Editing Fiend Folio (section)

==1st Edition==

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* [[Aarakocra]] Big Bird, a Fiend Factory guy.
* [[Achaierai]] Another Big Bird, here infernal. Has a spherical body with no neck and tiny wings and four long metallic legs it attacks with.  They can release poison smoke when badly injured.  This should give you a good idea of the kinds of monsters that are to follow.
* [[Adherer]], a weird creature that looks like a mummy but sweats glue.
* [[Aleax]], a personification of a god's anger that resembles a duplicate of the person it has been sent to punish.
* [[Algoid]], a humanoid that actually is a colony of intelligent algae.  They can use mind blast and can control trees like a [[treant]].  They are immune to psionic attacks, edged weapons of less than +2 quality, fire, and electricity, but take damage from some spells that affect water.
* [[Al-mi'raj]], the Arabian-folklore unicorn-bunneh. Actually kind of cute here; becomes more WTF in later editions.
* [[Apparition]], an undead that cannot cause physical harm, so it tries to BOO! people to death.
* [[Assassin Bug]], giant flies that attack humans in male/female pairs.  The male paralyzes the victim so that the female can lay their eggs in their wounds. First of several xenomorphs to follow.
* [[Astral Searcher]], a spirit formed from violent thoughts that attacks people psychically to destroy their mind to it can posses their body.
* [[Babbler]], a mutated form of lizard man.
* Giant bat, just a giant bat.
* [[Berbalang]] an ugly bat winged humanoid that spends most of its time with its body dormant while its spirit hunts on the astral plane.  During the full moon it instead hunts on the physical plane by sending out a physical projection of itself.
* [[Blindheim]], a frog-like creature with brightly shining eyes.
* [[Blood Hawk]], a bird of prey that likes human flesh.
* Giant [[Bloodworm]], just a giant blood sucking worm.
* [[Bonesnapper]] a dinosaur that like to collect human bones. Is it ''that'' different from the Babbler...?
* [[Booka]] is Dobby The House Elf, who prefers attics.
* [[Bullywug]] frog people WHO ARE EVERYWHERE
* [[Bunyip]], a seal like creature with strong jaws from Australia.
* [[Carbuncle]], a strange creature with a jewel on its head that follows travelers around and tries to get them killed for its amusement.
* [[Caryatid Column]], a stone pillar shaped like a woman holding a sword that can come to life. Illustration was full frontal nudity.
* [[Caterwaul]], a chaotic evil feline predator with blue fur.  They have a powerful screech for a breath weapon.
* [[Cifal]], a tightly packed swarm of insects that forms a humanoid shape.
* [[Clubnek]], a giant mutant ostrich.
* [[Coffer Corpse]], an undead creature that can only be damaged with magical weapons.  If you hit it with non-magical weapons with will pretend to be damaged and fall down, only to get up again and scare you
* [[Crabfolk|Crabman]], humanoids with hard shells and crab claws instead of hands.
* [[Crypt Thing]], an undead guardian that teleports intruders to random places, or paralyzes them and turns them invisible, but claims that it disintegrated them. Not listed as evil; he's a mix of "plot device" and "dick". In other words, he's the DM.
* [[Dakon]], Lawful neutral talking apes.
* [[Dark Creeper]] small humanoid that love to steal magic item.  They have the abilities of a 4th level thief and creating magical darkness and detecting magic items.
* [[Dark Stalker]] taller and stronger leaders of dark creepers that can create walls of fog and explode when they die.
* [[Death Dog]] a two headed dog with a bite that spreads a deadly rotting disease.
* [[Death Knight]], a powerful undead created from a fallen paladin transformed into a lich.
* [[Demon]]
** [[Lolth]], the demon queen of spiders.
* [[Denzelian]], a peaceful creature resembling a large sheet of rock that slowly eats through rock, creating tunnels.  May have been stolen from [[Star Trek]].
* [[Devil]]
** Styx devil, a humanoid devil with a oversized head and black wings.  Their attacks have a chance of inflicting the imprisonment spell on their target.
* [[Devil Dog]], a chaotic evil hound that uses its white fur to blend into snow.
* [[Dire Corby]], a flightless humanoid bird that lives underground.
* [[Disenchanter]], a tapir like creature that sucks the magic out of magic items
* [[Doombat]], an evil giant bat with a barbed tail and a shriek that prevents concentration.
