (TSR, 1981)
- ^ Breault, Mike, ed, et al. Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix (TSR, 1990)
- ^ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/tabletop/11356-The-Dumbest-Dungeons-Dragons-Monsters-Ever-And-How-To-Use-Them.4
- ^ Green, Scott; Peterson, Clark (2002). Tome of Horrors. Necromancer Games. p. 138. ISBN 1-58846-112-2.
- ^ McComb, Colin, Rob McCreary, and James L. Sutter. Misfit Monsters Redeemed (Paizo, 2010)