Fiend Folio
AD&D 1st Edition Fiend Folio, featuring a githyanki on the cover
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| Editor | Don Turnbull |
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| Genre | Role-playing game |
| Publisher | TSR |
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1981 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 128 |
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| OCLC | 11291023 |
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| LC Class | GV1469.D8 F54 1981 |
D&D 3rd Edition Fiend Folio
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| Authors | Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, James Jacobs, Erik Mona, Matt Sernett, Chris Thomasson, and James Wyatt |
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| Genre | Role-playing game |
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
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2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 224 |
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Fiend Folio is any of three products published for successive editions of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). All three are collections of monsters, making each Fiend Folio a sequel to that edition's version of the Monster Manual.
The bulk of the material in the first edition came from the British gaming magazine White Dwarf, rather than being authored by Gary Gygax, the game's co-creator. Readers and gamers had submitted creatures to the "Fiend Factory" department of the magazine, and the most highly regarded of those appearing in the first thirteen issues were selected to be in the publication.
Games Workshop, with Don Turnbull editing the project, originally intended to produce and publish the Fiend Folio tome () in late 1979. The Fiend Folio was intended to be the second volume of the Monster Manual, and would be officially recognized by TSR as an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons product, with the monsters mostly taken from submissions to White Dwarf's "Fiend Factory" column. At the time, Games Workshop was the holder of the license to publish D&D game products in the United Kingdom. Although the manuscript was completed on time by editor Don Turnbull, a business dispute between Games Workshop and TSR Hobbies delayed publication of the book for nearly two years. The Fiend Folio was finally published in August 1981 by TSR itself, who used the product to launch its UK division.
Much of the material for the 128-page hardcover Fiend Folio was drawn from early issues of White Dwarf. Also edited by Turnbull, the magazine's "Fiend Factory" column featured new AD&D monsters, many of them created by gamers who read the magazine. The bulk of monsters in the Fiend Folio come from British contributors, all of whom are acknowledged in the index. The book used the same format as that of the Monster Manual, clearly and succinctly defining the each monster's specifications and abilities. Many of the illustrations were previously featured in the "Fiend Factory" column as well. Besides creatures from the column, jermlaine, drow, kuo-toa, and svirfneblin, all of which had previously appeared in TSR modules, were included. Turnbull also included creatures that had been submitted to the magazine, but not published in the column. Aside from monsters, the book included random encounter tables for dungeons, outdoors, and the Astral and Ethereal Planes; these encounter tables combined creatures from the Monster Manual and Fiend Folio, superseding the tables in the Dungeon Master's Guide.
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