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Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T19:20:19Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

{{WTF}}
The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples' attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls. Seriously, how old was the person who designed who designed the sheet phantom and sheet ghoul? 5 maybe?
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth. Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head. It can make two illusionary copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]], an invisible energy creature that feeds on the dying. They cannot directly harm anything, but they can make unintelligent creatures more aggressive and attacks become more accurate and damaging in their presence. The trilloch is impossible to harm, but can be driven away by ''dispel magic''.
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]], an Ethereal creature that bonds to a host and appears as a shadowy copy of that host. It grants the host increased luck, but at the cost of giving bad luck to everyone around them. Possibly the monster with the stupidest name in the book.
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]], sea urchins that can fire their spines as missiles and roll around on land. Inside of their bodies is a gemstone whose value depends on the type of urchin.
** Black urchin, the weakest and most common type.
** Green urchin, stronger and well camouflaged in water
** Red urchin, third strongest with venom that causes sleep
** Silver urchin, the strongest type with venom that causes a catatonic trance that can last for days.
** Yellow urchin, the second strongest type with venom that causes paralysis and is also well camouflaged in water.
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
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==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T19:01:58Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

{{WTF}}
The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples' attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls. Seriously, how old was the person who designed who designed the sheet phantom and sheet ghoul? 5 maybe?
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth. Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head. It can make two illusionary copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]], an invisible energy creature that feeds on the dying. They cannot directly harm anything, but they can make unintelligent creatures more aggressive and attacks become more accurate and damaging in their presence. The trilloch is impossible to harm, but can be driven away by ''dispel magic''.
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]], an Ethereal creature that bonds to a host and appears as a shadowy copy of that host. It grants the host increased luck, but at the cost of giving bad luck to everyone around them. Possibly the monster with the stupidest name in the book.
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

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2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

{{WTF}}
The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples' attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls. Seriously, how old was the person who designed who designed the sheet phantom and sheet ghoul? 5 maybe?
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth. Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head. It can make two illusionary copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]], an invisible energy creature that feeds on the dying. They cannot directly harm anything, but they can make unintelligent creatures more aggressive and attacks become more accurate and damaging in their presence. The trilloch is impossible to harm, but can be driven away by ''dispel magic''.
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T16:19:56Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* List of Monsters */

{{WTF}}
The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples' attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls. Seriously, how old was the person who designed who designed the sheet phantom and sheet ghoul? 5 maybe?
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth. Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head. It can make two illusionary copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
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==3rd Editon==
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==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

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The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls. Seriously, how old was the person who designed who designed the sheet phantom and sheet ghoul? 5 maybe?
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth. Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head. It can make two illusionary copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T16:17:05Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls. Seriously, how old was the person who designed who designed the sheet phantom and sheet ghoul? 5 maybe?
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth. Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head. It can make two illusionary copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T16:14:57Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF:

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth. Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head. It can make two illusionary copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
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==3rd Editon==
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==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

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Fiend Folio

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The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]], a giant wasp with a human face. Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting. They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style. The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T06:46:23Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable. It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat leach]], a small leach that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T06:31:15Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot giant worm that tunnels through rock. Possibly a prototype of the [[Purple Worm]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T06:28:20Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot giant worm that tunnels through rock.
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T06:22:58Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead. People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss.
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes. It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack. One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane. Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
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==3rd Editon==
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==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

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Fiend Folio

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The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]]. Don't confused with the [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Synad

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'''Synads''' are a bizarre race of [[human]]-like [[aberration]]s native to the worlds of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Of uncertain origins, perhaps stemming from a now-fallen psiocracy that attempted to create a gestalt-mind but only partially succeeded, synads have three distinct minds that work in combined unison, imbuing them with a preternatural grasp of [[psionics]]. They can usually pass for humans, but when depleted of psionic energy and in low-light, they sport two additional heads, in the form of ghostly, featureless faces hovering adjacent to their fleshy head.

That's... pretty much it. They were a rather lackluster addition to the D&D canon.

Synads debuted in [[Complete Psionic]], but were released as a teaser in [[Dragon Magazine]] #314.

They are not to be confused with the Snyad, a forgettable monster from the original [[Fiend Folio]].

==Official Fluff==
Synads seem unsocial to the naive. In truth, each synad is a group unto himself, composed of three fully independent minds that are fused into a cooperating whole. While most races suffer the crushing loneliness of a wholly closed-off mind, synads reap the benefits of combined thought, cooperative planning, and multiple viewpoints on each new task or topic.

'''Personality:''' While synads have wildly varying personalities, their threefold minds give the race recognizable personality traits. A synads threefold mind is composed of parts that are often referred to as the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. In most activities, the overmind controls the synad's actions. However, sometimes the collective or the oracle - the parts known as the submind - rises to the surface, either bypassing the overmind or mentally advising it on topics the submind is more suited to understand.

'''Physical Description:''' In the bright light of day, a synad passes for a tall, slim human. In dim light, however, out of the corner of an observer's eye, a synad sometimes appears as a humanoid with three heads. The normal head appears bracketed by two ghostly heads completely "devoid of hair, eyes, ears, mouth, or nose. This happens only if the synad has exhausted all its power points for the day. For this reason, most synads avoid draining their power point reserve, lest their true nature be revealed. Synads typically stand just over 6 feet tall and weigh about 170 pounds, with males somewhat taller and heavier than females. Synads are typically hairless. They have pale skin, large, dark eyes, and long, expressive fingers. They dress commonly but enjoy impressive, flamboyant headwear.

'''Relations:''' Synads mix with members of other races, especially humans. Sometimes those relations change suddenly when another creature gains insight into a synad's true nature, so synads try to avoid dim light when possible, or else they prepare their comrades by revealing the truth about their heritage.

'''Alignment:''' Synads do not tend toward any particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

'''Synad Lands:''' Synads hail from a parallel world accessible through the Plane of Shadow. The few who dwell on the Material Plane prefer to forget their world of origin, claiming that monstrosities of the mind roam there unhindered.

'''Religion:''' Synads often worship Fharlanghn, drawn to his aspect as a traveler. Those who have escaped their homeworld give credit to the deity for showing them a way through.

'''Language:''' Synads speak Common and their own unique language.

'''Names:''' Synad names vary greatly, mainly because synads have thrown off their original ways and adopted human culture. They draw their names from the names of humans in the area where they have settled. Synads who mate and produce children often name them after local heroes or great leaders.

