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FREQUENCY: Uncommon

FREQUENCY: Common ([Dungeon Level IV])

FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Cold Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Forest], [Cold Wilderness Swamp])
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Cold Freshwater Surface])

FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Wilderness Mountains], [Temperate Wilderness Forest], [Temperate Wilderness Swamp])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Freshwater Surface])

FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Wilderness Mountains], [Tropical Wilderness Forest], [Tropical Wilderness Swamp] )
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Freshwater Surface])

NO. APPEARING: 2-16 <(20% to be found with margoyles, either as masters or leaders : V)>
ARMOR CLASS: 5
MOVE: 9"/15"
HIT DICE: 4 + 4
% IN LAIR: 20% (8 Gargoyles: urban(city or town), TPL30:5th, REF3.78) (14 Gargoyles: mountains, TPL60:9th, REF4.56)
TREASURE TYPE: Individuals [M] (x 10), [C] in lair
NO. OF ATTACKS: 4 ~ 15 <if flying : 1 horn attack OR 2 claw attacks>
DAMAGEIATTACK: 1-3 (claw) / 1-3 (claw) / 1-6 (bite) / 1-4 (horn) <is that right? if so, mirror at kopoacinth, below>
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Nil
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Only hit by magic weapons
INTELLIGENCE: Low
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
SIZE: M
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: IV | 165 + 5

SAVES: 11.12.13.13.14

These monsters are ferocious predators of a magical nature.
They are typically found amidst ruins || dwelling in underground caverns.
They will attack anything they detect, regardless of whether it is good or evil, 90% of the time.
They love best to torture prey to death when it is helpless.
Because they are fairly intelligent && evil they will sometimes serve an evil master of some sort.

Aerial Combat: 15", class C.
Gargoyles will attempt to spear with their horn or slash with their claws (never both).

<sort out the whole 'wings' issue: cf. Polyhedron>

<"a strange croaking language" - Q1.I.>

Kopoacinth (Water Gargoyle) (Marine Gargoyle):

FREQUENCY: Uncommon
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Freshwater Surface])
FREQUENCY: Uncommon ([Tropical Freshwater Depths])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Saltwater Surface])
FREQUENCY: Uncommon ([Tropical Saltwater Depths])

NO. APPEARING: 2-16
ARMOR CLASS: 5
MOVE: 9"//15"
HIT DICE: 4 + 4
% IN LAIR: 20% (undersea sea caves)
TREASURE TYPE: Individuals M (x 10), C in lair
NO. OF ATTACKS: 4 ~ 15
DAMAGEIATTACK: 1-3/1-3/1-6/1-4
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Nil
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Only hit by magic weapons
INTELLIGENCE: Low
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
SIZE: M
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: IV | 165 + 5
  by Steve Marsh

This creature is a marine variety of gargoyle which uses its wings to swim.
They conform in all respects to a normal gargoyle.
They dwell in relatively shallow waters, lairing in undersea sea caves.

Underwater Combat: 15".
Gargoyles will attempt to spear with their horn or slash with their claws (never both).
<does that apply to underwater combat?>

<stat block is repeated>
<revise wording>
<the coloring is a prototype: there should be some distinction>

<the above images. kapoacinth (notice the spelling)? margola?>
<the lack of wings is explained later>
<images might have to be redone: original concept was to use T1-4 for the gargoyle. however, they have wings. confused yet?>
<here, the moral should be not to confuse a D&D creature with it's realworld namesake, and vice versa. often, two (completely) different creatures that share the same name>

<fn1: try for a better quality .jpg --> that one does not do Keith's art justice!>

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gray Mouser
I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on the 1ed gargoyle. Specifically, the MM mentions that gargoyles are monsters "of a magical nature," which I take to refer to both the need for a magical weapon to strike them as well as their nature per se, namely that they way they came in to existence involved some sort of magic. Is this correct?

Yes on both counts.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gray Mouser
Also, I have long wondered whether or not you meant them to be magically animated gargoyles such as those found in church architecture or simply gave them their name because of a certain physical similarity they shared with those stone-carved grotesques.

Gray Mouser

Actually I envisioned gargoyles as a species of monsters hailing from another material plane.
That is the place from whence they were summoned, and some escaped to dwell on the PMP, inspired the sculptured stone likenesses of them.
Their plane is one to which various other grotesques are native. These include winged humanoids and non-flying species of gargoyle.

Never guess that there was a corner restaurant named The Gargoyle, Royal Steak House, Paul Junker, about two blocks from where I grew up here in Lake Geneva. Not only was its slantwise sign on fieldstone pollers above the pool in which the gargoyle fountain spat its watery stream, but in the gardens to the rear there was a goldfish pond with an arched bridge spanning it and three miniature castles of great complexity constructed with stone blocks of around 00 scale. The rathskeller was just great, and the early GenCon banquets were held downstairs in it.

Cheers,
Gary