Grell

Template:Infobox Greyhawk creature The grell is an Aberration.

Ecology

Environment

Grell are usually found underground.

Typical physical charactaristics

The grell is levitating creature with a body like a giant olive-colored exposed brain the size of a human and with a frontal beak, below which trails ten long pale olive-green tentacles. The tentacles carry small spines that inject paralyzing venom into a victim.

Publishing history

The grell was introduced in the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in White Dwarf #12 (April/May 1979), in the "Fiend Factory" column, originally submitted by Ian Livingstone. The grell then appeared in the first edition Fiend Folio (1981). The grell's first 2nd edition appearance was in the Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix (1990), which was reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993). The grell made its 3rd edition debut in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001), and was later featured in the Monster Manual II (2002). The grell received its own chapter in Lords of Madness (2005). The grell's first 4th edition appearance was in the Monster Manual (2008).

Bibliography

• Baker, Rich, James Jacobs, and Steve Winter. Lords of Madness. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2005.

• Bonny, Ed, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, Skip Williams, and Steve Winter. Monster Manual II. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2002.

• Breault, Mike, ed. Greyhawk Monstrous Compendium Appendix. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1990.

• Cook, Monte. Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.

• Livingstone, Ian, and Don Turnbull. "Fiend Factory: Grell". White Dwarf #12. London: Games Workshop, 1979.

• Mearls, Mike, Stephen Schubert, and James Wyatt. Monster Manual. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2008.

• Stewart, Doug, ed. Monstrous Manual. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1993.

• Turnbull, Don, ed. Fiend Folio. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1981.