Choker (Dungeons & Dragons)
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In the Dungeons & Dragons
fantasy
roleplaying game, the choker is an aberration
. It can be used by Dungeon Master
s as an enemy or ally of the player characters.
(1988), and later in the Creature Catalog (1993).
campaign setting
in the Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994).
The choker was detailed in Dragon
#323 (September 2004), in the "Ecology of Chokers".
The obah-blessed advanced choker appeared in Dungeon
#136 (July 2006).
-like bone structure and a serrated spine. These ophidian limbs, instead of ending in hands or feet, break off into five short tentacles, each of which is toothed and padded. They are usually chaotic evil in alignment.
, chokers are solitary, elusive, vicious creatures shrouded in mystery. A choker's only desire in life seems to be to kill those it encounters and run off. Using its padded tentacles it can climb and crawl on almost any surface, and it catches prey by lurking above doorways, archways, staircases, or ceiling corners, or below the rims of wells, and ambushing those who pass within reach. It attacks by reaching or leaping from its hiding space and grappling in order to, as its name suggests, choke the victim. Chokers speak Undercommon.
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
roleplaying game, the choker is an aberration
Aberration (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, aberration is a type of creature, or "creature type". Aberrations generally all have bizarre anatomies, strange abilities, alien mindsets, or any combination thereof....
. It can be used by Dungeon Master
Dungeon Master
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Dungeon Master is the game organizer and participant in charge of creating the details and challenges of a given adventure, while maintaining a realistic continuity of events...
s as an enemy or ally of the player characters.
Publication history
The choker was introduced to the D&D game in the basic edition of Dungeons & Dragons.Dungeons & Dragons (1977-1999)
The choker first appeared in the accessory The Dwarves of RockhomeThe Dwarves of Rockhome
The Dwarves of Rockhome is an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Contents:This book describes the dwarven realm of Rockhome, and features new rules for dwarven characters, including dwarven clerics, plus information on the history, society, technology, politics, and...
(1988), and later in the Creature Catalog (1993).
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (1989-1999)
The choker appeared for the MystaraMystara
Mystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. Although it has officially been dropped from production by its creators, many fans continue to develop and evolve this fantasy setting jointly, continuing its original theme of group development.-Development:It...
campaign setting
Campaign setting
A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A campaign is a series of individual adventures, and a campaign setting is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place...
in the Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994).
Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 edition (2000-2002)
The choker appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2000).Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition (2003-2007)
The choker appears in the revised Monster Manual for this edition (2003).The choker was detailed in Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#323 (September 2004), in the "Ecology of Chokers".
The obah-blessed advanced choker appeared in Dungeon
Dungeon (magazine)
Dungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication altogether in September 2007 with Issue 150...
#136 (July 2006).
Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition (2008-)
The choker appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2008), including the cavern choker and the feygrove choker.Description
In the game, chokers usually lair underground. They resemble small (roughly 3 and a half or so feet tall) greyish-black humanoids. Their four limbs are tubular and very flexible, having a snakeSnake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
-like bone structure and a serrated spine. These ophidian limbs, instead of ending in hands or feet, break off into five short tentacles, each of which is toothed and padded. They are usually chaotic evil in alignment.
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In Dungeons & DragonsDungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
, chokers are solitary, elusive, vicious creatures shrouded in mystery. A choker's only desire in life seems to be to kill those it encounters and run off. Using its padded tentacles it can climb and crawl on almost any surface, and it catches prey by lurking above doorways, archways, staircases, or ceiling corners, or below the rims of wells, and ambushing those who pass within reach. It attacks by reaching or leaping from its hiding space and grappling in order to, as its name suggests, choke the victim. Chokers speak Undercommon.