The girallon is a four-armed gorilla-like creature.
Description[]
Appearance[]
A girallon is large, being eight feet tall, and is covered in white fur (though other hues are known to exist). More distinguishing, however, is the fact that girallons have four arms.
Personality and alignment[]
Girallons are savage creatures. They stalk in temperate forests, walking on their legs and two lower arms, and conceal themselves in piles of leaves or behind trees when victims come near. It then bursts its way out and attacks. The girallon picks up and takes away smaller opponents, often before any companions it has can do anything, while larger opponents it tears to shreds with its four, deadly, muscular arms.
Abilities and traits[]
If a girallon hits with two or more of its claws at a time it performs a rend attack, savagely tearing at the flesh of an opponent.
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Language[]
They cannot speak, being animals.
Treasure[]
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History[]
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Notable girallons[]
For a full list of girallons, see Category:Girallons.
Related creatures[]
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Publication history[]
D&D 3rd edition[]
The girallon first appeared in the Monster Manual (3.0) (2000), and returned for the Monster Manual (3.5) (2003). In both 3.0 and 3.5, they had the magical beast creature type.
D&D 4th edition[]
The girallon returned in Monster Manual 3 (4e) (2010), which described the girallon marauder, girallon alpha, and infernal girallon. In Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, they were assigned the natural beast type.
A mummified girallon appeared in Dungeon #192 (Jul 2011).
D&D 5th edition[]
The girallon was introduced for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition in Volo's Guide to Monsters (2016). In 5th edition, they were assigned to the monstrosity type.
The girallon appeared again for 5th edition in the adventure Tomb of Annihilation (2017), along with the girallon zombie, and once more in the digital release Infernal Machine Rebuild (2019).
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Creative origins[]
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Reception and influence[]
The girallon appeared in the board game version of Tomb of Annihilation, as well as the computer game Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation.