The Gorgon is one of those extremely striking creatures because it blends the familiar and the unnatural. In basic appearance it is an over sized bull which a party of armed adventurers might not find intimidating until you add in the fact that it's skin is some form of iron or steel. The Gorgon is an actual living monstrosity and not some sort of mechanical life form so it's just generally kind of hard for players to figure out the first time they encounter one.
The Gorgon is one of classic role-playing's truly horrific monsters. I always found that anything that had the an ability to take a character out on one or two unlucky rolls of the dice was always more frightening than something that was just tough and dealt a lot of damage. The Gorgon has the ability to breathe a noxious green gas that forces players to save against its effect. If the save is failed the affected character is petrified and begins to turn to stone. There are a number of creatures with similar abilities but what makes The Gorgon so much worse is that ones foes are turned to stone it smashes them and eats the stone fragments. So unlike other creatures where you have an almost unlimited amount of time to find some way to magically restore an affected character, with The Gorgon you only have until it gets hungry.
This particular Gorgon is Reaper's 'Brass Bull' model. This is one of those large models where the Bones resin/vinyl really is the best choice. The metal version would be heavy and cumbersome and probably prone to chipping given all the points on the model. In addition this is a pretty big figure (the base it's on here is a 65mm GW base) and at this size this miniature was only about $6.50 so a lot of bang for the buck.
-Jay
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