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