'''Adventurers:''' Synad adventurers are akin to humans in their daring and ambition. Because a synad's threefold mind can withstand mental effects (such as charm person and dominate person) that might leave another creature drooling or subservient, the race has a reputation for great toughness of mind.

==PC Stats==
::Aberration: As aberrations, even though they can appear human, synads are not subject to spells or effects that affect only humanoids.
::Medium: Synads have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
::Darkvision out to 60 feet.
::Synad base land speed is 30 feet.
::Naturally Psionic: Synads gain 3 bonus power points at 1st level, one each for the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. This does not grant synads the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
::Threefold Mind (Su): The threefold synthesis of mind, controlled by the overmind, grants synads an advantage when resisting mental attacks. They gain a +2 bonus on Will saving throws.
::Oracle (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the oracle grants him a daily precognitive edge. This translates into a +2 insight bonus that the synad can apply at any time to an initiative check, attack roll, or saving throw. In the case of an attack roll or saving throw, the synad can elect to apply the bonus to the roll or save after he determines whether his unmodified roll misses. A synad can apply only one precognitive edge per day.
::Collective (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the collective allows him to tap into a racial network of knowledge and information. A synad can spend 1 power point as a free action to gain a +2 bonus on any Knowledge or Psicraft check he makes.
::Multitask (Su): A synad's threefold mind can temporarily separate, allowing him to take more than a single mental action during his turn. Once per day, a synad can spend 1 power point to gain a swift action that he can use to take any purely mental action. Examples include manifesting a psionic power or making a Knowledge, Psicraft, or other check requiring only mental cogitation. However, a synad can use his extra mental action to manifest a power only if the normal actions allowed to him during the round do not also involve manifesting a power.
::Automatic Languages: Common and Synad. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic). The portion of a synad's mind known as the collective exposes him to a wide range of languages.
::Favored Class: Any. A multiclass synad's first chosen new class does not count when determining whether he takes an XP penalty for multiclassing.

==See Also==
*[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition races]]

[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons Races]]

Synad

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'''Synads''' are a bizarre race of [[human]]-like [[aberration]]s native to the worlds of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Of uncertain origins, perhaps stemming from a now-fallen psiocracy that attempted to create a gestalt-mind but only partially succeeded, synads have three distinct minds that work in combined unison, imbuing them with a preternatural grasp of [[psionics]]. They can usually pass for humans, but when depleted of psionic energy and in low-light, they sport two additional heads, in the form of ghostly, featureless faces hovering adjacent to their fleshy head.

That's... pretty much it. They were a rather lackluster addition to the D&D canon.

Synads debuted in [[Complete Psionic]], but were released as a teaser in [[Dragon Magazine]] #314.

==Official Fluff==
Synads seem unsocial to the naive. In truth, each synad is a group unto himself, composed of three fully independent minds that are fused into a cooperating whole. While most races suffer the crushing loneliness of a wholly closed-off mind, synads reap the benefits of combined thought, cooperative planning, and multiple viewpoints on each new task or topic.

'''Personality:''' While synads have wildly varying personalities, their threefold minds give the race recognizable personality traits. A synads threefold mind is composed of parts that are often referred to as the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. In most activities, the overmind controls the synad's actions. However, sometimes the collective or the oracle - the parts known as the submind - rises to the surface, either bypassing the overmind or mentally advising it on topics the submind is more suited to understand.

'''Physical Description:''' In the bright light of day, a synad passes for a tall, slim human. In dim light, however, out of the corner of an observer's eye, a synad sometimes appears as a humanoid with three heads. The normal head appears bracketed by two ghostly heads completely "devoid of hair, eyes, ears, mouth, or nose. This happens only if the synad has exhausted all its power points for the day. For this reason, most synads avoid draining their power point reserve, lest their true nature be revealed. Synads typically stand just over 6 feet tall and weigh about 170 pounds, with males somewhat taller and heavier than females. Synads are typically hairless. They have pale skin, large, dark eyes, and long, expressive fingers. They dress commonly but enjoy impressive, flamboyant headwear.

'''Relations:''' Synads mix with members of other races, especially humans. Sometimes those relations change suddenly when another creature gains insight into a synad's true nature, so synads try to avoid dim light when possible, or else they prepare their comrades by revealing the truth about their heritage.

'''Alignment:''' Synads do not tend toward any particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

'''Synad Lands:''' Synads hail from a parallel world accessible through the Plane of Shadow. The few who dwell on the Material Plane prefer to forget their world of origin, claiming that monstrosities of the mind roam there unhindered.

'''Religion:''' Synads often worship Fharlanghn, drawn to his aspect as a traveler. Those who have escaped their homeworld give credit to the deity for showing them a way through.

'''Language:''' Synads speak Common and their own unique language.

'''Names:''' Synad names vary greatly, mainly because synads have thrown off their original ways and adopted human culture. They draw their names from the names of humans in the area where they have settled. Synads who mate and produce children often name them after local heroes or great leaders.

'''Adventurers:''' Synad adventurers are akin to humans in their daring and ambition. Because a synad's threefold mind can withstand mental effects (such as charm person and dominate person) that might leave another creature drooling or subservient, the race has a reputation for great toughness of mind.

==PC Stats==
::Aberration: As aberrations, even though they can appear human, synads are not subject to spells or effects that affect only humanoids.
::Medium: Synads have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
::Darkvision out to 60 feet.
::Synad base land speed is 30 feet.
::Naturally Psionic: Synads gain 3 bonus power points at 1st level, one each for the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. This does not grant synads the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
::Threefold Mind (Su): The threefold synthesis of mind, controlled by the overmind, grants synads an advantage when resisting mental attacks. They gain a +2 bonus on Will saving throws.
::Oracle (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the oracle grants him a daily precognitive edge. This translates into a +2 insight bonus that the synad can apply at any time to an initiative check, attack roll, or saving throw. In the case of an attack roll or saving throw, the synad can elect to apply the bonus to the roll or save after he determines whether his unmodified roll misses. A synad can apply only one precognitive edge per day.
::Collective (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the collective allows him to tap into a racial network of knowledge and information. A synad can spend 1 power point as a free action to gain a +2 bonus on any Knowledge or Psicraft check he makes.
::Multitask (Su): A synad's threefold mind can temporarily separate, allowing him to take more than a single mental action during his turn. Once per day, a synad can spend 1 power point to gain a swift action that he can use to take any purely mental action. Examples include manifesting a psionic power or making a Knowledge, Psicraft, or other check requiring only mental cogitation. However, a synad can use his extra mental action to manifest a power only if the normal actions allowed to him during the round do not also involve manifesting a power.
::Automatic Languages: Common and Synad. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic). The portion of a synad's mind known as the collective exposes him to a wide range of languages.
::Favored Class: Any. A multiclass synad's first chosen new class does not count when determining whether he takes an XP penalty for multiclassing.

