#Fiend Folio

[vintagerpg]

The release of the Fiend Folio Appendix (1992) felt like a victory for reasons I can’t quite explain. I think, maybe, because on some level we realized that the original Fiend Folio was seen as an unpopular 1E D&D book because it didn’t get an orange spine reprint (or perhaps it was somehow forbidden, like the earliest editions of Deities & Demigods, with the Cthulhu and Elric material?). Perhaps all that gory Russ Nicholson art made it totemic of the aspects of 1E that were now, thanks to the angry moms, deemed unseemly? I don’t remember and even if I did, I am not sure it would make real sense.

Whatever the reason, the Fiend Folio was back. This appendix collected, give or take, all the monsters from the original folio that had not already been Compendiumified (grell, for instance, where in the Greyhawk appendix). There are some that, flipping through, seem new, mostly filler like the darter, a type of lizard, or the scathe, a kind of evil icy gliding humanoid amphibian? I dunno man, Fiend Folio was always for weirdos, I’m OK with it, plus the illustration is by Steve Bisette. The rest of the art is by the Tom Baxa and Mark Nelson tag team, and just about all of it is tightly done. Nelson seem particularly on his game. That hellcat? The retriever? A+.

The Easley cover is very nice, probably the brightest and most colorful of the lot (which is maybe ironic, considering how much heavy black ink is inside the original Folio, but the original Emmanuel cover is pretty colorful now that I’m thinking about it). I believe the pale fellow is a fog giant, in the middle is the kamadan and the right is a xill. Mindbogglingly: there is no page or attributes for the kamadan inside! How do you mess that up?!

[oldschoolfrp]

Psst, hey, c'mere, I got some pictures to show you (Russ Nicholson, AD&D Fiend Folio, TSR, 1981) This illustration from the book's title page looks like a forlarren, a descendant of a good nymph and an evil greater demon, torn between alternately attacking and befriending strangers.

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tboi blinkies for @snuggelina!!!

[nyctoxi]

Fiend Revelations gaming 😈❤️🎮

[baldursgateconceptart]

Githyanki

Art for Fiend Folio

Art by Russ Nicholson

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@heeblybeebly

hmm... why's one of my fiends red

[ofleafstructure]

Githyanki illustration from Fiend Folio (1981) by Russ Nicholson

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minibobs

[sonicluxhedgeman]

Been playing Binding of Isaac (Fiend Folio obviously because it's awesome) non stop lately and I just felt like drawing this! I'm gonna try and draw the rest of the characters like this, maybe call it the Mr Dolly series and turn these into stickers/keyrings? :3 hope y'all like!

[wyrdzpiral]

Day 25 - "Wings"

This might well be the nichest thing in the challenge but god, I love the critters from Fiend Folio (a TBOI mod) so much and I just. wannadraw

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Fishaac

LOVE IT.

Why here fishaac's fanart is so little

[oldschoolfrp]

Selections from my Russ Nicholson tag

[dreamingfifi]

people REALLY liked the last post of me posting shit from an old project. how about i do that again in order: - queen piece (oc) - options (frums song oc) - edith (antibirth) + cacophobia (fiend folio) - her again (imscared) - me (character name, ynfg is also titled me) based around like weirdcore or something idk - yomika (dream graffiti) as a bonus heres a colored version of the me (again thats the character's name fr) design under the cut

[nyctoxi]

Bertran and Fiend stuff bc me and my sibling were playing those two and it was a blast. I love how many tboi mods try to be compatible with eachother too

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[grotesqueoldwoman]

Fiend Folio Redesigns

(this is what the government is hiding from you)