* [[Oriental Dragon]]
** Li lung
** Lung wang
** Pan lung
** Shen lung
** T'ien lung
** Yu lung
* [[Dragonfish]] a well camouflaged fish with poisonous spines on its back.  Don't step on them.  They probably could have just used the stonefish which is a completely real animal that is pretty much the same thing.
* [[Dune Stalker]], an evil humanoid that attacks with powerful vibrations.
* [[Archomental|Elemental princes of evil]]
** [[Cryonax]]
** [[Imix]]
** [[Ogrémoch]]
** [[Olhydra]]
** [[Yan-C-Bin]]
* [[Drow]] [[Elf]]
* [[Enveloper]], a shapeshifting mass of flesh that can copy the abilities of people it eats.
* [[Ettercap]], a humanoid with the ability to generate spider silk, which it uses to make weapons and traps.
* [[Eye Killer]], a monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a bat.  Once per day, it can absorb light from light sources and fire it from its eyes as a death ray.
* [[Eye of Fear and Flame]]
* [[Firedrake]], a [[Dragonet]] with flaming hot blood.
* [[Firenewt]] Religiously fanatical and bipedal salamanders who ride Giant Striders into battle. Honestly pretty badass, deserved more love in the literature.
* [[Fire Snake]], a snake that is only found in fires.
* [[Firetoad]], a toad that hates water and breathes fireballs.
* [[Flail Snail]]
* [[Flind]], a relative of the [[gnoll]] that often leads gnoll packs.
* [[Flumph]]
* [[Forlarren]]
* [[Frost Man]], a humanoid that radiates cold and can lift its eyepatch to fire a cone of cold.  They can have class levels.
* [[Galltrit]],  a small winged "[[gremlin]]" (which hadn't been defined yet, itself) that lives in dirty places and feeds on blood.  If avoided being detected when feeding on victims with its anesthetic saliva.
* [[Gambado]], a very strange monster with a skull for a face that can coil up its body to launch itself like a spring.  [[Gotcha Monster|It ambushes prey by pretending to be a skull sitting on a pile of rocks with its body hidden in a pit behind the pile.]] Like the [[demilich]].
* [[Garbug]], a flying lobster with tentacles that cause paralysis.
** Black Garbug, attacks with a sharp proboscis.
** Violet Garbug, attacks with powerful claws.
* [[Giant]]
** [[Fog Giant]]
** [[Mountain Giant]]
* [[Giant Strider]], a flightless featherless bird that can shoot fireballs from its head.  Fire heals them but they are vulnerable to cold. As noted above Firenewts use them as mounts.
* [[Gibberling]]
* [[Githyanki]]: [[George Martin]]'s and Charles Stross' parable about how people freed from slavery are not necessarily morally superior to their erstwhile oppressors. It won't happen in 1e but this race ''will'' get love from future adventure designers.
* [[Githzerai]] will be even better supported... in that next generation, [[Planescape]] here.
* [[Goldbug]], [[Gotcha Monster|a beetle with a deadly poison bite that looks like a coin.]]
* [[Gorbel]]
* [[Gorilla Bear]], a gorilla with the arms and teeth of a bear.
* [[Grell]]
* [[Grimlock]]
* [[Gryph]], ''another'' evil four legged bird monster.  Not as giant and silly looking as the achaierai.  Females gryphs lay their eggs in people's bodies xenomorph style.
* Guardian [[Daemon]], a daemon that has been summoned and bound to guard a treasure.
* Guardian [[Familiar]], a cat that guards a treasure.  It must be killed 9 times to destroy it, and it gets stronger the more times it has been killed.
* [[Hellcat]], a cat from hell that serves lawful evil beings.  It is only visible in darkness.
* [[Hoar Fox]], a fox with ice breath.  They are resistant to ice and vulnerable to fire, but you will want to avoid using fire because their pelts are very valuable if undamaged.
* [[Hook Horror]]
* Giant Hornet, just a giant hornet.
* [[Hound of Ill Omen]], when a character does something to seriously offend their deity, this hound may appear and put a curse on them that prevents them from healing and quadruples all damage they take until they take a certain number of wounds.  There is no saving throw for this curse, the ''remove curse'' spell is only partially effective and only has any effect if applied immediately, and the hound is impossible to harm in any way.  This probably was put into the book to give DMs a way to more easily kill off misbehaving player characters without having to resort to falling rocks or sending monsters that risk a TPK.