==See Also==
*[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition races]]

[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons Races]]

Synad

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'''Synads''' are a bizarre race of [[human]]-like [[aberration]]s native to the worlds of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Of uncertain origins, perhaps stemming from a now-fallen psiocracy that attempted to create a gestalt-mind but only partially succeeded, synads have three distinct minds that work in combined unison, imbuing them with a preternatural grasp of [[psionics]]. They can usually pass for humans, but when depleted of psionic energy and in low-light, they sport two additional heads, in the form of ghostly, featureless faces hovering adjacent to their fleshy head.

That's... pretty much it. They were a rather lackluster addition to the D&D canon.

Synads debuted in [[Complete Psionic]], but were released as a teaser in [[Dragon Magazine]] #314. A completely unrelated monster with the same name previously appeared in the [[Fiend Folio]].

==Official Fluff==
Synads seem unsocial to the naive. In truth, each synad is a group unto himself, composed of three fully independent minds that are fused into a cooperating whole. While most races suffer the crushing loneliness of a wholly closed-off mind, synads reap the benefits of combined thought, cooperative planning, and multiple viewpoints on each new task or topic.

'''Personality:''' While synads have wildly varying personalities, their threefold minds give the race recognizable personality traits. A synads threefold mind is composed of parts that are often referred to as the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. In most activities, the overmind controls the synad's actions. However, sometimes the collective or the oracle - the parts known as the submind - rises to the surface, either bypassing the overmind or mentally advising it on topics the submind is more suited to understand.

'''Physical Description:''' In the bright light of day, a synad passes for a tall, slim human. In dim light, however, out of the corner of an observer's eye, a synad sometimes appears as a humanoid with three heads. The normal head appears bracketed by two ghostly heads completely "devoid of hair, eyes, ears, mouth, or nose. This happens only if the synad has exhausted all its power points for the day. For this reason, most synads avoid draining their power point reserve, lest their true nature be revealed. Synads typically stand just over 6 feet tall and weigh about 170 pounds, with males somewhat taller and heavier than females. Synads are typically hairless. They have pale skin, large, dark eyes, and long, expressive fingers. They dress commonly but enjoy impressive, flamboyant headwear.

'''Relations:''' Synads mix with members of other races, especially humans. Sometimes those relations change suddenly when another creature gains insight into a synad's true nature, so synads try to avoid dim light when possible, or else they prepare their comrades by revealing the truth about their heritage.

'''Alignment:''' Synads do not tend toward any particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

'''Synad Lands:''' Synads hail from a parallel world accessible through the Plane of Shadow. The few who dwell on the Material Plane prefer to forget their world of origin, claiming that monstrosities of the mind roam there unhindered.

'''Religion:''' Synads often worship Fharlanghn, drawn to his aspect as a traveler. Those who have escaped their homeworld give credit to the deity for showing them a way through.

'''Language:''' Synads speak Common and their own unique language.

'''Names:''' Synad names vary greatly, mainly because synads have thrown off their original ways and adopted human culture. They draw their names from the names of humans in the area where they have settled. Synads who mate and produce children often name them after local heroes or great leaders.

'''Adventurers:''' Synad adventurers are akin to humans in their daring and ambition. Because a synad's threefold mind can withstand mental effects (such as charm person and dominate person) that might leave another creature drooling or subservient, the race has a reputation for great toughness of mind.

==PC Stats==
::Aberration: As aberrations, even though they can appear human, synads are not subject to spells or effects that affect only humanoids.
::Medium: Synads have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
::Darkvision out to 60 feet.
::Synad base land speed is 30 feet.
::Naturally Psionic: Synads gain 3 bonus power points at 1st level, one each for the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. This does not grant synads the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
::Threefold Mind (Su): The threefold synthesis of mind, controlled by the overmind, grants synads an advantage when resisting mental attacks. They gain a +2 bonus on Will saving throws.
::Oracle (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the oracle grants him a daily precognitive edge. This translates into a +2 insight bonus that the synad can apply at any time to an initiative check, attack roll, or saving throw. In the case of an attack roll or saving throw, the synad can elect to apply the bonus to the roll or save after he determines whether his unmodified roll misses. A synad can apply only one precognitive edge per day.
::Collective (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the collective allows him to tap into a racial network of knowledge and information. A synad can spend 1 power point as a free action to gain a +2 bonus on any Knowledge or Psicraft check he makes.
::Multitask (Su): A synad's threefold mind can temporarily separate, allowing him to take more than a single mental action during his turn. Once per day, a synad can spend 1 power point to gain a swift action that he can use to take any purely mental action. Examples include manifesting a psionic power or making a Knowledge, Psicraft, or other check requiring only mental cogitation. However, a synad can use his extra mental action to manifest a power only if the normal actions allowed to him during the round do not also involve manifesting a power.
::Automatic Languages: Common and Synad. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic). The portion of a synad's mind known as the collective exposes him to a wide range of languages.
::Favored Class: Any. A multiclass synad's first chosen new class does not count when determining whether he takes an XP penalty for multiclassing.

==See Also==
*[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition races]]

[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons Races]]

Synad

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'''Synads''' are a bizarre race of [[human]]-like [[aberration]]s native to the worlds of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Of uncertain origins, perhaps stemming from a now-fallen psiocracy that attempted to create a gestalt-mind but only partially succeeded, synads have three distinct minds that work in combined unison, imbuing them with a preternatural grasp of [[psionics]]. They can usually pass for humans, but when depleted of psionic energy and in low-light, they sport two additional heads, in the form of ghostly, featureless faces hovering adjacent to their fleshy head.

That's... pretty much it. They were a rather lackluster addition to the D&D canon.

Synads debuted in [[Complete Psionic]], but were released as a teaser in [[Dragon Magazine]] #314.

