Flumph
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The flumph is a monster found in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, largely considered to be the most ridiculous creature ever created for the D&D game. A flumph resembles a tortoise-sized fleshy coin with tentacle-like legs, and if it is flipped onto its back it is completely helpless. (Later versions reimagined the flumph as a kind of aerial jellyfish.) Flumphs were introduced in the Fiend Folio monster sourcebook for D&D 1st Edition, a book infamous for its many ill-conceived contents, and were (for some reason) converted for D&D 2nd Edition rules in the Monstrous Compendium Annual Vol. 2 and to D&D 3rd Edtion in the fan-published Tome of Horrors. In Dungeon Magazine's Issue #118, the flumph was added to the array of 3.5 official monsters in "Box of Flumph", an adventure by Tim Hitchcock. Flumphs are sentient, and are (trivia fans take note) the only Lawful Good creature in the original Fiend Folio.