In the Dungeons & Dragons

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...

fantasy

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 meenlock is a type of fictional monster for player character

Player character

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s to encounter.

Publication history

The meenlock first appeared in the original first edition Fiend Folio

Fiend Folio

Fiend Folio is the title shared by three products published for successive editions of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons...

(1981).

The meenlock appeared for the Greyhawk

Greyhawk

Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...

 setting in second edition in the adventures Greyhawk Ruins

Greyhawk Ruins

Greyhawk Ruins is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It was published in 1990 by TSR, Inc...

(1990), and Flames of the Falcon (1990), and was repinted in Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Two (1995).

The meenlock appeared in the third edition Monster Manual II (2002).

The meenlock appeared in fourth edition in the Monster Manual 3 (2010).