==Official Fluff==
Synads seem unsocial to the naive. In truth, each synad is a group unto himself, composed of three fully independent minds that are fused into a cooperating whole. While most races suffer the crushing loneliness of a wholly closed-off mind, synads reap the benefits of combined thought, cooperative planning, and multiple viewpoints on each new task or topic.

'''Personality:''' While synads have wildly varying personalities, their threefold minds give the race recognizable personality traits. A synads threefold mind is composed of parts that are often referred to as the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. In most activities, the overmind controls the synad's actions. However, sometimes the collective or the oracle - the parts known as the submind - rises to the surface, either bypassing the overmind or mentally advising it on topics the submind is more suited to understand.

'''Physical Description:''' In the bright light of day, a synad passes for a tall, slim human. In dim light, however, out of the corner of an observer's eye, a synad sometimes appears as a humanoid with three heads. The normal head appears bracketed by two ghostly heads completely "devoid of hair, eyes, ears, mouth, or nose. This happens only if the synad has exhausted all its power points for the day. For this reason, most synads avoid draining their power point reserve, lest their true nature be revealed. Synads typically stand just over 6 feet tall and weigh about 170 pounds, with males somewhat taller and heavier than females. Synads are typically hairless. They have pale skin, large, dark eyes, and long, expressive fingers. They dress commonly but enjoy impressive, flamboyant headwear.

'''Relations:''' Synads mix with members of other races, especially humans. Sometimes those relations change suddenly when another creature gains insight into a synad's true nature, so synads try to avoid dim light when possible, or else they prepare their comrades by revealing the truth about their heritage.

'''Alignment:''' Synads do not tend toward any particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

'''Synad Lands:''' Synads hail from a parallel world accessible through the Plane of Shadow. The few who dwell on the Material Plane prefer to forget their world of origin, claiming that monstrosities of the mind roam there unhindered.

'''Religion:''' Synads often worship Fharlanghn, drawn to his aspect as a traveler. Those who have escaped their homeworld give credit to the deity for showing them a way through.

'''Language:''' Synads speak Common and their own unique language.

'''Names:''' Synad names vary greatly, mainly because synads have thrown off their original ways and adopted human culture. They draw their names from the names of humans in the area where they have settled. Synads who mate and produce children often name them after local heroes or great leaders.

'''Adventurers:''' Synad adventurers are akin to humans in their daring and ambition. Because a synad's threefold mind can withstand mental effects (such as charm person and dominate person) that might leave another creature drooling or subservient, the race has a reputation for great toughness of mind.

==PC Stats==
::Aberration: As aberrations, even though they can appear human, synads are not subject to spells or effects that affect only humanoids.
::Medium: Synads have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
::Darkvision out to 60 feet.
::Synad base land speed is 30 feet.
::Naturally Psionic: Synads gain 3 bonus power points at 1st level, one each for the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. This does not grant synads the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
::Threefold Mind (Su): The threefold synthesis of mind, controlled by the overmind, grants synads an advantage when resisting mental attacks. They gain a +2 bonus on Will saving throws.
::Oracle (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the oracle grants him a daily precognitive edge. This translates into a +2 insight bonus that the synad can apply at any time to an initiative check, attack roll, or saving throw. In the case of an attack roll or saving throw, the synad can elect to apply the bonus to the roll or save after he determines whether his unmodified roll misses. A synad can apply only one precognitive edge per day.
::Collective (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the collective allows him to tap into a racial network of knowledge and information. A synad can spend 1 power point as a free action to gain a +2 bonus on any Knowledge or Psicraft check he makes.
::Multitask (Su): A synad's threefold mind can temporarily separate, allowing him to take more than a single mental action during his turn. Once per day, a synad can spend 1 power point to gain a swift action that he can use to take any purely mental action. Examples include manifesting a psionic power or making a Knowledge, Psicraft, or other check requiring only mental cogitation. However, a synad can use his extra mental action to manifest a power only if the normal actions allowed to him during the round do not also involve manifesting a power.
::Automatic Languages: Common and Synad. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic). The portion of a synad's mind known as the collective exposes him to a wide range of languages.
::Favored Class: Any. A multiclass synad's first chosen new class does not count when determining whether he takes an XP penalty for multiclassing.

==See Also==
*[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition races]]

[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons Races]]

Synad

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'''Synads''' are a bizarre race of [[human]]-like [[aberration]]s native to the worlds of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Of uncertain origins, perhaps stemming from a now-fallen psiocracy that attempted to create a gestalt-mind but only partially succeeded, synads have three distinct minds that work in combined unison, imbuing them with a preternatural grasp of [[psionics]]. They can usually pass for humans, but when depleted of psionic energy and in low-light, they sport two additional heads, in the form of ghostly, featureless faces hovering adjacent to their fleshy head.

That's... pretty much it. They were a rather lackluster addition to the D&D canon.

Synads appeared in the first edition [[Fiend Folio]] and again in[[Complete Psionic]] and [[Dragon Magazine]] #314.

==Official Fluff==
Synads seem unsocial to the naive. In truth, each synad is a group unto himself, composed of three fully independent minds that are fused into a cooperating whole. While most races suffer the crushing loneliness of a wholly closed-off mind, synads reap the benefits of combined thought, cooperative planning, and multiple viewpoints on each new task or topic.

'''Personality:''' While synads have wildly varying personalities, their threefold minds give the race recognizable personality traits. A synads threefold mind is composed of parts that are often referred to as the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. In most activities, the overmind controls the synad's actions. However, sometimes the collective or the oracle - the parts known as the submind - rises to the surface, either bypassing the overmind or mentally advising it on topics the submind is more suited to understand.

'''Physical Description:''' In the bright light of day, a synad passes for a tall, slim human. In dim light, however, out of the corner of an observer's eye, a synad sometimes appears as a humanoid with three heads. The normal head appears bracketed by two ghostly heads completely "devoid of hair, eyes, ears, mouth, or nose. This happens only if the synad has exhausted all its power points for the day. For this reason, most synads avoid draining their power point reserve, lest their true nature be revealed. Synads typically stand just over 6 feet tall and weigh about 170 pounds, with males somewhat taller and heavier than females. Synads are typically hairless. They have pale skin, large, dark eyes, and long, expressive fingers. They dress commonly but enjoy impressive, flamboyant headwear.

'''Relations:''' Synads mix with members of other races, especially humans. Sometimes those relations change suddenly when another creature gains insight into a synad's true nature, so synads try to avoid dim light when possible, or else they prepare their comrades by revealing the truth about their heritage.

