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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flying Toaster" data-source="post: 9667999" data-attributes="member: 7052563">The AD&D 1E Fiend Folio had a whole group of six or seven “Oriental” dragons.  Since the book was written in 1979 and published in 1981, it used the older Wade-Giles transliteration for the Chinese word for “dragon” (lung), which has now been largely replaced by Pinyin (long).  So there were East Asian dragons available for use in D&D throughout the 1980’s and beyond, even if they were not used much in other official materials.  Oriental Adventures (1985) had a chapter of Asian monsters for use in the Kara-Tur setting, but for four or five years the only official East Asian monsters in D&D were the kirin and ogre mage (oni) from the MM, the lung dragons and penanggalan from FF, the dragon horse from MM2, and maybe a few others I have forgotten.  The 1E FF was kind of a strange place for Asian dragons to appear, but then the book was a bit of a grab bag.  It was produced by TSR UK and included lots of reader submissions to the “Fiend Factory” column from White Dwarf magazine (some of which were too weird or quirky to catch on with D&D fans), but it was also the first official appearance of the githyanki and githzerai, and collected a bunch of important monsters that had first appeared in early AD&D modules (dark elves, deep gnomes, kuo-toa, etc).  Unfortunately that meant that you had to have FF if you wanted to use Asian dragons in your game.</blockquote>

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