Fiend Folio contents

[the Jester]

Re: Re: Fiend Folio contents

However, we still haven't seen (list snipped) or Zuggtmoy yet.

Actually, Zuggtmoy appears (sort of) in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.

 

[kenjib]

Some, but not a lot. I figure that since only a bit of it is reprinted (whereas the Fiend Folio will be mostly reprinted monsters and the Revised Core Rulebooks will be more the same than not) that it deserves mention along with the rest of the products I said.

Long-time gamers will recognize the title of this 224-page hardcover, but they'll remember only about a dozen of the critters inside. And, since it's got over 150 monsters lurking in there, that's pretty exciting. More exciting is the fact that about 100 of 'em are all-new.

Mostly? Only one-third of the monsters. I don't know if there will be anything else in the book outside of monsters though. What percentage of the A&EG is? From what Eric said, to start with: Vehicle movement rules, some of the new armor, weapons, and poisons, some of the materials, probably some of the magic items. Probably not as extensive as fiend folio, but still a decent chunk. They are both still majority new material and I don't think the difference sounds all that great between them.

 

[Knight Otu]

Re: Re: Re: Fiend Folio contents

Actually, Zuggtmoy appears (sort of) in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.

Very much sort of...

But I don't think that we'll see any more Fiendish lords in the book (not that I would mind to be wrong )

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi all!

Hopefully I'll get a chance to see the book at Gencon UK before I commit myself to the purchase. I want to see at least a handful of fiends over CR 20 to warrant the price, whether unique types or not.

I have been posting on various message boards about seeing the General of Gehenna now for years. Hopefully someone over at WotC will pull their finger out and slap something down for us. Though I wouldn't bet on it.

 

[Aaron L]

Beelzebub is a corruption of Baalzebul, Lord of Zebulon.

 

[Ashardalon]

I'd hope for a few nice bits on dragons.

 

[Alzrius]

That's how DnD could use orc, but not hobbit, balrog or warg, because they told Tolkien's estate that they got "orc" from Latin.

D&D does use wargs though. Last I recall, they were snuck in under the "wolf" entry, but they are definately there.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

According to a few websites I dug up, Dispater was a Roman death god.

I was actually just reading up on this. Dis Pater (as the name was originally), or "rich father", was another name given to the god Pluto (Greek Hades). Although he was a god of *the dead*, he was not the god of *death*, which portfolio belonged to none other than Orcus (Greek Thanatos).

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

D&D does use wargs though. Last I recall, they were snuck in under the "wolf" entry, but they are definately there.

In 3e, they're simply listed under 'worg' (I guess the alternate spelling is enough to avoid the Tolkien lawyers). But the original word's simply derived from the Norse wearg.

 

[demiurge1138]

I was just about to say that, Andrew. One vowel makes all the difference.
Didn't know that about weargs, though.

Demiurge out.