Editing Roper

The '''Roper''' is an iconic [[Dungeons & Dragons]] monster. First appearing in ''D&D Supplement II: [[Blackmoor]]'', it is the most long-lasting of the plethora of [[Gotcha Monster|"killer shit in disguise"]] monsters that infested 1970s-80s dungeons.

Everyone involved in [[Basic Dungeons & Dragons|the BXCMI line]] kept it out, so it was sequestered in the [[Monster Manual]] - until 1984, when Michael L. Gray unleashed [[XL1: Quest for the Heartstone]] upon a [[Mystara]] that didn't deserve it. It makes a return to the wandering-monster tables in [[DA3: City of the Gods]] as well.

In a nutshell, a roper is a predatory [[aberration]] that resembles an outcropping of rock with one eye, a giant mouth full of teeth, and long, sticky tentacles it uses to grab victims and drag them into range of its mouth.

Allen Hammack in ''[[A1-2-3-4: Scourge of the Slavelords|A3: Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords]]'' introduced the '''storoper''' which is the same damn thing except OH NO IT'S MORE DIFFICULT. C'mon, man. Somehow Richard Garriott got away with sticking the baseline into the ''Ultima'' series also.

In Fifth edition, the juvenile form of the roper is the '''piercer'''. Which is a whole 'nother rant: a snail like creature that hangs from the ceiling of caves pretending to be a stalactite, and drops on people that walk under it to try to impale them with its body. The piercer sucked so bad even the first [[Tome of Horrors]] didn't want it.

[[Lords of Madness]] reveals that ropers can undergo the same process used to turn humans into illithids, which results in a creature called an Urophion. Urophions combine the camouflage of the roper with an illithid's psionic abilities, and are often employed by illithids as guards. 

The abundance of tentacles has made the <s>raper</s> roper the go-to "tentacle monster" for vaguely D&D-themed [[/d/]] manga and anime.

==Gallery==
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Roper Blackmoor.jpg|''D&D Supplement II: Blackmoor''
Roper 1e.jpg|1e
Roper Rogues Gallery.jpg
Roper A4.png|[[Scourge of the Slave Lords|A4: In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords]], what else.
Storoper A3.png|Storoper
Roper Monster card.jpg|AD&D Monster Card
Roper MCV2 2e.jpg|2e Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2
Roper 2e.png|2e Monstrous Manual
Roper 3e.jpg|3e
Roper 4e.jpg|4e
Roper 5e.jpg|5e
Roper B1.png|Pathfinder
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