'''Alignment:''' Synads do not tend toward any particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

'''Synad Lands:''' Synads hail from a parallel world accessible through the Plane of Shadow. The few who dwell on the Material Plane prefer to forget their world of origin, claiming that monstrosities of the mind roam there unhindered.

'''Religion:''' Synads often worship Fharlanghn, drawn to his aspect as a traveler. Those who have escaped their homeworld give credit to the deity for showing them a way through.

'''Language:''' Synads speak Common and their own unique language.

'''Names:''' Synad names vary greatly, mainly because synads have thrown off their original ways and adopted human culture. They draw their names from the names of humans in the area where they have settled. Synads who mate and produce children often name them after local heroes or great leaders.

'''Adventurers:''' Synad adventurers are akin to humans in their daring and ambition. Because a synad's threefold mind can withstand mental effects (such as charm person and dominate person) that might leave another creature drooling or subservient, the race has a reputation for great toughness of mind.

==PC Stats==
::Aberration: As aberrations, even though they can appear human, synads are not subject to spells or effects that affect only humanoids.
::Medium: Synads have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
::Darkvision out to 60 feet.
::Synad base land speed is 30 feet.
::Naturally Psionic: Synads gain 3 bonus power points at 1st level, one each for the overmind, the collective, and the oracle. This does not grant synads the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
::Threefold Mind (Su): The threefold synthesis of mind, controlled by the overmind, grants synads an advantage when resisting mental attacks. They gain a +2 bonus on Will saving throws.
::Oracle (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the oracle grants him a daily precognitive edge. This translates into a +2 insight bonus that the synad can apply at any time to an initiative check, attack roll, or saving throw. In the case of an attack roll or saving throw, the synad can elect to apply the bonus to the roll or save after he determines whether his unmodified roll misses. A synad can apply only one precognitive edge per day.
::Collective (Su): The part of a synad's mind known as the collective allows him to tap into a racial network of knowledge and information. A synad can spend 1 power point as a free action to gain a +2 bonus on any Knowledge or Psicraft check he makes.
::Multitask (Su): A synad's threefold mind can temporarily separate, allowing him to take more than a single mental action during his turn. Once per day, a synad can spend 1 power point to gain a swift action that he can use to take any purely mental action. Examples include manifesting a psionic power or making a Knowledge, Psicraft, or other check requiring only mental cogitation. However, a synad can use his extra mental action to manifest a power only if the normal actions allowed to him during the round do not also involve manifesting a power.
::Automatic Languages: Common and Synad. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic). The portion of a synad's mind known as the collective exposes him to a wide range of languages.
::Favored Class: Any. A multiclass synad's first chosen new class does not count when determining whether he takes an XP penalty for multiclassing.

==See Also==
*[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition races]]

[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons Races]]

Fiend Folio

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The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity. They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

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{{Game Infobox
|name = Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
|picture = [[Image:AD&Dlogo.gif|200px]]
|type = [[RPG]]
|publisher = [[TSR]]
|authors = [[Gary Gygax]]
|year = 1977 (1st Edition)<br>1989 (2nd Edition)
|books = [[DMG|Dungeon Master's Guide]]<br>[[PHB|Player's Handbook]]<br>[[Monster Manual]]
}}
'''''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''''' was developed from the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' game in the late 1970s. It allowed for more versatility in making characters and more detail and depth than the basic game had. Not to be confused with Adult Dungeons and Dragons. That would be a FATAL mistake.

==AD&D 1st Edition==
[[Image:AD&D1stprint.jpg|thumb|The original AD&D 1e Players Handbook]]
D&D went all over the place. There were tons of books and finding rules for everything was sometimes a chore. Especially the options that separated race and class, alignments, and finding all the monsters stats [[Old School Roleplaying|could send you through 30 books.]] [[Gary Gygax]] saw fit to begin compiling all of the info into easy to search, themed books.

===Monster Manual===
He started with the ''Monster Manual'' (1977), going through all of the books he could find and compiling them into one book that was usable in D&D, alphabetized, with illustrations and in hardback. The book was still usable with D&D so nobody raged at this.

===Player's Handbook===
Next came the ''Players Handbook'' ([[PHB]]) in 1978, which compiled all the races found in Blackmoor and [[Greyhawk]], and all of the classes. It eased up on the default classes for non-humans. It added more options, detail and equipment, and allowed you to create a character that was technically usable in D&D. It was still compatible and there was no [[rage]].

===Armor Class===
The scale went from 10 to -10 on armor class, this being a choice made to incorporate the d20 in an approximation of ''Chainmail'''s combat system. Armor class was essentially representative of a bonus to the attacker. Unarmored targets gave a 10 point bonus, Heavily armored targets gave less of a bonus, and super heavily armored (or extremely agile) targets could impose negatives to the attack roll.

===Dungeon Master's Guide===
The meat and potatoes of the game along with all those nifty new rules in the PHB, came in the DMG. Guidelines for creating dungeons, populating them, filling them with treasure, combat matrices for characters and monsters, and wrapped all the stuff that seemed arbitrary in the MM and [[PHB]] up into a solid RPG.

[[Image:AD&D2ndprint.jpg|thumb|left|A later print with the alternate cover.]]
===Other books, and more===
Soon more books came out for AD&D: ''[[Fiend Folio]]'', ''Deities'' and ''Demigods'', ''[[The Manual of the Planes]]'', ''[[Oriental Adventures]]'', ''Unearthed Arcana'', ''Survival Guides'', etc.

===Gameplay===
''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' played much like the original D&D game (not to be confused with Basic, which was not fully compatible) which consisted of playing the role of your character, and resolving actions with a chance of failure by using dice.
Players first create a character using the rules found in the PHB. The Dungeon Master then inserts the characters as appropriate in his campaign, whether homemade or manufactured world or a simple module or one shot adventure.

===History and Longevity===
Depending on how you count, AD&D 1E came out in 1977 or 1979. It lasted to 1989, which means it lived to the ripe old age of 10-12, which is actually pretty old for an RPG (albeit, not one that costs so much, to be fair; other RPGs that offer core in a single volume are usually much cheaper than AD&D, even then). It saw many issues in that time, from being falsely linked to a boy's disappearance in 1979, being linked to a suicide (google Patricia Pulling) and being the centerpiece for the now infamous Chick Tract [[Dark Dungeons]]. Still through it all, TSR saw money come in. When issues arose in the company between Gygax and two other board members, one of the board members sold his stock to an [[Lorraine Williams|ungrateful manager that Gygax had hired]], and rather than ride a ship he thought would sink, Gygax sold his stock to the rapacious she-bitch as well. In 1989, the decision came to publish a new version of AD&D, ostensibly to limit Gygax's royalties.

