Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Fiend Folio [Hardcover]

Gary Gygax (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Random House Inc (T) (June 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394515390
• ISBN-13: 978-0394515397
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,592,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cult book from the British staff of TSR, June 25, 2000

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"derro" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Fiend Folio (Hardcover)

The AD&D Fiend Folio, is the most in demand book from the original 1st edition game. The reason for that is clear when you compare it with the two other Monster Manual book (I &II). The Fiend Folio's monsters are a lot more original than those of the 1st Monster Manual and the book has the cohesion that was missing in the interesting, but uneven Monster Manual II. There is a dark twist to the monsters included in this book that you wont find in most other monster compendium. Even the more recent Ravenloft monster compendium have not matched that dark spirit of creativity. This book shouldn't be the first monster manual a DM buys, but experienced players will certainly find it is the most rewarding of them all...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique collection of 1st edition monsters, several by Gygax, May 1, 2000

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Kent David Kelly "Author & Anthologist" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Fiend Folio (Hardcover)

Here's the classic collection of monsters from the UK - also including the first hardcover appearance of many Gygax creations, such as Lolth, the Drow, Daemons, and more! Contains hundreds of illustrations, and many monsters that are hard to find these days - the Styx Devil, Elemental Princes of Evil, and many, many others. This tome was never matched for UK-style adventure hooks... highly recommended!

4.0 out of 5 stars Diversity, Depth, & Drama, May 6, 1998

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This review is from: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Fiend Folio (Hardcover)

The Fiend Folio: Tomb of creatures malevolent & benign is a great compendium of creatures with well written and drawn descriptions of who the monsters are and why they do the things they do. This is a combination of the author's creations and the cream of hundreds of player's ideas that were submitted to be in the book. I especially like the fact that many of the creatures come from the minds of the people who play this game! It creates a wide diversity of creatures that are good, evil, and just plain strange.