Rothé are fictional herd animals in various role-playing games.
The rothé first appeared in first edition in the original Fiend Folio (1981).
The deep rothé appeared in second edition for the Forgotten Realms setting in The Drow of the Underdark (1991). The ghost rothé and the surface rothé appeared in Polyhedron #75 (September 1992). The rothé appeared in the Monstrous Manual (1993) under the „mammal“ entry.
The deep rothé, the ghost rothé, and the surface rothé appeared in third edition for the Forgotten Realms setting in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001).
In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, they are one of the primary livestock of humans of Faerûn’s Northern areas and of the drow of the Underdark below. They resemble musk oxen, and have three different sub-species—surface rothé, deep rothé (that communicate with magical flashing lights in their Underdark home), and ghost rothé (large white rothé with magical abilities that grant them transportation and silence)….