Editing Flail Snail (section)

==Publishing History==
Flail Snails, like most of the "goofball" monsters in D&D, debuted in the [[Fiend Folio]] for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1e. They were updated to 2e in the [[Greyhawk]] Adventures Monstrous Compendium Appendix, under the header "Snail", which covered the Sea Snail as well. The ''Ecology of the Flail Snail'' was printed in [[Dragon Magazine]] #258.

In [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], only the 3rd-party [[Tome of Horrors]] [[splatbook]] by [[White Wolf]], under their [[Sword & Sorcery]] subsidiary, covered the Flail Snail. They weren't any better off in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], as their only appearance was in the online April Fools-themed adventure "Fool's Grove", where the party stumbles upon a secret hiding place for an eccentric gnome dedicated to protecting many of the goofier monsters of AD&D, including the flail snail, [[flumph]], [[carbuncle]] and [[umpleby]].

Like many of the game's other silly monsters, the flail snail came back in [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], in the book ''Volo's Guide to Monsters''.  It also features prominately in the [[Tomb of Annihilation]] campaign as the chosen form of one of the trickster gods.