==AD&D 2nd Edition==
[[Image:AD&D2E1stprint.jpg|thumb|AD&D 2nd edition's first print.]]
This edition added a whole lot of modular rules and fluff material. The core methodology of 1E was still in place, slightly more basic in scope. It also added a huge amount of optional rules from ''Unearthed Arcana'' and the ''Survival Guide'' books. For the most part, the core books work as described above, so this is what's different:

===THAC0===
2E took the combat matrices and made them uniform in function. Every class or kit in the game falls under one of 4 categories, and each category has a different rate of improvement. Fighters, obviously, get the best rate, while non-physical fighters get the worst. The statistic used to implement these categories was called THAC0.

'''THAC0''' stands for '''T'''o '''H'''it '''A'''rmor '''C'''lass '''0''' (zero); it's the minimum number you needed to roll on a d20 in order to hit something with AC 0 (which means the lower your THAC0, the better for you). To handle other armor classes, you subtracted the target's AC from your character's THAC0, and then tried to roll at least this number. DMs often did not share the enemy's AC, in which case you would roll a d20, and <s>subtract it from your THAC0 to show the lowest AC that you could hit.</s> wait for the DM to tell you if you hit since it's his job.

Opinions of this mechanic are divided; some say it's overly complicated and non-intuitive (negative ACs being a common argument), while others don't mind all the basic subtraction (also, thac0 progression can just be thought of as to-hit bonus, negating any math besides being able to reverse your added result in order to know what AC you hit). Others just say that no matter how retarded it is, it's preferable to rolling on a table for every attack.

===Complete (insert something here) Handbooks===
There are a lot of people who want to play something unique, detailed and some people who just want the various bits of fluff to help describe their characters. The Complete Series Brown books detailed limited aspects of the 2E game rules, added optional rules, and player kits to play specific versions of a class. Other resource books that used the same format followed, like the Arms and Equipment guide, Of Ships and the Sea, and others. The Historical Reference books (referred to as the green books) allowed players and DMs to approximate historical situations using the AD&D 2E rules.

===Box Sets===
Well, 1E had box sets as well, but they really became prolific in 2E. The box sets offered new worlds, new developments in some worlds, and fluff the likes of which are hard to match even today. ''Masque of The Red Death'', ''Planescape'', and ''Dark Sun'' are notable campaign setting box sets.

[[Image:AD&D2E2ndprint.jpg|thumb|left|AD&D 2nd edition's Revised printing. Only the layout changed.]]
===Where's the Monster Manual?===
Early in the 2E cycle, TSR decided that instead of releasing book after book of monsters, they would sell a huge binder with the basic monsters in it, and sell packs of sheets to fill it with. Each box set would have sheets with monsters specific to the setting in it, and "galleries" of NPCs and special monsters. They called the binder the ''Monstrous Compendium'', and they eventually released a second binder anyway. It was still much cheaper than publishing books. Eventually TSR would listen to demand and release a basic ''Monstrous Manual'' with the most common critters in it. After the cessation of the binder production, new printings of box sets would have little paperback supplements to the monster manuals instead of the punched sheets.

===Devils and Demons===
After the mess from Patricia Pulling and Jack Chick, Lorraine Williams decided to have Demons and Devils pulled from AD&D 2E. The designers snuck them back in, but changed the names to [[Tanar'ri]] and [[Baatezu]]. Most players referred to them as Demons and Devils though, until the new names gained more proliferation in TSR branded novels. (Specifically, ones about a Balor and a Gary Stu munchk-assed Drow.)

At least two 2e supplements (Diablo: The Awakening, which is surprisingly a good supplement for non-Diablo campaigns, aside from the item tables, and Van Richten's Guide to Fiends) make reference to demons, however.

===WHERE ARE DEM 'ALF ORKY GITZ??===
Lorraine thought they were ugly. Seriously. Unpleasantness on the part of the player was nixed. It's the same reason the Assassin class went buh-bye.
Half-orcs made a useless, underpowered return in the Complete Book of Humanoids. A powerful and barely changed version of the assassin shows up in The Scarlet Brotherhood.

===Whoa, at least there's fluff.===
If 1E lacked fluff, 2E had too much. From specific campaign setting spell books like ''Pages from the Mages'', to the ''Book of Artifacts'', ''Encyclopedia Magica'' and the ''Priest and Mage Spell Compendium'' series. You also had Dungeon cards, Racial supplementals, etc. The goal of many of these books was to increase the variety and help DMs create unique and interesting worlds using the examples within as a starting point to make their own. There were no real rules about creating this content due to the designers expecting people to actually think about what they're doing so it was very easy to have DMs make some absolutely broken or truly unique and fun.

===OPTION BOOKS===
The Option series brought in several piecemeal procedures for character and scenario creation. Due to a no-playtesting policy at TSR, many builds under the OPTION books can be horribly broken. Allow these at your own risk, DMs. OPTION Series books are often referred to as 2.5 by newbies looking for some sense of revenge after 2E fans made fun of them when Wizards released 3.5. It's not 2.5; none of the core books are invalidated or changed. The OPTIONs are broken, but they still require the 2E core books and as such are still 2E, much as it pains most fans to admit it. Although there are broken class combinations possible under the Option series assuming the DM ignores the fact that he is supposed to provide oversight (notably, it's possible by not turning the page and reading the additional rules on page 40 of S&M to make a priest character who can use Meteor Swarm as an at-will ability), the series also introduces or reintroduces balanced and archetypal classes such as the Monk, Crusader and Shaman and provides critical special abilities for level 10+ characters. Amongst the latter, the Hardiness ability, usable by fighters, paladins, and rangers, allows those characters to delay more "unfair" attack forms such as instant death, paralysis, energy drain and mind control spells briefly, and then to sleep off the effects. Many aspects of these books, such as Combat & Tactics combat systems, and many of the options from High Level Campaigns, made it into 3e.

===Longevity and History===
The game had amazing product and lots of fluff. However the business plan was pretty shit. The combination of high quality materials, low relative selling cost, the glut of settings and material for them, the broken gameplay issues later on due to the no-playtesting policy, meant that TSR basically wrote its own ticket to failure. Still, the game plodded on for an amazing 11 years until ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]'' was released.

