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词条 Kappa (Dungeons & Dragons)
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  1. Publication history

  2. Description

  3. References

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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, most commonly in the Kara-Tur sub-setting of the Forgotten Realms, the kappa is an evil creature based upon the kappa of Japanese mythology.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}}

Publication history

The common kappa and the vampiric kappa first appeared in the first edition in the original Oriental Adventures (1985). The creature was further developed in Dragon #151 (November 1989).[1]

The common kappa, the vampiric kappa, and the kappa-ti appeared in second edition for the Kara-Tur setting in the Monstrous Compendium Kara-Tur Appendix (1990).

The kappa appeared in the third edition Oriental Adventures (2001).[2]

Description

A kappa resembles an almost furless, green-skinned, beaked, fiendish monkey, with a cragged depression in its head containing water which acts as its cerebrospinal fluid. The kappa was introduced to D&D in Oriental Adventures. The kappa appeared again in the Kara-Tur Monstrous Compendium Appendix (MC6); appearing are the common kappa, kappa-ti and vampiric kappa.

References

1. ^Knowles, David R. "The Ecology of the Kappa." Dragon #151 (TSR, 1989)
2. ^Wyatt, James. Oriental Adventures (Wizards of the Coast, 2001)
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