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"etymology_text": "From a derogatory gallicization of bullet; coined by Tim Kask in the first edition of the official D&D magazine, Dragon, as an addition to the original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.",
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"ref": "1976-06, \"The Bulette (a.k.a. Landshark)\", \"Creatures Features\", The Dragon, volume 1, number 1, page 19",
"text": "The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay), has only two semi-vulnerable spots."
},
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"ref": "1995-06-29, The Amorphous Mass <robin...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>, \"Re: Rotten, Sexist, Racist Worlds (WAS: Females playing...)\", rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc, <Pine.A32.3.91.950629164923.38897A-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>#1/1",
"text": "The classic monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla, most hauntings, even the dinosaurs in _Jurassic Park_, etc) are all manifestations or consequences of human arrogance and ignorance; so violence, prejudice, ethical blindness and your local bulette are all part of the same idea."
},
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"ref": "1997-04-07, Dan Davis <DAV...@docker.com>, \"Re: Mithical Cretures Hits Beast Wars.\", alt.toys.transformers, <33498C02.17C0@docker.com>#1/1",
"text": "Rippersnapper was a land shark. By the mythical name, this is a bulette."
},
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"text": "2001-04-20, \"dave\" <JobberToSt...@yahoo.com>, \"OK what is a \"bulette\"\", rec.games.roguelike.adom, <9bppfs$igu$1@uns-a.ucl.ac.uk>\nMy orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon."
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"ref": "2003, Steven Creech, Kevin Ruesch, “Torn Asunder: Critical Hits”, in Inc., Bastion Press, page 93",
"text": "Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.",
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"ref": "2009-09, Jason Bulmahn, \"Bulette\", Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, page 39",
"text": "The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills."
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"A fictional species of land-dwelling shark in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons."
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"(fantasy roleplaying games) A fictional species of land-dwelling shark in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons."
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"ref": "1976-06, \"The Bulette (a.k.a. Landshark)\", \"Creatures Features\", The Dragon, volume 1, number 1, page 19",
"text": "The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay), has only two semi-vulnerable spots."
},
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"ref": "1995-06-29, The Amorphous Mass <robin...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>, \"Re: Rotten, Sexist, Racist Worlds (WAS: Females playing...)\", rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc, <Pine.A32.3.91.950629164923.38897A-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>#1/1",
"text": "The classic monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla, most hauntings, even the dinosaurs in _Jurassic Park_, etc) are all manifestations or consequences of human arrogance and ignorance; so violence, prejudice, ethical blindness and your local bulette are all part of the same idea."
},
{
"ref": "1997-04-07, Dan Davis <DAV...@docker.com>, \"Re: Mithical Cretures Hits Beast Wars.\", alt.toys.transformers, <33498C02.17C0@docker.com>#1/1",
"text": "Rippersnapper was a land shark. By the mythical name, this is a bulette."
},
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"text": "2001-04-20, \"dave\" <JobberToSt...@yahoo.com>, \"OK what is a \"bulette\"\", rec.games.roguelike.adom, <9bppfs$igu$1@uns-a.ucl.ac.uk>\nMy orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon."
},
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"ref": "2003, Steven Creech, Kevin Ruesch, “Torn Asunder: Critical Hits”, in Inc., Bastion Press, page 93",
"text": "Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.",
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},
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"ref": "2009-09, Jason Bulmahn, \"Bulette\", Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, page 39",
"text": "The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills."
}
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