"Ooop!" cried the magician, swatting the crustacean across the eye-stalks with his staff. The claw scattered like an oversized nut cracker, swooped at Zereth who dropped flat on the sand, and backed Murray against the wall. The great beast crashed over the startled little adventurer and up the beach, where the two mercenaries and the dwarf swung futilely as it went by. Boinger staggered backward as as great claw passed over his head. The sand spilled away as a broad, blue carapace rose up on six armored legs. "The beach heaved and crumbled under Boinger's feet. It strikes with its giant claws one at a time as fast as a man" (pg 43)Įxcerpt from "Dark Water", Chapter 2 of Maze of Peril (1986): It runs 60 feet in 1 turn, in armor class 3 (plate mail), and takes 2 hit dice (8 hit points). It will attack anything that moves on either beach. There is a giant crab concealed under the sand on the south beach. The river is only 3-4 feet deep at the center of the channel and can be forded. There are east and west entrances on both sides of the river to the sandy beach. There is phosphorescent fungus growing on the rocks, so anyone can see without lights.
" L - Another cave with the river running through it.
Room L in the Sample Dungeon in the Basic Set rulebook (1977): Now compare this with two other giant crabs appearing in the writings of J.
Ray Harryhausen's special effects for the 1961 movie adaptation of Jules Verne's novel Mysterious Island include a spectacular battle with a stop-motion giant crab, which can be