Editing Retriever

The '''Retriever''' in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] is ''not'' a cute hairy doggy who can swim. ''This'' Retriever is a big spider who will eat you.

They first showed up in [[Fiend Folio]] as a construct of [[Demogorgon]] himself; they are his invisible-stalkers, except very very visible. They are twelve-foot arachnoids, whose four forelimbs end in cleavers, each inflicting 3d6 damage. They have six eyes, four of which fire sixty-foot LASER BEAMS, [[beholder]]-style: fire, cold, lightning, transmutation. [[Demon]]s ride these things into battle sometimes, on "howdah".

The transmutation ray is fun: d4 says, mud, stone, gold, or lead. If gold or lead, the victim's friends will need that ''philosopher's stone'' from the eponymous JK Rowling book to turn him back again.

It seems this critter's designer wasn't in contact with [[E. Gary Gygax]] because, you'd think the Retriever would be ideal for [[Lolth]]'s [[Demonweb Pits]] but it is not.

In 2e, ''[[Planescape]]'' brought them into Appendix II as constructed by ''any'' of the tanar'ri lords. 3e elevated them to the full [[Monster Manual]] in the "Demon" section although, still, as constructs. Thus canonised as Open Content, [[Monte Cook]] put one in The Maze over in ''[[Beyond Countless Doorways]]''.

In 5th edition they are retconned as creations of the [[Drow]] instead of demons.

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Retriever 1e.png|1e
Retriever FF 2e.jpg|2e
Retriever DttU.jpg|Planescape
Retriever 3e.jpg|3e
Retriever 4e.png|4e
Retriever 5e.png|5e
Retriever B1.png|Pathfinder
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