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Originally posted here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/10/monstrous-mondays-fiend-folio-3e.html
Fiend Folio (3e)
PDF and Hardcover. 226 pages. Color covers and interior art.
This is the third "Fiend Folio" we have gotten for xD&D over the last 20+ years. Like the first one for 1st Ed AD&D, this one is a hardcover book. Like the second one for 2nd AD&D, this one expands the list of monsters.
This Fiend Folio lives up to its title a little bit more by giving us a lot more fiends. There are demons and devils here as well as the demodands (originally from the AD&D Monster Manual II). Here they get the alignment of "often Neutral Evil." There are plenty of new demons and devils here too.
There are some Fiend Folio "repeats" here, or my updates is the better term.Just eyeballing it there is the Blood Hawk, Caryatid Column, Dark Creeper and Stalker, Death Dog, Disenchanter, Flame/Fire Snake, Fossergrim, Huecuva (now a template), Iron Cobra, Kelpie, Necrophidius, Skulk, Slaad, Yellow Musk Creeper, and Zombie.
No flumphs though.
There are also plenty of new monsters too, like the Bacchae and Feytouched which are fun. All in all 167 monsters for D&D 3.0 (3.5 is still a couple of months off). We are a point in the 3.x development cycle where the monsters still run from one to the next, like the original Fiend Folio.
This book also includes some Prestige Classes, some Grafts and Symbionts,
There was a free "Web Enhancement" back when this was new called Fiendish Fun which extended some of the ideas in the Fiend Folio. It is still out there thanks to Archive.org.
This is one of the books I consider central for a D&D 3.x horror campaign. The rest, well that is what the rest of this month is for.
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