In the Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

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 roleplaying game, Blibdoolpoolp is the deity worshipped by the kuo-toa

Kuo-toa

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the kuo-toa are fish-like monstrous humanoids that dwell in the Underdark, and in the sea.-Publication history:...

 race. She is also known as the "Sea Mother."

Publication history

Blibdoolpoolp was first fully described in Shrine of the Kuo-Toa (1978) by Gary Gygax

Gary Gygax

Ernest Gary Gygax was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of role-playing games....

, and subsequently appeared in the compilation volumes D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth

Descent into the Depths of the Earth

Descent Into the Depths of the Earth is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game coded D1–2. It was written by Gary Gygax, and combines two previously published modules from 1978, the original Descent into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa...

 (1981), and Queen of the Spiders

Queen of the Spiders

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 (1986). She was fully detailed in Deities and Demigods (1980).

Blibdoolpoolp was detailed in the book Monster Mythology

Monster Mythology

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 (1992), including details about her priesthood. Her role in the cosmology of the Planescape

Planescape

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 campaign setting was described in On Hallowed Ground

On Hallowed Ground

On Hallowed Ground is an accessory book for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, for the Planescape campaign setting.-Contents:This book contains information about deities' planar domains from 20 separate pantheons...

 (1996).

Blibdoolpoolp was described briefly in Defenders of the Faith

Defenders of the Faith (Dungeons & Dragons)

Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins is an optional rulebook for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and notable for its trade paperback format.-Contents:...

 (2000). Her priesthood is detailed for 3rd edition in Complete Divine

Complete Divine

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 (2004).

Description

Blibdoolpoolp usually takes the form of a 20 feet (6.1 m) nude human female, with a lobster's head and claws in place of humanoid parts. At close range, her gaze causes insanity.

Relationships

Though the demon lord

Demon lord (Dungeons & Dragons)

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 Dagon

Dagon (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dagon is a obyrith demon lord, also called Prince of the Depths. His realm is the 89th layer of the Abyss, and is known as Shadowsea...

 also has followers among the kuo-toa, Blibdoolpoolp's feelings on this are unknown.

Realm

Blibdoolpoolp's realm is called "The Murky Depths," and is located on the Elemental Plane of Water.

Worshippers

Blibdoolpoolp is worshipped chiefly by kuo-toa. It's been suggested that the froglike mother goddess worshiped by the grippli

Grippli

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the grippli is a humanoid tree frog. Grippli call themselves "the good folk" and call their enemies "the bad folk."-Publication history:...

 may be a more benign aspect of Blibdoolpoolp.

Clergy

Priests of the Sea Mother are called "whips" and wear pearl-colored vestments, shell helms, and drape themselves in nets as part of ceremonies.

Holy days, temples, and rituals

Blibdoolpoolp's holy day is the new moon, and rituals are held in underwater shrines. Gems, pearls, humans, and lobsters (her sacred animal) are sacrificed to her monthly.

Additional reading

• Baker, Richard
  Richard Baker (game designer)
  Richard Baker is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.-Early life, education, and military:...
  
  ; Joseph D. Carriker; and Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes. Stormwrack
  Stormwrack
  Stormwrack is a supplemental source-book for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Contents:The book has detailed information and descriptions on various types of both realistic and fantastical watery environments, including underwater, the open ocean, ships, coral...
  
   (Wizards of the Coast
  Wizards of the Coast
  Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...
  
  , 2005)
• Conforti, Steven, ed. Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2.0. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2005. Available online: http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip
• Dragon magazine #342 - “Spellcraft: Alien Blessings”