{"id":404,"date":"2025-01-20T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2025-01-20T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:47:44","slug":"inspiration-from-the-tale-of-the-manticore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration from the Tale of the Manticore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve been delving into the Tale of the Manticore<\/a> Podcast to get a little fix of D&D OSR. Apart from feeling our way into a DM-only narrative and listening to those old dice rolls again – ah childhood nostalgia – we’ve had a little think about the manticore. In D&D the manticore has become a bit of an odd chimera with wings and a club tail. “A\u00a0manticore\u00a0was a large, magical beast with the body of a lion, dragon-like wings, and a somewhat humanoid head. Its long tail had a cluster of deadly spikes.” (Forgotten Realms Wiki). Yet, with a look back to the original description there were no wings and the tail is a scorpion with quills that fly out, at least to the mind of ancient Greeks who were describing possibly some form of Persian or Indian tiger. Then we had a re-peek at the Open00 bestiary and lo and behold the beast was absent. So in homage to Tales of the Manticore, here is an epic beast<\/a> to add to your Open00 game. Pop over to the shop and pay what you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been delving into the Tale of the Manticore Podcast to get a little fix of D&D OSR. Apart from feeling our way into a DM-only narrative and listening to those old dice rolls again – ah childhood nostalgia – we’ve had a little think about the manticore. In D&D the manticore has become a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12,28,27],"tags":[15,38,29,16,13,25,14,26],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grievous-grimoire","category-against-the-darkmaster","category-imaginary-turtle-products","category-rpg-content","tag-against-the-darkmaster","tag-bestiary","tag-grievous-grimoire","tag-open00","tag-rpg","tag-rpg-content","tag-ttrpg","tag-vsdm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/A-manticore-with-a-tiger-head-and-body-a-tail-more-tiger-like-than-scorpion-without-scorpion-legs-and-piercing-blue-eyes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginary-turtles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}