Editing Thri-kreen (section)

==Publication History==
[[File:Thri-kreen Monster card.jpg|left|thumb|The very first thri-kreen.]]
The very first appearance of the thri-kreen was in 1982, when Paul Reiche III created them for the second set of Monster Cards. One year later, in 1983, they made it to the tabletop game in the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition [[Monster Manual]] II.

In 2nd edition, the thri-kreen appeared as a monster native to the [[Forgotten Realms]] setting in the 1989 Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix - this info would later be reprinted in the 1993 Monstrous Manual. [[Dark Sun]] debuted in October 1991, with the Athasian thri-kreen first receiving a monster writeup in an article in [[Dragon Magazine]] #173, which debuted a month earlier. 1995 was the big year for thri-kreen in 2e; they were ported over as a "generic D&D" PC race in Players Option: Skills & Powers, were part of the Expanded & Revised Dark Sun boxed set in October, had an Athasian monster writeup in March's Dark Sun Monstrous Compendium Appendix II: Terrors Beyond Tyr, and got their own dedicated racial splatbook in April's Thri-Kreen of Athas.

In [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], thri-kreen again appeared in the 2002 [[Monster Manual]] II for 3.0, and received a PC writeup in [[Savage Species]]. In 3.5, they appeared in the Expanded Psionics Handbook in 2004; in the same year, they also appeared as a PC race in the [[Dark Sun]] articles in [[Dragon Magazine]] #319 and in the 3e Shining South splatbook for the [[Forgotten Realms]]. They also received a racial class in 2006's Complete Psionic.

[[Dungeons & Dragons]] 4th edition saw them appear in 2010's [[Dark Sun]] Campaign Setting and in the [[Monster Manual]] 3; they also had a "Winning Race: Thri-kreen" article in [[Dragon Magazine]] #411.

Finally, in 2014, [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] had the thri-kreen appear in the default [[Monster Manual]] for the first time in their entire history. They then had to wait the better part of a decade for PC rules, the official campaign guide "Spelljammer: Adventures in Space" coming out in August 2022.