Treant

Treant
Characteristics
Alignment	Usually Neutral Good
Type	Huge Plant (none)
Image	Wizards.com image
Stats	Open Game License stats
Publication history
Source books	MM p244-245
Based on	Ent

A treant is a fictional creature found in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

Treants appear to have been inspired by the talking trees of many of the world's folklores, as well as the Ent from J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle Earth. See tree (mythology) for more information. The name "treant" comes from combining "tree" and "giant," and is usually pronounced /|tree-ant/.

Treants are based on Ents from Tolkien's work. The creature was called an ent in the original Dungeons & Dragons, and its name was later changed to treant.

The ent (treant in later printings) was one of the first monsters introduced in the earliest edition of the game, in the Dungeons & Dragons "white box" set (1974), where they were described as tree-like creatures able to command trees, and lawful in nature.

The treant appears in the first edition Monster Manual (1977), where it is described as combining the features of both humans and trees, and dwelling in forests and indistinguishable from trees, and can cause trees to come to life and move.

The treant was detailed in Dragon #79 (November 1983), in the "Ecology of the Treant". The rivertree treant variant appeared in Dragon #108 (April 1986).

This edition of the D&D game included its own version of the treant, in the Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set (1981 & 1983), The treant appears as a player character class in Tall Tales of the Wee Folk in the "DM's booklet" (1989). The treant was also later featured in the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991).

The treant appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), and is reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).

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