Inktober Monstrosities: U for Umpleby

The umpleby is a strange and obscure monster from the hazy past of D&D. They are described as an eight feet tall, 400 pounds mound of wild, straggly brown hair, with vaguely discernible mouth and eyes within the mass of fur, native to temperate forests. They possess no great intellectual power, but their massive fur soaks up static electricity at an alarming rate.

Usually passive, if encountered an umpebly most likely tag along with the party, neither hindering nor helping them, though it will it is susceptible to bribes of food, drink or its greatest love in life - sparkly gems. It will fight to defend itself or if anyone threatens to steal its hoard of glittering stones, usually found within its cavernous lair.

The umpleby originally appeared in the Fiend Folio for first edition AD&D, then in the Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio Appendix and the Monstrous Manual Annual 2 both for the second edition, only to sink into obscurity from there on.