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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
bulette (plural bulettes)
- (fantasy roleplaying games) A fictional species of land-dwelling shark in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
- 1976-06, "The Bulette (a.k.a. Landshark)", "Creatures Features", The Dragon, volume 1, number 1, page 19
- The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay), has only two semi-vulnerable spots.
- 1995-06-29, The Amorphous Mass <[email protected]>, "Re: Rotten, Sexist, Racist Worlds (WAS: Females playing...)", rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc, <[email protected]>#1/1
- 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.
- 1997-04-07, Dan Davis <[email protected]>, "Re: Mithical Cretures Hits Beast Wars.", alt.toys.transformers, <[email protected]>#1/1
- Rippersnapper was a land shark. By the mythical name, this is a bulette.
- 2001-04-20, "dave" <[email protected]>, "OK what is a "bulette"", rec.games.roguelike.adom, <[email protected]>
- My orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon.
- 2003, Steven Creech, Kevin Ruesch, “Torn Asunder: Critical Hits”, in Inc., Bastion Press, page 93:
- Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.
- 2009-09, Jason Bulmahn, "Bulette", Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, →ISBN, page 39
- The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills.
- 1976-06, "The Bulette (a.k.a. Landshark)", "Creatures Features", The Dragon, volume 1, number 1, page 19