How stellar was the old Fiend Folio!

Tewligan · Apr 29, 2003

Piratecat said:
Quick trivia question for you: which extremely active EN World member created the stunjelly, the quillan, and the shadow demon?

That was Plane Sailing, wasn't it?

Piratecat · Apr 29, 2003

Wow, got it in one! I must suck at asking trivia. :

Desdichado · Apr 29, 2003

Ehh, I dunno. The 1e FF was full of a lot of stuff that I think was too silly for words. It had some occasional flashes of brilliance, but what product doesn't have at least occasional flashes of brilliance?

AFAIC 1e FF was a weird book with very limited usefulness and a high "noise" level.

Sniktch · Apr 29, 2003

Cordo said:
Nobody ever talks about the Nilbog. I guess they were hard to adjudicate but I have a special place in my heart for them as I used a single Nilbog to tear down the neighborhood campaign when I was 13 years old - a single Nilbog against the gods...

Heh, I have a special place in my heart for the nilbog, too. The first time one of these appeared in one of my adventures the party had smacked him up to over 100 hp before they realized something was wrong, and by hat time they had nowhere close to enough healing power to kill the beast. As I recall, they grappled him, tied him up, threw him over a cliff into a deep canyon, and then ran as fast as they could away.

From then on in the campaign, rumors would continue to trickle back to them about the mad, unstoppable goblin of the canyon.

Artimoff · Apr 29, 2003

The 1e Fiend Folio also has the best art of any 1st edition book. I was always fascinated by the Tripheg (sp?).

BOZ · Apr 29, 2003

ColonelHardisson · Apr 29, 2003

By the way, am I missing it, or is there not a 3e conversion of the Qullan? It was one of my favorite critters from the FF.

Grazzt · Apr 29, 2003

ColonelHardisson said:
By the way, am I missing it, or is there not a 3e conversion of the Qullan? It was one of my favorite critters from the FF.

Monsters of Faerun, IIRC.