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* The Cyclopean Ghoul in the ''Earthdawn'' supplement ''Scourge Unending''.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Pursuit to Kadath'', adventure "The All Seeing Eye of the Alskali". The title Alskali monsters, whose single eye can hypnotise their victims.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has had a variety of
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▲** Zigzagged with a beholder, who has one big eye on its face but ten smaller eyes on eyestalks.
* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' one of the Ogre kiths is the Cyclopean. They almost always have a missing eye and their mien makes it look like one central eye. They do come in other varieties though.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'':
** [[Anti-Villain|Magnus the Red]], [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Primarch]] of the [[Cosmic Plaything|Thousand Sons]], is also known as "the Red Cyclops" - his defining features are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|coppery red skin]], [[Meaningful Name|being a giant]] and having just one eye. Magnus lost his right eye in a bargain to save his Legion from mutation, with a being whom he would later discover to be Tzeentch; the mutations did go into remission, albeit temporarily. After the Burning of Prospero, Magnus gave in to Chaos, becoming a [[One-Winged Angel|Demon Prince]] of Tzeentch.
*** Older material describes the pre-daemonic Magnus as resembling the mythological Cyclops, as does his ''Epic'' miniature; later editions established the above lore, which is a parallel to that of Odin from [[Norse Mythology]].
*** In ''Betrayer'' by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]], Lorgar remarks that the truth is kept deliberately skewed; Magnus himself seems to prefer the version where he lost his eye to gain ultimate knowledge.
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