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This early boxed set by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson was printed in 1974, and is often known as the "white box." It contained two booklets, one of which—"Monsters & Treasure"—contained some of the first descriptions of the game's most iconic monsters. This booklet contained an index on pages 3-4 featuring stats only for how many creatures of each type appeared per encounter, armor class, how many inches the creature could move on its turn, hit dice, % in lair, and treasure. Pages 5-20 followed with descriptions of each of the monsters, typically consisting of one or more paragraphs. Most of the monsters on this book did not feature an illustration. Also featured are descriptions of humans (bandits, brigands, berserkers, dervishes, nomads, buccaneers, cavemen, and mermen), horses, insects, a