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If it is made of metal why isn't it vulnerable to lightning attacks?

 It's iron, if you strike it with lighting then it will just go through the skin and to the ground, not hurting the gorgon.

Medusa is a gorgon. Gorgon... idk

I believe the gorgon is a living creature, simply that it's body is naturally covered by iron plates. I could be wrong though

3 lvl 2 players and an npc could do it

And the thing could always trample

Somehow only i had to roll death saves

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cause not all metals conduct electricity

 All metals are electrically conductive. Some less than others, Aluminum, Steel, and Lead are all not great conductors, whereas Silver and Copper are extremely conductive, but nonetheless they all conduct electricity

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DMNovice. I'm pretty sure back when this creature was made, the people who wrote the game had no idea about Gorgons. The monster race they call Medusas shoud've been called Gorgons, cause that's what they are, but I think that the writers didn't know a lot about Greek Mytologi at the time, and ended up calling Gorgons, Medusas cause of her name. Medusa and her 2 sisters Stheno and Euryale in Greek mythology were once beautiful women but was cursed and turned into Gorgons by Athena, after Poseidon raped Medusa in Athenas temple. 

Eh not quite. The idea that Medusa was raped was a waaaay later story that was coined by the Roman poet Ovid, who retold a bunch of Greek stories with the added lens of his supreme hatred of any form of authority.

So, no, in GREEK mythology, Medusa is not a tragic villain done wrong by the gods. She’s a monster of the week for Perseus to fight. 

Surprisingly not, in this case. The idea that Medusa was raped was a way later addition that was coined by the Roman poet Ovid, who retold a bunch of Greek stories with the added lens of his supreme hatred of any form of authority. So, no, it wasn’t actually a *Greek* myth in which Medusa was raped. It was a Romanized reimagining of a monster of the week by a guy with a hate boner for government.

This is a very interesting and very poorly named monster.

It's *MAAAAGIC* iron.

Came here after one of our party was petrified. We surprisingly managed to kill it without taking a lot of physical damage, but now our barb is stone, and we are far too low level to have a greater restoration available.

What does gore mean?

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DMNovice. I'm pretty sure back when this creature was made, the people who wrote the game had no idea about Gorgons. The monster race they call Medusas shoud've been called Gorgons, cause that's what they are, but I think that the writers didn't know a lot about Greek Mytologi at the time, and ended up calling Gorgons, Medusas cause of her name. Medusa and her 2 sisters Stheno and Euryale in Greek mythology were once beautiful women but was cursed and turned into Gorgons by Athena, after Poseidon raped Medusa in Athenas temple. 

 I know its so annoying at this point my dnd group knows what I mean when I say gorgon but it used to be chaos

The D&D version of the Catoblepas can be found here: 

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/2560750-catoblepas

Gore, as a verb, means to pierce with something big and pointy. Think of it as an uber version of the verb "pierce." Anything sharp, like a sewing needle, can pierce you. But something that can gore you, like a bull's horn, can potentially kill you in a single pierce.

Freak this