Need info about the Fomorians

[Jack99]

So, I am looking for some more fomorian lore for my campaign. But I have no idea on where to find some more info than the small amount in different monster manuals.

Is there anything that has been written about them?

Thanks in advance

 

[Mark]

Did your google search turn anything up?

 

[Lurks-no-More]

So, I am looking for some more fomorian lore for my campaign. But I have no idea on where to find some more info than the small amount in different monster manuals.

Is there anything that has been written about them?

Thanks in advance

There's some more info about them (alongside with lots of good stuff on Feywild) in Manual of the Planes.

 

[Echohawk]

There are also a couple of new Fomorians (Dark Master and Dark Initiate) in King of the Trollhaunt Warrens, but not very much additional lore.

From earlier editions of D&D, sources for Fomorians are the 3e Monster Manual II, the 2e Monstrous Compendium Volume Two and Monstrous Manual, and the 1e Monster Manual II and, of course, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (S4) where they first appeared. Unfortunately, none of those have much lore, per se. Hopefully we'll get an Ecology article on them before too long, given their increased prominence in 4e.

 

[Shroomy]

Do you have this article from Dragon 362?

Dragon 362: The Eye of Madness

 

[Starglim]

Lots of Irish legends, Michael Moorcock's second Corum trilogy and most of Sláine, for a start.

 

[Jack99]

Did your google search turn anything up?

Ups. No, I checked rpgnow.com but couldn't find anything. Figured someone here knew.

There's some more info about them (alongside with lots of good stuff on Feywild) in Manual of the Planes.

Thanks. I should probably have mentioned that I was looking for non-4e material, since I have all 4e material, my bad

 

[Jack99]

There are also a couple of new Fomorians (Dark Master and Dark Initiate) in King of the Trollhaunt Warrens, but not very much additional lore.

From earlier editions of D&D, sources for Fomorians are the 3e Monster Manual II, the 2e Monstrous Compendium Volume Two and Monstrous Manual, and the 1e Monster Manual II and, of course, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (S4) where they first appeared. Unfortunately, none of those have much lore, per se. Hopefully we'll get an Ecology article on them before too long, given their increased prominence in 4e.

Bugger, I was hoping something from an earlier edition could add to the fluff

Do you have this article from Dragon 362?


Dragon 362: The Eye of Madness

Yep.

Lots of Irish legends, Michael Moorcock's second Corum trilogy and most of Slaine, for a start.

Hmm interesting, I am not familiar with those. Thanks.

 

[Starglim]

Hmm interesting, I am not familiar with those. Thanks.

Not getting at you - there's no reason you should be - just don't get me started on 4e's design process and its relationship to mythology and literature.

A couple of quick starting points:

Encyclopedia Mythica
Wikipedia: Sláine

 

[BOZ]

D&D Fomorian article on Wikipedia.