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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

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 roleplaying game, the vegepygmy is a plant creature.

Publication history

The vegepygmy was created 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 first appeared in first edition in 1980's adventure module Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is a 1980 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game written by Gary Gygax. While Dungeons & Dragons is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science fiction, and thus belongs to the science fantasy genre...

, and reprinted in the original Monster Manual II (1983).

The vegepygmy appeared in second edition in the Monstrous Manual (1993).

Ecology

A vegepygmy is created when a humanoid

Humanoid (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, humanoid is a type of creature, or "creature type". Humanoids are any creature shaped generally like a human , of Small or Medium size, with few or no supernatural or extraordinary abilities...

 is slain by russet mold, the victim's body transforming into a new creature.

Typical physical characteristics

Although made of plant material, the vegepygmy, or "mold man," is humanoid in shape (though only three feet tall) and somewhat intelligent.

Society

Vegepygmies keep pets called "thornies", which are shaped like dogs but are really plant creatures as well.

Additional reading

• Brown, Lloyd III. "Primitive PCs." 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...
  
  #265 (TSR, 1999).