"D&D Monsters: Mummies" Topic

"The concept of the mummy as an undead monster is really a 20th-century invention, beginning with the 1932 horror movie The Mummy. While mummies and immortal Ancient Egyptians had featured in earlier fiction, they were not really in the form we're familiar with now, or that formed the basis for the D&D monster, and still don't date back any further than the mid-19th century. Since their 1932 debut, however, they have appeared in a number of older-style horror films, and become something of a cliche, if not quite as popular as werewolves and vampires.

In D&D, they are mid-powered undead, falling into what I've termed the "wilful corporeal" category, given that they retain sentience and intelligence alongside their physical body. Under that scheme, they would fall somewhere between a wight and vampire in terms of power, but they are quite different from both. The look of a mummy does not, of course, change notably between editions; they are bandage-wrapped mummified corpses, sometimes dressed in funereal finery, but more usually not. Like most D&D undead (except vampires) depictions of females are rare, although not quite to the extent that is true of, say, ghouls or wights…"

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Armand

Interesting read. Thank you, Armand. Cheers!

A votre service mon ami…

Armand

Nice! I do love mummies, esp. those old school D&D mummies, which were quite fearsome in the original books. They may not be so these days.

The other excellent thing about mummies is that like skeletons, they are dead easy to paint quickly, and still look cool!!

That's a wrap.

Glad you enjoyed it too…

Armand