Editing Malfera

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The '''Malfera''' is a stupid-looking monster elephant from the Dimension Of David Cook's Bad Acid Trips, specifically appearing as a [[beastfolk|humanoid elephant]] with horns, and [[What|tentacles sticking out of its chest]], and crab-like pincer-claws for hands. This was introduced in ''[[X4-5-10: Desert Nomads series|X5: Temple of Death]]''. [[Frank Mentzer]] realised "hey at least it's not a [[demon]]" so dumped it in the [[Companion Set]]; it is now a [[Mystara]] mainstay.

The malfera uses those crab-claws to draw its victim to those chest-a-cles. ''Low-pH'' chestacles, to the tune of 2d6/round. It's also got "[[poison]] breath" which only works when it bites with its (redundant) fangs. But you do get +3 on your save before you croak.

As an extradimensional you need MAGIC to hurt a malfera. Natural abilities include ''Knock'' so, don't bother locking your door at night. And it sees through ''[[invisibility]]''.

Its (toxic) "Dimension of Nightmares" - which became [[Demiplane of Nightmares]] - didn't really take off in D&D; none of the later CM- or M- modules bother with it. It very likely inspired some aspects of [[Far Realm]] though. We're unsure where the malfera sits between [[Fiend Factory]]'s gurgotch and the [[maelephant]], which also look silly.

It was updated for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 2nd Edition in the [[Savage Coast]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix, and was updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]] in the [[Creature Catalog]] article in [[Dragon Magazine]] #343.

[[Image: Malfera_2e.png]]

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