Canon:Hook horror
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Neutral |
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Monster Manual II (3rd edition) |
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White Dwarf #12 |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, a hook horror is a bipedal, subterranean monster that looks like a vulture-like humanoid with bony hooks in place of hands.
Publication history[edit]
The hook horror was introduced to the D&D game in the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition (1977-1988)[edit]
The hook horror was first published in White Dwarf #12 (April/May 1979), in the "Fiend Factory" column, originally submitted by Ian Livingstone,[1] which was later reprinted in Best of White Dwarf Articles (1980). The hook horror then appears in 1981 in the first edition Fiend Folio (1981).[2]
The hook horror was detailed in Dragon #131 (March 1988), in the "Ecology of the Hook Horror".[3]
Dungeons & Dragons (1977-1999)[edit]
This edition of the D&D game included its own version of the hook horror, which first appeared in the module Quest for the Heartstone (1984), and then appeared as a type of hook beast, in Creature Catalogue (1986),[4] and the Creature Catalog (1993).[5]
The hook horror appeared in the Blackmoor campaign setting in the module City of the Gods (1987).
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (1989-1999)[edit]
The hook horror appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix (1990),[6] and is reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).[7]
The hook horror also appears in the Greyhawk setting in the module Flames of the Falcon (1993).
Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition (2000-2007)[edit]
The hook horror appears in the Monster Manual II for this edition (2002).[8] According to Skip Williams, "The hook horror is an old favorite that missed the cut for the first Monster Manual, and it appears here fully equipped for the new game."[9]
Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition (2008-)[edit]
The hook horror appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2008).[10]
Description[edit]
The hook horror is described as an aberration that stands about nine feet (274 cm) tall and weighs almost 350 pounds (160 kg). It has a mottled grey exoskeleton, which is extremely thick and dense, and as difficult to breach as metal armor. Instead of hands/paws/claws, its front limbs end in 12-inch-long (30 cm) razor-sharp, blade-like hooks. These hooks are, of course, the hook horror's primary method of combat. Its legs are similar to those of a bird, and its head is shaped like that of a vulture, including the hooked beak. Its eyes, however, are multifaceted like that of an insect.
Hook horrors have their own language, communicating in a series of clicks and clacks. In a cave, this eerie sound can echo a long way and can be used to estimate cavern sizes and distances, much like the sonar of a bat.
Multimedia[edit]
The hook horror is one the D&D creatures featured in the Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon episode The City at the Edge of Midnight.[11] It later appeared in a coloring book based on the TV series.[12] The Dungeons & Dragons action figure line produced a hook horror figure in 1985.
References[edit]
- ↑ Livingstone, Ian; Don Turnbull (April/May 1979). "Fiend Factory: Hook Horror". White Dwarf (Games Workshop) (12): 10–12.
- ↑ Don Turnbull (1981). Fiend Folio. (1e) TSR. ISBN 0-935696-21-0.
- ↑ Persinger, Michael. "The Ecology of the Hook Horror." Dragon #131 (TSR, 1988)
- ↑ Morris, Graeme, Phil Gallagher and Jim Bambra. Creature Catalogue (TSR, 1986)
- ↑ Nephew, John. Creature Catalog (TSR, 1993)
- ↑ Breault, Mike, ed, et al. Greyhawk Monstrous Compendium Appendix (TSR, 1990)
- ↑ (1993). Monstrous Manual. (2e) TSR.
- ↑ (). [[Publication:|]]. [[]].
- ↑ Ryan, Michael (August 9, 2002). "Product Spotlight: Monster Manual II". Wizards of the Coast. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ps/20020809a. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
- ↑ Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (2008). Monster Manual. (4e) Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ "City at the Edge of Midnight". IMDB.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808602/.
- ↑ (1985). Dungeons & Dragons Sticker Book. (Macdonald Purnell Books), p. 19.
Additional reading[edit]
- Salvatore, RA. Homeland (TSR, 1990).
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