- Hardcover: 127 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (December 1981)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0935696210
- ISBN-13: 978-0935696219
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 21.3 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #339,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent source of monsters for 1st Edition AD&D, April 2 2000
By Henry Bent - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fiend Folio: Tome of Creatures Malevolent and Benign (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
3.0 out of 5 stars
An inferior UK cousin, Mar 12 2002
By Kendrik Lau - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fiend Folio Tome (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
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT!, Jan 30 2010
By George E. Duffy Jr. - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Fiend Folio Tome (Hardcover)
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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