Dungeons & Dragons Online Monster Profile #22

Turbine’s official Dungeons & Dragons Online website has been updated with its twenty-second monster profile, this time detailing the Gargoyle. Concept art and detailed information of the creature are provided, and, for those of you who haven’t signed up for the DDO forums, you no longer have to be a member to view the profile. A snip:

Two things to be aware of as you approach the hunting grounds of a gargoyle. Send a clever rogue ahead – it’s what they are for, after all, to scout ahead and spot the hiding foes. Elves are best for this suit of duty, as you’d expect. Keen eyes and all that. Once the foe is engaged, the second factor comes to bear: a wounded gargoyle is likely to freeze into an entirely stonelike form. If you can, put the creature down fast as it becomes hurt. Save your especially damaging spells or maneuvers for this time. If it freezes into place, weapons become even more useless than before. And the creature actually regenerates much of the damage you’ve done to it! Fortunately for you, the creature can’t attack while it’s bent over in this defensive stance. So unless you have heavy firepower on your side, just handle your other foes before returning to dispatch the gargoyle.