D&D 5E Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

WotC has released another in its line of supplements that support the Extra Life charity. This one is entitled Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1: Monsters Malevolent and Benign. You can purchase it on the DMs Guild for US$9.99, with 70% of the price going to support WotC's local Children's Miracle Network Hospital.

About the product: Crawling from the darkest recesses of D&D’s history comes a ferocious menagerie of monsters malevolent and benign! These creatures first appeared in the Fiend Folio for first edition AD&D. Now, thanks to your support of Extra Life, they enter the world of fifth edition D&D.

The monsters included in the supplement are: Assassin Bug, Blindheim, Crab Folk, Dire Corby, Eye of Fear and Flame, Forlarren, Fog Giant, Jermlaine, Kharga, Killmoulis, Mite, Needlefolk, Needle Lord, Norker, Norker War Leader, Screaming Devilkin, Ygorl, and Xill.

About Extra Life: Extra Life unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Since its inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised more than $30 million for sick and injured kids. Sign up today and dedicate a day of play for kids in your community!

 

[Demetrios1453]

Some nice classic monsters in there!

Hopefully it will be released on D&D Beyond as well - Lost Laboratory of Kwalish was Extra Life as well, and they have it available...

 

[pogre]

I loved the Fiend Folio and Norkers probably seals the deal for me.

I hate to nitpik a book for a very worthy cause - however, I am disappointed that Mearls felt the need to drop an f-bomb in the intro in a book set-up to support a charity for the benefit of children.(1)


(1) I know, I know - "O.K. Boomer."

 

[Salthorae]

I am disappointed that Mearls felt the need to drop an f-bomb in the intro in a book set-up to support a charity for the benefit of children

I mean, technically he dropped an "f***" bomb. So it's less bad.

There is an entire PR campaign out there with the slogan of "F" cancer. So... ymmv

 

[Connorsrpg]

Nice. I have not seen inside this yet, but several of those I have recently added to my extensive Populations lists for determining races for places in my world. Everything from forests to cities, to kingdoms.
Glad to see some of those get the 5E treatment

 

[cbwjm]

I noticed this and was thinking of getting it, but checking the contents I don't think I recognised many (any?) of the monsters in it. Might be a nice little purchase for players who started with 1e thought.

I just now realised that I read Dire Corby wrong. I was imagining a large corgi.

 

[Connorsrpg]

Might be great if you HAVEN'T heard of any of these creatures too

I love plant-folk. I thought the needle spraying blights had needfolk covered though, so interesting to see them here. Who doesn't want crabfolk plaguing their shores too? I wonder if they are like the homarids from one of the MtG Plane Shift articles?

 

[Savage Wombat]

I remember reading that the Xill were originally based on a book that later became the inspiration for Alien. I would love to see a terrifying version of the monster in print.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I have searched, and I didn't find information about the kharga.

And xills are a classic monster.

 

[Connorsrpg]

Did this need Mordenkainen's name on it? Hasn't he already got a Tome of Monsters? To avoid confusion, couldn't this have been put under someone's else's name, or drop it entirely?