Medusa
I assume that most of you are familiar with Medusa's mythical origin (it wasn't QUITE the same as in Clash of the Titans), so I'll just focus on the D&D aspect instead.
In Dungeons & Dragons, there is a whole race of medusae. Depending on the edition, they could look just like pretty women (with snakes for hair), or scaly monsters, like this gal here. Also depending on the edition, there might be males or not. In 2nd edition, maedar (male medusae) could turn stone to flesh by punching it, and thus feed a family. In 4th edition, they had a hypnotic venom gaze attack, and thus were poison-based rather than stony. In Eberron, plenty of medusae are valuable members of society, and rather careful with those (voluntary, at-will) gaze attacks.
In this one RPG, I played a D&D-style medusa. The main issue with her was that she had kind of grown up alone in a dungeon, so people had to civilize her. She acted like a puppy. Man, it was FUN.
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Medusa
I assume that most of you are familiar with Medusa's mythical origin (it wasn't QUITE the same as in Clash of the Titans), so I'll just focus on the D&D aspect instead.
In Dungeons & Dragons, there is a whole race of medusae. Depending on the edition, they could look just like pretty women (with snakes for hair), or scaly monsters, like this gal here. Also depending on the edition, there might be males or not. In 2nd edition, maedar (male medusae) could turn stone to flesh by punching it, and thus feed a family. In 4th edition, they had a hypnotic venom gaze attack, and thus were poison-based rather than stony. In Eberron, plenty of medusae are valuable members of society, and rather careful with those (voluntary, at-will) gaze attacks.
In this one RPG, I played a D&D-style medusa. The main issue with her was that she had kind of grown up alone in a dungeon, so people had to civilize her. She acted like a puppy. Man, it was FUN.
Featured on Life In Plastic: nerditis.com/2013/03/13/life-in-plastic-obscure-toy-lines...