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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that like human flesh.
* [[Blood hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]]
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]]
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones.
* [[Booka]]
* [[Booka]], a small and ugly but helpful creature that lives in peoples attics.
* [[Bullywug]]
* [[Bullywug]] frog people
* [[Bunyip]]
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws.
* [[Carbuncle]]
* [[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]]
* [[Caryadit column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life.
* [[Caterwaul]]
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.
* [[Cifal]]  
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]]
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer corpse]]
* [[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
* [[Crabman]]
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt thing]]
* [[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]]
* [[Dakon]]
* [[Dark creeper]]
* [[Dark creeper]]

Revision as of 22:30, 6 July 2020

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

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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