Leprechaun

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The leprechaun is the most famous mythical monster to come out of Ireland. A race of short, magical little people, leprechauns are most famous for their love of strong Irish liquors and their hoarding treasure in the form of pots filled with gold coins, which they defend with magical illusions and all manner of quick-witted trickery. Also, making shoes for some reason.

There's actually a family of leprechaun relatives, but these are obscure to all but the most dedicated scholars of European fairy-lore, outside of the clurichaun -- the leprechaun's tavern and winery-haunting drunkard cousin.

Leprechauns have, like most other European and Classic Mythology monsters, appeared in Dungeons & Dragons.

The leprechaun was introduced to the game in The Strategic Review #3 (August 1975). The leprechaun appears in the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual. The leprechaun appears in the Dungeons & Dragons supplement Tall Tales of the Wee Folk (1989) as a player character class. The leprechaun appeared in second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989), and reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993). Leprechaun variants the geancannac and the far darrig appeared in Dragon #158 (June 1990), and the clurichaun and the wicked leprechaun appeared in Dragon #239 (September 1997).