- Hardcover: 127 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (1 Jan 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0935696210
- ISBN-13: 978-0935696219
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 21.3 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 308,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An alphabetical listing of monsters for use with advanced dungeons & dragons adventures, including attacks, damage, special abilities and descriptions; random encounter tales by level; and more.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Fiend Folio was one of the most original releases from TSR(UK)Ltd in the early days of Dungeons and Dragons before commercialism took over the industry.
This is a classic collection of strange and wonderful creatures created for the classic role-play game of Dragons, elves dwarves and goblins created by TSR in the late 70's. The unique qualities possessed by this book was that the majority of the creative input was not by the 'professionals' or from historical base/myth or legend, but from the normal individuals who submitted work through a role-play magazine in the UK called White Dwarf in a small article called Fiend Factory.
For use with the classic 2nd edition of advanced dungeons and dragons game we find inside the covers of this manual detail on many creatures from the Aarakocra (Bird man) through to the Yellow musk Zombie. Each creature is detailed in its race, abilities, languages and full statistics for use in the game.
This is now a classic collector’s item but still finds its way back into the game when you require something unexpected to surprise that jaded player of the game who has seen everything.
For all serious players / collectors I would recommend the purchase of this item to complete your collection.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Excellent source of monsters for 1st Edition AD&D
2 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
The Fiend Folio, if you can still find it, is an excellent source of monsters "malevolent and benign," but mostly malevolent. It introduces many creatures which are staples to 2nd edition AD&D, such as the githzerai and githyanki (from Planescape) and the Death Knight (from Krynn/Dragonlance). It has an excellent mix of extraplanar and standard monsters, so it will be suitable for any level campaign. However, I would recommend it especially highly if you were running a campaign that dealt with the Elemental planes, because this has very detailed information on Mephits and the Elemental Princes, as well as other incidental elemental creatures. All in all, it makes an excellent creature sourcebook for those of you still dedicated to 1st edition AD&D.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful
An inferior UK cousin
13 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
Fiend Folio is a second tome of monsters for the AD&D first edition game. It came after the original Monster Manual, but before Monster Manual II.
While the monsters in the Monster Manuals are primarily authored by Gary Gygax, the monsters in the Fiend Folio are created by players of the game itself in the United Kingdom. In truth, the book is a compilation of other people's creations, and some monsters (namely from the D series) from AD&D modules.
That said, Fiend Folio feature some monsters that survives to this day in the 3rd edition: the slaad, kenku, githyanki, githzerai, aarakocra, achaierai, bullywug, the ever popular death knight, mephits, gibberlings, grimlocks, penaggalan, to name a few.
Not to mention there aren't stinkers...there are a whole bunch of monsters of questionable worth, like the flumph, an unsually aligned (lawful good) thing that was once voted the most useless monster in AD&D, the gambado, the garbug (wasp bodies lobsters(!), forst men, tirapheg, umpleby, adherers, just to name a few.
There are also a few standouts like the Elemental Princes of Evil, and the nilbog (goblin spelt backward).
One big downer however, is the art. Although there are a few by old time favs like Jeff Dee and Erol Otus, but too many are by other artists whose style are too violently graphic and lack the fantasy feel of the first monster manual.
Overall, Fiend Folio is good, but not as good as Monster Manual.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
GREAT!
30 Jan 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Had this book years ago. For early edition lovers, this is a good book to add to the collection. Has many strange creatures that the Monster Manuels do not have. I got this book quickly and in great condition, it was like brand new.
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