* [[Huecuva]]
* [[Ice Lizard]], a small winged lizard with magical abilities, including the power to turn into a white dragon twice per day.
* [[Imorph]], a weird tentacled slug thing that slowly transforms into a copy of whatever it fights.  Its liver can be used to make a potion of ''polymorph self''.
* [[Iron Cobra]], a powerful construct in the form of a metal snake that obeys its owner's commands. Well it is better than the pig golem in the 'Factory.
* [[Jaculi]], a snake with sharp bones on the sides of its head and the ability to camouflaged itself like a chameleon.  They can only attack by leaping at enemies from above.
* [[Jermlaine]]
* [[Kamadan]], a relative of the [[displacer beast]] that looks like a leopard with several venomous snakes growing from its shoulders and fires a cone of sleep as a breath weapon.
* [[Kelpie]], a shapeshifting seaweed monster that transforms into either a woman or a horse and charms men into drowning themselves so it can feast on them.  Women are immune to its charm.
* [[Kenku]]
* [[Khargra]], a very strange looking fish like creature from the elemental plane of earth that eats metal and can swim through stone.
* [[Killmoulis]]
* [[Kuo-toa]]
* [[Lamia]] Noble
* [[Lava Children]] a hybrid of earth and fire elementals.  They are size of a man but look like children.  They can be warriors, magic users, or clerics.  They are immune to earth and fire magic.  Metal objects cannot touch them and simply pass through them.
* [[Lizardfolk|Lizard king]] The flind of the lizardmen. There's an illustration of them failing to fight Lava Children.
* [[Magnesium Spirit]], a fast moving flame that needs to possess a human in order to cast the spell to let it go home.  They attempt to merge with a human, draining their energy and strength in the process.  The human must be at least 9th level to survive the merging process due to the energy drain.  If it succeeds the body it possesses will vanish with it.  Victims that don't survive can't be resurrected without a powerful such as ''wish''.  They can only be damaged by silver and magic weapons, and can only be damaged by holy water while it is trying to merge with a human.
* [[Mantari]], a flying ray with a stinger tail that does more damage the less constitution the victim has, and does quadruple damage if it hits the same target again the next round.
* [[Meazel]], an ugly humanoid that likes to sneak up on prey from behind and strangle them with a cord. Maybe a Gollum expie before the [[choker]].
* [[Meenlock]], a hideously ugly evil bug creature that lives in underground shafts.  If the entrance to their lair is opened but the party isn't able to get down the tunnel to attack them, a group of meenlocks will start following the party and will start telepathically harassing one of them to slowly weaken them.  They will always choose a paladin as the target if there is one in the party, and if there isn't will select humans over other beings.  When the party is sleeping, they will attack and teleport away with the chosen target back to their lair to be transformed into another meenlock.
* [[Mephit]], breeds of fire-gremlin. The Fiend Factory and, later, [[Planescape]] will expand their range.
** Fire Mephit
** Lava Mephit
** Smoke Mephit
** Steam Mephit
* [[Daemon|Mezzodaemon]]
* [[Mite]], a small humanoid from the 'Factory hereby related to the jermlaine (and snyad).  They set traps for lone adventurers in order to rob them.
* [[Necrophidius]], the award-winning 'Factory construct made from a human skull and the spine of a giant snake. Used as either an assassin (because given Average INT here) or a guardian.  They can hypnotize victims by dancing and their bite causes magic-paralysis.
* [[Needleman]], an intelligent plant that looks like a zombie with the ability to shoot needles out of its body.  They hate elves for some reason.
* [[Nilbog]] ?siht od yhW
* [[Nonafel]], a panther like monster that uses its tail as a flail and has the ability to split itself into up to nine weaker creatures.
* [[Norker]]
* [[Daemon|Nycadaemon]]
* [[Ogrillon]], a hybrid of an [[orc]] and an [[ogre]]. With knobby knuckles.
* [[Osquip]], a rodent the size of a small dog with powerful teeth and extra legs.
* [[Penanggalan|Pĕnanggalan]] purest nightmare fuel from the South China Sea.
* [[Pernicon]], a small grasshopper-like insect that lives in deserts and attacks in swarms.  They suck out the body fluids of victims using the pincers on their tail.  Their antennae can be used for dowsing for water.
* [[Phantom Stalker]], a relative of the invisible stalker from the elemental plane of fire.  They can polymorph but normally appear as a large humanoid with fiery eyes.  If the summoner is killed, it vanishes to the ethereal plane and tracks down the killer and reappears a few hours later to kill them.  They cannot use this ability at will.
