Video: Exploring DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: The Displacer Beast
Regular readers of Dread Central know that we’re huge fans of the video essays produced by UK film critic and academic Mr. H. Over the years, he’s delivered amazing deep dives into franchises like Hellraiser and The Dark Crystal.
This week, Mr. H launched a new series, one exploring the terrors of the Dungeon & Dragons universe! The first installment features the horrifying Displacer Beast! Give it a spin below and stay tuned for additional D&D video essays as they are released!
Synopsis:
The Displacer Beast, of the Dungeon’s & Dragons’ canon, are a formidable, ferocious foe, categorized as a monstrosity, a very rare beast, indeed. They resemble something of a cross between a puma, and an insect, a curious comparison. I’m sure you will be thinking, however, if you were unlucky enough to cross ones path, a comparison you would agree with.
They are sleek, powerful and muscular, with a blue-black raven-colored fur, a long, thin feline tail, not too dissimilar to any other of Earth’s felines, albeit with six legs. However, protruding from its shoulder blades rest the insect-like comparison part: two long black tentacles, appendages you could call them.
The Displacer Beast is a truly worthy foe just taking those attributes into account. However, the tentacles are more than simply tentacles; they have a broad tip and imbedded within are brownish-yellow horn-like structures they use to combat their prey and, as a defensive mechanism.
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