==See also==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]''
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]]''
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]]''
* ''[[Castles & Crusades]]'' - AD&D flavor, 3e simplifications. Actually works.

==Links==
* [http://www.purpleworm.org/rules/ The Purple Worm] AD&D 2nd edition rulebooks from CD-ROM

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Skeleton Warrior

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The '''Skeleton Warrior''' was a short-lived creature in the days of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], appearing in the [[Fiend Folio]]. Created to make up for the fact that monsters couldn't "level up" the way [[adventurer]]s could in those days, the Skeleton Warrior exists to keep the [[skeleton]] relevant for longer.

Fluff-wise, a Skeleton Warrior is an undead [[Fighter]] of considerable level, brought back from the dead as an intelligent, self-aware skeletal undead by an evil [[necromancer]] or demigod, who controls them by trapping their soul in a golden circlet. This circlet can be used to control the Skeleton Warrior, but it will always be watching for a chance to turn on its master and kill them; only by obtaining the circlet can the Skeleton Warrior's soul be released to the afterlife.

Standing as an interim step between skeleton and [[Death Knight]], Skeleton Warriors are extremely tough. Their weapons hit as if they were +3 weapons, they are immune to non-magical weapons themselves, and they have a 90% resistance to magic spells. They exude an aura of fear that causes any creature with less than 5 hit dice to flee at the sight of them, and they are immune to [[cleric]]al turning effects.

The Skeleton Warrior's legacy lives on mostly in the Skeletal Champion template for [[Pathfinder]].

A skeleton warrior named Dekion appeared in an early episode of the [[D&D Cartoon]].

There was also a [[Science Fantasy]] cartoon series in the early 90s (when else?) called "Skeleton Warriors" and it was ''metal as fuck'', with heroic [[knight]]s battling a band of evil warriors who had attempted to seize a magical artifact, only to be transformed into ghastly living skeletons with dark magical powers. Like most 80s-to-mid-90s toons, it had an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ZlpTp_dJA awesome theme song]. [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk4EFPdMalIJPw4xyPXxTFr_nBZ3jm2AM You can check it out here].

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Fiend Folio

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The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow. Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat. They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]. A humanoid killed by a sheet phantom rises as a sheet ghoul. They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
* [[Sheet phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them. Victims killed this way become sheet ghouls.
* [[Shocker]]
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

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2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider. They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]]
* [[Sandman]]
* [[Scarecrow]]
* [[Screaming devilkin]]
* [[Shadow demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]
* [[Sheet phantom]]
* [[Shocker]]
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T03:48:17Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]]. It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them. It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used. They also radiate and aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]]
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]]
* [[Sandman]]
* [[Scarecrow]]
* [[Screaming devilkin]]
* [[Shadow demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]
* [[Sheet phantom]]
* [[Shocker]]
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T03:30:01Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms. They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.
* [[Phantom stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire. They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes. If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them. They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein polymorph]]
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]]
* [[Qullan]]
* [[Retriever]]
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]]
* [[Sandman]]
* [[Scarecrow]]
* [[Screaming devilkin]]
* [[Shadow demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]
* [[Sheet phantom]]
* [[Shocker]]
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T02:17:34Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF:

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid related to the jermlaine. They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], a construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake used as either an assassin or a guardian. They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body. They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]].
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]]
* [[Phantom stalker]]
* [[Poltergeist]]
* [[Protein polymorph]]
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]]
* [[Qullan]]
* [[Retriever]]
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]]
* [[Sandman]]
* [[Scarecrow]]
* [[Screaming devilkin]]
* [[Shadow demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]
* [[Sheet phantom]]
* [[Shocker]]
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
* [[
==3rd Editon==
* [[
==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

[[Category:Game Books]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio

2020-07-08T01:49:38Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* Volume 1: Monsters Benevolent and Benign */

'''Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio''' is a quasi-official PDF-only [[splatbook]] for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], released on the [[Dungeon Master's Guild]]. It is one of several such booklets produced by [[Wizards of the Coast]] to raise money for the charity "Extra Life". Currently, there is only one Fiendish Folio, but its titling scheme suggests a plane to release spin-offs, turning it into a series. As its name suggests, this is an update of assorted monsters from the original [[Fiend Folio]], giving them new stats and lore.

==Volume 1: Monsters Benevolent and Benign==
The title is a total lie, as almost none of the monsters in this volume are either of those things.

This volume contains the following monsters:
* [[Assassin Bug]]
* [[Blindheim]]
* [[Crab Folk]] (originally Crabmen)
* [[Dire Corby]]
* [[Eye of Fear and Flame]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Fog Giant]]
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Khagra]]
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Mite]]
* [[Needlefolk]] (originally Needlemen)
* [[Norker]]
* [[Screaming Devilkin]]
* [[Ygorl]] ([[Slaad]] lord)
* [[Xill]]

[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Sourcebook]]

Fiend Folio

2020-07-08T01:46:29Z

2601:203:480:4C60:9CE5:3EE1:2DD4:83BF: /* 1st Edition */

The '''Fiend Folio''' was a 1981 [[Monster Manual]]-like book for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. It served to gather up the various monsters that had been submitted to TSR works but not made the MM itself as of its 1978 edition - for instance, [[kuo-toa]], [[svirfneblin]] and of course the official full writeup of [[drow]]. Most came out of [[White Dwarf]]'s [[Fiend Factory]] as of then. Many of the latter monsters are laughable crap, like the [[Xvart]] which sounds like Fart, so have fallen into obscurity or - like the [[Flumph]] - notoriety.

But a few gems do appear amongst the dross: usually cited here, Charles Stross' badass [[Githyanki]] and [[Githzerai]]. We could also shout-out to the Dark Ones, the Creepers and Stalkers. Who knows why later publishers didn't publish stuff featuring those guys, they were fucking sweet.

A 3rd-party company called Necromancer Games vaguely affiliated with [[White Wolf]] released a spiritual successor to the Fiend Folio in "The Tome of Horrors", which adapted many, if not all, of these monsters to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]. WotC for 3e did its own Fiend Folio, figuring that was a decent brand for niche monsters - so Caryatid Columns and those Dark Ones were here. Others were brought back for [[Pathfinder]]. With the release of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], many of these monsters are starting to be revived and return to the spotlight. The [[Lava Children]], Flumph, and [[Berbalang]] all entered the canon here, among others. 5th edition also has a new series of PDF supplements called [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]] which updates even more obscure monsters from the original Fiend Folio to 5th edition.

