Publication History
The displacer beast was inspired by the coeurl, a feline-like creature from the 1939 science fiction story "Black Destroyer" by A. E. van Vogt, later incorporated into the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950).
The displacer beast has been included in every edition of the Monster Manual, from the very first one in 1977 to the latest in 2008.
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