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* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[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.
* [[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]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark creeper]]
* [[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]]
* [[Dark stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death dog]]
* [[Death dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death knight]]
* [[Death knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]]
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.
* [[Devil]]
* [[Devil]]
** Styx 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]]
* [[Devil dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]]
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]]
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]]
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents consentration.
* [[Oriental dragon]]
* [[Oriental dragon]]
** Li lung
** Li lung
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** T'ien lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]]
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back.  Don't step on them.
* [[Dune stalker]]
* [[Dune stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** Cryonax
** Cryonax

Revision as of 23:10, 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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