=List of Monsters=
(Under construction)
==1st Edition==
* [[Aarakocra]]
* [[Achaierai]] a giant evil bird with a spherical body and 4 long legs it attacks with.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Alaex]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a mass of intelligent algae.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], a killer rabbit with a unicorn's horn.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to scare people to death.
* [[Assassin bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs. The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds.
* [[Astral searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane. During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons. If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item. They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings. Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back. Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Imix
** Ogrémoch
** Olhydra
** Yan-C-Bin
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat. Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of fear and flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]]
* [[Fire snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the gnoll that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold. They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]], a small winged gremlin that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood. If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring. [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]]
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** Fog giant
** Mountain giant
* [[Giant strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head. Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]
* [[Githzerai]]
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Beholder|Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster. Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai. Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure. It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings. It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar fox]], a fox with ice breath. They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook horror]]
* Giant hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of ill omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds. There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way. This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights. Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon. They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them. Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] noble
* [[Lava children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals. They are size of a man but look like children. They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics. They are immune to earth and fire magic. Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]]
* [[Magnesium spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home. They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process. The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain. If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it. Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''. They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord.
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts. If the entrance to their layer is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them. They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings. When the party is sleeping, they will attack and carry off the chosen target back to their layer to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]]
** Fire mephit
** Lava mephit
** Smoke mephit
** Steam mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]]
* [[Necrophidius]]
* [[Needleman]]
* [[Nilbog]]
* [[Nonafel]]
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]]
* [[Osquip]]
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]]
* [[Pernicon]]
* [[Phantom stalker]]
* [[Poltergeist]]
* [[Protein polymorph]]
* [[Quaggoth]]
* [[Quipper]]
* [[Qullan]]
* [[Retriever]]
* [[Revenant]]
* [[Rothé]]
* [[Sandman]]
* [[Scarecrow]]
* [[Screaming devilkin]]
* [[Shadow demon]]
* [[Sheet ghoul]]
* [[Sheet phantom]]
* [[Shocker]]
* [[Skeleton warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]]
** Blue slaad
** Death slaad
** Green slaad
** Grey slaad
** Red slaad
** Ssendam - Lord of the Insane
** Ygorl - Lord of Entropy
* [[Synad]]
* Son of [[Kyuss]]
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]]
* [[Svirfneblin]]
* [[Slime|Symbiotic jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]]
* [[Terithran]]
* [[Thoqqua]]
* [[Thork]]
* [[Throat leach]]
* [[Tiger fly]]
* [[Tirapheg]]
* [[Trilloch]]
* [[Troll]]
** Giant troll
** Giant two-headed troll
** Ice troll
** Spirit troll
* [[Tween]]
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]]
** Black urchin
** Green urchin
** Red urchin
** Silver urchin
** Yellow urchin
* [[Vision]]
* [[Vodyanoi]]
* [[Volt]]
* [[Vortex]]
* [[Whipweed]]
* [[Witherstench]]
* [[Witherweed]]
* [[Xill]]
* [[Xvart]]
* [[Yellow musk creeper]]
* [[Yellow musk zombie]]

==2nd Edition==
2rd Edition's version of the Fiend Folio was the 14th volume of the [[Monstrous Compendium]] series.
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==3rd Editon==
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==5th Edition==
See [[Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio]].

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Zelatar

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'''Zelatar''' is [[Graz'zt]]'s capital city, crossing over the three (3) layers of Azzagrat, #45-47 of the [[Abyss]]. Zelatar is considered one of the safest (although still dangerous to the unprepared) and most civilized spots in all the Abyss (although that's admittedly not saying much).

This makes it incredibly (for) popular for those wanting to deal in all the illegal goodies one can only hope to find in the Abyss - which is how its [[Demon Prince]] likes it. The only things forbidden in this city are restraint and kindness.

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Displacer Beast

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The '''Displacer Beast''' is a long-running monster from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] game. A rip-off of a monster from a 1939 short science fiction story (A.E. van Vogt's "Black Destroyer") called the Coeurl, this monster resembles an oversized panther with extra legs (two or three sets of forelimbs, one pair of hindlimbs), and squid-like tentacles sprouting from its shoulders. Its name stems from an innate affinity for [[illusionist|illusion magic]]; displacer beasts can "displace" their image, producing an illusory duplicate of themselves that mirrors everything they do, but which is positioned several feet away from where it actually is. Thus, melee attackers are tricked into aiming at the wrong spot whilst coming within reach of its wickedly hooked tentacles.

The displacer beast has been in literally every single D&D edition that's ever existed; first appearing in the [[Greyhawk]] supplement in 1975, it appeared in both Advanced D&D (Monster Manual for 1e, Monstrous Compendium Volume 1 and Monstrous Manual for 2e) and in Basic/Expert (Basic Set, Expert Set, D&D Game Set, Rules Cyclopedia, Adventure Game Set). From 3rd edition through to 5th, it appeared in the first Monster Manual for each edition. Meanwhile White Dwarf #18 up and put the Coeurl right back in the game, only to be cockblocked by the rest of the hobby.

They had an "Ecology of the Displacer Beast" article for AD&D 1e in [[Dragon Magazine]] #109.

For AD&D up to 3e displacer beasts were evil, savage monsters; sapient as any humanoid, but with a perverse love of killing and inflicting suffering especially to [[blink dogs]]. In the Expert set, they were just lolcats. 4e allowed they were still dangerous, but not outright evil - the 4e version is actually a [[fey]] creature, a magical big cat originating from the [[Feywild]]. In other editions, it's a magical beast and just happens to be running around in your campaign setting.

The first edition [[Fiend Folio]] includes the Kamadan, a relative of the disaplacer beast that looks like a leopard with venomous snakes growing from its neck and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon. [[Lords of Madness]] introduced a monster called the hound of the gloom which may also be a relative of the displacer beast, which looks like a monstrous dog with a mane of tentacles, two of which have claws, and two more tentacles in place of a tail. Although the hound of the gloom is an aberration instead of a magical beast.

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Fiend Folio

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Fiend Folio

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Fiend Folio

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Fiend Folio

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Fiend Folio

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