#banth

[chernobog13]

Some of the many pen-and-ink illustrations by Frank Frazetta for the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

[oldschoolfrp]

Encounters on Mars: "Green and Red Warriors Battle on Barsoom," "Red Warrior on Domestic Thoat," "Warhoon," and "Banth vs Calot." (Greg Bell, Warriors of Mars: The Warfare of Barsoom in Miniature, by Gary Gygax and Brian Blume, TSR, 1974)

TSR published the original D&D rules in the same year which also included references to Red Martians, Tharks (a type of Green Martians, as are Warhoons), the 8-legged horse-like thoat, the 10-legged lion-maned banth, and the frog-like/dog-like calot, all found in the Barsoom-themed "Desert (Mars)" and "Optional Arid Plains" encounter tables.

[bluealienobsesser]

I've been imagining red Martians looking more similar to green martians because I would like if they looked more alien

Thuvia and her banths

Dejah is a princess so she has alot of gold and her body paint is blue to represent her kingdom

[flickenschickens]

Hes tanking a bath

[doctorslippery]

The Visual History of the Banth - Dark Worlds Quarterly

The Visual History of the Banth looks at how Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoomian lion has been imagined by artists from the 1950s.

[prehistoric-superheroes]

Tarzan versus a Matian Banth by Reed Crandall

[reyturnofbensolo]

Frazetta Friday! Thuvia, Maid of Mars.

[iamthekaijuking]

Some ask mentioned the Banth from the Barsoom novels and it got me thinking about how ten limbs on a vertebrate-like creature would work. So my take on it: similar to the house centipede the front legs are the shortest and the hind legs are the longest, with the third pair of legs being the most widely spaced and the first and fifth pairs being the most closely spaced to avoid the legs knocking into one another. The first two pairs have grabbing claws used for seizing prey, while the rearmost pair are the longest and have a reversed rather grasshopper-like structure as they are used for pushing off the ground in a powerful leap when pouncing. When running the five pairs make a wave-like “undulation” from back to front. Other tidbits: the legs are very spindly for its size due to the lower gravity of Barsoom and the greater number of weight-bearing limbs allowing the limbs to be more slender, the rear six limbs making a more arthropod-esque rearing stance where the four front legs leave the ground when looking around for threats or prey, and since many other depictions just went with literal ten-legged lion I went for a more therapsid-like look to make it a bit more visually distinct.