Kappa (Dungeons & Dragons)
| Kappa | |
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| First appearance | Oriental Adventures (1985) |
| Based on | Kappa |
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, most commonly in the Kara-Tur sub-setting of the Forgotten Realms, the kappa is an evil creature based upon the kappa of Japanese mythology.[citation needed]
Publication history[edit]
The common kappa and the vampiric kappa first appeared in the first edition in the original Oriental Adventures (1985). The creature was further developed in Dragon #151 (November 1989).[1]
The common kappa, the vampiric kappa, and the kappa-ti appeared in second edition for the Kara-Tur setting in the Monstrous Compendium Kara-Tur Appendix (1990).
The kappa appeared in the third edition Oriental Adventures (2001).[2]
Description[edit]
A kappa resembles an almost furless, green-skinned, beaked, fiendish monkey, with a cragged depression in its head containing water which acts as its cerebrospinal fluid. The kappa was introduced to D&D in Oriental Adventures. The kappa appeared again in the Kara-Tur Monstrous Compendium Appendix (MC6); appearing are the common kappa, kappa-ti and vampiric kappa.
References[edit]
- ↑ Knowles, David R. "The Ecology of the Kappa." Dragon #151 (TSR, 1989)
- ↑ Wyatt, James. Oriental Adventures (Wizards of the Coast, 2001)
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