* [[Poltergeist]], an invisible undead that attacks by throwing things.
* [[Protein Polymorph]], an intelligent colony of cellular organisms that can [[Gotcha Monster|disguise itself as both living and non living things]].  It attacks by enveloping and crushing enemies or by using weapons if it is disguised as a creature that can use them.  It can also disguise itself as multiple objects or creatures at the same time as long as they remain connected together.
* [[Quaggoth]] the literal-[[bugbear]], we guess. Ends up taking the bugbear niche in the Underdark in (say) [[Night Below]] so, a winner was he.
* [[Quipper]], basically a piranha, but it lives in cold water.
* [[Qullan]], a race of insane humanoids who paint their bodies in bright colors and wield extremely sharp broad swords, although the swords aren't magical and lose their sharpness quickly when used.  They also radiate an aura of confusion and instantly die if they fail a save against being charmed or controlled.
* [[Retriever]], a construct created by [[Demogorgon]] resembling a giant spider.  They have four eye rays, include one that transmutes victims into a random substance.
* [[Revenant]] has come to cut you up, has come to knock you down.
* [[Rothé]], similar to an ox but smaller and lives underground.
* [[Sandman]], a man made of sand who puts people to sleep.
* [[Scarecrow]], an animated scarecrow.  Touching it or meeting its gaze causes victims to be charmed.
* [[Screaming Devilkin]], an [[imp]]-like creature that constantly produces a painfully loud scream while in combat.  They are lawful evil, but are not true devils, as they are native to the material plane.
* Shadow [[Demon]]
* [[Sheet Ghoul]].  A sheet phantom that has successfully killed a humanoid.  They cannot paralyzed victims like a true ghoul, but can spray acid out of their nose.
[[File:Sheet-phantom.jpg|thumb|right|Holy sheet! How terrifying.]]
* [[Sheet Phantom]], a [[wraith]] resembling a bed sheet with a face that attacks by dropping on people and suffocating them.  If they succeed, the sheet phantom merges with the corpse and becomes a sheet ghoul.  Seriously, how old was the person who designed who designed the sheet phantom and sheet ghoul?  5 maybe?
* [[Shocker]], a humanoid that seems to be made of electricity.  They can only attack once before they turn to dust.
* [[Skeleton Warrior]]
* [[Skulk]]
* [[Slaad]], monster frogs from the Chaos realm. Chaotic Neutral, graded on a curve against the other monstrosities in this 'Folio. The lolrandumb shit will come in [[Planescape]].
** Blue Slaad
** Death Slaad
** Green Slaad
** Grey Slaad
** Red Slaad
** [[Ssendam]] - Lord of the Insane
** [[Ygorl]] - Lord of Entropy
* [[Snyad]], another forgettable small ugly humanoid related to the [[jermlaine]].  Don't confuse with the [[Synad]].
* Son of [[Kyuss]], a disease carrying, regenerating, worm infested undead.  People killed by one of its worms rise as another son of Kyuss. [[METAL]]!
* [[Slime|Stunjelly]]
* [[Sussurus]], a strange monster that looks like a headless gorilla with an exoskeleton full of holes.  It constantly sucks air through its body, producing a song that causes undead creatures that hear it to go into a sleep-like state.
* [[Svirfneblin]] the unpronounceable unspellable Deep Gnome from D2.
* [[Slime|Symbiotic Jelly]]
* [[Tabaxi]]
* [[Tentamort]] a spherical creature with short suckered tentacles on one side of its body it uses to move around and two much longer tentacles on the other side it uses to attack.  One of the long tentacles constricts enemies, and the other has a stinger which first paralyzes prey and then injects them with digestive saliva and then sucks out their organs.
* [[Terithran]], a humanoid from the ethereal plane.  Casting powerful magic other than cleric or druid magic on the material plane close to its layer on the ethereal plane makes it angry, and it will try to kidnap and punish the magic user responsible.
* [[Thoqqua]], a burning hot worm monster that tunnels through rock, like a smaller, fiery version of the [[Purple Worm]].
* [[Thork]], a bird resembling a stork, but its feathers are made out of copper, making it valuable.  It defends itself by squirting boiling hot water.
* [[Throat Leech]], a small leech that sucks that sucks blood from the person who accidentally swallows it while drinking from the water it lives in, choking them to death if it isn't removed.
