Editing Mite

[[File:Mite MC5.jpg|thumb|This might be The Mite, mate.]]
'''The Mite''' is a smaller and more annoying [[goblin]]-like monster. Such are good for harassing your party in narrow corridors, since they fit where a human party (probably) won't. If the edition has [[gremlin]]s, mites vie with [[jermlaine]] as showcase examples.

==History==
Good ol' [[Ian Livingstone]] introduced The Mite in January 1978 in [[White Dwarf]] #6's first [[Fiend Factory]] - unbeknownst to [[Gary Gygax]], who at the same time was crafting the jermlaine to plague his players in [[Drow trilogy|GenCon XI]] and possibly also [[S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth|Gnome Vale]]. [[Fiend Folio]] joined the two in a throuple with the snyad. The Monstrous Manual in 1993 listed them all as fellow [[gremlin]]s, although the mites (like jermlaine, and implicitly snyads) are explicitly wingless.

The whole [[gremlin]] genus lost favour in 3e, so they didn't get an official writeup. Enter [[Frog God Games|Necromancer Games]] who brought 'em back for the first [[Tome of Horrors]] although as goblinoids, not gremlins.

==Ecology==
Per second-edition, the Mite is warty and purplish. Their ears are batlike and their noses are [[/pol/|hooked]]; hairless, except sometimes a goatee. They speak a gremlin dialect incomprehensible outside that general genus.

They like to kidnap bigger folk with traps, torment them a few days, and then dump them naked back in the caverns. They work well with their snyad cousins, who aren't as good with traps, but (since a little taller) better at cutting adventurers' backpacks.

They usually have a king, who gets to keep the shiniest gems his subjects steal. They also enjoy iron rations probably because that's what adventurers bring with them, and - as gremlins - they really ''really'' love to annoy adventurers.

==Gallery==
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Mite WD 6.png|FF#6
Mite 1e.png|1e
Mite MC5.jpg|2e
Mite 5e.jpg|5e
Mite B1.png|Pathfinder
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[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons Races]]
[[Category:Monsters]]