The pernicon is a type of fictional insectoid monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
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Publication history
The pernicon first appeared in the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons first edition Fiend Folio, published in 1981. It was further detailed in Dragon magazine #108 (April 1986) in "The Ecology of the Pernicon".
The pernicon appeared in second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio Appendix (1992) and appears under the "insect" heading in the Monstrous Manual (1993).
Description
A pernicon is a brightly colored insect that resembles a grasshopper, with coloring an odd mixture of red, yellow, ocher, and blue. These desert dwellers form swarms to attack and drain water and bodily fluids from prey.
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Pernicon Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA