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rust monster
A rust monster is a fictional creature from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game that seeks out and consumes metal, often the armor and weaponry of players' characters. Originally inspired by a cheap plastic toy, the rust monster was one of the first monsters specifically created for D&D, and has been included in every edition of D&D, although various aspects of the creature have changed from edition to edition. Although in most editions, the rust monster has been a non-lethal creature with little or no way of physically harming players' characters, it is the rust monster's ability to destroy a character's cherished and expensive weapons and armor in mere seconds that makes it a particularly fearsome opponent.
==Creation==
In the early 1970s, Gary Gygax was playing ''Chainmail'', a wargame that bore some precursors of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. In order to give his players as many different challenges as possible, Gygax was always on the look-out for new monsters. Although he was able to draw on pulp fiction and sword and sorcery stories for many of them, he also looked through dime stores for figurines that could be used in battle. On one of those occasions, he came across a bag of small plastic toys euphemistically labeled "dinosaurs". Several of these were odd enough to catch his eye, and he used them to represent several new monsters, including the bulette and the owl bear.〔Gygax: "There was a set of plastic toys laughlingly labelled as dinosaurs (I remember right ). I frequented the local dime stores back in the late 60s and early 70s searching for toys that would suit tabletop fantasy gaming. The said bag contained three we incorporated--the bulette, the owl bear, and the rust monster."〕 One of the figurines looked like an absurd lobster with a propeller at the end of its tail, and Gygax could think of no fearsome powers for such a monster. After some thought, he came up with the amusing idea that this non-lethal creature would not attack characters in order to eat them, but rather to eat their hard-earned possessions.
:When I picked up a bag of plastic monsters made in Hong Kong at the local dime store to add to the sand table array ... there was the figurine that looked rather like a lobster with a propeller on its tail ... nothing very fearsome came to mind ... Then inspiration struck me. It was a "rust monster."'' —Gary Gygax〔Greenwood, Ed. "Ecology of the Rust Monster". Dragon'' #88 (TSR, 1984). Later re-printed in the "Ecology of the Rust Monster" article in issue #346.〕
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