The Raging Roper is a Dungeons & Dragons monster.
About[]
The Raging Roper, or Roper in most instances, got a Bendable Monster figure in the LJN toyline and then appeared in the Quest for the Heartstone module. Decades later several Ropers were used in an issue of the IDW Saturday Morning Adventures comics series.
LJN Bio[]
The Roper lives in underground caves and dungeons, where it is greatly feared. The roper stands upright to look like a pillar, or flattens into a hump to trap unsuspecting adventures, who go into the dungeon and search of treasure.
Description[]
The roper resembles a stony conical structure, often mistaken for a stalagmite. When creatures come near, it opens its single eye and sharp-toothed maw, and extrudes numerous ropy tentacles that lash out to capture prey.
The ropers described here are ones which dwell in caves and other such underground environments. Some varieties also dwell above ground, while another, known as the coral roper, dwells in the ocean. Another variation, the storoper, appeared in the original publication of Monster Manual II. The creature represented a statue of a roper, smaller in size than the original creature.
Ropers have evil alignment.
Types[]
- Roper (aka Raging Roper)
- Storoper
- Flame Roper
- Urophion
- Prismatic Roper
- Piercer
Appearances[]
Merchandise[]
- LJN Action Figure (1983)
- WizKids - D&D Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures - Roper (2020)
- WizKids - Icons of the Realms - Rage of Demons - #28 Roper
- Kidrobot - 3 inch Vinyl Mini - Monster Series 1 D&D 1E - figure (2022)
- WizKids - D&D Icons of the Realms: Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk - #44 Roper
- WizKids - D&D Classic Collection: Monsters O-R - miniature (2024)
Books/Comics[]
Trading Cards/Card Games[]
- Magic the Gathering - Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (2021)
- Magic the Gathering - Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (2022)
Adventures/Maunals/Modules[]
- The Strategic Review #2 (May 1975)
- Monster Manual (1977)
- Aerie of the Slave Lords (1981) (Storoper)
- Monster Manual II (1983) (Storoper)
- Quest for the Heartstone (1984)
- Creature Catalogue (1986)
- City of the Gods (1987)
- Duchy of Ten (1987)
- Tales of the Outer Planes (1988) (Flame Roper)
- Creature Catalog (1993)
2nd Edition[]
- Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989)
- "The Ecology of the Roper" in Dragon #232 (August 1996)
- The Illithiad (1998) (Illithid-Roper crossbreed, the Urophion)
3rd Edition[]
- Monster Manual II (2002)
3.5 Edition[]
- Monster Manual (2003)
- Monster Manual III (2004) (Prismatic Roper)
- Lords of Madness (2005) (Urophion)
4th Edition[]
- Monster Manual (2008)
5th Edition[]
- Monster Manual (2014)
- Roper
- Piercer has been retconned into a juvenile form of a Roper.
- Hoard of the Dragon Queen (2014)
- Out of the Abyss (2015)
Gallery[]
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Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
art by Justine Jones (2021)
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
art by Andrew Mar (2021)
Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate
art by Andrew Mar (2021)