* [[Tiger Fly]], a giant wasp with a human face.  Males have upper arms that end in sickle like blades and a poisonous sting, and females have a paralyzing sting.  They are yet another monster that lays eggs in victims xenomorph style.  The trope is definitely getting overused.
* [[Tirapheg]], an extremely weird monster with three heads, three eyes that are all on the same head with the third on the back of the head, three arms with the third growing from the chest, three fingers that are all on the middle arm, with the other two arms ending in blades, three legs, three toes all on the same legs, its mouth located on its chest under the middle arm, and three small tentacles between the middle arm and the mouth.  Aside from the blades, the only body part it has two of are its ears, also on the middle head.  It can make two illusory copies of itself, but the illusions can do real damage if not recognized as illusions.
* [[Trilloch]], an invisible energy creature that feeds on the dying.  They cannot directly harm anything, but they can make unintelligent creatures more aggressive and attacks become more accurate and damaging in their presence.  The trilloch is impossible to harm, but can be driven away by ''dispel magic''.
* [[Troll]]
** Giant Troll
** Giant Two-Headed Troll
** Ice Troll
** Spirit Troll
* [[Tween]], an Ethereal creature that bonds to a host and appears as a shadowy copy of that host.  It grants the host increased luck, but at the cost of giving bad luck to everyone around them.  Possibly the monster with the stupidest name in the book.
* [[Umpleby]]
* [[Urchin]], sea urchins that can fire their spines as missiles and roll around on land.  Inside of their bodies is a gemstone whose value depends on the type of urchin.
** Black Urchin, the weakest and most common type.
** Green Urchin, stronger and well camouflaged in water
** Red Urchin, third strongest with venom that causes sleep
** Silver Urchin, the strongest type with venom that causes a catatonic trance that can last for days.
** Yellow Urchin, the second strongest type with venom that causes paralysis and is also well camouflaged in water.
* [[Vision]], an ethereal shadow creature that wants to be destroyed so it can return to its home plane so it attacks other creatures to get them to fight back.  It cannot directly cause physical harm, but anybody who sees a vision has a chance of being affected by the illusion that they have suddenly aged ten years.  When a vision is destroyed, the illusionary aging becomes real if the victim fails their save.  They can be damaged by ''bless'' and ''dispel illusion''.
* [[Vodyanoi]], a relative of the [[Umber Hulk]] that looks like a fish man instead of a bug.  They lack the confusing gaze of an umber hulk, but can summon electric eels.
* [[Volt]], a floating ball of hair with bulging eyes, short horns, and a long tail.  It bites people's necks to drain their blood and its tail shocks what it hits with electricity.  Is this pokemon?
* [[Vortex]], a small sphere that generates a miniature tornado around itself.
* [[Whipweed]], a plant like tentacle monster with two long tentacles it attacks with and eight small legs it uses to move around.  Does this sound familiar?
* [[Witherstench]], a hairless skunk like creature that produces a horrible smell constantly.
* [[Witherweed]], a plant with venom that drains dexterity and can cause seizures.  It is weak against fire, but when it burns it produces smoke that can instantly kill people that inhale it.
* [[Xill]], a four armed monster reproduces by implanting eggs in humanoids Assassin Bug style. To justify this redundancy they ambush their victim from the ethereal plane and attempt to either subdue or paralyze them with their venomous claws and grapple them and carry them back to the ethereal plane. Thus being redundant with the Berbalang as well. They can be warded off with a ''protection from evil'' spell and it is extremely vulnerable while it is switching from the material plane to the ethereal and grappling a victim.
* [[Xvart]] a 'Factory fan-fave because Brits just love them some smurfs.
* [[Yellow Musk Creeper]], a plant that sprays victims with mind controlling dust from its flowers which lures them into the plant so it can drain their intelligence.  If the victim dies from the intelligence drain, a new flower is added to the plant, but if the victim survives they become a yellow musk zombie.
* [[Yellow Musk Zombie]], a humanoid that has a yellow musk creeper seed implanted in their brain which allows the plant to control them.  They can be restored back to normal using magic, but only if the plant that turned them is killed first.  If not cured they will eventually die and grow into a new creeper.

(As to where in the AD&D canon you'll ''meet'' any of these, where Gygax hadn't introduced them in the first place: that would be [[WG4: The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun]]. We figure that TSR in the mid 1980s were trying to clean out the warehouse.)

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