MISC. DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS MONSTERS

An ankheg is a Dungeons and Dragons monster resembling a cross between a praying mantis and a centipede, and measures 10 to 20 feet long. It attacks by burrowing underground and bursting out to grab its pray as it passes overhead.

Unlike the FF interpretation, a D&D ankheg is yellow or brown, and only has six legs.

The bulette (pronounced "boo-lay") is from D&D, which depicts it as a sort of four-legged shark with stone-like skin. Bulettes uproot trees, cause landslides and turn farms into wastelands.

FF's interpretation is modelled around the ankylosaur, an armoured dinosaur with some similarities to the bulette. The desert bulette is Square's creation; D&D bulettes travel from terrain to terrain looking for food, and so would be unlikely to live in deserts for any period of time.

Giant hyenas from D&D.

Khagras are D&D monsters from the elemental plane (as opposed to the material plane). A khargra is four feet tall and has a scaly, cylindrical body with claws that emearge from sheaths, a circular mouth full of metal teeth and three metal fins, the highest of which has two eyes. Khargras slide through layers of rock and feed on ore.

FF3 depicts this bizarre creature as a seahorse, probably the closest real-life approximation.

D&D monsters with pale purple skin, four-fingered hands and squid-like heads (complete with tentacles), mind flayers attack using mind control, either enslaving or stunning opponents to eat their brains. Mind flayers are amphibians, and start their lives as tadpoles living in the "elder-brain", a pool that contains the brains of the city's dead mind flayers. The elder-brain can communicate telapathically with live mind flayers.

The mind flayer's appearence seems to have been inspired by the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's creation Cthulu, another supernatural squid-head.

Otyughs (pronounced aw-tee-ugs) are D&D monsters with three legs like those of a tortoise, hard, rocky skin, three eyes on a single stalk, two thorny tentacles, a large mouth right in the middle and a coating of dung.

Neo-otyughs are larger and more intelligent than regular otyughs.

Originating in D&D, remorhazes are giant centipede-like creatures that inhabit snowy wastes. The front parts of their bodies are legless, instead having two wings that lift the monster's head up (although are too small to allow flight). FF depicts the remorhaz as a fairly plain giant centipede.

Ropers and their harder cousins storopers ("stone ropers") are from D&D. The D&D version is simpler; they're basically just blobby, one-eyed, big-mouthed creatures that disguise themselfs as rocks and launch their tentacles at pray. In addition, storopers are venomous.