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Medusa

A medusa

Medusas are humanoids with serpents for hair, and scaly, reptilian skin. They are known to be able to petrify creatures with a glance, and frequently beguile their enemies into doing looking at them so that they can do turn them to stone.

Description[]

Medusas appear as humans for the most part, but their hair is a nest of writhing snakes.

Publication history[]

Medusas first appeared as "medusae" in the White Box set for OD&D.



Type Humanoid
Subtype Monstrous
Alignment Lawful Evil
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